Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant and lobbyist in washington does. The New York Times reports the president and Rudy Giuliani have discussed the potential political repercussions of pardoning manafort. Giuliani says the president is not considering it. John bolton is meeting with his russian counterpart this morning in geneva. We have Cnns Fred Pleitgen in moscow with the latest. Fred, good morning. We assume Election Interference at the top of the show, but one would hope . Reporter i think we are assuming correctly. Not sure if it is on top of the agenda, but john bolton said it will be on the agenda as far as the american side. We have asked the russian side as well. They have been less specific about the topics discussed or this topic in particular. They are saying irritants in the relationship with russia and the
that Education Secretary betsy devos is discussing an unprecedented move. Considering allowing states to use federal funds to buy firearms for teachers. Taxpayer dollars to arm teachers. It reverses a long standing Government Policy not to pay. It is looking into a loophole looking to increase academic opportunities. It does not bar weapons purchases. In march, Congress Passed a School Safety bill allowing for 50 million for schools, but expressly prohibited the use of the money for firearms. An Education Department spokesperson saying they are evaluating policy issues. China and the u. S. Talking trade. It did not frprevent a new roun of tariffs. Expectations are low with the meeting in washington. Previous rounds made little progress. The president said he does not expect anything to come of it. At midnight, the u. S. Started collecting 25 tariffs on 16
billion in chinese goods. Motorcycles and plastics and chemicals and railway equipment. Those particular tariffs target chinas made in 2025 plan. That is beijings plan to dominate High Tech Industries of the future. Beijing struck back with coal and steel tariffs. Beijing will file ea complaint with the w. T. O. Most u. S. Companies dont like trumps tariffs. It raises costs for consumers and companies. The tariffs provide a lifeline for some Industries Like alumin aluminum. Wilbur ross in kentucky yesterday talking about a restart at the smelter company. Days like this i hope would happen when i took the job going to washington because this is
what it is all about. These are the wins the Commerce Secretary and the president like to focus on. They plan to invest 150 million to create 275 new jobs at the plant. Hurricane lane barrelling toward hawaii. Category four Storm Packing winds of 150 miles an hour. The storm could make landfall today through saturday. Should draw close enough to the islands to bring destructive winds and rain. The Hurricane Warning issued for the islands. The states governor david igy urging residents to stock up. Be prepared to stock up. 14 days of food and supplies and water. Medicine and other necessities. So people are heeding that warning. You see the bread and water aisles in the supermarket are
bare. Government offices will be closed today and storm. All public and Charter Schools will be closed. President trump has approved the governors request for a Disaster Declaration. Tracking the storm is pedram javaheri. Dave and christine, good morning. Impressive set up on satellite radar with Hurricane Lane menacing storms as you see from space. You look at the satellite radar with the numbers associated with the feature is impressive. A category four and very organized. Pushing a few hundred miles south of the big island. The track of the system migrating to the north and eventually a northwestern turn. Looking at the numbers of this, only two hurricanes made Landfall On Hawaii since 1992 a. This system models take it to the north by friday afternoon. A Westerly Shift pushes it away,
hopefully from honolulu. You notice the cone still brings in oahu. When you breakdown the models, see a lot of variety. A lot can change in the forecast. We know the amount of rainfall will not change which is slated to exceed 15 to 20 inches in spots. That itself will be dangerous over the next couple days. Pedram, thank you. Here is hoping for a hard left turn. Ohio state football coach urban meyer will keep his job, but miss significant time for how he handled abuse claims over an assistant. What meyer said and didnt say next. Alright, i brought in new max protein
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ohio state. He has to sit for three games over the way he handled abuse allegations against his assistant. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to two women to bury the issue to sway the election. Yesterday in an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. That is what the president says now about the man who once said he would take a bullet for mr. Trump. Ill do anything to protect mr. Trump. Im obviously very loyal and very dedicated to mr. Trump. Now the white house short on answers as the contradictions mount. The president himself seems unfazed tweeting at 1 00 a. M. No collusion. Rigged witch hunt. We have Kaitlan Collins with more. Reporter christine and dave, the president is now facing enormous political and legal pressure. In the middle of that, he is trying to change his story of the payments Michael Cohen made to the two women who allege they had an affair with trump. What he knew and when. The president saying with fox news he did not know about the payments until later on. He did not specify a date. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. You have to understand, what he did and they were not taken from campaign finance. Thats a much bigger thing. They did not come out of the campaign. They came from me. Reporter that contradicts the tape released by Michael Cohen last month which discusses how to make a payment to one of the women before the payment was made. When it comes to the financing. What financing . Payment. Pay with cash . No, no, no. I got it. Reporter as these questions come, the white house is struggling to mount defense here. The president found out about the payments that Michael Cohen made later on. He is on tape discussing how to make one of the payments with Michael Cohen. So before the payment was made. How do you explain