Congress that will extend Unemployment Benefits, provide protections against evictions. A terrible thing happens with evictions, not fair. It wasnt their fault that we were infected with this disease from china, and get relief to american families. Were joined by jim acost a and maggie haberman. Can you layout the plan from his side is . Hes not actually enacting executive action but saying what he will do if congress doesnt reach an agreement, is that correct . Thats what it sounds like so far based on the president s remarks hes laying down another warning to democrats up on capitol hill that if they dont come to an agreement with white house officials on someway forward on a Coronavirus Relief bill that hes going to take executive action. Hes talking about suspending the payroll tax that americans pay in their paychecks and talking about enhanced Unemployment Benefits, as well as putting in place some kind of moratorium on evictions in this country. Its unclear how the president cou
Because its it needed to be said. Good and necessary trouble, indeed. Thank you for watching. Our coverage continues. And good evening. We start tonight with breaking news. President trump right now, speaking from his golf club in new jersey about the Coronavirus Relief bill. Talks that appear to have collapsed in washington. If he takes questions, we will bring that to you live. However, on a day the economy gained about 1. 8 million jobs in july but with Unemployment Rate still above 10 , the president moments ago lashed out at democrat leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. However, he suggested he is still open to a deal. My administration continues to work, in good faith, to reach an agreement with democrats in congress, that will extend Unemployment Benefits, provide protections against evictions, a terrible thing happens with evictions. Not fair. It wasnt their fault that we were infected with this disease from china. And get relief to american families. Joined now by jim acost
Interview trump in person. Lets go to wolf blitzer and jake tapper who are standing by. The president we are told doesnt want to talk about russia tonight. Wont even mention the investigation. But you never know if he veers off script. It has been blasted by the right and the left and we are told the president will announce that he is keeping the prison at gaun tan mobay. How do you see his basic message unfolding . He told, and he wants it unify the country. In washington d. C. There is brittle tension. We expect the president will talk about taxes economy, trade, and infrastructure. We do not think he is going to mention the russia investigation and that is one of the reasons that investigation and his reaction to it that will make his goal of unfieing the country such a tall order. I want to go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Reporter the president is not expected to address the russia investigation. He remains furious about the russia probe and he can still fire
A racist, a con man, a cheat. Thats a description of the president of the United States from the man who was his attorney and fixer for a decade. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on a big day here in washington, d. C. Where Michael Cohen testified publicly for the first time today about the president s alleged role in some of the crimes that are sending cohen to prison in a few months. There were a number of big takeaways from the day. The first, the president says cohen asked him to pay off the porn star who says she has sex with trump, and to lie to his wife melania about it, and sign checks, the signed checks he showed the committee to reimburse cohen after donald trump became president. The second, cohen said trump knew that roger stone knwas talking with wikileaks. Roger stone denies that, setting up a he saidhe said between two known liars essentially with another known liar in the middle. Another. Cohen said conversations about the trump tower project in moscow went into the
After donald trump became president. The second, cohen said candidate trump knew that roger stone was talking with Julian Assange about wikileaks releasing stolen dnc emails. Roger stone denies that, setting up, as he said a he said he said between two known liars, essentially, with another known liar in the middle. Another. Cohen said conversations about the trump tower project in moscow went into the summer of 2016 and that the president directed the negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. A fourth, he brought don junior much closer to wrongdoing in a number of ways, saying the president s son was briefed multiple times about that moscow deal and strongly implied the president s son told the president about the Infamous Trump tower meeting promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. He also said that don junior signed at least one of the hush money payment checks. Cohen also hinted at other investigations or avenues of current investigations we dont know about, saying his last