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MSNBCW First Look May 4, 2018

It is friday, may 4th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Well start with stunning revolutions as the the New York Times describes it suggesting a president losing control of his own narrative. As of this week, it turns out that the statement about his health was not actually from trumps doctor but had been dictated by mr. Trump himself, the president has split with the leaders of the legal team and hired a new attorney and mr. Trump had finance the 130,000 payment intended to buy the silence of the actress known as Stormy Daniels. The Washington Post reports that when Rudy Giuliani went on National Television wednesday night and said the president had, quote, funneled money to Michael Cohen for the cost of the porn stars nondisclosure agreement, quote, neither White House Counsel Don Mcgahn or emmitt flood, the white house attorney recently hired knew that trump had reimbursed cohen before giuliani actually revealed it on fox news. The communications of media staff run by Sarah Huckabee sanders did not book giulianis appearance on hannitys show and were not involved in helping him strategize his actual talking points. Now, trump, surrounded by faith leaders at yesterdays national day of prayer event, ignored questions and left sanders to face down the press. Watch this. Can you explain why the president when he spoke when he answered questions about reporter a few weeks ago about the 130,000 payment to Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, why the president was not truthfully with the American People . As mayor giuliani stated and ill refer you back to his comments, this was information that the president didnt know at the time but eventually learned. When did you specifically know that the president repaid mr. Cohen for the 130,000, you personally . The first awareness i had was during the interview last night. All right. So late last night, giuliani told nbc news that he made the admission after being told about documents that show proof of the payment. Giuliani a former u. S. Attorney, accused Law Enforcement in the office that he once led of playing dirty, quote. I wanted to get out in front of the special counsel and the Southern District of new york because at some point they would realize this information and leak it. Giuliani said i dont think the president realized he paid cohen back for that specific thing until we made him aware of the actual paper work. The president responded oh, my goodness, i guess thats what it for. He also served about serving his trump lawyer. You wont see day light between the president and me. Well work hard to have a consistent strategy. The cycle of denial and later admitting the truth has taken a toll on the president s credibility to say the least. The Washington Post found that as of may 1st, the president has told more than 3,000 false or misleading claims yesterday. The white house commented on its standard for the truth. When the president so often says things that turn out not to be true, when the president of white house, show what appears to be a blatant disregard for the truth, how are the americans supposed to believe we give the very best information that we have at the time. I do that every single day and will continue to do that every day under this position. Turning now to the russia investigation, special counsel bob mueller appearing to be getting ready to file a number of subpoenas ahead of the trial for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. In a document filed with the u. S. Zriekt court in virginia yesterday, muellers team requested, quote, 70 blank subpoenas which amount to 35 total possible subpoenas because they come in sets, now the two page filing orders each subpoena recipients in alexandria, virginia, at 10 00 a. M. On july 10th to testify. This filing is in addition to 35 previously requested sets. Now in virginia, manafort is facing several charges including bank fraud and filing false tax returns. Hes also facing charges in a washington, d. C. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all the charges that he is currently facing. Were also learning that mueller is focusing on alleged interactions between former Trump Campaign official rick gates and political operative roger stone. Sources on a condition of anonymity saying the questions have been largely about what was discussed at meetings including dinners between stone and gates, before and during the campaign. Sources telling cnbc a long time adviser to donald trump is one of the top subjects between collusion and attorney for stone it not deny discussions between stone and gates took place but sought to downplay their importance. Back in february, rick gates pled guilty to two counts stemming from the russia probe. He is said to be cooperating with muellers investigation. Excuse me. All right. Congressional republicans are demanding the Justice Department provide them with a full look on the memo on the scope of spernl counsel Robert Muellers investigation. The memo which revealed interests in allegations against Paul Manafort is largely redacted and could potentially reveal leads that the probe has followed. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is reportedly reluctant to comply with the gops request. The former federal Law Enforcement official familiar with the departments views told the New York Times that rosenstein and top fbi officials have come to suspect that some lawmakers were using their Oversight Authority to gain intelligence about that investigations that could be shared with the white house. Asked about what the president will do, the white house said yesterday, quote, well see what happens. Joining me now White House Correspondent for the washington examiner. Gaby, good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Lets talk, first about Rudy Giuliani, brought in to bring order to Trumps White House legal operation to say the least, bring order. Seemingly bringing more chaos than order. What do you make of the fallout from all of his most recent comments beginning of course with that interview with sean hannity on wednesday night . Right. I think that there are two major things that are going to happen Going Forward after that media blitz yesterday and that interview on wednesday night with sean hannity. The first being that Robert Muellers team now has several new leads to look in to because of what Rudy Giuliani said during those interviews and in subsequent interviews with a number of media outlets. I spoke with an attorney yesterday whos been closely following all of the president s legal troubles and he said that this interview was spectacularly bad in that it, you know, tri tripped a number of wires that the president s legal team may not have been aware of nor that Robert Mueller and his team were aware of and now they can dedicate investigative resources to looking into these things, possible Campaign Finance violations, things about whether the president lied about knowing or having knowledge of the payment that was made to daniels. Things about his relationship with Michael Cohen. These are all red flags that were raised during that Hannity Interview and in subsequent interviews and the second thing that this really does to the president is undermines his credibility because if you go back to april 6th when he was asked on air force one if he had any knowledge of this deal between Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, he told reporters pointblank no, he didnt. You have to ask my personal attorney and we now know that that is not true per his lead attorney as part of white house counsel. Lets talk russia investigation and especially Robert Mueller and where we believe he is heading. Obviously this new news that hes asking for these 35 subpoenas or so and then the leaking of the questions that he would possibly be asking President Trump if they were to sit down with one another and he were to interview President Trump for the russian investigation. Considering all the information that weve learned with the direction of the russia investigation, where do you think hes heading with all of this . I think hes looking very closely at all of these key figures who are part of the Trump Campaign, who are in the periphery during the 2016 election. People like rick gates and roger stone and Paul Manafort. The revelation yesterday that he requested 70 blank subpoenas in the manafort case in the Eastern District of virginia is huge. It goes to show the scope of which, you know, hes looking in to all of the different sketchy action thats these folks have taken and how they may or may not relate to the president himself. I think those questions that leaked really show that there are as i was saying earlier a number of leads that his team is pursuing. Theyre not just looking at possible conspiracy or collusion, theyre looking at all of the different, you know, payments that were made by Michael Cohen, the president s relationship with his personal attorney, about his close proximity to folks like Paul Manafort and general flynn and really there are a numb of issues at hand that could land the president in significant legal trouble. It seems like the scope of this investigation is much broader than we originally thought with the way things are playing out so far. Gaby, ill talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. Thanks. After a firestorm of questions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, House Speaker paul ryan is actually reversing course and agreeing to keep on father Patrick Conroy as house chaplain. Ryan asked conroy to step aside last month and yesterday father conroy sent a letter to the House Speaker rescinding his resignation. He wrote in part, quote, i have never been disciplined nor reprimanded nor have i ever heard a complaint of my ministry during my time as house chaplain. When he asked ryans chiefofstaff why he was being let go he was told, quote, maybe its time that we had a chaplain that was not a catholic. Ryans chiefofstaff, Jonathan Burke took issue with ryans version of events, says he strongly disagrees with conroys recollection of their conversation. Shortly after conroy released that letter stressing his intent to stay on, speaker ryan released his own statement saying in part, quote, ive accepted father conroys letter and decide that had he will remain in his position as chaplain of the house. Ryan also insisted again that conroys firing was about Pastoral Care and had nothing to do with politics. Pretty Interesting Development there to say the least. Still ahead, everybody, what were learning this morning about the possible release of three americans imprisoned in north korea. 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The officials also say that the troop levels are not intended to be a bargaining chip in trumps upcoming talks with kim jongun, but noted that if a peace treaty is established, the need for current troop levels would be dimini diminished. It comes on the heels of an nbc news report from earlier had week. Back in february john kelly successfully dissituated trump from withdrawing all u. S. Troops from the Korean Peninsula. Americans troops are there due to the alliance and it, quote, has nothing to do with signing a peace treaty. Something that south korean president moon jaein kim jongun has actually agreed to. The Trump Administration is responding to reports that the three americans detained in north korea had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel outside of pyongyang and while we await news anticipating their release, it appears President Trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani and the white house are not on the same page regarding the current status of these three americans. Watch this. Hes getting ready to negotiate probably one of our most historic agreements since the opening to china with iran, perhaps. We got kim jongun impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today. Can you give us an update on the three americans held in north korea, Rudy Giuliani said that they were going to be released today . Is that true . We cant confirm the validity of any of the reports currently out about their release. Rudy giuliani have commented publicly on the north korean hostages, are they involved in any way in efforts to secure their release . Not that im aware of. Why are they commenting . Thats a question youd have to ask them. I dont speak for people outside the office. Given that he isnt have a high level clearance . Im not aware that they spoke about that, so i dont know. When mayor giuliani whos now works for President Trump is talking about this on television, is he speaking on behalf of the u. S. Government . I would just have to refer you to the white house on that because ive not spoken with mayor giuliani about his role or comments. I dont have any information about what exactly his role is going to be other than being a Legal Adviser to the president. Giuliani has some people to speak to. Lets get a check now on your weather with bill karins. The heats been incredible the last couple of days in areas of the northeast. We waited for it for so long and its like middle of the summer heat. Were getting thunderstorms in texas and we have Rainy Weather through the northern great lakes. Additional thunderstorms will occur. 21 Million People in a slight risk of Severe Weather. We could get wind damage out of this and small hail. And maybe one or two tornadoes, too, especially areas of western pennsylvania and western new york. This includes much of the state of pennsylvania and all of new york state. New york citys not in it, philadelphia and baltimore is on the edge and so it washington, d. C. Those areas could see storms but the Severe Weather should mostly be in these areas. Lets time it out for this area. As we go through this morning, theres that rain in Northern Michigan and rain in wisconsin. As we go through the afternoon, the storms form just ahead of this cold front. Scattered storms in indiana and ohio. As we go through 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00 the storm raise from buffalo to rochester to syracuse to pittsburgh to State College and theyll be another line of storms that looks out ahead of it that will develop in the appalachians. So not everyones going to get rained out on their friday night but a few areas getting an isolated strong storm or two. Todays forecast, were nice in the southeast, very wet and stormy this morning especially in areas right around dallas and the weekend outlook, were watching rain, unfortunately, tennessee does not look great on saturday right through west virginia, virginia, even d. C. Does not look g

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