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oil by sending a strongly worded letter to the heads of seven oil companies, oh, boy. threatening to use emergency powers if they dont boost supply after bashing them for turning a profit. it comes as gas prices are have officially top $5 per gallon with no relief in sight. and if you cant afford the sky-high gas prices the white house says just buy an expensive electric car. he filled up your ev by charging and he filled up your gas tank with gasoline and you have the same size tank y...

Michael cohen, third day of testimony begins in moments. Well see the former president and expect him to speak before he goes into the courtroom. A former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, Robert Costello speaking out about the star witness testifying before congress about a ton of things. He believes cohen is lying through his teeth. Costello joins us in 30 minutes. A lot of questions for him. First mark your calendars, folks, biden and trump agree to hold two president ial debates to set the sta...

Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged epis...

portion of that money all when 8085920400. thats when 8085920400 under biden on trial, the presidents son is in a delaware courtroom today for the start of jury selection in his federal gun trial. >> what were learning is a number of potential jurors are dismissed from the panel. plus dr. anthony fauci back on capitol hill facing tough questions about the us covid response the question that had fauci overcome with emotion and put me in coach. were going to talk to a golf fan who went f...

Allegedly not paying for it? it has been said reportedly he doesnt pay for his legal counsel. >> he sues people is what he does. im sorry, renato. i didnt mean to interrupt. >> go ahead, michael. >> so the published reports of donald trump and his bill paying pattern is people give bills and he sues them saying that you didnt perform under the contract. and he pays or doesnt pay or he pays something less. as renato said, as a lawyer, you just cant do that. you cant put yourself in that position....

There? >> what i think the president should do is own up to what he did, own up to the relationships, own up to the affairs, apologize to his wife and to the american people, myself, to stormy, to karen and all the other women from there and go from there. i think a lot of people would appreciate honesty at this point and would accept an apology. >> earlier today you said that youd be open to take agent polygraph test about hearing that conversation that you said that was on speakerphone. you wa...

I do think that interview with anderson cooper on television would cause the president to tweet further. thats something he pays a lot of attention to obviously is something on television. the white house wouldnt say he watched the interview but later said he believes the claims she made were inaccurate which does lead one to believe he watched at least part of the broadcast sunday night. >> speaking of that, here araj shah at the white house today. >> was the president aware of a physical threa...

Two, is if this in any way intersects with the mueller investigation, remember, our friend sam nunberg who did his interviews which seems like a few years ago, one of the things he said is he was asked about the stormy daniels, michael cohen investigation. we dont know exactly what was asked or what mueller was getting at but it was intriguing mueller asked about that. finally if this civil case -- you know, i think most the legal experts believe its avenatti and stormys weak evidence hand here....

I think ryan is exactly right, though. i dont think this hurts him politically. i think its baked in the cake politically, right? so even, you know, a lot of people voted for donald trump after seeing the "access hollywood" video. they knew what they were getting. they knew who he was. he never pretended to be anything else. donald trump was pretty up front about him. nobody is surprised or shocked that he had sex allegedly with a porn star or a playmate. where he could get in trouble is with th...

Legal team. they say that they cant do -- they cant do it. its due to business conflicts. what do you make of all of this? >> i think its an interesting statement because when you say -- the term business conflicts, thats not a legal or actual conflict of interest. what that means is that either some of their existing clients dont want them to represent president trump or that the firm doesnt want to take on that kind of risk. i will tell you, lawyers generally like to represent rich and powerfu...