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About that 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. All that at least for now. Were going to talk to Stormy Daniels attorney meeomentarily. Stand by for that. For now were going to talk to legal analyst jeff zeleny at the white house. Jeff, what can you tell us about this and whether youve heard any reaction at all from white house officials . Reporter wolf, this is certainly an Interesting Development and one i would think the white house will welcome. This has been one of the concerns, will the president ultimately be deposed in this . Will he be submitted to questions about the Stormy Daniels situation . This is only one step in all of this, this judge ruling that blocking this motion for now, this certainly will be appealed, and its far from the end of this. But this is what the white house has been wondering and worrying about, will the president be drawn into some type of legal dispute here or having the president sit for questions. The white house has not yet reacted to it. The president , in fact, is flying to ohio as we speak, so hes likely just seeing word of this while hes in the air on air force i. But certainly, wolf, the white house has been very reticent to talk about any of these matters. Weve heard and seen in the White House Briefing all week of White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders not wanting to answer questions about this, in fact, saying the white house has answered all the questions already about this. The president has had another opportunity to decide if he would answer questions about Stormy Daniels and other accusers as he left the white house an hour and a half ago, wolf. He declined once again. Jeff, were going to get back to you. Theres other news unfolding. Right now i want to bring in Stormy Daniels attorney, michael avenatti, to react to these latest developments. Whats your reaction, michael . Over the course of my lifetime, it hasnt happened a lot, but it turns out we were a little premature this time around. This is a procedural ruling. It really means nothing. But i will tell you this, were very, very encouraged by language in the order not just suggesting, but basically finding, that were correct in the application of the law and the facts to this matter. This does not bode well for the president or mr. Cohen, and all indications are that when this motion is heard on the merits, were going to get the discovery and were going to get the trial weve asked for. And i think that weve provided some portions of that order that are important for people to comprehend and understand. Because the ruling from this federal judge says the court denies without prejudice plaintiff Stephanie Cliffords motion for expedited jury trial pursuant to the federal arbitration act and for limited expedited discovery. Thats legal words that obviously hard to understand, but what youre saying is youre going to refile after the president or his Attorney Michael Cohen have a chance to weigh in, is that right . Yeah, let me explain this to your viewers if i can. Basically what the court has said is that we have to wait until the president and mr. Cohen file their motion to compel arbitration. As soon as we do that, or as soon as they do that, we can refile this motion. Thats exactly what were going to do. We expect that could be filed today, it could be filed in the next couple days. All indications are theyre going to file that motion. Then we will in turn refile this motion, and then the court is going to make a determination. But wolf, there is language in this order that i am very, very pleased with, because the Court Appears to agree with our assessment of the law, and it shows that what David Schwartz and others have said, that this motion had no merit, that that is baseless. Theyre in a lot of trouble, wolf. This is not good for the president , it is not good for mr. Cohen. Its at least a temporary gain for them, although, as you pointed out, youre going to refile and see what happens down the road. As you know, Michael Cohens attorney and his friend David Schwartz, he was on cnn last night with erin burnett. He said that Michael Cohen was acting independently of the president when he set up that 130,000 hush agreement to Stormy Daniels. Listen to this. The president was not aware of the agreement. At least, Michael Cohen never told him about the agreement, i can tell you that. Not aware about the agreement. What about the money . He was not aware of any of it. He was not told about it. Michael cohen left the option open. Thats why he left that signature line. The option open to go to him. He chose not to. So what did you think when you heard that . What i think is that if we could drive David Schwartz to more television appearances, we would do it ourselves, wolf. Every time they go on television, our case gets better and better. Theyre in a world of hurt. That was very, very damaging to their position that this is a valid agreement, very damaging. And thats going to come back why . Well, because. Now what happens is David Schwartz claims the president knew nothing about this, had no involvement in it. If thats true the agreement is going to be thrown out because the president , and only the president , combinan bind himsel various provisions in that agreement. The agreement can be tossed out, wolf. Also mr. Schwartz says the president s attorney largely set up arrangements like that. So they happened frequently . Michael is the fixer. It could be anything. Its not there were a ton of matters that took place that michael fixed and donald trump wasnt involved in every single matter. So whats your reaction to that . Well, wolf, i mean, this is legal buffoonery. These guys are making it up as it goes along. As a guy that has practiced law at a high level and against some really good attorneys around this country for 20 years, this is just amazing to me. David schwartz, if thats to be believed, there is significant ethical concerns now relating to Michael Cohens conduct in supposedly settling cases without authority. That raises a whole host of additional issues for Michael Cohen. These guys just cant get it straight, wolf. Does stor did stormy danie lawyer reach out to Keith Davidson about that payment . Thats what they say, they approached Keith Davidson, Keith Davidson came up with the 130,000 payment and Michael Cohen paid it. No. Thats not true. That assertion is just as accurate as Michael Cohen paying the 130,000 from his own money and never talking to the president about it and the president knowing nothing about it. Its patently false. Will your client, Stormy Daniels, release Keith Davidson, her first lawyer, from what he describes as attorneyclient privilege that prevents him from discussing all this publicly . I dont know, wolf. We havent discussed it. Thats far more important in many instances than this particular finite issue. She may consider it and shell make a determination, ultimately. But if your goal is for the American People, the american public, to know the entire truth and youre simply seeking transparency thats what she said in her interview on 60 minutes with Anderson Cooper why not release him and let him tell everything publicly . If Michael Cohen and the president will lift this attorneyclient privilege, my client will as well. How about that . You could release them even on your own if youre simply seeking transparency and letting the American People know exactly what happened. Wolf, again, this has to be a twoway street. Where is Michael Cohen . Where is the president . Weve gotten no information from them. Zero. We continue to go on television. Were asked tough questions from you and others, were answering those questions. These guys are nowhere to be found except for the legal buffoonery of david sha batteri schwartz. Did Keith Davidson act unethically with Stormy Daniels . I decline to answer that question. You said he needed to go to ethics class. What did you mean by that . I thought he needed an ethics class rather than prove disparity. I stand by that. Two months before the hush agreement that was worked out with Stormy Daniels just a few days before the election, in august of 2016, kathy daveith d the same attorney, worked out an agreement with karen mcdougal, the playboy playmate. Do you think mr. Schwartz had anything to do with that deal . I dont know, its pure speculation. I dont know a lot of the details between Keith Davidsonc. Do we have the order . We do have the order. Its a severalpage document if theres something specific you want to read. Lets wrap up with Keith Davidson. He got 150,000 for karen mcdougal. In exchange for that, she was supposed to do things for the National Enquirer and not talk about her relationship with donald trump many years earlier, in 20062007 as a private citizen. Im just wondering if this was normal for Keith Davidson to work out arrangements with clients who say theyve had a relationship with donald trump. I dont know. He cites attorneyclient privilege and says your client Stormy Daniels wont let him out of that and therefore he cant speak publicly. Wait a minute, wolf. My relationship with Stormy Daniels has nothing to do with the question you just posed, which is, does he do this on a regular basis with other people . My client is not permitted to answer questions to that or providing answer to that question. Many of the conversations she presumably had with Keith Davidson may have come out, how much time hes done this, and there could be issues raised between the conversations the two of them had. Based on my understanding, i would be very, very surprised if any of that type of discussion occurred between ms. Davidson and ms. Daniels . Isnt that a normal thing a client would ask her lawyer, have you ever done this before . How good is this . Im really worried. Those would be normal questions. Im sure your clients ask you those kinds of questions all the time. Well, theres a lot of things that, in normal chances that dont appear to be in your car, but im here to opine my opinion based on his conduct. Youve made a lot of tv appearances, and some of the critics are suggesting your real aim is the debate with the president of the United States in breaking his silence on this and speaking out. Hes remained totally silent. He likes to tweet, he likes to counterpunch when someone is going after him, but on this hes remained totally silent. Is that your goal, to bait him to breaking that silence . No, wolf, our goal is to get simple, straight answers as to some very finite questions that the American People deserve to have answers to. I dont know why some are calling that baiting. You want the president to speak out, though, dont you . We want to hear what the president has to say as to the following, very basic questions, wolf. Did he know anything about the agreement . Was he aware of the negotiation of the agreement . Did he sign the agreement . And what did he know, if anything, about the 130,000 . And i guess lastly, did he reimburse the 130,000 or arrange for someone else to do so . I mean, these are five very basic questions. I dont understand why we cant get answers from people on them. He clearly didnt sign the agreement. That line with d. D. On it was part of the pseudonym. We dont need to ask questions we have the answer to, right . Wolf, nothing else would surprise me in this case. And based on what ive seen in the last three weeks and the publications, nothing would surprise me anymore in this case. I want to get kbrour reaction of what weve heard from criminal attorney. He had this to say about your clients 60 minutes interview with anderson. Listen to this. There was nothing there. I was we havent talked since then. Did you think it was a nothing burger . What did you think . I mean, look, this supposed threat in the parking lot seven years ago, give me a break. Ill give you a chance to respond to mark geragos. I know him personally. Hes a good guy and a good lawyer. I couldnt disagree with him more about his assessment, but thats okay. We disagree 90 of the time, and the other 10 we vehemently disagree. It doesnt mean im right or wrong or vice versa. So whats the next step . Were going to wait for the president or mr. Cohen to file their motion to compel arbitration, and well immediately refile our motion. Again, wolf, based on the language of the order that came down today, they are in a world of hurt. They are not in a good place. We told them what the law was before we filed the motion. They didnt seem to understand it. Maybe theyre going to understand it now, but i think were going to get the discovery that weve asked for and i think were going to get the trial weve asked for, and i think the courts order indicates that based on the citation to the law that we initially provided in our papers. So you see this federal judges order as a temporary setback, but its going take a few extra weeks to see what happens down the road. Its not going to be solved in the next 30 days. April 30 was the original date, right . It can still be resolved on that date because there is a notice period that has to be provided, and were still within that period. I dont see this as a temporary setback at all. Its not even a gnat. The court has denied this on procedural grounds. We know theyre going to file ii it, were going to refile it. Im more confident than ever before because of the order. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. David schwartz, the attorney representing Michael Cohen, will be a guest later today on the lead. Thats at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Well get a very different perspective at that time. Other news were following. Its an american jewel with an owner who has become the richest man in the world. Now the president directly targeting amazon. Is this personal or business . Kellyanne conway may be one of the president s advisers, but the president not a fan. Why hes been traveling to unravel without hope hicks who is leading the white house. Duncan just protected his family with a 500,000 Life Insurance policy. How much do you think it cost him . 100 a month . 75 . 50 . Actually,duncan got his 500,000 for under 28 a month. Less than a dollar a day. His secret . Selectquote. 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I hope the main thing i hope is that the russian action doesnt discourage this president in the white house from continuing to fight back against russian interference in certain places around the world where theyve been a very counterproductive influence, but also we dont let down our guard in preparing for potential russian attacks on our elections. We need to push back really hard. How serious is that fear that the russians could affect the midterm elections in november. Its a very real fear. Top intelligence folks, whether from the nsa or cia, that they expect the russian to see try to do that again. This is why senator rubio and i have introduced the deter act. The deter act is to discourage putin and others from interfering by creating very tough automatic penalties if they get caught in 2018. In expelling those 30 Russian Diplomats from the United States, u. S. Officials said most of them were really intelligence or spies, intelligence operatives or spies. Presumably the russians do the same thing to the american diplomats who are now being expelled over the next few days whether cia or other intelligence agents working as diplomats. How difficult will it be to gather intelligence capability in russia . How many of these are really intelligence folks . I can assure you the majority of folks say theyre actually diplomats doing their work. Im not on the intelligence committee, but the reality is that the russians are known to populate their embassy and consulates with a lot more of their intelligence folks than other countries. But theyre overseas as well. Obviously we have intelligence folks overseas, including russia. But the idea that 100 of our folks in st. Petersburg would be no, nobody says 100 . There are some who work undercover. Again, i dont know about this particular site, but the russians have been known to spend a lot more of their assets investing in the intelligence area. Should the u. S. Now further retaliate, or is it over, at least this chapter . We expel 60, they expel 60. Is it over or is this going to escalate into more tension . I would have to actually look at all the specifics with respect to this particular russian action. What we should make sure we do not do is say, oh, boy, every time we do something, the russians are going to respond, so we shouldnt do things going forward. We should take action going forward. The president finally, after congressm mandated that he do i, recognize aid number of oligarchs who partially interfered our elections before. That was a minimum of what we should have done, so we should send a very clear signal you want more action. Through legislation. We need to make clear that its automatic and very tough. For example, the legislation weve introduced would say if they get caught interfering in our election again, then were going to penalize not just a few oligarchs. Were going to go after their banking sector, their oil sector. Were going to make it hurt because we want putin to know its not worth it to him to interfere in our lives. This is a tough moment for u. S. Russian relations. I ask you this because youre the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. One of your responsibilities is to help democrats get elected. You would like to see a democratic majority in the u. S. Senate. The new poll we just had has republicans close ing the gap o the generic question, who do you want to see in control . Your partys candidate you would vote for if midterms were held today. Back in february, democrats had a 4 lead, and now republicans have 44 over 38 . Where were up consistently, including in this months cnn poll, is the enthusiasm and energy of voters. And in midterms, thats the thing to keep an eye on because that determines who actually comes out to the polls, not just who is answering the question at the other end of a telephone. If you loobk at that measure, democratic enthusiasm has gone up, including matching last month whereas republican enthusiasm has been flat. I notice that as well. Republicans have a majority 5149. Do you think you could be the majority of the senate after midterm elections . Were fighting every fight here. We need to defend 26 seats and try to pick up an additional two. Were working very hard to try to accomplish that goal. More to the point, our senators who are out there fighting every day for the people in their states are out there doing that. But look, if you had asked me a year ago whether we would be in as strong a position as we are today, i would have said no. So were feeling good about where we are because the public is watching whats coming out of this white house and they do not like what they see. Senator chris van hollen, thank you very much. Thank you. Coming up, the president announces the ouster of his secretary of veteran affairs, look to go fill his position. 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S. , and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business. Im joined now by cnn political commentator and Washington Post columnist katherine nampella. Katherine, why does the president have so much animosity toward amazon . There are a few possible explanations. Trump has the reputation of putting down their work and jeff bazo happens to be the richest man in the world. I think his amazon bashing is just an extension of his media bashing. Jeff bazos owns the Washington Post. Amazon doesnt, but jeff bazos does. And President Trump has very confusing ideas about the relationship between amazon and the Washington Post, and if you look back at all the times he has attacked amazon, and theres been maybe a dozen tweets in the last year and a half, couple years, theyve often been prompted by what he sees as political coverage in the Washington Post. Hes lashing out at amazon because hes angry about media ko coverage, essentially. I want to point out, the recent forbes billionaire is jeff bezos, 112 billion net worth. Hes gone up in the past several years dramatically. Look at President Trump, on the other hand. His net worth is 3. 1 billion, which is obviously very good. Not 10 billion as hes claimed. Hes now 776th in the world. His spot has gone down significantly in the world, about 26 points, since 2016. Is there something personal going on here . Do you think these numbers feed the president s personal anger toward jeff bezos . I think thats possible. We dont exactly know what the motivations are here. I think we need to pause for a moment and just reflect on how crazy it is that the sitting president of the United States appears to be taking actions to try to drive down the stock price of what he perceives to be a political enemy. Or the net worth of what he perceives to be a political enemy, which is mr. Bezos here. We havent even talked about the precise criticisms the president has made against amazon. You showed the tweet earlier where trump was claiming amazon wasnt paying state and local taxes, which is wrong. Amazon does pay state and federal taxes. Also that theyre stewing a scandal is also backwards. Yeah, amazon is using the Postal Service, which mainly is what keeps the Postal Service afloat. Packaging and mail is doing well. Whether its criticism about bezos, about the Washington Post, whatever the motivation, its very confused. I dropped one word when i was reading his tweet earlier. He said, using the postal system as their delivery boy, i didnt use the word boy, causing tremendous loss to the u. S. What theyre doing, as you correctly pointed out, all these deliveries are giving the u. S. Postal service a lot more money as a result of all the work that amazon does. When he says theyre putting many thousands of retailers out of business, a lot of smaller retailers are in business because of the opportunities they now have to go on line and sell their products, right . Yeah, there are a lot of Third Party Sellers on amazon. I know i used them. Im sure a number of other viewers watching this have used them. Its true that amazon is a fierce competitor and a lot of shops that dont participate in their platform may suffer from that. But the thing you have to keep in mind is if youre looking at u. S. Antitrust law, which it seems like trump is interested in levying against, again, a perceived political enemy, generally the way that our antitrust system works is that you have to show there is harm to the consumer. Its not clear that having low prices and having effects on potential competitors is necessarily hurting consumers. So, again, these criticisms seem to have very impure motives and are confused to boot. Katherine, thank you very much for that explanation. Thank you, wolf. Did President Trump choose another cabinet member based on chemistry over qualifications . There are new questions about the new job his personal physician just received. 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Not just a member of the Trump Administration but one of the prominent defenders of the president. A number of his tweets, beyond the flabbergasted, hes been trying to weigh in on topics hes trying to avoid. Heres the tweets from recent weeks. And you have Stormy Daniels, of course, who the white house has repeatedly rebuffed. Heres George Conway retweeting a tweet that brings attention to the fact that that 130,000 payment may have been an Illegal Campaign contribution. This is one that George Conway retweeted from chuck todd, saying, every day a tantrum. Every day more enabling. This is no way to run a pta let alone the Largest Organization in the world. And this is in reference to a tweet about the fact that the president repeatedly denies reports that reportedly turn out to be true. Why is this most interesting . First of all, George Conway has since deleting this tweet and hes been deleting a series of recent tweets. I reached him today and asked him why hes deleting these tweets. He said, nothing to add. When i asked him why, he said no. David shulkin is now out. The president s personal physician will replace him after hes confirmed by the United States senate. Did he choose chemistry over management qualifications . President trump has made another change to his cabinet, firing Veterans Affair secretary david shulkin. He has nominated his white house physician, rear admiral Ronnie Jackson as shulkins replacement. It may be this performance in front of cameras that certainly caught the president s eye. Theres no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues. The president , you know, hes very sharp, very articulate. Lot of stamina. Look at his vision. Hes 75 years old and can drive if he wants to without glasses. He washes his hands frequently. He uses purell. His Overall Health is excellent. He has really good genes. I assume he will remain healthy for this term and the remainder of another term if he is elected. National director of amvets, one of the leading veteran organizations. Lets talk about this shift yesterday. What was your reaction when you heard shulkin was fired and dr. Jackson was coming in . Certainly disappointed to hear about the firing. Not exactly surprised but very disappointed. Thought secretary shulkin had been doing a great job and we have concern about the nomination. What is your concern about dr. Jacks snen he is navy and will be leaving active duty if confirm bid the senate but he is an admiral. We dont know much about him. Thats part of the concern. We looked into his background, official navy bio, wikipedia page. Some of the things that we can find out, we dont see much there as far as experience to run a 200 billion agency with 350,000 employees, veterans lives depend on this decision being right. So, were very eager to start this confirmation process and hope that a lot of these answers or a lot of these questions are answered. Im sure there will be a lot of questions for him during the senate confirmation. So much of the work has to do with the physical, health, mental health, physical health of veterans here in the you state. So, isnt it good that a physician will be atop that administration . We are pleased with his medical background but the health care side of the va is really only onethird of the va. Theres claims, appeals. We have an appeals backlog, veterans are waiting seven to ten years for their appeals to be adjudicated. Very serious stuff. We dont know that this secretary has that type of experience to be able to oversee that. The va has experienced a leadership vacuum for a while in addition to the carousel at the top of the va, theres no va undersecretary. Is there deputy secretary number two . No. Thats an appointment point here, someone we also have a lot of confidence in. We being amvets and other organizations, we have a lot of confidence in that deputy but he was leapfrogged and they brought in somebody from the pentagon. To be acting secretary . Yes. Were puzzled by that and have put inquiries into the white house and administration to why that would be. Whats the answer youre getting . Were not getting any answer. This pentagon, undersecretary will be the acting secretary of Veterans Affairs until dr. Jackson is confirmed . Right. That could take months. The process could take months, indeed. But your concere concerned abo. What was your biggest opposition to shulkin being fired . There were all these stories of the trip he took, he was opposed to privatization. Those are sensitive issues in the department of Veterans Affairs. Its not sensitive as far as Veterans Organization go. We stood united, major legitimate Veterans Organizations very opposed to privatization. Veterans lose out on that and taxpayers lose on that as well, at least 500 billion more. He wrote in the New York Times today, shulkin, they saw me as an obstacle to privatization that had to be removed because im convinced privatization is a political issue, aimed at rewarding select people and companies with profits even if it undermines care for veterans. Do you think thats why he was forced snout. Absolutely. We need to be focused as a nation when talking about veterans issues. On another matter, joe, the secretary of defense, james mattis, moments ago, receive d john bolton, the president S New National security adviser. Let me play this little clip, what we just heard. Mr. Secretary, so good to see you. Thank you for inviting me over. Thank you for coming. Nice to finally meet you. Absolutely. I heard that youre absolutely the devil incarnate and i wanted to meet. You in case you didnt hear, secretary mattis saying i heard youre the devil incarnate and i wanted to meet you. Bolton laughed and secretary mattis laughed. I dont know if you wanted to react on that, joe. You served in iraq and afghanistan. I actually served under general mattis in both iraq and afghanistan with great deal of respect for him. What hes doing over at the pentagon is very much on track. That comment, im guessing that was something off the cuff there. A joke. Tried to say devil incarnate. It will get some pickup, as you know. Are you pleased that john bolton will be the National Security adviser . He does not need senate confirmation. Were looking forward to hearing what his update in a more modern, presentday stances are on, obviously, a lot of Important National defense issues and National Security issue. That would affect the veterans and were grateful to you and all the veterans for the service theyve done to our country. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Breaking news in the case of the president versus the porn star. 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