the payment is perfectly legal. michael avenatti, your reaction to that? and this time rudy giuliani said that the president reimbursed michael cohen over a period of several months. well, lawrence, the plot thickens, right? so i certainly hope that what giuliani rudy giuliani is not suggesting is that, in fact, the reimbursement took place over several months in an effort to avoid triggering a $10,000 monetary requirement relating to payments. namely, if they structured reimbursement payments and again, i don t have any basis to believe that they did. but that statement causes me great concern. if they structured reimbursements in amounts less than $10,000 in an effort to potentially avoid detection, that s a serious, serious problem.
indication that the memos were shared more broadly. i asked a friend of mine to share them with a reporter. i didn t do it myself for a variety of reasons. i thought him doing it would prompt a special counsel. this apparent omission did not go unnoticed by the president. he never said that in congress. he said he gave it to a friend. he gave it to a friend to leak classified information. he did an illegal act. he said it himself in order to get a special counsel. against me. corey, the plot thickens. even if comey did something that was illegal with secret information in the memos, will he ever pay a price for that? i sure home so. in addition to leaking classified information, what we know if you re an fbi agent and you receive information as a professional in that capacity,
ainsley: the plot thickens in northern california as ice agents see sweep that area detaining southwesterly. brian: warning from a mayor in oakland. steve: more on these operations that took place nut last 24 hours. todd: it s interesting guys. the mission is to protect our country. the mayor of oakland feels it s her job to keep ice from doing its job. libby shaft, the democratic mayor of of that city sent out a press release warning that immigration and customs enforcement could be conducting a raid in oakland on sunday. giving her constituents an early heads up in her words to protect them. quote: i believe it is my duty and moral obligation as mayor to give those families fair warning when that threat 57s eminent. her warning was consistent with previous reports that law enforcement officials in northern california would
kidnapping as washington seeks to ramp up pressure there. again, she is doing okay. we understand that she was not injured in anyway. does not appear to have been the target of that protest. this appears to be a security measure put in place, but she is continuing with the rest of her trip, that visit still ongoing. chris? thank you. we ll keep people posted as we learn more exactly what went down there. up next, the plot thickens. nbc news confirms that hillary clinton s campaign and the dnc helped fund the research that led to the now infamous dossier on donald trump. one that reportedly includes allegations of ties to russia. that story, after the break. and the president responding to questions whether he would apologize to the widow of sergeant la david johnson, killed in the niger ambush. she says the president struggled to remember her husband s name
counterterrorism official phil mudd and former house intelligence chairman and former fbi special agent mike rogers and cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. mike, the plot thickens. just as we ve been talking about mike flynn all morning and what his relationship and his contact with russia is, now this. is this a provocation have russia? how do you see this? this is over actually a couple of years you ve seen this ramp-up of provocation from russia. we ve seen a small piece between poland and lithuania on the baltic sea that nato believes could be capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. that was certainly provocation on behalf of the russians. we ve seen this pushout of their military toward u.s. international borders on the west coast, they were flying their bombers, nuclear capable