business in being here and whether there is standing i agree with paul. this happens of dozens of times a year. and a victory for cohen here would be almost anything other than judge woods saying we are going to handle nitd the normal course the way this is always done. anything other than that would both a slow down the process and b give some kind of creedens to the notion that legally speaking, this is some exceptional situation warranting special slit attitude to the president. and really it shouldn t be. there is no special reason that his stad us as president harry, we can confirm nbc has confirmed inside that courtroom that the third client, michael cohen s third client is sean hannity. wow. paul, this is yours first. i mean, now we have the whole the whole kind of stew that happened in the libby case with
said. was nitd real time? so you would either be listening on a dead key or cup the phone and write down notes for a follow-up question in front of him? i would be sitting on the couch in the oval office on the other phone listening in. sometimes with somebody else in the room. and there were times, you know, more crisis times when we were talking about substantive issues when we would be writing talking points and guiding the president, give him advice about what to do. this was not that kind of phone call, it seems to me, looking at the readouts. this was more just a general discussion of syria and now. they weren t actually negotiating something. my guess is they are going to wait until they meet in person in july before they start doing that. and one more question about this business. i heard someone who studies all things russians tonight say that the russians have been anxious to get these two together asap because of the pattern they see. you have spoken about this. trump
american amanda knox vows to fight on after an italian supreme court judge rules she should stand trial again in the 2000 death of her former roommate. we are monitoring that and many of the other top stories in the situation room right now. this is a huge story. kate, i think a lot of people thought this was all settled. knox, who returned to the yunitd states in 2011 and living in seattle was not in court for today s ruling. she spent four years in an eye tal ian prison before her murder conviction was overturned due to a lack of evidence. the judge says he ll accomplish the reasoning for a retrial within 90 days. a retrial isn t expected until next year. it s not even clear yet if knox will be extradited back to itly. and it was another big day on wall street. the s&p closing less than two points away from its all-time high and the dow ending with a record closing high of more than 14,550 points. meantime a new report is revealing the biggest year over year jump in home prices
from this press availability or speech we ll see from the two leaders. the reuters headline basically said after backslapping in israel, the president faces discontent on the second day of his trip. that pretty much sums it up. reporter: it does sum it up. it s hard because he needs to essentially try to help president abbas. the israeli government will tell you if they are going to make peace, president abbas is the one person they trust. he is aging. he has a fractured palestinian leadership. hamas is essentially sending the message to him we might not support you. be careful. plus the president of the yunitd states labels hamas a terrorist group. united states government before and after obama will likely claim hamas a terrorist group. his government labels part of the palestinian government a terrorist organization, trying to bring abbas back to the table. add into that this new
point. they re playing politics with the actual livelihood of families. this is not something that it will be all right a week or two or three or four. we start to go down that cliff, we don t know whether the momentum downward is going to be very, very damaging. yeah. maybe. you got na smirk on your face. maybe. i agree with the reverend that they re playing politics with livelihoods, because it is a huge risk. you re right about that. i disagree a little bit on the sort of dramatic, immediate impact of it. what we could get this is a possibility, and i m trying to be optimistic because it s towards the end of the year. it s been crummy for a lot of people. we could get a deal the third week of january where they could retro actively change it. if you you get paid weekly, you might get one or two pay economics with a he slight tax increase and get it back at the end of the year. that s what we can hope for. we don t want to say mid nitd on