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Does this cross a legal line . All that coming up, but lets start with the confusion, the controversy over at the white house right now with a storm cloud hanging over the west wing in the rollout of the president s promised tariffs plan. The president is apparently very upset with his press secretary, Sarah Sanders, over her response to the Stormy Daniels story, the 130,000 in hush money to the porn star. But today the president tried to get his white house back on track while meeting with his cabinet. This is gary cohns last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet, and hes been terrific. He may be a globalist but i still like him. He is seriously a globalist, theres no question. But you know what, in his own way, hes a nationalist because he loves our country. Where is gary . You love our country. Hes going to go out and make another couple hundred million and then hes going to maybe come back. He might come back, right . Well be here. Absolutely. Well be here another seven years, hopefully. Thats a long time, but i have a feeling youll be back. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, there is no White House Press briefing today so we wont hear directly from Sarah Sanders at least from the podium there, but what more are you learning about how the president has been reacting to her comments on the Stormy Daniels scandal . Reporter well, there certainly is something to report on that, but just to get back to the tariff issue very quickly, wolf, we do think the president will be signing some sort of proclamation later on this afternoon to put these tariffs into action. We are told by sources that is likely to happen later on this afternoon. But as you heard the president say during that press availability that there will probably be some carveouts here, some kpeexemptions for certain countries, so were looking to see the finer details of that this afternoon. In the meantime, wolf, yes, youre right, i did talk to a source that said the president is quite unhappy with the press secretary Sarah Sanders and her handling of Stormy Daniels and those questions today, specifically about the acknowledgment that the president was involved in arbitration with Stormy Daniels and that she claimed the president won that arbitration. That is obviously a claim that Stormy Daniels attorney is push back on. According to this source close to the white house, the feeling is that the feeling by the president is that Sarah Sanders injected steroids into the story line. I will tell you, wolf, that since weve reported that, and this is no surprise, officials here at the white house have been pushing back on that and saying the president thinks Sarah Sanders did a wonderful job yesterday. Were also hearing, jim, about a warning on the russia investigation for President Trump from his white house chief of staff john kelly. Tell us what youve learned on that front. Reporter thats right, wolf. Some of this is in response to the New York Times story that said the president was attempting to speak to people who have been speaking with the mueller team, people like the former chief of staff Reince Priebus and also talking to aides about whether don mcgahn should essentially change and alter what he has been talking about. I talked to a white house official just a short while ago who revealed, and i think this is very interesting, that officials inside the west wing, top officials inside the west wing, including the chief of staff john kelly have warned the president to be very careful about talking to witnesses in the russia investigation, that that could put him in a legally precarious situation, and that it also just makes people uncomfortable to have the president talking to people about this russia investigation. And theres one in particular quote i want to read to you, and this is from a white house official. Its pretty clear that kelly and this is the chief of staff john kelly admonishes him constantly about this and hes not the only one. This according to a white house official. This was outlined in the New York Times story and were hearing this from a white house official. To have the president engaging in conversations like this is obviously something his lawyers would not advise him to do. The spokesperson said there is probably nothing wrong with the president having a conversation with Reince Priebus and generally saying, how did it go, i hope they didnt beat up on you too much, but there seems to be a concern if the president goes too far and wants to talk about the finer details theyre talking about the muellers team. For now Stormy Daniels is keeping her story to herself. Her Attorney Says its because of ongoing threats from the other side. Listen. These threats continued until only a few hours ago when mr. Rosen, lawrence rosen, the attorney who now purports to represent mr. Cohen and the entity ec, llc sent email correspondence to me threatening that if ms. Daniels continues to talk, she may be subjected to significant additional damages. Lets bring in legal analyst laura coates who is carefully studying all this. What is the biggest question from Stormy Daniels side . First of all, if you hear somebody say theres been threats or intimidation to silence a witness, you think about things like witness tampering and acting on duress. One of the questions you have to ask is, has Michael Cohen specifically threatened her . Is it something physical . Has he done something verbal . Or in the contract are you using that as a means of arbitration to silence you as he did back in 2017. If thats all it is, thats not illegal in a legal context. Why did you wait a year to question the validity of a contract . There is either an offer, acceptance and consideration. How that plays out here would be, im going to offer you some money to not talk about the alleged sexual encounter with thenprivate citizen donald trump. Okay, i accept your offer. What are you going to give me for it . Heres the consideration. Im going to give you 130,000. Put it in the account, its been cashed, and we both operate as if this is a valid contract. She was aware back in october of 2016, 11 days before the election, that wolf, it wasnt signed by David Denison or the purported aka donald trump. So why did you wait a year and a half, act as if it was valid and accept the funds now . The next question would be, is there any evidence that donald trump or the Campaign Aide intended to silence you . Why is that important . Because were talking about Campaign Finance laws. Remember, its illegal to make a Campaign Contribution or expenditure that you havent disclosed if its intended to aid the campaign. They said in their complaint, wolf, that its very clear he knew about it and they were trying to help the campaign. If thats the case, you have a Campaign Finance issue. What do you actually have to prove that . The agreement she originally made, if she violates it, there is a 1 million penalty she has to pay . Yeah, it could be per instance of disclosure or it could be treated that its going to nullify the agreement and heres your onetime fine. But theres a big question in that. It seems to me people are treating her as being quite opportu opportunes opportunestic. I plan to gain millions by disclosing my story to tabloids, perhaps to films, book deals. That may be what shes undergone here if it turns out its a onetime fee, onetime penalty. That you arnk you, laura coa that analysis. At the heart of this debate is if the president knew his attorney paid 130,000 to the porn star. Sarah sanders was pressed on this by cnns jeff zeleny. Did the president approve of the payment made in october 2016 by his longtime lawyer and adviser Michael Cohen . The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true. This case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that, i would refer to you the president s outside counsel. You said there is arbitration thats already been won . By whom and when . By the president s personal attorneys, and for details on that, i would refer you to them. But youre aware of them, so what more can you share with us . I can share that the arbitration was won in the president s favor, and i would refer you to the president s outside counsel on any details beyond that. All right, lets bring in our panel. Political reporter for the Washington Post blog, the fix, Andrea Phillips is with us. Stead herndon and a. B. Stoddard. Her answers seem to continue this whole story because she was basically confirming, in one way or another, that the president was aware of what was going on. Right, which hes not too pleased about, according to the reporting. It really was, until yesterday, something the spokesman for the president were just shutting down. Nothing to see here, hes denied this, weve told you our feelings about this in the past. She said yesterday morning before the briefing. Hes denied the allegations. This was a way to keep it out of the conversation. What she did yesterday intentionally or mistakenly did light a fire. She should have stuck up for the president and said, this has been arbitrated and he won, as if he prevailed and was successful. Of course, giving way for Stormy Daniels lawyer to say, thats ridiculous, like he won the popular vote, and make it a much bigger story than it needed to be. Because the suggestion is that when she said, yes, he won that arbitration agreement, that he was involved in it, he knew all about it, he knew about the 130,000 payoff and the disclosure agreement she signed. This is a different playbook than the white house has usually done when it comes to these numerous sexual harrassment or sexu sexual encounters by the president. They tend to shake them off, oh, these are baseless allegations. We saw Vice President pence call the Stormy Daniels story baseless. Yesterday they gave an air of legitimacy around them, and even though theyre saying the president won in arbitration, it does raise additional questions of what he knew, what he was involved in, and it gives the white house official behind that a way to shape the conversation. Because the affair allegedly goes back to 2006, but the payment to keep her quiet, that occurred only a couple weeks before the november 2016 election. And thats raising all the concerns right now. Yeah, this may be a case where, if Stormy Daniels is somehow able to prove there was an affair, where the coverup is worse than the crime, to use a Law Enforcement metaphor. Republicans right now in congress let me use an example wore for the best if it turns out the president was involved in some kind of affair and he helped his lawyer cover that up, that also allows democrats an open angle in this Election Year to argue that republicans are hypocrites. Theyre able to point to an event a few decades ago where republicans were allegedly lying about an affair. The other story were following is apparently the white house chief of staff john kelly telling the president , dont ask these witnesses who go before Robert Mueller and his investigators how it went, what they asked. That would be totally inappropriate. Youve seen these reports. In jim acostas reporting, he made the point just catching up with Reince Priebus briefly and saying, were they nice to you is fine. This is after the fact. But this idea that perhaps he was coaching don mcgahn to change or alter his story about the prospect of the president firing Robert Mueller or even jeff sessions. That could really put him in serious legal jeopardy. The New York Times suggesting that the president w was. Robert mueller and mcgahn said thats a bad idea. The whole issue of lying comes to the fore right now. Weve seen this in numerous times with the president. Hes often his own worse enemy. When we had situations back to the travel ban when he contributed himself later. That comes. Trying to insulate him from his o own. These people may be going to the House Committee or. The idea that he would go above and beyond those warnings to then talk to his lawyer and tell him to maybe massage or change his statement . That hope hicks was saying about the president. And he basically was asked to lie about the president , which mcgahn obviously did not do. Wha whats the next step . The next step would be if Robert Mueller can get the president to sit down and talk. Reporters have gone on tv and said publicly, or his advisers, are very nervous about that idea. If you have a president who, as you pointed out, shades the truth and really struggles with when to be up front about something and when to give a misleading statement, and really doesnt seem to understand the consequences of the latter, hes sitting down with lawyers that we know have peace together, you know, in key moments hour by hour at some point. Who was there, who was e mailing so and so, who was on the call with so and so. Im referencing his decision to fire the fbi director, his decision to relay a misleading statement about the tower meeting with a russian lawyer. You have a president who is misleading with the truth, and then lawyers who are very, very capable piecing together every little thing. Thats got to be, i think, the next big struggle for the president. A major decision on his part. Thats coming up, theres no doubt, amber. New details emerging right now in that secret meeting in the seychelles where the Trump Administration and the kremlin were reportedly trying to set up some sort of backchannel. Senator jack reid. Were only standing by live. Right now south korean officials are on their way here to washington to the white house with a message from kim jongun, a direct message to President Trump. Your heart doesnt only belong to you. Bye grandpa. And if you have Heart Failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital compared to a leading Heart Failure medicine. Dont take entresto if pregnant. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. 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Available at walmart and walmart. Com President Trumps former Campaign Chairman is in court right now. Paul manafort is being arraigned outside washington, d. C. In alexandria, virginia. Looking at live pictures right now on charges stemming from the russia investigation. Manafort is accused of bank fraud and tax evasion charges in ukraine. In addition to the charges filed against manafort in washington, d. C. Federal court. He has pleaded guinot guilty to those charges. Did President Trump lie about a secret meeting . Erik prince may have misled lawmakers in his testimony before the panel. Prince was drilled about a meeting with the seychelles and whether it was used to set up a backchannel operation between trump and the russians. Prince denied that but may not necessarily have been forthcoming about who was involved in the meeting. Lets go to our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju who is joining us right now. Manu, what more have you learned . Reporter when prince came before this committee in late november, he was asked extensively about that meeting in the seychelles islands, asked about whether or not this was a backchannel effort in the discussion between the Trump Administration and the kremlin, something he denied furiously over several hours. He told the committee that he had two separate meetings there, one with united air emirates officials as well as one with a russian banker who uae officials insist the he meet with. He said there was no talk of policy, no talk of a backchannel or the like. One thing he did not disclose, wolf, was there was one other person who attended those meetings. Thats george nader, a lebanese american businessman tied to this discourse. Nader was in one of those meetings. When asked who else participated, he did not respond. If this was part of an effort to set up a backchannel, perhaps erik prince was lying to this committee. Thats what adam schiff said moments ago. It would be my hope we could have mr. Nader, special counsel permitting, come before our committee at the appropriate time and that we also have erik prince come back before the Intelligence Committee so we can determine which account is accurate. Do you think erik prince lied about the seychelles meeting . I dont know what he said was accurate or not. If those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik princes testimony. Reporter and wolf, schiff also called for prince to return to this committee, provide more records, answer more questions, and thats something the republicans are not committing to yet. Mo mike conaway, the reporter leading this investigation, and there is talk about if corwin lewandowski is finished today, its a question whether this investigation will wind down. Schiff also called for nader cooperating with special counsels investigation, but schiff wants to talk to him as well before this committee, wolf. Still plenty of unanswered questions. Manu, thank you very much. Manu raju up on capitol hill. Senator jack reid of rhode island is joining us. Hes a member of the senate Intelligence Committee, the Armed Services committee. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, wolf. Lets start with questions about that meeting in the seychelles islands. During that transition, whether there was an effort to set up Backchannel Communications with russia. What is the significance, from your perspective, of that . First of all, its been confirmed by all of our intelligence agencies that there was active engagement by the russians in our election in 2016. The question is, was there a direct relationship or a prominent relationship with the Trump Campaign and the russians . And this meeting sort of sticks out because its in the transition period, and its a dialogue between someone who was involved with the campaign, the Trump Campaign, and a russian, and again now. This all sort of seems to be leading to the question of which mr. Mueller is considering, was there any involvement directly with the russians in the campaign by the trump top operation . As you heard, the black water founder erik prince denies that was the purpose of the meeting. But why would the incoming Trump Administration need some sort of backchannel communication during the transition before the inauguration . I dont think they would have necessarily needed it. And again, this might not be starting a backchannel but continuing a channel that already had been started. There are appropriate ways in which you transition. A president elect can conduct relationships, but the norm typically is you dont really engage particularly through unofficial sources until youre sworn in. Thats my general sense of the way the procedure should work. Lets get to another sensitive issue. A white house official says john kelly, the white house chief of staff, has warned the president about talking to witnesses in the russia investigation. This follows a New York Times report that President Trump asked two witnesses about their conversations with Robert Muellers team. Does that cross a line . Well, it does get very, very close to a line because its not just trying to find out information, as they would say in the army, it might be undue command influence. Sending the message not just to those that may have been questioned but those that would be questioned in the future that what they say would be commented upon or they be queried by the president. Thats not a good practice. I think john kellys advice is sound advice. The white house Senior Adviser to the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner, hes been in mexico city, he met with the president of mexico. Despite having a security clearance downgraded from top secret to secret on an interim basis, an outgoing career diplomat with 30 Years Experience in the region was not on the trip. The outgoing u. S. Ambassador to mexico was not in that meeting. There was some confusion at the same time about cannotexactly we president is going to do about tariffs involving mexico and canada. Where is secretary of state Rex Tillerson in all of this right now . On these sensitive issues, he seems to be m ir. I. A. Its not just the secretary, its the entire state department. This is not just accidental. There are so many vacancies with diplomats. I was in jordan a few weeks ago. There is no ambassador in jordan. In fact, mr. Kushner showed up there, apparently went to see King Abdullah without any real sp support from the embassy. This ad hoc diplomacy is not good and it seems to be consistent. We dont have an ambassador in somalia. I was visiting there. Thats where we have troops in contact. We dont have an ambassador in libya, we dont have an ambassador in turkey. This is not just one issue. This is a department that i think has been deliberately undercut and that will not help us. We cant conduct the business of diplomacy in the United States on a oneoff basis, ad hoc meetings by people that frankly may be wellintentioned but unknown in the area. Youre a former u. S. Army ranger, you know a lot about classified information. Can a special u. S. Envoy like Jared Kushner really go into meetings with a leader like the president of mexico or King Abdullah of jordan or go to china, deal with the israelipalestinian Peace Process without top secret information . I think its difficult. First of all, he cant be briefed at a level that will allow him to make a very good judgment about what people are telling him. When hes sitting down with a foreign leader, he has to be able to have the whole context, he has to know more, hopefully, than the individual knows so that he can make a real judgment. His contribution can be focused. So without this, he can have a conversation, but it does not have the effect of someone who is fully briefed and fully vetted to know everything we know about the situation. Finally, senator, the White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders says President Trump won an arbitration in a lawsuit filed by the porn star Stormy Daniels. That was the first time the white house has admitted the president was involved in any way with daniels. What do you make of that and the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to stay silent only a few weeks before the november 2016 president ial election . Well, it raises a host of issues, but the one i think which is not of exclusive concern but serious concern is the Campaign Finance laws. Was this in some way a inkind contribution . Was it in some way connected to the campaign . That has to be evaluated and examined and either confirmed or refuted. But there are just a host of legal issues that have been raised by this disclosure. Do you agree with some of your democratic colleagues that maybe the fbi, the justice department, or even the special counsel should look at all this . I think someone should. Immediately the federal particularly i think theres already been a complaint filed. But someone has to look into this. It has to be done promptly and also not only to find the truth but to clear this issue off the table so its not causing further disruption in the white house, which is certainly under a stormy path at the moment. It certainly is. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Senator jack reed of rhode island. Theyre headed to the white house to deliver a message from kim jongun to President Trump. And an absurd rush as the president scrambles on his tariff plan. Is it . 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It will be delivered by south korean negotiators who had an unprecedented meeting with kim earlier in the week in pyongy g pyongyang. Lets go to our National Correspondent will ripley joining us from seoul, south korea right now. Have the South Koreans released specific details about this message from north korea . Reporter they ever not, wolf. They are being extraordinarily tightlipped about this. In fact, even north korean sources dont know what is in this message thats being delivered to President Trump, but it is directly from kim jongun from those meetings in pyongyang at the headquarters of the Workers Party of korea. Some are thinking it might be basically laying out the North Koreans position. They want North Koreans out of south korea. There is speculation in seoul that perhaps kim jongun would send his sister to these talks. But all is speculation right now until that message is delivered to President Trump. And the United States, how will they respond . Will this lead to talks or will it be a nonstarter . Well just have to wait and see. Youve been to pyongyang several times. To what degree have sanctions affected the regime of kim jongun, and is that the reason why some believe hes suddenly interested in diplomacy, direct talks not only with South Koreans but maybe even with the United States . Reporter my sources close to north korea say the sanctions are really start to go biing to. They describe it as when there used to be 100 trucks going back and forth from south korea to north korea, and now theres just 10 trucks. It will really hurt if north korea cant get some of those sanctions lifted and get some credibility to all of this. So yes, theyre giving the sanctions credit to this dialogue. Half of those sanctions have been imposed roughly during the Trump Administration, and it really is hurting kim jonguns maybe not his Nuclear Program but other status in the country. Will ripley reporting from seoul for us. Will, thank you very much. Well be anxious to find out whats in this message from the North Koreans to President Trump. Well work on that throughout the day. Just a short time from now, by the way, the president will sign some controversial new tariffs which he calls very fair, but americas strongest allies are deeply concerned right now. Spheres of a global trade war brew. And a standoff looms in syria where prosyrian forces are ramping up their troops. We have new information. Well be right back. You built your home again. My dna showed that im native american, and connected me to cousins who taught me about our tribe. My name is joseph reece, and this is my ancestrydna story. Now with 10 million new family connections made every day. Order your kit at ancestrydna. Com im trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. Can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk . I asked my doctor. 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Thanks for being with us. Happy to be with you. I know youve been working on these issues for decades. What does it say that the administration has had such a rocky rollout of these tariffs . Its typical. The Steel Industry are the crybabies of the beltway lobby farm. They gang tackle every new president that comes in with their tale of woe. In this case theyve got the biggest sucker yet. And this whole thing is a giant mistake. I was involved way back in 1982 when i negotiated for the reagan administration, and 18 quota on foreign steel, and they all pledged on their honor after five years they would be competitive, they wouldnt need the protection anymore, and here we are, you know, 30 years later and one device theyve had in protection after another, and its still the same old story. Now, we have a huge trade problem in this country. An 800 billion trade deficit is not anything to ignore. We have had a trade deficit for 43 years running, and if you want to know the truth, it adds up to 19 trillion of trade deficits over the last four decades. But steel is the least of our problem. The steel trade deficit is about 20 billion, which is 2 , and the argument that we need this for National Defense is actually ludicrous. We produce 82 million tons of steel last year. Canada, mexico or brazil which i dont think will declare war on us or put an embargo, and d. O. D. Says at most they need 3 million tons a year. So this is a figure leaf for rank protectionism thats focused on the wrong industry because theres so much excess capacity for steel in the world that there will never be a shortage, and were just barking up the wrong tree. The problem isnt bad trade deals, the problem is bad money at the fed and in the Central Banks of the countries that have been suppressing their exchange rates. Thats the problem. So when you say the steel lobby is very effective here in washington and theyre dealing with the biggest sucker, who is the biggest sucker . Well, the one in the oval office. Thats the one im talking about. I mean, somehow he thinks that a 17th century version of mercantilist trade policy is going to make america grow again. That isnt remotely correct, and he should be focusing on the real problem. We have ten countries that we have a massive trade deficit with, almost 90 of the 800 billion is 10 countries. Sh kn Everybody Knows who they are. Its mexico, china, south korea, vietnam and a couple others. They ought to focus on why do we have a big deficit there when the other half of our trade accounts we have 4 trillion a year of import and exports half of it, 2 trillion is balanced with 150 countries in the world where we basically buy a trillion and sell a trillion. So we need to focus on whats wrong with the exchange rates, whats wrong with Corporate America that constantly uses all of its cash flow for stock buybacks, mna deals, lbos, leverage recaps. Theyre not investing in competitive ability for us to compete in the world market. In fact, business cap x in real net terms today is 30 lower than it was in the year 2000. Thats where the problem is, and this tax cut did nothing for it. Its a giant mistake thats going to drive up Interest Rates and cause, you know, huge wi windfalls to wall street to the 1 and 10 that own the stock. But its not going to really address the problem. Well see exactly what the president signs later today, 3 30 p. M. Eastern, when he makes this announcement on tariffs. David stockman, thanks so much for joining us. Happy to be with you. A warning for the white house chief of staff john kelly to his boss, dont talk to Robert Muellers witnesses about their testimony. 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Wolf, officials are telling me this buildup is something of concern. Its something thats been noticed. This regime force has started to bring in reinforcements, getting larger very close to where u. S. Operation forces are and that u. S. Forces have contacted their russian counterparts meant to avoid any potential miscalculations, any potential clashes between the various groups in the area. Theyre watching this closely. The regime has attempted to seize territory in the area before leading to that devastating counterattack. Some 100 fighters, including Russian Military contractors were told. Tensions very high right now. U. S. Communicating with russian count counterparts to try to avoid a repeat of what happened last month. But this all comes as the u. S. Fight against isis has been complicated by a number of factors, u. S. Local allies, syrian Democratic Forces have left the area to join their fellow kurdish militias in another part of syria, complicating the situation. U. S. Forces keeping a close eye on what these regime troops are doing so close to their positions. Any indications over there that the u. S. Military is gearing up for some sort of tom wrahawk Cruise Missile strike . Nothing concrete on that front. Of course, the u. S. Has said that has pointed to what its done in the past, those april strikes where they launched 58 tomahawk missiles against Syrian Regime forces saying theyve done that in the past and closely monitoring syrias military activity, looking for evidence of any potential Syrian Chemical Weapons use. But no indications as of yet that any kind of military option is being closely explored at this time. Ryan brown be, over at the pentagon, thank you very much. Well check back with you. I suspect it will get tense very, very quickly, given the unrest and slaughter going on in syria. Well stay on top of this story for our viewers here in the United States and around the world. 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