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CNNW The Lead With Jake Tapper March 6, 2019

Now the president s responding. Good afternoon. We start with politics lead. Michael cohen handing over new evidence documents to the House Intelligence Committee that he says shows edits to the false written statement delivered in 2017 cohen said in his testimony last week that President Trumps then personal lawyer made changes to his statement and cohen suggested that he himself was guided by what he thought the president wanted him to do to not be honest about how long conversations lasted. Does this document provide any evidence of anyone at the white house or affiliated with the president he has been behind closed doors as a convicted liar he says he is speaking his truth. Lets go to cnn who is waiting for cohen to come to the mike. What more can you tell us . We are trying to learn more about what these edits show. We know that cohen provided it to the committee in the aftermath of his statement. He sg jested that the lawyer for ivanka and Jared Kushner but we know that today members have been asking questions about these documents and it has been a significant portion of today they also have tried to figure out whether the discussions are going to move forward on any pardons in exchange before he flipped. In relation today the trump attorneys are standing by the statement from last week. They say the statement made last week about the edits being done by trump attorneys was quote completely false. Thanks so much. Cohen talked about the edits publicly last week. Take a listen. There were changes made. Were there changes about the timing . There were several clanhange including how we were going to handle that message. Okay. The message being the length of time that the trump power moscow project stayed and remained alive. And aman da, we know that message was false, the one that cohen gave to the house to Congress Cohen lied. We have to weigh what the word remains but if the white house had anything to do with adding to the lie it could be a big issue. These are the two outstamdndg questions. Did the president or his lawyers direct him to lie to congress . It indicates kushner because they also shared a joint defense agra agreement at one point in time. The other question is what was the length and duration and scope of the moscow trump tower talks . He has not been totally clear except to say he wanted to coordinate with the messaging from the white house. I think back a few weeks ago that said maybe it went many months into the campaign. The late stages of the campaign. I speculatively wonder did the talks ever end because donald trump continued to have secretive talks with russian contact. It is clear now he has never separated his official business from his personal business. I wonder if there was ever an end to those talks. And of course we have to continually weigh that Michael Cohen has been convicted and going to prison in part because he lied to congress. Who knows if what he said last week is true. We already know that he said at least one thing not true in terms that he didnt want a job at the white house. That said this is the witness they have. Right. What i find interesting about the on camera testimony is that the republicans consistently said youre a liar. When we examine what they are accusing him of lying about it is evident about moscow tower. You asked the question but i feel like it has been asked and answered that he consistently had praise on putin. He ignored the advice of his own security counsel to believe and take putins word over everybody el el elses. I dont think he learned anything major during this hearing. I this i we all kind of already knew. I personally believe we know he is a con man and maybe a cheat. I do think because of the moscow Tower Exchange and that he placed donald trump on the phone with roger stone which by definition shows collusion. If she was talking to him about the wikileaks conversation that is by definition collusion. He brought the receipts in that area. We should point out that roger stone and President Trump say theres no truth to the allegations. We never lie. Theres a lot of liars. Cohen showed six checks he claims were repayments for hush money paid to him on behalf of the fact that he paid money to women who had alleged affairs with the president. The new york time cross referenced the date. One was written the day and another one he hosted senators to talk about tax cuts. Another one he pardoned the thanksgiving day turkey. He talked about moving the embassy to jerusalem. It is defending the fact that theres such a jarring statement of the fact that he was going official business while also writing the checks at the same time. Here is how one republican snarlt senator defended it. I think this president loves hiss family and i think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is for him a private matter that he didnt want discussed with his family. Thats the defense in terms of it not being a crime. I dont know if its a great political defense. I always get the easy questions, right . Look, its not the position is whats problem solving. The president is doing this big these big policy things. He was saying to hush an alleged affair. Pretty unseemingly. It is a bad visual. What the senator was talking about is the Legal Defense here that even if the president did it, even if it was exactly as cohen did it is important whether it is a Campaign Violation or not, if he was doing it to keep it from his family, remember, it was all long after the billy bush tape came out. It is hard to see the voters turning away because of, you know, a consensual affair with a woman after the billy bush tape came out. It was kind of winding down. I think what he was offering was, you know, he said im saying its what i think should be going ochblt. On. Although he said because he loves his family so much can be a difficult one. Very christian of him. Look, im trying to imagine if we had this conversation when barack obama was president about him paying off a porn star on the same day or through a lawyer ton same day he was having conversations about the Global Economic crisis or whatever it play be. The lack of outrage continues. I think just to speak to one piece of this the question is not whether or not the public would have changed their point of view. It is sort of unknowable. The question is whether he held this from public view. The public has the right to make a decision about whether they thought it would have changed who they would have voted for. 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We are not going to comment on security clearances. Sources say the president lobbied john kelly and don mcgan to grant against their recommendations. Trump wanted them to make the decision so it didnt look like they were tainting the process. When they refused he did it himself contra districting what ivanka said weeks ago. There were anonymous leaks ability there being issues. He had no involvement. A source adding it is possible she was unaware of her fathers involvement. While clearances can some times be stalled if a married couple is involved sources say cnn had separate concerns about irk van. What were the problems early on . There werent any other than that backlog of close to a million clearances across government the revelation coming after the New York Times while he has the authority to grant clear ranss trump denied getting involved. I was never involved with the security. I know from reading that there were issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually. It has infuriated democrats that are demanding more information. He continues to lie. When you talk about the security clearances he said he had nothing to do with it. All of the everyday comes out that he did have something to do with it. It is lie after lie after lie. Details efforts to bury the president s academic records. I heard im first in my class. According to the post is superintendent instructed the schools head master to find trumps records an bury them. She says he was a great student. If he was thats great. If he wasnt thats great. I was a very good student. He said the superintendent had been accosted by wealthy alumni who were plfrmt trumr. T friends. He said you need to grab that record and deliver it to me. Now, after cnn published that report the chairman of the house ov Oversight Committee said he wants more information about how she got her security clearance and he is concerned if the president brushed aside those on ju je objections. He should have no problem handing over the documents. All right. Thanks so much. Right now ivanka trump and her father just arrived to a meeting about American Workers at the white house. She is making some remarks there. It is an American Work force Advisory Board meeting. Lets continue to talk about this. Theres no doubt that she works on issues that are important to her having to do with child care and having to do with women and entrepreneurs at the world bank but you have had a security clearance of the white house. Uhhuh. I dont flow whknow what tha process means but would she need a security clearance . It is a little unclear why she would need a security clearance. A lot of the issues she works on are domestic. They are issues she clearly cares about. The need for security clearance is not everyone is not given one. It is an extensive process. The first question i would ask is why he needs one. And you had a security clearance. One of the other questions has to do with the fact they havent been forthcoming about this. Take a listen to ivanka trump talking with abc news about the rumors, the reporting rather that her father intervened to get her and her husband security clearances. The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. So no special treatment . No. Maybe she didnt know but it doesnt appear to be true. I dont know what i think one report, i think it is subject to legitimate oversight i can be done. What does she need a clearance for . Quite frequently theres documents on the desk that are classified. There are meetings that are going on. There could be an actual viable reason. I would like to see if it is beyond one leaked source at this point. I dont flknow if she was lying. If she did not obtain her clearance. She was living an embarrassing lie through any fair means. Yes. This is why there are these rules. And youre a lot more gracious than i am. The only thing it proves is she is as bad of a liar as her father is. When you say the kushners do you mean the entire family . She has earned almost 4 million just from Trump International towers. It 0eopens a lot of questions about what business you had with these hotels. We saw it already with the sprint merger. We dont know what red flags were raised but we have an idea what it could be with kushner. I think when you look at some of the relationships you with some of these business dealings, with the crown princeov of saiudi arabia, all of them are defending this kind of process and it is clearly inappropriate. A terrible student. It opens up and gives. This passport applications to a charity of his choice. I asked to see his college records. I would like to see him. I dont flow why he doesnt release his records. Why doesnt he . Everyone says she a great student. If he was thats great. I was a very good student. At the same time he was saying all that his minions were doing everything they could to suppress Donald Trumps records. True. Donald trump was an originator of the conspiracy theory. That was really what he was getting at. Barack obama wrote a book where he talked about wandering around aimlessly and how he wasnt a great student there. He was pretty transparent about that. If we took a poll on two they thought was more intelligent barack obama would probably win by a landslide. I would say the acts of intimidation are more important than his grades. Thats something that continues to be explored. All right. Everyone stick around. Well talk about President Trump reacting this afternoon to these new imagesov of north Korea Building up days after the failed summit. What is the new message to the dictator . Thats next. Stay with us. 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For the first time in months new satellite images show north korea working at a launch site rebuilding a portion of a key facility once used to test missile engines. The launch facility has been dormant since august. Images indicate restoration work at an engine test stand and a launch pad. President trump warning kim not to break a promise by rebuilding the site. I would be very disappointed if that were happening. It is a very early report. We are the ones that put it out. I would be very very disappointed in chairman kim. There is nothing here that indicates it being prepared. It may be kims answer to last week. They clearly understand we can see what they are doing. It play be as much messaging adds it is anything else. I think its more of a political signal, a frustration, a reversal of decisions building measures. Cnn has learned just how much both sides miscalculated each other over the summit. Before President Trump landed secretary of state pompeo was there hoping to meet with north koreas chief negotiator, a play are he has welcomed to the oefrl officer. He refused to meet, an early sign the North Koreans were in the prepared to agree to full denuclearization. As he prepared a north korean proposal for the u. S. To loosen sanctions in return for n

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