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Lawsuit. this become the president s lawyers are back in court is a stormy daniels owes them $340,000. arguing they racked up big bills because of her lawyer, michael avenatti s, public grandstanding. daniels previously sued the president seeking to break a nondisclosure deal about an alleged one night stand with then businessman trump back in 2006. confederate statue of the university north carolina getting a new home, sparking new protests denied. reporters describing a scene of massive demonstrations tonight at unc after the school chancellor recommended silence can be housed in a new on-campus facility. that statue has been on campus for more than 100 years until protesters tore down in august. at wisconsin, the states and the republicans are moving ahead with a series of bills they hope to pass before the new democratic governor-elect takes office. those bills are intended to cement republican priorities. today, several hecklers and protesters shouted shame as for senators and l ....
Of both parties say there must be consequences if you lie to congress. dana? dana: thank you. michael cohen pleaded guilty to other charges. rick levanthal has more on that from the u.s. district court in new york city where cohen made his appearance earlier today. rick, you are back at the courthouse this morning. reporter: yeah. dana, our producer was in the courtroom and said cohen looked relaxed. smiling and waving at people that he recognized, including our producer who was sitting in the jury box because the room was packed. we also saw him back in august when he plead guilty to bank and tax fraud charges related to a taxi business he owned. also campaign finance violations for his help in orchestrating payments to stormi daniels and carrie mcdougal who alleged they had affairs with then businessman trump and could have caused problems during the campaign. cohen testified back in august those payments were made, quote, ....
Him. and what the president is saying now is different than what he was saying when bin laden was killed. correct? that s right. we talked about this before. there s a tweet for everything. in this case there s a statement for everything. the president when he was then citizen trump, then businessman trump, told our colleague maggie haberman over at the new york times back in 2011 after the bin laden raid was successful and took out osama bin laden he gave a statement to maggie had she was over at politico saying listen, i want to congratulate president obama and u.s. forces on a job well done. that is a pretty big depart from what he s been saying the last 24 hours, john. a job well done overseen by admirable william mng raven. jim acosta at the white house. thank you so much. joining us now someone who served with the admiral lieutenant general mark hertling. also cnn global affairs analyst max boot, author of why i left the right. general hertling i want to start with yo ....
Your reporting, from your conversations with elizabeth warren, annie, that any of the president s comments or even the comments in july about the million dollars, did any of that play into her decision to have this testing done and put those results out? yeah, sure. i think there s no question that president trump s comments and his sort of continual goading of her on this issue, always calling her pocahontas, requesting the dna test. i think that absolutely played a huge role. i think that she was following the model here of barack obama who finally released this long-form birth certificate after then just businessman trump was just haranguing him over it. so i think that what elizabeth warren is hoping to do is to get this out there, you know, there s going to be some attention around it for a few days. it will die down, and then as she thinks about running for president, she just will never really have to address the issue again. she can point back to the dna test that she s taken ....
I ve asked and he firmly denied this. but the president s acceptance of saudi arabia s denial are wrapped up in a long financial history. besides the arms deal with saudi arabia that the president pegs at $110 billion, he s had a long, personal financial history the saudi government and billionaires. this spring after the new york hotel saw two declines of room rentals, the washington post found a stay by the crown prince s delegation boosted revenue by 13%. a year earlier, the saudi government paid for the washington, d.c. hotel for groups lobbying against a bill. the total tab paid by the saudi government $270,000 according to the post and financial investments of the saudi government and individual billionaires goes back well before the president s term began. in 1991, then businessman trump was flirting with bankruptcy ....