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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin February 13, 2019

Farce second time. I dont want to see a shultdown, shutdown won a terrible thing. So why did trumps press secretary say this earlier today . We want to see what the final piece of legislation looks like. Its hard to say whether or not the president will sign it until we know whats in it. Lisa lehrer is a National Reporter for the new york times. Welcome back. Two sources who have spoken directly to the president tells cnn he plans to sign the bill. Why does it seem the white house is stringing this along . With this president you never know if hell sign something until the ink is on the paper. Hes known for changing his mind and there are still some disputes over in congress about reauthorizing the violence against women act, about whether to give contractors back pay for their time off work during the shutdown so this is not quite a done deal by all the signal s were getting feel like its moving forward. It would be a weak moment for the president. This is the first major event of this year where we are moving into his reelection cycle and hes caving so there is why this is uncertainty among the white house and thats part of why there is a lot of sensety around this legislation. The bipartisan deal also falls well short of for 5. 7 billion that the president wanted to build the wall but he says he has other options for funding so cnn has identified four including accessing treasury forfeit your funds and rheal locating pend gone funds marked for counternarcotics. They may not require a National Emergency. The others are using money for arm core civil work or military construction, we know fellow rains oppose that move so what are the president s next steps or is he sort of boxed in . Were likely to see two things. The white house and the president is going to spin this as a victory which it is just not. The irony is he could have had a better deal with the last proposal to avoid this shut down entirely. Hes not getting the mileage of the wall built that he wants. Hes falling far short of the 5. 7 but theyll say this is a down payment and what youll see the white house do is collect money using the powers of the presidency, move money around and then deal with the issue of a National Emergency and that is something that would be controversial including within the republican party. There are plenty of republicans from border states, some of whom are up for reelection that dont want the headache of these Eminent Domain lawsuits and the fight over this thing before they go into their reelection and theres a bunch of senators from battleground states who are worried about how this would play in places like colorado so it would be a political headache for sure. Do you think that this will be fast tracked by the deadline . I think if youre going to do it you want to avoid the pain of another shutdown which the polling indicates was not positive for the president s Approval Rating which sunk to the lowest paint so thats what republicans in congress would like to see. Lisa lerer, thank you very much. On capitol hill, ilhan omar is firing back at the white house after Vice President mike pence joined President Trump in condemning a tweet both democrats and republicans say was antisemitic. The congresswoman tweeting directly to the president writing this, you have trafficked in hate your whole life against jews, muslims, indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you. Now i want to zero on the president s words and actions that have been denounced as antisemitic in the past. Listen too what thencandidate trump said during a 2015 president ial Forum Sponsored by the republican jewish coalition. You wont support me because i dont want your money. You want to control your own politician, thats fine. In 2016, the Trump Campaign released this closing ad, one condemned by the antidefinition league for using antisemitic imagery, it features george soros, former fed chair janet yellen and lloyd blankfein, all three are jewish while railing against socalled global elites who control power in the United States. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. For those who control the levers of power in washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that dont have your good in mi mind. It has robbed our working class, stripped its money of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. And well have this conversation. There was this comment in the wake of the charlottesville atta attack. They showed up in charlottesville excuse me. You had some very bad people in that group. But you had people that were very fine people on both sides. Just a reminder that one of those sides featured neonazis yelling jews will not replace us. Peter bien heart is a senior columnist for the forward. And we have a member of the Advisory Counsel to elect President Trump. General men, welcome. Thanks. To you sir, first. How do you plain that . Well, its amazing to me, omar makes this statement and its 10 on omar and 90 on what trump said in the past. Lets stick with omar. Well, the president said she should resign. Thats why i disagree with that, i totally disagree and i think the calls for resignations on both sides as gotten out of hand and were going down a bad path when the First Amendment withers with free speech. Omar may have her own consequences in her district in a year from now if people think she shouldnt be reelected or her leadership could decide they want to take action by the republicans against king but to say she should resign, i disagree with that. But what about President Trump . Those clips we played . He shouldnt resign, either. But is that not the same thing . Has he said stupid things . Absolutely. Its clear but that doesnt take away from the fact of what omar and others have dead. So why didnt he denounce and who theyre hanging out with, a la farrakhan. Why didnt he denounce steve king . He was denounced by the republicans in the house. And but not directly by the president of the United States. He should have said something. But the fact he hasnt isnt the story the story is omar and the fact that the democratic leadership is silent with regard to taken action. Well they wanted her to apologize and you saw this apology from her. Republicans went a step further, they took him off as chairman. Your response . Theres no parallel between steve king and ilhan omar. Her tweet the subject of aipac is an influential lobby group in washington. That should be be able to be discussed because it has to be discussed carefully because there is a long dangerous stereotype of jews nefariously controlling governments with money. She didnt express that sensitivity but the larger issue here is shes trying to talk about opposing a system of statesponsored bigotry in the west bank in which jews and palestinians who live side by side live under a different law where israeli jews have full rights and palestinians in the west bank have no free movement, no due process, no right to vote for the government that controls their lives. Her tweet was mistaken but inhall omar is focused on fighting for human right antsd couldnt be more different than steve king, a bigot across the board. So do you think it seems in this case that republicans are more in on this to score points against democrats or what is this about . About enforcing certain lines about the israel conversation. The reason republicans are upset at ilhan omar and not donald trump, even though those statements by trump were worse than ilhan omars and he hasnt apologized for any is because ilhan omar is a critic of israeli policy which and i say this as a committed american jew, someone who has been to israel many, many times since i was a kid israeli policy is violating human rights in a serious way. Thats what republicans dont want to talk about. Do you want to respond to that . No, im looking at the double standard and i get into the fact that isnt the issue omar and recent weve talked about trump and what he has said a zillion times. How is it a double standard . He. Because the focus is coming off omar and the pressure shes under by the democrats to apologize. He is the one calling for her resignation. And i think its ridiculous. He stepped into. It but how can we take you seriously about antisemitism if you only criticize antisemitism when its coming from one party. Are you talking about me or the president . You. I have said there is no logical way that anyone who says something antisemitic should not get condemned. However should they design what about Kevin Mccarthy . Lets start with the condemnations. They should be condemned. I have no problem with that but resigning, no and well go down a bad rabbit hole in this country because serve a victim of something today. Everyone is offended by something no, no, no. If thats the standard dont blanket statement. This is antisemitism, this is antisemiti antisemitism. Wait, brooke hang on, hang on for stupid sayings sir, she apologized. It took her a little while and people could say maybe thats an apology. Slow your role. She apologized. We just played three clips from the candidate and then the president himself. Tell me how many times hes apologized for those comments making those same points. He habit and ive condemned those. I said those were stupid. Thats why were pointing out hypocrisy. But this has been going on for a long time. Kevin mccarthy around the midterms. He tweeted a antisemitic trope. We cannot allow soros stierks and bloomberg to control this election. He deleted it and never apologized. Should he no longer be minority leader. I dont think this was antisemitic. Those were three major liberal fundraisers. Major liberal fundraisers so jewish money . No, no. Not jewish money. The three names, right . We need to have a consistent standard i dont think Kevin Mccarthy shouldry sign, either if we want people to be careful and dont want people to say flip things like ilhan omar did, its about the money, then we should expect Kevin Mccarthy should be careful. If we want ilhan omar to be careful, Kevin Mccarthy should be careful, too. Those three are spending tens of millions of dollar and so is aipac. Aipac has not spent must be on candidates. It has Political Action committees that tell them who to support and they give them money for candidates. They support democrats who support israel and republicans but they support policies ilhan omar opposes. I dont care what their religion is. They were spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat republicans so is that off limits because they happen to be jewish . The point is we need to have one clear single standard and if thats what is it . People on both sides should be careful. If you dont want to criticize ilhan omar, fine but if you do, you have to hold Kevin Mccarthy to the same standard and donald trump. It will never end. It will be subjective all the time, thats the issue. There should be a standard and we should be calling balance and strikes for both sides. Appreciate both your perspect e perspective. Breaking news involving Michael Cohen who leaked his Confidential Bank records. What were learning from the department of justice. Plus, very soon a judge may issue a ruling on the alleged lies former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort told robert mueller. And big on criticism, short on politics. Former starbucks ceo takes questions but dodges many, including on whether he would sell starbucks stock. Youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. When did soup become this . At panera, we treat soup differently. With vine ripened tomatoes, signature cheddar, simmered to perfection. With big flavors, not artificial ones. Enjoy 100 clean soup today. Panera. Food as it should be. When did you see the sign . When i needed to jumpstart sales. Build attendance for an event. Help people find their way. Fastsigns designed new directional signage. And got them back on track. Get started at fastsigns. Com. Were back. Brooke baldwin. Let me start with breaking news involving the president s former attorney Michael Cohen. He is tied to another federal investigation and this time he is the victim. The Justice Department is investigating the leak of his Confidential Bank records. Cnns Kara Scannell and sara murray both join me. Kara, give me the details of the investigation and what youre hearing from sources. Thats right, brooke. According to two sources familiar with the investigation, the department of justice is investigating who leaked Michael Cohens bank records. It came to light last year that Michael Cohen had received millions of dollars in payments from corporations, including one linked to a Russian Oligarch as well as at t, the Parent Company of cnn, for consulting contracts that Michael Cohen was selling his proximity to the white house. Now the big question is how did this information come to light because these are confidential reports that are filed by banks to the treasury department. And now we know the department of justice is investigating this. According to two sources, the u. S. Attorneys office in the Northern District of california, thats the area that includes San Francisco is leading the investigation and that charges in this case could be filed very soon, brooke. And Paul Manafort is back in court. He is the president s former Campaign Chairman who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction. A judge is expected to rule today if she found the that manafort lied to muellers prosecuto prosecutors. What do his lawyers say. Well, they said he didnt lie. This has been their talking point from the beginning claiming he was in there for these long vigorous strenuous sessions, he could forget things, misremember things along the way but that he never actively was trying to lie to the special counsels team but brooke this is a big deal. If the judge doesnt buy Paul Manaforts she could say you violated your plea agreement and that leaves the special counsels office open to do whatever they want in terms of sentencing for Paul Manafort. Now roger stone. Roger stone, the president s long time associate has been indicted on obstruction and false statements and a judge is weighing whether to put a gag order on his case. Today his lawyers entered a court filing which had a lot 60 inaccuracies about how the media learned about his arrest. Can you talk to me about that . Theres been plenty going on. He said the special counsels team shared with cnn a copy of the indictment. Prosecutors are saying you didnt unseal this roger stones team is saying you didnt unseal this correctly. There are so many players, brooke but we have to walk you through the timeline. If you look through my Text Messages with roger stones attorney, which are part of these court records, they show im texting roger stones attorney and im saying to him at 6 17 in the morning, ive received this press release from the special counsel saying roger stone is arrested. At this point cnn knows this. We decided to stake him out. At 6 17 in the morning we get the press release from the special counsels team. At 6 21, i text roger stones lawyer and say we got a press release, at 6 22 i send him a link to the indictment which is noted in the press release which you can find online. But roger stones team is pointing to this saying, you know, seen then got this through nefarious means, this was still under seal and it shouldnt have been released this way. Its worth noting, we have these records showing the motion to the judge to seal this arrest and it says that the arrest and indictment will be unsealed once roger stone is taken into custody so at this point roger stone has been arrested, the special counsel puts out a press release, release the indictment, i share all of this with roger stones lawyer and they are pointing to this as evidence of a grand conspiracy. They say they dont buy the explanation that weve been transparent about about why we decided to stake out roger stone. Its worth noting, we had other stakeouts going. We were sure an arrest was coming down, we were not 100 sure it was going to be roger stone so other stakeouts were going that yielded nothing but roger stone wants to turn this into a big and public fight and well see if the judge buys into it. How incredible and welcome to your world that youre texting with his attorney at 6 17 in the morning. Sara murray, thank you. Kara scannell, thank you as well. Days after the president s physical, former Vice President dick cheneys cardiologist says something isnt right about this and asks what are they hiding . Well talk to sanjay gupta about this, get his opinion. And could assets seized in the el chapo case help President Trump build his wall . It is an idea that is gaining traction. And hear from the dea agent, special agent in charge who helped take down the most infamous drug lord. I dont keep track of regrets. And i dont add up the years. But what i do count on. 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