Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. incredible. jason: david, has there been equal justice under the law or does it seem lopsided? during the clinton administration, it was richard and the democrats who were screaming that someone s personal matters are not an impeachable offense. here we are now, 20 years later, and it s a personal matter that the president was handling and somehow it is not campaign violation because he used personal money. if that is their new standard, then let s start the investigation, because did elizabeth warren pay lawyers to help her get out of her situation, claiming to be a native american and to get an advantage at harvard? or let s go to bernie sanders. did he pay a lawyer to help his wife get out of trouble in her scandal of trying to raise money after college? let s go back to elizabeth warren. david, here s the difference. hold on a second. there is the 2020 candidate that is facing a problem today. that is elizabeth warren. after her disgusting comment about mollie tibbetts. the trump organization, according to this indictment, said michael cohen pled guilty to lies saying that the money it reimbursed michael cohen for paying off stormy daniels was legal expenses. that s a lie. that is dishonest. that s a violation of law. is that why you hire an attorney? to give them the money so they do it legally and lawfully? then you listed as paying off somebody for their silence, not as legal expenses. she is not a lawyer. he is a lawyer. is that what mark elias did with the dossier money? all those millions of dollars, did i get fully disclosed? no, they were paid to attorneys to fund this dirty dossier. they weren t trying to buy anybody s silence? they were trying to by a dirty dossier. this was not because donald trump was running for president because he wanted to be spirit of harassment with his wife. something he did with stormy daniels in 2006. by some coincidence in october of 2016, all of a sudden, that embarrassment meant was going to do him in? please. one of the things, dan, i am concerned about is the proximity of lanny davis in this situation. if somebody from the clinton orbit. all the attorneys in the world and they go get lanny davis. is that suspicious? these are possibly the two doby s lawyers on the planet, cohen and lanny davis. lanny davis convinced another lawyer to plead guilty to a crime that doesn t exist. it s incredible. no matter what richard tells you about these fec violations. i ran for office. congressman, you ran too. this is not a crime. this is at worst, at worst a civil violation. i don t even think it is bad. me running for office, i can donate to my campaign unlimited sums. i would have to report it but this is debatable if this was even a campaign payment. why? richard is trying to debate at right here. let s be honest. you have no idea why donald trump paid this money. you can speculate. you can say he wanted to spare embarrassment. you don t know that. these same people who would buy the fact that donald trump meant to say would or wouldn t do vladimir putin would believe the notion that on october 25, he paid off stormy daniels from something ten years ago having nothing to do with the presidential campaign. that same person would believe that. nobody else in the country would. i didn t is stormy daniels russian or kremlin connected? do you have information we don t? it s a serious question. okay, thanks. okay, well, i have to switch gears. jason: lanny davis said something pretty important. listen from this morning on msnbc. can you say definitively whether you know michael cohen was in prague in 2016? never, never in prague. never, never in prague. ever. ever. just let your viewers know, the dossier, so called mention his name 14 times. one of which is a meeting with russians in prague. 14 times fall. jason: that s a pretty strong statement. going back to the dossier. david, as you look at this, how do you read it? it s a pretty important development. just as lanny davis said this morning on america s newsroom, the reason he was willing to take michael cohen on was because michael cohen wanted to take down president trump. look, gloria aldrin tried to use personal information during the 2016 campaign to defeat donald trump and she wasn t successful. what this really means is is in 76 days, if you want congress to spend two years on investigation and on impeachment, you vote democrat. if you want the congress to focus on job creation policies, securing our border, and annoying the media, you vote republican. jason: last word. ten seconds. mostly david with the public wants is a check on donald trump. rightly or wrongly, i think that s what the polling is telling us. the fact of the first two people in congress who endorsed his campaign are now criminal defendants, i just think there s a sense of corruption that the public wants to at least put some breaks on if possible. we will see. jason: bob menendez. thank you. i appreciate all three of you for joining us tonight. while cohen and manafort are facing serious prison sentences, everyone in hillary clinton s orbit is getting off scot-free. what about the surveillance of members of the trump campaign? no charges filed on that and no evidence that the special prosecutor is pursuing that. this all sounds like a two-tiered system of justice to me. raising questions, is the second special counsel needed? joining me now for reaction, former u.s. attorney kendall coffey and brian rotella, ceo and senior partner of janco legal. i appreciate you being here. i want to get your perspective as attorneys. this whole issue of attorney-client privilege. if you would go out and hire an attorney to do something, i presume you do it to make sure that it s done legally and lawfully. you have some protections in being able to give that information would make those things move forward. as a look at this situation, kendall, isn t that a plausible story or scenario? how does that only fall apart in the cohen situation? that s why we can charge the big bucks. clients trust us with confidentiality. they trust us with figuring all this out. campaign finance laws are especially complicated, especially federal campaign find finance laws. i suspect not only did the president have no idea this some might put this on a prosecution radar screen but i doubt michael cohen did. what s being talked about is a federal crime, unsuccessfully raised against john edwards. years ago, discredited as a theory. most people think if he use personal money that goes to some private person in order to deal with personal issues, that s not a campaign contribution. jason: brian, are we supposed to believe every conversation now that donald trump has had with his attorney is somehow part of what the special counsel gets to look at? isn t there some sort of limitation? the attorney-client privilege isn t just waived on all these issues, correct? yeah, jason. look, for your audience, anyone who heard this allocution michael cohen gave yesterday, allocution might sound like something from the sopranos. i am italian-american. folks would get up in front of the court and a test there was a thing called the mafia in the united states. i m not sure if the president should nickname michael: either better not call saul or captain obvious. it s pretty obvious that what he said yesterday, the president, women he was having relationships with outside of his marriage that he thought that might impact his view, folks view on the election. nothing criminal about that. getting to your question is a lawyer, attorney-client privilege is one thing we have. we have it for a reason. it looks like donald trump has found himself in the jurassic park of lawyers. i m waiting for the next raptor lawyer to come out. between lanny davis, and i was listening to your last segment, the stuff he did in the 90s, some of the things we are seeing now with cohen and then also let s not forget that jim comey is an attorney. you know very well jason, look with that attorney dated his findings back on july 5 of 2016. when he found that hillary clinton was quote-unquote extremely careless with her emails which by the way was a standard change by our favorite fbi character, peter strzok. jason: a whole nother set of subjects. what is highly suspicious for me is that donald trump s former attorney suddenly represented by summative mcclinton orbit, lanny davis. lanny has a duty and responsibility under the law to protect his client, but i want to play a clip from lanny davis here. i want you to ask yourself at home is lanny davis working in the best interests of his client, mr. cohen or izzy working in the best interest of his own personal political beliefs. watch this clip. will michael cohen seek a pardon from the president of the night states for any of this? the answer is definitively no, under no circumstances since he came to the judgment after mr. trump s election to the presidency. that his suitability is a serious risk to our country. certainly after helsinki, creates serious questions about his loyalty to our country. his answer would be no, i do not want a pardon from this man. jason: are you kidding me? if you are an attorney for some buddy who is now pleading guilty to a felony, you wouldn t accept a pardon from the president of the united states? how in the world can you make a case that that s in the best interests of his client, mr. cohen? kendall, what are your thoughts? well, i think it sounds like positioning. i am sure lanny davis had some conversation with his client as well as as well as his cocounsel before he launched into that. i think anybody would accept a pardon from about anybody who was president. it is so much better than the alternatives. jason: i think he is doing it for political posturing. brian, what is your take? stick i think it is comical lanny davis is michael cohen s lawyer. lanny davis was as entrenched in the 90s with the clintons as episodes of friends on blockbuster video. he is one of their best friends. that s the attorney for michael cohen. the fact that he said what he said, which i don t believe is a crime. captain obvious, something about president trump karen that s all the evidence we ve seen today about anything that has to do with president trump in this investigation, i think it raises a lot of questions. to folks in america wondering what is all the billable hours in the mueller investigation? it is on the taxpayers dime and i think they re probably pretty sick of it. jason: i would love to find out who is funding lanny davis and his political motivations. gentlemen, thank you. you wouldn t know it by watching msnbc but there were new develop it s in the mollie tibbetts case today. ed henry will be here next with the report. bass pro shops and cabela s bring you the fall hunting classic with huge savings. like this cuddeback black flash game camera for only $75. and these keen men s waterproof hiking boots for under $90. jason, good to talk to. elizabeth warren saying she knows it s hard for the family of mollie tibbetts to deal with this tragedy, but the nation, she says, should focus instead on what she called real problems like illegal aliens being separated at the border from their kids. the president is firing back with a video on twitter that says it s mollie tibbetts who is now personally, permanently separated from her family. cristhian rivera, the illegal alien charged with first-degree murder in the death of mollie tibbetts, appeared in striped prison garb and shackles in the county court in iowa. i.c.e. officials say he has been in the u.s. illegally for up to seven years. police say rivera followed mollie tibbetts during her nightly jog. she pleaded with him to knock it off, stop trailing her. warning she would call the police. rivera claims at that point he blacked out or when he woke up, tibbetts was in his trunk with a bloodied skull. police say he led them to a corn field where they found what they believed to be tibbets body. rivera worked at yarrabee farms. of unofficial initially claimed they put them through e-verify but then clarified that had not happened. the president, as i mentioned, tweeted out a video expressing his sympathy to the tibbets family and sang this case shows massive reforms of the nation s immigration laws is simply long-overdue. we screen every applicant through the social security administration s social security number verification service. in addition, we ran that information to the verification sister and the information came back verified. our employee was not who he said he was. nobody has laws like the united states. they are strictly pathetic. we need new immigration laws. we need new border laws. the democrats will never give them, and the wall is being built. we have started it. but we also need the funding for this year s building of the wal wall. so to the family of mollie tibbetts, all i can say is god bless you. jason: with that video as well as the president s mention of tibbetts at the rally last night west virginia, a defense attorney said in court today given all those comments, at the highest level of government, the media should be blocked from the courtroom to ensure a fair trial. the judge denied that move, meaning it s going to get a lot of media attention. we do good decision from the court. we appreciate you joining us. very upsetting. i would like to note fox news is the only cable news outlet to air the arraignment of mollie s alleged killer. joining me now as an immigration attorney. art arthur, a fellow at the senior for immigration studies. when i was chairman of the house oversight committee, art arthur was an employee there for some time. a good one, at that. gentlemen, thank you for being here. francisco, i want to ask him what you think it s legitimate that news outlets cover this story? i think news outlets out to cover what they want to cover. i don t beg we can blame in 11 million people for the murder of one person. jason: nobody did that. name one person. i never did that. who blamed 11 million people? you just did. the president just said immigration reform is long overdue. jason: do you agree with that? jason: i do agree. we have been saying that for 18 years. what s the problem? wire loop lives as in the death of a young lady? if you are making money and getting ratings on the death of a young lady and trying to blame 11 million people for one person. jason: you don t think it s relevant this person is here illegally? it is relevant the person committed a murder. it doesn t effect 11 million people. who the president agrees we ought to have an immigration form. why are we mixing the two? jason: do you agree that if this person wasn t in this country, this murder would not have occurred? we don t know whether that would have happened. jason: no, we wouldn t. the answer is simple. it would have never happened. if he was not in this country, he would ve never murdered that young lady. all right, i will give you that. let s reform the law. is not going to stop the murder? stop politicizing it. jason: how was it politicizing? let me show you this poll. francisco. look at this poll that was done by gallup. survey of over 1,000 americans. put this poll on the screen. the number one issue that americans view is the top problem facing the united states of america: immigration. the number one issue. it is legitimate. francisco. what happened to the wall and mexico paying for the wall? jason: you build that wall, families don t get separated. they don t get separated. and it ll come here illegally. are you saying this murder would not have happened if you build the wall? peter yes. because he wouldn t be here illegally? he had been here long before tom came along. jason: because we have an open, porous border. arthur, what s your take on this? please weigh in. if he hadn t been in the united states, this murder never would ve occurred. the fact is every murder is senseless. this one was needless. the president s 100% correct. not all immigrants are criminals. in fact, the vast majority aren t. but the ones who are, are. they need to be removed from the united states. we need to do away with sanctuary laws protecting criminal aliens. we need to enforce immigration laws so we can keep people who have no right to be in the united states out of the united states. this is a murder that could ve been prevented. jason: art, one of my deep concerns here is that look, if you have these other networks that aren t covering it, i wonder why they are not. this is one of the most high-profile murders out there and they don t cover it. it strikes me because it doesn t fit their political narrative. they don t want that story out there. you think i m going too far? this was a case that was covered for an entire month, as people were looking for this young woman. her father was desperate trying to find her. every network cover date. as soon as the narrative changed, the story got dropped because it didn t fit the narrative the networks wanted to carry. it s that simple. jason: francisco, do you believe it s right to abolish immigration customs enforcement? are you one who says yes, we should abolish i.c.e.? i ve never said that. jason: i m asking you. no. absolutely not. i.c.e. only does what congress tells them to do. let me bring you back to the immigration reform. republicans are in the majority. why don t we pass immigration reform now? we could ve passed one president trump first took office. we are still stuck in the mud. jason: it s because you can t get to 60 votes in the senate. that s the number one issue. francisco, donald trump went way above and beyond and even offered to take care of the dreamers, and the democrats wouldn t even come to the table and have the discussion. that s exactly what happened. jason: have not had a single vote. let s have a vote and let the democrats jason: i also sat there. i was on the immigration subcommittee when the democrats have the house and senate. we are talking about now. jason: i am also telling you you re trying to make a case francisco, do you believe they should build a wall? why do you think is a republn motivation build the wall? build it. we re going to have to legalize 100,000 mexicans to build it right anyway. that s a darn good start. let s get going with immigration reform. let s stop talking about it. art, do you think we should build a wall and why? we should erect barriers to prevent individuals from coming into the united states illegally to stop contraband from coming into the united states illegally. you and i both investigated incidents where there was drugs, there were dangerous materials they came over the border. we need to stop it. the fact is the border is porous. it s wide open. it needs to be closed. jason: gentlemen, thank you thank you. thank you both. remember, at the end of this, you still have this horrific murder that should have never, ever happened. that doesn t mean that everybody that s here illegally is responsible. it means that person kill that person. we want to prevent those things. those things should be at the top of our agenda in dealing with this, with the american people wants congress to address. raymond arroyo will be here next with more on the me too cn why animal crackers are on the loos loose. it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn s. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio® may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. tell your doctor if you have an infection experience frequent infections or have flu-like symptoms, or sores. liver problems can occur with entyvio®. if your uc or crohn s treatment isn t working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio®. entyvio®. relief and remission within reach. jason: it is time for our seen and unseen segment will read behind the big cultural stories the day. there are some major hypocrisy coming from one of harvey weinstein s most vocal raymond arroyo is here with the latest. what s going on with this asia argento story? asia argento is an actress who was on the forefront of the need me too movement. now a 22-year-old man came forward, jimmy bennett, to say she abused him when she was 17. she denies those allegations, and she released a statement. i am deeply shocked and hurt by having read news that is absently false. i ve never had any relationship with bennett. today tmz released images of the two of them together in 2013 when jimmy bennett was 17. and ms. argento was 37. also they released a text message exchange where she tells a friend of hers, and we will put it on the screen. i had sex with him. it felt weird. i didn t know he was a minor until the shakedown letter. she paid him, working out with anthony bourdain, with whom she was involved. now the los angeles police are investigating this and she has been bumped off the x factor in italy which is a show she s part of. when i look at this, jason and i look at the catholic church, going through its own passion of sorts on these types of issues, everybody s got to be held to the same standard, no matter your gender, no matter what you believe. people need to if you are a victim of this abuse, you have to come forward. the authority to get involved. for the broad brushing we have been seeing of men or people of a certain religious persuasion should be put on the back burner in everyone of these cases should be evaluated on their merits. i hope that s what happens in hollywood and in the catholic church and elsewhere. jason: it s a sad story all around. there are victims, men and women. harvey weinstein certainly, i hope it doesn t hurt the case against him because it sounds like one of the most horrific out there. i ve got to transition something that s a little closer to my personal heart, and that is the box for those of barnum animal crackers. you don t get a belly like mine by passing up on those crackers. we all grew up on barnum animal s crackers. i d be at the heads up those suckers my whole life. now they are changing the design of the box. used to be the boxcar with the animals on it. jason: i felt safe. they were locked up. new design. the animals are free. i will tell you where this came from. peta. to be 23, people for the ethical treatment of animals, petitioned nabisco. they said we ve got to lose these animals. here s what they said. given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals and the public swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment, we urge nabisco to update its packaging. peta s it s an organization, jason, the for the barnum and bailey circus out of business because they were upset with the treatment of animals and featuring animals. all of this brought to mind to me what other mascots or major spokesman might need revision? given the political correct times we are in. jason: what do you think? the first thing was the pillsbury dough boy. this poor little fella has been poked and assaulted his entire existence. it is time to reimagine. maybe not poke the little guy anymore. then i thought of the peanuts, mr. peanut. you see him on all those packages. he has the cane and top hat and a monocle. he is very socially elitist, i think. it s time to put him in a baseball cap and may be sneakers. get him down with the people. that s what we need. then i thought about tony the tiger. everybody grew up with tony the tiger. where are the pants on tony the tiger? in the me too generation, he should have trousers. that goes for the pillsbury dough boy. jason: i ve never thought about that. next time i eat my frosted flakes. i ve got to tell you, that camel does not get enough credit on those crackers. not even on the cover. a lot of wild camels running around in utah. finally, a wisconsin tech company making some strange offers. what in the world? is a company called three square market. they are a tech company. they want to make it easier for their employees to open doors, access their computers, get into the parking lot. so they have been planted implanted microchips. 80 employees have taken them up on the deal. implanted microchips between the index finger and thumb. the ceo says they love it. the vast majority of our employees absolutely love the conveniences that having this chip in their hand really brings to them. we did this, honestly, initially, just for fun because that s what a technology company does. it has evolved into a whole nother business which we are in development right now of an actual chip that will be powered by the human body. what we have really done a sort of made it acceptable or brought into the forefront where people are now talking about it. they are talking about it, all right. this is not something i want to try out. i don t know about you, jason. jason: how fat and lazy is america that they can t lift their badge up and put it up against the scanner. they think it s fun to embed in your body a chip? it raises privacy issues, tracking issues. if they can take your credit card information by swiping you in a crowd with a scanner, imagine what they can do with a micro chip in your hand. the other thing is, what happens when you quit? do they take the handoff? jason: if you ever changed jobs. you re exactly right. hey, peta, what do you think about that? i put a chip and my dog so he doesn t get lost. i am saving the dog s life so i can find her and bring her home. raymond, thank you. i really do appreciate it. you won t believe what a rising star in the democratic party said about nfl players kneeling during the national anthem. stay with us. once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? 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(vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. jason: you are not going to believe this. that o rourke is a rising star in the democratic party and polls show him surprisingly close in a race against ted cruz for one of texas seats in the senate. on the campaign trail, he was recently asked if he thought it was disrespectful for nfl players to kneel during the national anthem. my short answer is no. i don t think it s disrespectful. peaceful, nonviolent protests, including taking a knee at a football game to point out that black men, unarmed black teenagers, unarmed. black children, unarmed. are being killed at a frightening level right now, including by members of law enforcement. without accountability and without justice. they take a need to bring our attention and focus of this prox it. that s why they are doing it like and think of nothing more american than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your right anytime, anywhere, any place. jason: nothing more patriotic. the left is praising congressman o rourke on social media for those comments, but i m not sure that s going to play well with the voters in the lone star state. we are talking about texts. joining me now to discuss this fox news contributor kevin jackson and civil rights attorney brian watkins. brian, i want to start with you. why do you think americans go and watch football? why do they watch the nfl? they enjoy it. it s a game. it s entertainment. it s enjoyable to watch. absolutely. jason: you do it as an escape, right question might do you think you want to kick off the game by having political statements? how does that strike you? you know, i don t think you would be saying the same thing if, for example, if the network executives and movie executives said to their employees, actors and actresses, i don t want you talking about that me too movement type stuff. we don t want to bring that issue up. we are about entertainment, so don t talk about it. i think people would have a problem with that. i don t understand why people have a problem with young black african-american men who have the spotlight, simply taking a knee, asking for they are not asking to place a soap box at the 50-yard line and give a speech. not participating in the anthem by silently, quietly taking a knee? b2 do you understand how offensive it is to the men and women to observe this country? is the 2 minutes we take out in a bipartisan way honoring the flag in our country, honoring our troops, trying trying to ce together. barack obama said we are not the red states where the blue states. we are the united states. that s patriotic. even a revocable and like me thought that was a great statement. the one chance we have to the united, and emmanuel are on the field or political side of the aisle, that s the thing you do, try to disturb that and distract from that? so let s coverage from the beto o rourke point of view. what they didn t talk about was the references he made to blacks and the oppression blacks faced many, many years ago. decades ago at the hands of his own party, the democrats. oh, by the way, what o rourke also failed to mention is that all the things he s talking about with the reason why blacks are kneeling in the nfl has to do with what? the so-called lack of civil rights by police in big cities who are run by democrats throughout the entire political process. so what s interesting is that this is a problem for democrats from the past and it s a problem for democrats right now that s been created by democrats. so he wants to talk about the kneelers, if these guys really believed in kneeling, why didn t colin kaepernick kneel during the barack obama administration when did colin kaepernick help any black in any city, what has he done prior to the kneeling to help any of the blacks are being killed in crazy numbers every weekend? it s a disingenuous movement for o rourke to hearken back to the days of civil rights as if these self-indulgent jason: let me get him back in. self-indulgent multimillionaires to want to kneel in and act as if blacks e facing these issues every day, patently ridiculous. the protesting kneeling before the national anthem which i think is disrespectful to the flag, our country commensurately to our troops. that s my take on it. i think the majority of the polling would show it. also see people in play or sing hey, i m not going to go to the white house. i m not going to interact. i think the opposite should be true. they should be saying i would actually like to meet with donald trump. i would actually like to meet with republicans. don t you think that would be more productive? it could be productive. that s what america is all about, the debate. highlighting and jason: why during a football game? why do you do it during the football game? hundreds of thousands of people watch. when you have the spotlight on you. not anymore. it s their responsibility jason: i do think the ratings are going down? you are finding more people than you are getting to your cause. nfl players, when i was in congress, came and met with me and trey gowdy and john ratcliffe, and we listened and talked about the need for criminal justice reform. it was productive. what you are doing is offending people by kneeling and disrespecting the flag. jason, let me say one thing. many nfl players jason: brian. kevin i will give you the last word. you should not be offended by someone doing a silent protest. it s a nonviolent silent protest that offense and hurts no one to highlight an issue. a majority of people. [all speaking] jason: how does it hurt somebody? why not let them do it? they can do whatever they want, and the public has responded i think that the chips fall where they may but i also want to give a shout out to the players who are standing for the flag and the anthem because they are unheralded. unfortunately. it s a very small minority of young players who don t want to stand for the flag. the majority of football players get it because they understand that this is a game. jason: that s right, and there s a time in a place for it, and those couple minutes when we honor the flag is not the time to do it. i want to be part of that solution. when i was in congress, i was working on criminal justice reform. it s a legitimate issue. done at the wrong time in the wrong way. that s my take on it. the only time in places when the spotlight is on you. jason: people have plenty of spotlight. they have millions of dollars. they can have the spotlight any time. when they are invited to the white house and disrespect the presidency of the united states. you know how many times i got invited the white house? i didn t want to go there because barack obama was the president. i did out of respect. i wanted to engage in dialogue. that s what you do. you don t run away. given the opportunity to go to the white house and then you don t go. i think that s wrong. i am over time. i have to leave it here. we have to talk about what s going on in san francisco because leave it to san francisco to trailblazing new way to undermine i.c.e. details after this. (woman) learned to play an instrument. do you think this puts law enforcement in danger? i don t think it puts law-enforcement ric officers in danger. it s good to have community oversight. what would be nice to see his body cameras on the ic officers. this might force them to do that because there s going to be people documenting what s going on and hopefully it stays peaceful. jason: if you know in advance that i.c.e. is forming. i ve been on these raids, okay? i ve been out there and done it. they usually form in a parking lot and then they will walk in on an area and surround the house committees and surveillance. there is time to give them a heads up. don t you think that that s going to put law enforcement in harm s way? anytime you re chasing after a fugitive, you are in harm s way. jason: does this make it worse or better? it depends of those people jason: there is only one answer. you can t say they re going to get tipped off. jason: there s a hot live. there s a 24-hour hotline. that s the point. people to show up and make sure they are doing their job. not necessarily to tip the people off. jason: it s a tip line. that s what it s called. what s your take? not only does it put law enforcement in danger, it puts american citizens in danger. it puts the people of san francisco in danger. if you have a hotline or a snitch line and you see law-enforcement coming, what you re doing is two things for your encouraging people to break the law and you re also intimidating the people that you re supposed to serve. because now they are going to feel compelled to come forward if they see something and try to tell on law-enforcement coming in their community. it s a bad precedent. this is something that is ape local practitioner bluff for them to keep doing. it will help us run the country. as an american citizen, it s appalling. they should remove it. if they want to do a hotline, try to do a hotline for the millions jason: do you think this is going to move the situation? what do you tell the spouse of an i.c.e. officer. how do you look her or him in the eye and say your loved one is going on this raid tonight. by the way, the target of who they are going after is going to be tipped off. what do you say that person? you can t guarantee that the target is going to be tipped off. the community might be but that doesn t mean the target will be. when it comes down to is a frustration in the immigration community in general of nothing moving forward. nothing is happening. whether you are on the side of the, undocumented, or you want immigration reform. your anti-illegal immigrant. jason: donald trump as an offer on the table to chuck schumer and the democrats are never responded to in terms of he went further than i would ve ever gone in of dealing with the daca kids and all that. they are frustrated so they get to break the law? the only thing i disagree with jason: i don t think it s necessarily breaking the law. they have a first amendment right to do this. it is in operating the law. if you are informing and telling law-enforcement agents. if that talk about immigration reform and say we re going to do something about it and then snitch on law-enforcement officials put them in danger and puts americans in danger. jason: gentlemen, thank you. i ve got to cut it off. we ll be right back. at bayer, our roots run deep. so chances are, you ve seen us around the house. or. around the yard. on the shelf. or even. out in the field. your mom knew she could always count on us. and your grandma did too. because for over 150 years, we ve been right by your side. advancing the health of the people, plants and pets you love. so, from all of us at bayer. thank you for trusting in us. then. and now.
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. mollie has been forever separated from her family. they will never see her reach her 21st birthday. they will never see that because she is permanently gone from the face of this planet because of an illegal alien. i want to remind elizabeth warren that you know what? the tragic loss of mollie is important to us. and the families that are separated at the border, they will come together again, mollie can never be with her family again. steve: she is absolutely right. it s too bad that it has become political to some people. it s the murder of a young woman. over on msnbc a couple of days ago university professor from fordham christina grier referred to mollie tibbetts simply as a girl in iowa. and joni ernst yesterday when she was on xm sirius. that girl in iowa, i think that s so disrespectful to mollie and her family. she is someone. incredible thing. steve: okay. so there have you got the attorney general s boss, bad mouthing him on television. essentially buyer s regret. that was ainsley s question about there are rumors up on capitol hill that jeff sessions and rod rosenstein may get fired after the mid terms and he responded that way. well, mr. sessions, extraordinarily, issued a paper statement and, rachel, he fought back at the president. rachel: he absolutely did. he defended his position. he defended the people who work for him in the doj. but, you know, here s what he said. he says while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. i demand the highest standards and where they are not met, i take action; however, no nation has more talented, more dedicated group of law enforcement is prosecutors and investigators than the united states. brian: not taking control of anything. he might be a great guy and somebody that understands the law he can t run the department. steve: the president is just frustrated because jeff sessions essentially recused himself at the get-go. had he known, had the president know he was going to recuse himself, the president would have named somebody else. brian: sessions should have done it himself. senator lindsey graham says i m friends with jeff sessions. i like him. this fracture really should take place but just after the election. the midterm election. listen. the president and the attorney general do not have a good working relationship. every president deserves an attorney general they have confidence in. as to jeff sessions, i have never met a finer man. he is a great senator and great lawyer. i think he has been a good attorney general. this is not working, so i hope the relationship gets better. if it doesn t, i would imagine the president is going to look for a new attorney general because what s going on is unsustainable. i m not blaming anybody. i love jeff sessions. but, from my point of view, the country is not being well-served with this much friction. brian: everyone has got to saying he got to fire jeff sessions. why should everybody with be strapped with an attorney general the way he does his job. likely senator lindsey graham will be the champlet judiciary. can he make sure if they hold the senate, which the republicans are supposed, to that another attorney general gets through. firing before the midterm elections would be impossible to replace him because they have boston readbostonkavanaugh ready to go. steve: 11 minutes after the top of the hour, jillian, let s talk weather. jillian: hawaii seriously bracing for a big storm right now. get at the a fox news alert. hurricane lane lashing the hawaiian islands in what could be the businessest storm there in 26 years. hurricane 3 hurricane causing flooding and mudslide concerns. 20 inches of rain in 24 hours. [siren] jillian: in honolulu using sirens to warn beach goers of the on coming danger. winds up to 120 miles per hour. adam klotz tracking the storm right now. the former nsa worker who leaked classified information to the media faces five years in prison. reality winner holding arrived in court. smiled and flarkd the peace sign as she accepted the plea deal. five year sentence is the longest ever handed down fort crime. california congressman duncan hunter speaking exclusively to fox after pleading not guilty in court. the congressman and his wife indicted on charges of illegally using $250,000 in campaign funds for personal experiences and filing false records. that s how we campaign and raising money. raising more money. that s how people get to hear me and then donate money. this is pure politics. the prosecutors can make an indictment read like a scandalous novel if they want to. he says he will not resign. steve: he at the behest of the senior leadership in the republican party, is he removing himself from his committee assignments this is not helpful to the republican party. rachel: i think he was removed from the committee assignments by paul ryan. brian: then he said no i won t leave and then he said okay i will leave. steve: exactly. also straight ahead, democratic congressman from keith ellison is facing serious allegations of violence. but it took the dnc nearly two weeks to launch an investigation. our next guest, a democrat is, demanding to know why. brian: why so little interest in that story. plus, a mother let her 8-year-old daughter walk their dog around the block and the neighbors called the cops. seriously? steve: it s a scary dog. life is very short .that s just my favorite boat. boom. 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no. they say it s under review. the dfl party said it was under review. two days later the party central committee endorsed keith ellison for attorney general. so, we don t know was there a review, if there s there was a review, what was the standard? i think the dnc should do the same thing. they should have him step down pending completion of this review or completion of this investigation. and it warrants a criminal investigation and i don t know why anything hasn t been done. brian: and you are a democrat? i am a democrat. brian: there we go it seems like a double standard here. tom perez refuses to say whether he believes the accuser. maybe there is video. is he running for top cop of minnesota. top legal officer of the state of minnesota. brian: thanks so much, tom, we will see where this goes. we reached out to keith ellison. we have not heard back. meanwhile. we have been telling you about conservatives being censored on social media. next guest suing facebook claiming it killed his business. bewitched could be coming back there is a twist. we have cast for a tact. that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? 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steve and rachel? rachel: facebook claiming they destroyed or de valued his facebook pages. he was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from the pages which had over 25 million viewers. the lawsuit edges that facebook is unlawfully silencing people, including for own financial gain. facebook above the law and must be held accountable for its wrongs. this is a true case of david vs. goliath. bruner jason ethic joins us now along with his attorney sean gallagher. thank you for joining us. why are you suing facebook? like everyone else, i went on to facebook. i had nothing. absolutely nothing. i had the intent to tell my own personal story and in that intent i started building an audience. steve: what were you putting on facebook. humor. we entertain millions of people and did it on a regular basis. there was no malice involved. there is no specific intent but we just got on there to entertain. steve: you were very successful. at the time facebook took you down, you were like the fifth biggest thing on facebook. we were ranked on facebook fifth most active page on the internet entirely. rachel: why would facebook take you down? competitive. the reality is they wanted the news feed in order to push their ads into the news feed. they needed to move everybody out of the way. this is something that effects irving. they needed that space. there is only a finite amount of space that puts into somebody s feed and they have to control it. and when they back in 2016, you know, late 2016, they shut down half of my network like that. it was gone. instantly deleted. steve: sean, we have heard stories about how the social media giants have shut down people of a political view that maybe, you know, the people on facebook, twitter, et cetera, might not agree with this is different. it sounds like more for business than politics. imagine if you shut down fox right now for three seconds. people would lose their mind. he was unplugged and everything is about having the dependable and consistent reach to get to people for advertisers. his advertisers disappeared but facebook kept that reach for themselves or redistributed it to other people so they could make that money. essentially cut themselves in. they said if you want this reach, what we told you was for free, we have now wait anbaitand switched you opportuny cost building this business. you can t take any more and we will take our cut. steve: you agree when you go on facebook because it s free you agree to their terms. can that do that unsdz the service terms. that s an awesome question. the issue though is that we have laws in this country that protect against unfair anticompetitive business practices. there is legal terminology for things can you and can t do regardless of what facebook s terms of service says. essentially says we can do whatever we want whenever we want but the law says something different. rachel: we reached out it facebook. facebook did not respond to our request. that said, you admit this is a david and goliath case. do you think you can win? do we think we can win? absolutely we can win. yeah, absolutely. we ll get our day in court and incredible battle. facebook can say we can do whatever we want it s our platform. we are thankful for a court and put this in front of jury. we destruction of a man s business. steve: jason, you were the little guy and built up to something substantial. you had the american dream and they pulled the plug on it. absolutely. i didn t have a big name because i didn t have a big name they pushed me out of the way. if you think about it like diamond and silk, it wasn t that they didn t get shut off, it was when they were shut off, they had a platform above that. that s when they said oops, sorry about that. we didn t mean to do it. steve: do you know what? diamond and silk are coming up next and discuss this case. keep us posted and let us know what happens. thank you so much. steve: i have a feeling facebook is watching right now. rachel: democrat is running for congress and he wants healthcare for everyone. i believe that our country should make the moral decision to ensure that every single american has affordable and accessible healthcare when they need it. rachel: it turns out he hasn t always practiced what he preaches. steve: first it was michael cohen and the head of the national enquirer cut a deal with the feds. where does it go and what is in that guy s vault? 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well, you know, i am so happy, excuse me, he is facing facebook. to take somebody build their american dream, they have a platform, they have a place for you to brand your page for you to build your fan page, for you to make money off it and then pull the rug from up under you, yes, i think he should sue facebook and i m happy that he is doing it. steve: well, he is indeed. ainsley: you ladies feel vindicated. you were one of the first ones calling out facebook on this. a lot of people thought you were kind of full of it and really you were telling the truth. we were absolutely telling the truth. that s right. we are waiting on our apology. this is not a hoax, it s real. pulling money from people that have built their platform and built their livelihood by using these particular platforms that s supposed to be neutral and a platform for all. brian: also twitter ceo decides soon if he is coming to capitol hill today if he is going to come down and explain himself because people accusing him and his company of censoring conservative thought. but, meanwhile, let s go and talk about the horrible situation that we heard about for three weeks we have been following the disappearance of a 20-year-old iowa student and mollie tibbetts was found dead and the alleged murderer is illegal alien. elizabeth warren says we are missing the point. i know this is hard, not only for the family, but for the people in her community, the people throughout iowa. but, one of the things we have to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are. brian: what is with her? can she not address the issue? and she has to quickly pivot to politics? you know what? shame on senator elizabeth warren for being incentive and dismissive of the tragedy that happened to mollie tibbetts. that is so sad. the mere fact that she don t understanding that millions of americans to the millions of americans that want border security. it s the reason why she needs to be voted out of office. that s right. i heard her talk about family separation at the border. what about these families or these millions of thousands of americans that s being killed by illegal aliens that s being permanently separated from their families. they will never be able to see their loved ones again. we need border security. we need a wall to keep illegals from coming in over to our country and committing crime. taxpayers pay people like elizabeth warren to work for we, the american people. not illegal aliens. if you don t want to work for the american people, then resign. that s right. steve: all right. one other story that has captivated the online world and we re talking about it this morning, ladies, is the fact that a mother who home schools her children, and the kids got a dog. and the deal was the kids would walk the dog around the block. well, the 8-year-old walked the dog around the block by themselves, one of the neighbors saw this happen, and they called the cops. and here s the statement from child services. we don t control the calls that come in to our hotline. something made someone think there was a concern and we don t know without checking it out. so what do you make of this story, ladies? well, you know, first of all, when we were that age, we were able to ride our bikes around the block, walk the dogs and do all of that good stuff. steve: right. brian: and you survived. and we survived, right yes. i don t know did this is a nosey neighbor or neighbor that didn t like her neighbors and wanted to be vindictive. i haven t a clue. but i say this is clearly overreach. listen. you don t have to call social service for everything. i think this mother, she home schooled her child. she allowed her child to walk around the block and she was able to keep an eye on her child and that s what counts. people shouldn t be overnosey. rachel: isn t this a product of the sort of nanny culture we are in right now where everyone is sort of keeping responsibility away from kids. and we want them to have more responsibility. i think this mom was doing exactly that, giving the child responsibility. absolutely. brian: i remember willie from duck dynasty, he had a rifle and tractor at 8. a little bit different of an upbringing. steve: his dad wouldn t let him walk around the block. brian: is that true? steve: now. brian: wow, you know something i don t and i watched every episode. steve: times have changed no doubt about it. brian: you guys hungry? shoot a duck. steve: 22 minutes before the top of the hour. adam is joining us today. adam, every eye is on hurricane lane and it looks like it could potentially miss hawaii? hawaii is going to see the effects whether we actually get that landfall or not. slow move moving north. winds 120 miles per hour. that makes this currently a category 3 storm. really rain battering outer bands of rain. even if this doesn t make landfall you are looking for flash flood alert. western islands see the most rain over towards maui. two feet has already fallen in some of these locations. good news in this system. current currently a category 3 storm. weaken as it moves closer to the islands. falling down to a cat 1 by later today into the evening hours, even as it moves that way, there is a little bit of indecision. you see a very quick turn out to sea. when exactly is this going to turn? here is a couple forecast models. some have it making landfall. most have turns sooner. real big story with this one guys what we re going to be hoping this turns sooner. either way see the impacts but hopefully it doesn t make landfall. steve: that s right. any idea when they will return air service, adam. this will be lasting into late saturday and seeing it move outer around that time. steve: very good. you will be covering it this weekend. rachel: yes, we will. right now cover to jillian. brian: two tosses in the row. jillian: fantastic move by the cameraman. brian: a game. special thanks to ted. jillian: get you caught up on news right now. starting with this story. a former playboy model found strangled to death inside her home. police discovering her body during a wellness check atup scale condo. her death has been ruled a homicide. motive unknown. officers say they visited the 36-year-old s days before she died to investigate a robbery. at this point it s unclear if that crime is connected to her death. democrats ramping up calls for medicare for all ahead of the mid terms. minnesota candidate phillips the latest to take up the cause. i believe that our country should make the moral decision to ensure that every single american has affordable and accessible healthcare when they need it. but according to a profile in the city pages newspaper, flip phillips didn t always offer healthcare to his employees. took him a year before he provided a plan at his coffee shop. stop what you are doing and watch this. a car flies across a median and flips into a school bus. did you see that? the terrifying moments caught on dash camera in mississippi. there were no children on board the bus, thankfully. the driver and other people in another car were rushed to the hospital. police say the driver lost control on exit ramp right before the crash. he was arrested for not having insurance. wow. the 1960 s sitcom bewitched could be coming back to your tv. jillian: according to variety, abc is producing a reboot of the classic supernatural sitcom only this time around it will tell the story of a black single mother witch who marry as white morality man. blashish is behind the remake. i feel like we are remaining everything these days. brian: we have no new ideas. we were in to magic. i dream of dreamy and bewitched. and we are going back to it. i m worried they have elizabeth montgomery is going to have her inverse which is a breenna. remember the evil sister who would show up? steve: you paid way too much attention to that all i remember was two darrens. brian: one darren wanted too much money they got rid of him. brian: repeats of bewitched at 11:00. i would run a fever just to see it again. rachel: it was good. steve: 18 minutes before the top of the hour. want top delay brett kavanaugh s hearing in the senate because michael cohen pled guilty. whether a do they have to deal with each other? our next guest clerked for judge kavanaugh and says the attack is silly. brian: the idea of a delay is ridiculous. many on the left are taking over college campuses nationwide. one student who voted for hillary clinton says liberalism has gone too far. he joins us live. lean on me, when you re not strong and i ll be your friend i ll help you carry on lean on me. jillian: good morning, welcome back. time for quick headlines, a game changener american combat. the u.s. air force test dropping an earth penetrating nuclear weapon for the b-2 stealth bomber. the high tech upgrade provides different attack options into a single war head like above surface explosions and bunkser-busting. the russians put on their very own military parade and it goes horribly wrong. [screams] that s an old russian world war ii, t-34. crashing into the middle of the road. children will never forget that. jillian: no one was killed though. democrats are calling for a halt to judge kavanaugh s upcoming hearings in light of michael cohen s guilty plea. in my view, the senate judiciary committee should immediately pause the consideration of the kavanaugh nomination. so here to join us today well, first of all, what does michael cohen plea have to do with kavanaugh. a former clerk of judge kavanaugh travis linkner. welcome, travis. good morning, thanks for having me. rachel: what does michael cohen plea have to do with the qualifications of judge kavanaugh. maybe this will be a short segment. the answer is nothing. judge kavanaugh is impeccablably credentialed and experienced with a 12-year judicial record. that s why the president nominated him. that s why that demonstration was widely praised. he has gotten such a good reception in the meetings has been having on capitol hill last several weeks with the hearings coming up after labor day. this new line that the activities of this week should somehow delay the totally separate confirmation hearing doesn t seem to be working and really is just the latest in some things that have been thrown up against him that are not slowing down the process because people are seeing how qualified he is and how he deserves to be on the supreme court. rachel: right. last week they were explaining the democrats in the that the were complaining they weren t getting enough documents. kavanaugh was in a meeting with schumer when the news broke about cohen. and he asked judge kavanaugh something about trump and should he, you know, give into a subpoena if he was asked to speak and i guess the judge refused to weigh in on it. really ticked the senator off. well, i wasn t in that meeting so i can t speak to the meeting. but i do know that judge kavanaugh is someone who prizes judicial integrity and independence above all else. you will see at the hearing him follow what s known as the ginsburg rule which i know he has been following in those meetings with snearlts as well. that rule pretty simply is no hints, no previews. it s inappropriate for a judge or someone nominated to be a judge to say how they would rule in any particular situation. and whether that disappoints a democrat or republican, that s the standard we have been following for decades. that s the rule judge kavanaugh is following in the process. sounds like good sound advice. thank you, travis, and thanks for your perspective on things you know the judge well and your view is well taken here. thank you so much. thank you so much. all right. the media s favorite word these days. impeachable. impeach trump. impeachment. impeachment is a word in play here in washington today. rachel: and now this top democrat is jumping on the bandwagon. plus, the left is taking over college campuses nationwide. and our next guest who voted for hillary clinton says liberalism has gone too far. i go crazy on you crazy over you let me go crazy can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? let s do an ad of a man eating free waffles at comfort inn. they taste like victory because he always gets the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed, when he books direct at choicehotels.com. or just say badda book, badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. > steve: as the political left continues their attack on conservatives on college campuses, our next guest says liberals alienated his moderate political views in the process. in the washington examiner op-ed he writes the idea of tolerance was soon polluted and weaponized to shut down conservative opinions, being clear that campus liberalism had few goals other than its own cannonnization as the sole intellectually acceptable view. here with more is the president of the federalist society s princeton university chapter akhil. yeah. steve: good morning to you. good morning. it s nice to be here. steve: it s good tyou had noidee that at princeton. very true. brian: describe it. yes. i voted for clinton. i have central left views. i had it anyway. pushed to the right as i explained. i thought it was going to be another election. i thought i was going to vote and i was happy to be in like in a really vibrant democracy i thought we would go from there and find our views and vote in the next election and seek to change what we could while we were here in the political system that we were given as opposed to this radical change in political views that we see today. steve: on the college campuses, it s just one view. there is no other view. it s just the way left view, period. very true. yeah. sos i agree with that there is this liberal orthodoxy. the thing that s aggravating in elite campuses just because like i say i call it the cannonnization of its own view. and i think there is this idea that if you are not a liberal you are an idiot so to speak. and that s the general idea, right? it s liberal or the intellectuals. steve: how many conservatives are there at princeton? not many. not many. steve: if you were a conservative at princeton you wouldn t want to identify yourself because people are going to think you are an idiot? that s true. one of the things i should say princeton has been generally really good at this. the administration is really good at promoting free speech and there is a lot of dialogue. we have conservative professors. we have robby george. keith whitington. top tenured professors. steve: at princeton. they do a good job of encouraging intellectual diversity. the culture still is very much a liberal orthodoxy as you see it. steve: so, have you got some advice in your report with the republican party should do because you are you have been so disappointed in the reaction from the campus. yeah. i think republicans should go the exact opposite way. i think should i think republicans should sort of embrace the moderates and if you have to alienate anyone, you should do it to the extremists it should go the opposite way and stop polarizing within your own party because that s just going to and i was really surprised at this in 42% of this country is independent. so you have this whole class of which means every republican, every democrat voted for the same person, you are still talking about a little more than the majority. steve: if a party want to win. tap into it. steve: go for the middle? tap into that uncommitted base and finding yourself with a gold mine, really. steve: right. it s a provocative op-ed. it s at the washington examiner. akhill thank you very much. it s nice to be here. thank you. steve: he wants to go to law school and change the world. thank you. steve: good luck to you. moments ago president trump tweeted about attorney general jeff sessions with his future up in the air we are live at the white house with somebody on the north lawn. plus, the left is focused on michael cohen pleading guilty to campaign finance violations but one of hillary clinton s former advisors says she is the one who broke the law. he, mark penn, is going to join us live coming up. there in 26 years. jillian: big island 26 inches of rain in 24 hours. illinois mother investigated after a neighbor reported her for allowing her 8-year-old daughter to walk their dog in the neighborhood alone. we did something that was perfectly normal on the north shore and in parenting. what keeps you up at night what makes your heart beat wild what weighs on your mind. steve: they re lining up, because one hour from right now, country singer lee brice is going to take the stage on the all-american summer concert series brought to you by our friends at keurig. folks in addition to the show would like free breakfast and it s delicious. brian: kellogg s have they made a ribs flavored cereal yet? i recommended this last week. steve: i looked it up it does not suggest. you were suggesting barbecued flavor. i looked the closest thing can you come to with cereal bar will he could you flavor. brian: you looked it up? steve: i did. i have a loft time on my hand when you take checks the cereal and shake barbecue stuff in there to make a snack. rachel: protein is good in the morning. actually. just go for the ribs. steve: barbecue is good all day brine brian my problem with ribs you need floss. you can t eat ribs and not have floss. how many people walk around with floss? you don t bring rope around with you when you leave in the morning. steve: brian, here is a solution. just take floss with you. brian: that s fine. i m going to go for the mint flavor. i m excited lee brice is going to be here. also capturing one of my mantras one of the names of the song big hit i don t dance which is also what i say every weekend remember i don t dance. steve: when you watch his videos he is not really dancing. he does not do any dancing. rachel: i m excited to hear him and speak with hill. is he a family man and ask questions how is he balancing it all. brian: maybe he won t. steve: busy two hours that starts right now, rachel? rachel: thank you. the white house could be in for a staff shakeup. steve: president trump clashing with attorney general jeff sessions over the direction of the department of justice. brian: peter doocy is live outside the white house with what s fueling the friction and what senator lindsey graham did about it. brian, president trump had rewarded jeff sessions for his early loyalty to the trump campaign by making him the attorney general. but, the president is still really mad that sessions recused himself from the russia probe and the attorney general apparently saw the president telling ainsley that he was still mad about it yesterday. sessions pushed back with this he said while i m attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. i demand the highest standards and where they are not met, i take action. well, just a few minutes ago, the president saw that and responded. department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political consideration. jeff, this is great. what everyone wants. so, look into all of the corruption on the other side, including deleted emails, hush money. the whole idea is they regard it as a campaign violation. and so they are trying to connect all the dots and apparently some of the dots between donald trump and the payments go through the national enquirer. i don t see what the big deal is alan dershowitz, harvard professor, somebody who understands the election law, the law, constitution, all of the there is nothing there. donald trump can give money to his own campaign. as long as donald trump gave that money to, you know, shut up these mistresses, which by the way didn t really work very well. but, anyway, that s what he tried to do. he is allowed to do that to save his marriage and campaign for whatever reason. brian: back up he says michael cohen made the payments on the direction of then billionaire, he is still a billionaire then businessman donald trump. david pecker back that up maybe in turn for immunity dose say that? then to your point, rachel, what does it mean legally to the big picture? turns out a lot of celebrities might have big issues that they don t want out if they want to run for public office. look at the attack right now on the president. what an agenda. now, let s look at his foundation. let s found out what his lawyer. let s raid his lawyer s apartment. go after and raid in the middle of the night paul manafort s place. he was there for three months. you cannot blame the president for feeling like is he being surrounded and targeted. the question is, fundamentally, arefully of these things illegal and if anyone is sitting out there in the business world saying to themselves i would love to run for public office. they are running for the hills right now. rachel: that s right. brian: this president was the first to do it and stuff that happened before he was even formally a candidate is coming back to haunt him. rachel: brian, i think your point is so good. there is all this chaos and all this stuff. you are right. the message to anyone who is an outsider thinking about running for president is the political class doesn t appoint you or give you permission, then they will destroy you. that s the message. steve: so, regarding david pecker, apparently he had kept all these secret documents where he had arranged so-called capture and kill, arrangements with different people. they were in a safe, according to the associated press. and now it looks as if the feds are going to be able to take a look at it that s one of the reasons why if you click around on all the channels, every once in a while people mention a word that starts with an i. rachel: just a little bit. steve: here s that example over on msnbc just wednesday. if it is a crime, it certainly is an impeachable offense. impeach trump. impeachment. impeachment. impeachment. impeachment is a word in play here in washington today. the impeachment. impeachment. impeachment. impeachment. should the president be impeachment. impeachment. there are democrats who say there is now more than enough to impeach. is itself impeachable offense. consider something as serious as impeachment. impeachment. impeachment process. the president will be removed from office after an impeachment trial. on the impeachment trial. talk about impeachment. want to talk about impeachment. impeachment right now. do not talk about impeachment. steve: that was both msnbc and cnn and you take a look at the number of times it was mentioned, in 18 hours on wednesday cnn 108 and over on msnbc 114. brian: by the way, for those political experts they know even if you are a democrat to use the word impeachment, what you are doing is igniting the trump base and you are igniting republicans who don t feel as though impeachment is something that they want to see happen. and that s why a lot of political savvy people like nancy pelosi and dick durbin are saying even though i probably want that, i m not saying that because that will absolutely motivate republicans who might traditionally be asked to stand back. i would like to add something else that happened. lanny davis, maybe inadvert tently has confirmed what most people know that michael cohen, who is listed in this dossier which might be mostly fiction because it s unverified, we don t know. yeah, nothing has changed. he was never in prague. he told jonathan swan nothing has changed in terms of his testimony in 2017. also on his testimony in 2017, did he say that president trump did not know in advance of any trump tower meeting under oath. steve: in other words, lanny davis confirmed the stuff in the dossier was fake. brian: by mistake, i m sure. steve: lanny took a look and he said you know, that s just not right because i checked with my clients and he wasn t there. meanwhile, the president was on this program yesterday at this time and in one of the sound bites that ainsley got from him, here was his observation about what would happen if he were impeached. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i will tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor. because without this thinking, you would see you would see numbers that you wouldn t believe in reverse. steve: so the message is if there is impeachment, if you like your life, it s going to go away. because people will be poor because there would be an impeachment, which brian, you are absolutely right. the more people talk about impeachment, the more of a silver bullet it is to the republican party because it energizes the republicans. they go, look. i like the way the election turned out. i don t like what they are doing to him. i m going to go and vote in the mid terms which is generally an election that a lot of people don t vote. rachel: it s a good message. what would happen if the president was impeached. he has been a pretty good steward of the economy, nobody can deny that to ho would take charge of the economy, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, now the democratic party is talking so openly about socialism. that s the direction we would go. not, i think, what the american people want. brian: what you are seeing is somebody a group of people in this country that do not want president trump to be elected. if robert mueller was really fair and balanced, he said i m going to look for russian collusion, when i see something that s wrong, i m going to ferret it out. paul manafort go try him for something unrelated. michael cohen, see some indiscretions here. so off ramp him. well, when you are looking, did you look to see who paid for the dossier? did you look about fusion g.p.s.? did you see where it was listed in the hillary clinton camp? did you see iniquity in the way both cases were looked at? if he wanted to galvanize the country to believe the investigation was fair. he would be doing that it s only going one direction for stuff that happened before this president was even a candidate for president. steve: so the more people talk impeachment, the more it riles up the republicans. rachel: absolutely. that was the concern the republicans had going into the mid terms, the economy iis good. could they get their base out to vote. steve: secondary issue. 12 minutes after the top of the hour. brian: democrats focused on pleading guilty. one of hillary clinton s former advisors is says she is the one who broke the law. mark penn joins us live. steve: plus, elizabeth warren always slams the 1 percenters. the proposal from the republicans is just cut. that s the only way that they can produce tax cuts for millionaires. steve: it turns out she is one of them. her numbers coming up. you know it don t matter anyway can you rely on your old man s money you can rely on the old man s money. what pain? with advil we are seeing right here. mr. penn, you say there is a double standard that has been applied to hillary clinton and to the president. look, i think everybody sees that a double standard occurred here that the investigations related to the email were handled with kid gloves. and the investigations related to trump, you know, handled with, let s say all-out prosecutorial force of government and deep state might. and everybody sees how these two things were handled differently. steve: yeah. i was reading this morning, i do believe i read that while mr. comey made the case, look, we looked through all of her emails, there was 700,000 of them apparently. apparently they only looked at 3,000. so there does seem to be a different standard. but, mark, why is that? well, look, i can t say why. because i don t know the motivations. the important thing now is this has real relevance to american politics. i don t care if they would have given them both light treatments but to give one, particularly, the newly elected president from day one this kind of scrutiny of all his campaign aides, of all his associates and basically looking for crimes so that they could flip them. look what happened here with cohen. they found several million dollars of tax problems with cohen and they got him to plead to crimes that i don t even think were crimes when it comes to election law. steve: right. the news this morning as the tabloids here in new york and elsewhere, it s all about how, sounds like the guy who runs the national enquirer is getting an immunity deal so he can kind of connect some dots about were there any capture and kill situations that could have been campaign violations? well, and you see, he is the person actually making the contribution or expenditure, so they are not really interested in that. they are only interested in tying things to trump on matters that we already decided, look, i went through impeachment with president clinton. these issues about what happened with women is they are consensual and legal activities can t be turned into crimes. the american people won t stand for that same thing with john edwards who was acquitted and the fec ruled these things were not campaign violations. they are personal expenditures. steve: if there weren t a double standard. look at what jeff sessions said yesterday. i m running the department there should never be political consideration. if that s the case, there shouldn t be a double standard. well, look here. there is about $130,000 that went to stormy daniels october 27th, would never have been reported before the election anyway. so the whole thing is immaterial. and you have millions of dollars spent by the democratic law firm incorrectly reported as legal research when, in fact, it went toe ultimate beneficiaries g.p.s., fusion and the foreign spy. that was covered up and, yet, they do nothing about that. now, look, either say both of these are civil matters or both of these got to get the same investigation. steve: let s see what happens. mark penn a pleasure. have a good weekend, sir. thank you. steve: straight ahead, this illegal immigrant was charged with hitting a preschool teacher in her car and taking off. so what happened when it was time for her to face a judge? she never showed. and get low ps on school supplies all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. what might seem like a small cough can be a big bad problem for your grandchildren. babies too young to be vaccinated against whooping cough are the most at risk for severe illness. help prevent this! talk to your doctor or pharmacist today about getting vaccinated against whooping cough. and if you get lost, just hit me on the old horn. man: tom s my best friend, but ever since he bought a new house. tom: it s a $10 cover? oh, okay. didn t see that on the website. he s been acting more and more like his dad. come on, guys! jump in! the 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that people are buying in to the concept and notions that mr. crump is bring forwarded and at this stage in the process, it s not proper. brian: really in mollie s funeral is scheduled for sunday in iowa. vintage warplane crashes and bursts into flames. and somehow and thankfully the pilot survives. the korean war jet slamming into the ground as it tried to land at an airport over in minnesota. two witnesses jumping a fence and pulling the pilot to safety. he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition expected to survive the cause of the crash is under investigation. and that s what s happening. steve: plus, more. the media meltdown over president trump continues. take a look at this time magazine cover showing the president looks like is, in over his head drowning in the oval office with the headline in deep. brian: but is the media itself drowning in its bias? rachel: here to weigh in is scott adams the dilbert cartoon win bigly in where facts don t matter. scott, i m a big fan of your show. i brought my cup so we can coo have a simultaneous sip as do you at the start of your show. it seems like you don t have a cup of coffee with you. no, i m traveling without coffee. rachel: i will take one for you. so, you said recently, by the way, you were on twitter and you said that you judge the president as you would judge your plumber. what do you mean by that? well, if my plumber has some personal problems, but he fixes my pipe. i m okay with my plumber. and likewise, i don t think anybody voted for the president for a role model. i never even heard of that i have never heard of anybody you know, i really thought he was going to be my role model for all elements of my life and my children wouldn t need me anymore and i don t even need to be a parent. i will just turn on the tv and let them look at the president. i don t think anybody thought that when they voted for him. so, at least his supporters are not disappointed in anything as long as the economy is good and the world is ticking along okay. steve: suddenly poo tuts can stand for plumber of the united states of america. hey, scott, let me ask you this though. what did you makes a a guy who has drawn a million cartoons in his life in the visual display. what did you think of that time magazine display with the images of donald trump over his head apparently on the verge of drowning in deep? in terms of imagery, it s really great. you notice we are in this two completely different realities now. in one reality the president keeps violating all these things which are not actual laws. so, for example, there was owe a collusion that isn t illegal. the obstruction that didn t happen. the meeting at the tower that wasn t illegal. and now the payments to stormy that are totally legal. so part of the country believes that he is a serial law breaker. the other side sees absolutely nothing happening. and i usually apply what i call the big foot test to those two realities. which is two hunters go into the forest and they come back and one of them says we talked to big foot and the other hunter says i was with you the whole time, i didn t see big foot. which one of them is crazy? well, it s usually the one who is seeing stuff that isn t there. this are at least four crimes that the people at cnn can see completely clearly just as well as they can see big foot in the for rest and the rest of them and alan dershowitz who seems to know a lot about the law says i don t see any crime here. brian: take it one step further. if the rest of the big foot s family was paid off not to say that they saw big foot in the woods because everybody in and around president trump is under siege. meanwhile, carl bernstein gets thrilled every time the president sunday siege because they dust him off, wheel him out so he can equate it to watergate. let s listen. what we re seeing is worse than watergate. what we re seeing now is the egregious conduct of the man who was the president of the united states with no regard for the rule of law before he was president, in his campaign, or as president of the united states. brian: what a deal he has got he can stay in new york and doesn t have to walk in the studio even though their studio is in new york. he said worse than watergate. he said that 500 times already. every time the president is accused of something that sounds bad when you first hear it, i get worried until karl comes on and says it s worse than watergate. oh, few phew, that s nothing. that s sort of your signal. but look at the situation where we have now where the critics of the president would have us believe that he is totally normal and sane in public and he is in public all the time. steve: right. as soon as the cameras go off and he is in private, he goes a little bit nuts and insane and crazy and thank god for those unnamed sources keeping an eye on him. meanwhile, the people who are his critics are going crazy right in front of us, you know, phil mud and bill maher and brennan calling him a traitor. right in front of us they seem a little bit unhinged but apparently their story is that when we are not watching they are completely fine. so, it s sort of the reverse of the president depends whether the camera is on you or not. steve: scott adams joining us from the lake, apparently. [laughter] steve: scott, thank you very much. have a good weekend. rachel: thanks, scott. brian: good luck catching carp. steve: is he looking for big foot. brian: 30 minutes at the top of the hour means the big hand is all the way to the bottom. woman burns american flag that s just the beginning. rachel: lee brice is hanging in the jillian corner. is he performing live on the all-american summer concert series coming up steve: good morning. with great deals. like these muck men s waterproof rubber boots for under $90. and save $100 on this leupold lto-tracker thermal imager. ito take care of anyct messy situations.. and put irritation in its place. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected. you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. agent beekman was one step ahead of them.dits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach, because he hid his customers gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we re dedicated to helping protect it today. like alerting you to certain card activity we find suspicious. if it s not your purchase, we ll help you resolve it. it s a new day at wells fargo. but it s a lot like our first day. pah! thano, no, no, nah.k. a bulb of light?!? aha ha ha! a flying machine? impossible! a personal computer?! ha! smart neighborhoods running on a microgrid. a stadium powered with solar. a hospital that doesn t lose power. amazing. i like it. never gonna happen. [siren] steve: we are back with a fox news alert. sirens warning beach goers in hawaii as hurricane winds close to the island of oahu. rachel: dumping 26 inches of rain in 24 hours on the big island. brian: landslide concerns. adam klotz is tracking it it s getting bad. adam: it s getting really bad. it s a slow-move and that continues to be the case. moving north only 5 miles per hour. because of that slow movement all those bands of rain continue to hit the same places over and over and over again. particularly you were getting into hawaii s big island hawaii the western island there, flash flood warnings in that region. particularly on the eastern side of the island because all of that rain hitting the mountains sliding on down and seeing as much as 2 feet. eventually 30 inches in some of those locations. here is your forecast track over the next 12 hours or. so notice it s a weakening storm. category 3 down to a category 1 storm. it s going to make a quick turn out to see. good news for folks how close is it going to get to the islands? it all depends on when that turn happens. something we are still waiting to see. several models here. a couple of these models take it all the way to making landfall. most of them do not. the more this turns away the better this is going to be. no matter whether it makes landfall or not this will be a problem as far as rain fall goes. spots on the big island getting 30 or more inches of participation. spots on maui 10 to 20. it will be a long next 12 hours. jillian? jillian: we will stay tuned to your forecast. thank you, adam. the search is on for illegal immigrant accused of hitting a preschool teacher and then taking off. police in indiana say joanna nunez failed to show up for court appearance yesterday. she was arrested back in may but posted bail. ice says the local sheriff s department ignored her detainer and didn t notify them. the sheriff says ice failed to do its job. democrat nancy pelosi says she is staying in politics despite growing calls for her to step aside. the house minority leader tells the associated press, quote: this is not anything to make a big fuss over. it s politics. i can take the heat and that s why i stay in the kitchen. she says her following in the country is unsurpassed by anybody. outrage after a woman steals an american flag and lights it on fire. look at this. police looking for this woman who stared right into the surveillance camera out of a dive shop in california. she is also caught on camera stomping on the flag and walking away with it the flag s owner calls it a disgrace and say multiple veterans works on his staff. the company also works with the military for training and missions. the city of love is giving gold fish a second chance. the paris aquarium providing what they call sanctuary for hundreds of unwanted gold fish. one former owner telling local paper about her beloved pablo who she dropped off at the aquarium for a better life. i am quite attached to him but i said to myself two years is enough and it is now time for him to move on and live like a gold fish should. so there you have it. i think everyone left me and went outside. steve: i think you are right. we are out here. thank you, jillian. brian: great gold fish story. the double platinum nominated music singer has sold 11 million albums. the guy right over there. rachel: inducted into billionaire club 2 billion streams? my goodness. yeah. steve: here with insight on self-titled album here is country music star lee brice. [cheers and applause] congratulations on being in the billionaire s club but it doesn t involve actual money. well, you know what? to have that many people that have taken the time to go listen to your stuff it s really cool, you know. steve: unbelievable. man, you know what? obviously this has been done a bunch of times. no, there has only a few people gotten there so far. i thought what an honor, you know. rachel: that is an honor. brian: you are still the humble guy you were when you were just breaking in the business or has your head gotten really big? this business is always humbling, trust me. [laughter] hey, my head has gotten big because i have got a beautiful little daughter that she is starting to walk and get little personality. there is a difference. little boys i m like oh i got. this and all of a sudden how does 1-year-old have actual emotions? i m seeing it already. rachel: i have five girls there is discussion about little girls. that s one of the things i wanted to ask you about. i m so impressed about how it s tough you are on the road and away from your family. have you really prioritized your family. how do you get that balance and how do you make that the number one thing for you? you know, simply put, i have kind of made it to where when i come home, i don t want to have to go to the studio or write. so i took the studio and put it on the bus and i take my writer friends and i write on the bus. so, when i m on the road say doing a show. we write all day. we record 90% of the record right there. so when i get home can i have the quality time with them and i don t have to go to work once i get home. rachel: multitasker like a mom. steve: you have been working 8 years old. that s when you started of singing in church. yeah. steve: eventually wound up with a hit song that i think i read broke 62-year record, right? yeah. love like crazy was on the charts for 57 weeks. steve: unbelievable. beat eddy arnold he was on the charts for 48 weeks, i think. hey, maybe it will be a record that will hang around a while. brian: we were just talking about this in the keurig corner. another title of hit songs is i don t dance. oh, man. brian: i said is it true you don t dance. you said you did dance once. steve: how did it turn out? i don t dance unless she asks me too. brian: and then you dance? i don t really feel comfortable. i m not a dancer. hey, whatever you say, baby. do you know what i mean? brian: put that in words and get a refrain from that. but you did dance in the fifth grade once? oh, yeah. i told you, now, this is supposed to be a secret. fifth grade i thought i could do the mc hammer. i thought i was doing it good but i found out later that i was not. steve: back up, folks. [laughter] no, i m telling you, trust me. i was scared for life. it was like. [laughter] brian: i like that. i thought i was good at it, but obviously i wasn t. brian: your first dream was busted. this is a fall back for you. your first dream was to be a football player. absolutely. i was kind of growing up. i love clemson football. i was a long snapper there and center. i love football. my daddy was a football player. i wanted to fall in those footsteps. music was in my bones. once football was over and got hurt at clemson and that was kind of done. once that was done, it was time to move onto the depths of me. rachel: if the music doesn t work can you always be a backup dancer. yeah, right. steve: lee, i love the story a couple years ago down in oklahoma, you were at the folds of honor charity golf tournament. and had you a presentation. there was a young man who was killed in war in afghanistan. before he left in iraq, that s right. his family wound up selling his truck to help make ends meet. and then when he was killed in action, the family missed the truck. and you found it. well, we did. there was i heard the story. i met the family. it s folds of honor is a big part of our life ever since then and when we got to know that story. a little piece of that was a song of mine i drive your truck. thank you some. it hit home for ms. ginger. and she had told me the story just behind kind of the scenes hey this is why the song means so much to us because we sold his truck and we wished it was his daddy s truck, too. it was a special truck. and so, it just hit me like hey, i told my manager and everybody, we have got to find this truck. rachel: good for you. steve: found the truck and presented it live on the air. in the history of fox & friends it was perhaps one of the top five most emotional moments. well, man, for me, too. it s an honor to be a part of anything like that. steve: lee is going to start singing here in 20 minutes. brian: what are you going to be singing? well, we got new stuff and old stuff. there is a rumor going around would are coming out here in a little bit. brian: a rumor. steve: meanwhile, coming up on this friday, it s not just president trump saying it. target s ceo says this has been the best economy he has ever seen. charles payne is joining us outside. he is going to talk about that coming up next. brian: he just wants to meet lee brice. say hello to lee. oh, for your wedding?! no, my ex-boyfriend s wedding, he s confused. jason! mix and match airlines to save more. brian: u.s. employers still not tired of winning under president trump, so to speak. rachel: ceo brian cornell waiving about the economic boom that s going on right now. it s a very healthy consumer environment. we are seeing a great consumer response. unprecedented traffic. as we go back and look, we have never seen traffic growth like this. steve: so what s going on? let s talk to charles payne the host of making money on the fox business network. charles, good morning to you. good morning. steve: why is the president on target with target. is he on target with target because the american consumer is back big time. i say big time. so funny, we talk about all of these consumer surveys and sentiment and poll numbers. the ultimate survey is how people spend or don t spend their money. right now it s amazing. we have all of these retailers in the last three weeks reporting earnings, it s not just target. walmart posted a number out of this world. children s place posted their best same quarterly earnings. brian: just from rachel s family. just from rachel s family. here is the interesting thing about it it s being driven by foot traffic. people are feeling so good, not only hundreds of thousands of people coming back to the job market, but they are leaving their homes. they are going to the mall. steve: i thought they only shopped online. that s amazing, right? brian: critics will say and cbo predicted this is a sugar high. short-term tax cuts, a sugar high. what do you say to that. one thing we do know about economics is it seems to flow in certain trends, right? this success is creating what i call and what the economists call the virtuous cycle. they couldn t create it artificially when the fed created $3.5 trillion and gave it to banks. thinking it would somehow fall on main street. this is how you generate real authentic cycle it will not fade any time soon. in fact it will get stronger. rachel: walmart and target is going well middle america is going well. dollar general at all-time high the cosco at all-time high. these stocks reflect main street. main street has the confidence to go out. also we are seeing businesses. businesses are piling money into new projects. on the economic front we are firing on all cylinders. brian: will we hear more on your show. absolutely and how to make money. because that s the key thing, right, folks? [cheers] brian: key is for charles payne to make money. steve: straight ahead on this friday, president trump up and tweeting about attorney general jeff sessions this morning. live at the white house with a tweet at the top of the hour. brian: yeah. he hired him. is he a hall of fame running back and now you can call damion tomlinson an actor? those are missing brothers and sisters. brian: powerful story behind his new movie that s coming up. steve: thank you, charles she is golden rule teaches school frequent heartburn waking him up. now that dream is a reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? you shouldn t be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia s add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. brian s back? he doesn t get my room. he s only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40 s. you can see all those empty seats around you. those are missing brothers and sisters. love calls us to bring them home. brian: wow a story of faith, courage, and the ultimate sacrifice. inspiring new movie based on the hit song god bless the broken road set to hit theaters this next month in september. it s raising money for dav, disabled american veterans. here with more is disabled veteran himself jim searcy and damion tomlinson who looks like he can still play who plays pastor williams in the film. welcome, guys. thank you. brian: in vietnam, what happened? i stepped on an enemy land mine on january 11th, 1969. resulted in the traumatic amputation of both of my legs and left arm. brian: what made you make this for your life? i think it was a natural to belong to the disabled american veterans because that s what they re all about is reaching out and touching the lives of veterans like myself, certainly others, younger generation coming home from iraq and afghanistan as well. brian: people that know you know you are extremely patriotic guy. how important is this move movie for you. extremely important proceeds will benefit dav. and these guys are true heroes. people talk about sports athletes as heroes. we are not heroes. we entertain our country. but these guys go fight for our country. brian: right. play like warriors, that s the thing that they want. also, when you watch people serving in the military athletes seem to be a natural bond there. i think it is. just the training regiment that most of us go through. the idea that you have to go into battle together as a group. but, certainly, we are not fighting for our lives, they are. brian: how did you like acting? it was fun. good. it was a challenge. my background of playing sports, it s a great challenge. i love challenges and it was hard though. i have got to say that. brian: you look like a natural. i know that and i know you are a broadcaster too now. let s take a little bit more from the movie. and if they are willing to turn to him with just the tiny seed of faith, he will show them that nothing is impossible. brian: wow. great job. you memorize that? i did, yeah. brian: that s the hardest part. here s the thing. playing football for so long, every week we studied the playbook and studied the game plan for a different opponent. so i took that part of my background and applied it to this movie. brian: jim, how was he? fantastic. brian: what does it mean for you to have this book come out. past commanders of the dav, i m thrilled that the dav was a part of this and that they were willing to embrace the inspiration of it and pay tribute to those men and women who served and sacrificed and the message it brought of courage and hope is just phenomenal to all of us that have had a chance to view it. brian: having said that we re back with the same controversy for another year it seems networks have to decide whether they should show players in the nfl kneeling or not. what s your stance on this? i think the nfl is doing a great job of coming together and creating dialogue. nfl players association and the owners. coming together to find a solution because the social issues are what they are. and, you know, it s a good thing that we are talking about it. and people mention the protests and kneeling. many guys are not doing that most of the guys are standing and representing this country in the right way. brian: do you wish they would all stand? of course, yeah, you know, at the same time i think the social issues are what they are we do need to have dialogue about it and come to some kind of solution. brian: do you agree, jim? well, i have a personal opinion which may be different from that of the dav or others. but i think the short period of time it takes to stand for the national anthem or pledge of allegiance i would like to see everybody do that everywhere. that s the way i was raised. brian: thanks for this movie, guys. so glad for a great cause. another thing do you football player, broadcaster and now ache tomplet multidimensional. have you always been a triple threat. the broken road.com god blows the broken road.com to find out more. more fox & friends in just a moment. thanks, guys. thank you. . . despite evidence from ice christian rivera attorney is insisting client s legal status is unclear. that s rhetoric. we are dealing with an vining that has middle school education we need border security, we need a wall to keep illegals from coming in over into our country and committing crimes. steve: president trump clashing with attorney general jeff sessions over the direction of the department of justice. the president and the attorney general do not have a good working relationship. every president deserves an attorney general that he has confidence in. rob: what could be the biggest storm in 26 years. jillian: 20-inches of rain in nearly 24 hours, an illinois mother investigated after neighbor reported her for allowing 8-year-old daughter to walk dog in the neighborhood alone. we did something that was perfectly normal on the north shore and in parenting. steve: hard to love, lee bryce as people sing along in front of world headquarters. fourty-eighth and sixth avenue, what a great crowd outside, a bunch of people celebrating birthdays, a couple of people met were celebrating anniversaries and one couple actually celebrating their honeymoon at fox & friends on friday probably because we catered. i had a couple that celebrated 33rd anniversary. lots of celebrations. brian: i didn t meet anybody because i had to run into the segment. steve: as you would like to watch the songs foxnews.com/concert. [laughter] he s a great guy. you re so happy that s the kind of guy that gets to be that famous that good, that talented. brian: he s getting on my nerves a little bit. he s to happy, too much. meanwhile this story. steve: the white house could be ready for staff shake-up. brian: president trump clashing with jeff sessions. peter doocy live outside the white house with what s fueling the friction, peter. president trump is actually now taunting the attorney general on twitter, he just wrote this, exnsa contractor spent 4 years, this is small potatoes to what hillary did, so unfair, jeff, double standard, latest in back and forth that really escalated yesterday when sessions showed up at the white house for an unrelated meeting minutes after pushing back on the president s complaints that he rescued to russian investigation. the president s reply to that also came this morning on twitter with two-parter and said department of justice will not improperly influenced by political considerations, jeff, this is great, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the other side and mueller, strzok, christopher steele and phoney corrupt dossier, russian collision but dems and so much more, open up papers and so much more, open up papers without redaction, come on, jeff, you can do it. the country is waiting, forecasting potential change at main justice. i hope the relationship gets better. if it doesn t, i would imagine the president is going to look for a new attorney general because what s going on is unsustainable. senator graham says it s very likely the president replaces sessions after the november midterms. back to you in new york. steve: peter, thank you very much. remember in the old days when you covered the white house and would have to interview people all you need is smartphone. zooming through twitter these days, it is very clear the president knows he cannot fire jeff sessions. he can t before the midterms, but all this pressure do you think he s trying to get him to quit today? brian: no, because we can t confirm somebody else, we have too much on the agenda, they only have a few weeks of work before midterms. you re right, maybe can t do it before midterms, maybe not a good idea before political midterms, good for him, he ll not just speaking for himself, i think he s speaking for a lot of people who voted for him who are looking at ag sessions, we are nonpolitical and following the law, if that s true, why aren t you going after hillary clinton? steve: all sorts of rumors on capitol hill, i m sure you heard them rachel, sessions is gone, rosenstein is gone and a number of prominent names being circulated as replacement. brian: senator sessions becomes attorney general sessions because he s on campaign and can t oversee russian meddling investigation, that s one, he leaves seat wide open, here comes unelectable roy moore and goes to democrat, you lose the session seat in that one-seat advantage in big picture. steve: you didn t know roy moore was unelected at the time time of the transfer. brian: let s go where eric holder ripped president obama, t have any. it is crazy. why does sessions want that job? if my boss hate med that much, why work there? steve: he goes home and says i didn t get fired today. brian: he wants prison reform, everybody wants to get this done, if mr. law and order sometimes jeff sessions doesn t want to get that done, that might put the president over the edge. steve: keep in mind, had he had an attorney general that did not have to recuse himself there would be no robert mueller looking into all of this stuff and that s the frustration. meanwhile let s talk about the lead story all week long in brooklyn, iowa, the body of mollie tibbets found in cornfield. alleged murder christian rivera, medical examiner said she died of multiple sharp injuries probably something like a knife, meanwhile he did have a government id. apparently it was not issued by the state of iowa, he also had apparently a fake social security card number, nonetheless his attorney alan richards defends his status in this country. that s rhetoric. either he is here legally or illegally. that s your point of view, martha. he came here illegally is part of the equation, to say that s bringing politics into it, i think you re putting rhetoric and point of view on it. we are dealing with individual that has middle school education, his perception is entitled to equal protection and due process. now you can jump to it and say these are the facts but that doesn t make them facts because you say so, martha, the situation he s involved with concerning his status has nothing to do with the situation that unfortunately happened over in that road in brooklyn. i m sorry. he s in entitled to a hearing on immigration issue. brian: he s entitled to hearing on immigration issue, he s also entitled to open up about what really happened, he claims here is the body, i saw it but i blacked out in the interim, i ended up finding the body in my trunk and then i put it here. that is obviously not going to fly, we need details on that and rachel to your point earlier, did they know each other, do we know that facebook followers, mollie was a facebook follower of his girlfriend. steve: mother of his child. the aunt of the girlfriend said she had a conversation with the alleged killer christian about this disappearance and he actually commented on it and said, wow, i can t believe it is happening, small town, all of that will be investigated. i think it s interesting with the attorney, listen, there s a murder, but the status, the legal status of my client in this country has nothing to do with this murder and he wants to separate the two which as a parent i find interesting because the whole idea of illegal immigration especially in this case is safety and security, every parent with a child going off to college, mine is next month was following the story was worried about, you know, what that what that meant for their own kid. i told my daughter, i don t want you running alone. i want you to take self-defense classes, we all care, his status does have something to do with it. steve: he does, ultimately if he were not in this country she would not be dead. brian: right. toaf steve: all there is to it. brian he should have prethought it. some of the stuff was crazy. ten minutes after the hour, jillian you have the other news. jillian: good morning, major weather news, let s get you caught up with fox news alert. hurricane lane slashing hawaiian islands, category 3 hurricane sparking massive flooding and landslide concerns, streets turned into rivers, 20-inches of rain in nearly 24 hours. [sirens] jillian: you can hear that? hurricane sirens to warn beach goers, moves close to maui and live report in a few minutes for that. california congressman duncan speaking exclusively to fox after pleading not guilty in court, the congressman and wife indicted of allegedly use 250g thousand of campaign funds for personal finances and false records. by traveling, having dinners, that s how people get to hear me, donate money. this is pure politics and the prosecutors can make an indictment like the scandalist novel that they want to. jillian: he said he won t resign. the vice president making out of this world about face, moments ago, it is now the official policy of the united states of america that we will return to the moon, put americans on mars and once again explore the farthest depths out of space. he pushed to establish face space force and moon orbiting station. steve: excellent. people in texas are more excited. more jobs. brien: remind me. jillian: okay. brian now head of national inquirer is cutting deal with the fed, he has immunity, where does this end? geraldo rivera went to law school. steve: plus mother let her 8-year-old daughter walk around with the dog and one of the neighbors called the cops, why, we will tell you. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2018 rx 350 and rx 350 all wheel drive for these terms. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. they work togetherf doing important stuff. the hitch? like you, your cells get hungry. feed them. with centrum micronutrients. restoring your awesome, daily. centrum. feed your cells. money payments by mr. cohen. brian: they want to look at campaign violations. geraldo rivera, little by little they are cutting into the president s personal life before he became a candidate, why? [laughter] it seems to me the better question is whatever happened to russia collusion? steve: yeah. it is pretty apparent and pretty obvious that the strongest evidence the southern district or robert mueller has against the president of the united states so far is something that we have been hearing about for well over a year, 130,000-dollar direct payment to stormy douglas, the playboy playmate and catching the story and killing it. reminds me of bimbo eruptions during clinton administration when he started being delivered and the president, married man, covering up his affairs with, you know, catherine and juanita and paula jones, alleged affairs, seems to me, here we all all the grand cosmic issues and all comes down to this married man now president of the united states, covering up these elicit relationships while married to melania well before political career, immediate exposure let s put it that way. steve: geraldo, if payments were made, you know, obviously campaign violation, anything illegal? well, michael cohen in his plea says that what he did was make illegal campaign contribution that he admits to a crime but his admission, steve, this is the interesting part, just because michael cohen mean he committed the crime doesn t necessarily that he really did commit it or anybody else down the chain including the president of the united states committed the crime. i think that it is a very close question, for example, as professor dershowitz says, if i wanted to pay two women of ill repute or wonderful repute, if i wanted to pay them $250,000 out of my own pocket and running for president, i can legally do that, can i take, here is yours, here is yours, walk away, that s my business, it s hush money, sounds harsh, but if out of your own stash it s legal. for american media presumably to pay this woman with no intention of running her story, an argument can be made that they were, in fact, giving campaign contribution to donald trump without reporting the campaign contribution, that s why the immunity deal from david to david pecker was important to him, to protect him, protect his company and then, you know, they say and i just want to do in one sentence, i ceo of media company at the request of donald trump worked together, that s what michael cohen said in court. i still think there s no big deal here. tell every other channel, thanks, geraldo. straight ahead, you see it in stadiums around the country but the media says they are threat to democracy, our next guest is retired marine and says they couldn t be more wrong. here. or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. in your wireless mouse? maybe not. maybe you can trust that during your fantasy draft, the computer won t autodraft a kicker in the 7th round. or. you could just trust duracell. oh no. oh no. oh, god. steve: what was he doing? apparently he s head today jail, raymond will spend 130 days behind bars for harassing wildlife. he probably won t do that again just saying. all right, rachel, brian. have you ever been to a professional sports game and seen patriotic display including giant american flag or military family reunion, apparently they re a threat to democracy and changing patriotism in america. brian: thought for one person, lieutenant colonel writes this, the military of sports should be seen inappropriate, all wrapped in gay gigantic flag with stars and stripes. jack, thanks for joining us. good morning. the sound of the jets going over the stadium, that s the sound track of my childhood, we called it the sound of freedom, i m sure it s used by recruitment tool by the military, what s wrong with that? there s really nothing wrong and if you look at marketing for everything people display capability positive or negative but to me it s more positive. brian: why do you think people have a problem with this? a lot of people are stuck and should really look at the bigger picture and the narcissism possibly, the leftism, i really don t understand because without the people that protect us we have nothing, we have no freedoms and rights and we end up becoming a third-world nation. i really don t comprehend it as patriotic american. we have seening kneeling to the flag and more complaints about displays of patriotism, do you think we will get to a point where people say, listen, even the owners of the teams in the and a half or whatever say, listen, we are just not going to do this, we don t wand to offend people? possibly, i think money, greed rules a lot but with that there s so many multimillionaires in the professional arena, if they have disdain for officers in the military, why don t they hire their own, they can hire their own private police officers for a hundred thousand dollars a year and employ police officers in horrible regions in chicago, that s where it started with collin standing or kneeling, wearing pig socks, hire your own police force and chief of police and have them report back to you and it would alleviate all the problems. brian: for the most problem they love having the military, the athletes, there s a natural draw, don t you think? i think so. lt came beforehand. they need self-expression. i don t deny that. we don t have time for 100 players to express towards country that flag represents the citizens and not just military. the fans seem to love it. brian: espn said they will not televiced the national anthem. we are not going to know who is kneeling or standing unless you re at the game. i guess i won t be watching then. well, one way to respond. thank you. brian: jack, thanks for your service, he has no problem showing military at professional arena. that s different than huffington post or the writer. thank you, jack. a mother let 8-year-old daughter walk dog around, that s what i would tell my kids to do, the neighbors called the cop, what do people on the streets think? brian: first lee bryce. eals. like savings of 35% on scentlok savanna crosshair jackets and pants. and save $20 on a 6-pack of big foot b2 full-body goose decoys. ooh i m not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! we ll make heaven a place on earth yeah! oh, my angels! ooh, heaven is a place on earth [ sobs quietly ] a shot of a woman who went viral for showing her gun in her graduation photo is taking her message to nashville. spencer posing with a pistol in her waistband. we first met her in april when she explains why she chose to take her milestone photos with a gun. the second amendment has been under attack especially on college campuses. really important to empower the tens of millions of real blue blue, letting them know they have a voice. she says she inspired women to get their concealed carry permits. now to a fox news alert. hurricane lane sparking massive flooding and landslide concerns in hawaii. a big storm. we are looking at winds of 120 miles an hour gusting to 150. a really slow mover. what does that mean? these bands of rain keep running over the same places again and again and again and that is when you see flooding. we saw it on the westernmost island, the island of hawaii. you track this over the next 12 hours or so it does we can from a category 3 down to a category one and then a very sharp turn out to see. as it weakens the winds die down a little bit but the rain continues to fall. we need this to turn very sharply. it will do so but there are several tracks, a couple to the mainland and the couple turnout earlier. what we hope is a quick turn out for this. whether it makes landfall or not we are talking a lot of rain, the big island 30 to 40 inches, maui somewhere between 10 to 20 inches. a lot of rain on the way with this one. that is very serious stuff, not good for tourism, dealing with lower tourism because of the volcano and now this. jillian never takes vacations. literally never. i am taking a vacation. i can t wait. getting caught up on your headlines. a businessman called a predator for renting office space to ice. people posting flyers in downtown st. petersburg calling to boycott his businesses. i had an elderly neighbor come running up and said chuck, all over downtown are these posters that say you are a predator and sexual violence. what is going on? he has been leasing his complex to the government for 21 years, the first time he has ever had an issue. police are looking to see if any laws were broken or if this is just free speech. college cheerleaders who kneel during the national anthem won t be returning to their squad this fall. tennessee state university cutting four of the five girls from the team who knelt to protest police brutality. the of the department says it was nothing to do with politics, the cheerleaders say they were targeted. stop what you are doing, that flies across the median and flipped into a school bus, terrifying moments caught on - cam in mississippi, there were no children on board, the driver and people in another car were rushed to the hospital. police say the driver lost control on an exit ramp before the crash. he was arrested for not having insurance. a viral challenge sweeping the internet, the hand challenge. people using their fingers and hands to make this signal. it was started biting was pro soccer player who made the gesture after scoring a goal, people trying to replicate it by posting their successes and failures on social media. i don t know. i got to be honest with you. i thought you were younger and had written that. i thought you would know. i m 35, not that young. i pride myself a soccer player but i can t figure that out. 23 after the top of the hour. in illinois mom, great-year-old daughter walked their dog alone and child services. authority s closed their investigation but the mother thinks the reaction is totally overkill. how do the people of new york feel? people at the all-american summer concert series. this is the audience participation portion of today s festivities. this mom send the 8-year-old out in the front yard to walk the dog because the kids is if we get a dog i will take care of the dog. the cops are called, it was determined she wasn t neglecting her children. wasn t putting them in peril. who thinks the neighbor was right to call the cops? let me see the hand? somebody who thinks it was right to call the cops? okay. what does an 8-year-old child look like? how old are you? 8. perfect. samantha, what is your daughter at name? laura. reporter: very nice artwork. we like that. would you trust your daughter to go out in the front yard and walk the dog? absolutely. i am older. reporter: you will go too. i can see her through the front window. no problems, have to teach some personal responsibility. reporter: is this the right answer? very good. thank you very much. what is your name? ray. reporter: do you have children? yes. reporter: somehow they made it to this age. would you trust them at age 8 to go out in the yard by themselves and walk the dog? don t see why not. reporter: there are scary things in the world. we have to show them independence. reporter: what is your name? caitlin. reporter: what age do you feel you were okay to be in the art alone? when you were in grade school? i guess. reporter: who else would like to weigh in on this? milwaukee, 36. congratulations. reporter: you look just like your son. you could be a twin. my son is 6 foot 6. what do you think? teach your children to be responsible, to be looking for what needs to be in a safe, they will be fine. what about the fact the neighbor dropped the dime on them and said there could be trouble there because she is letting her daughter roam around outside without supervision? of the neighbors where some issues that is the kids should be aware of what the warning signs are of trouble. reporter: this is your bride of 37. congratulations. and this was on the page of an 8-year-old kid in the front yard. normally you go out and find people in a rush on the friday concert series day they ll come to you. the food and the show, up on the stage coming up next. reporter: the crowd roars. you can listen to lee. you can listen to my line on foxnews.com. and we will go to break. i did mom. wanna try it? 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lawyer, michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. the michael cohen case that s shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and go-to fixer. he once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. i said with michael cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. to look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. things have shifted. i think he couldn t walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. cohen s plea deal followed months of controversy. the media reported extensively on cohen s alleged hush money payments to a porn star and a maybe model. whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew michael cohen as a young man who would predicted he would one day be embroiled in a presidential crisis. by all accounts cohen had a upper middle class childhood in long island. new york. he attended american university in the 1980s, as a brash real estate developer from new york was becoming a nationally known slek sleb rit. his first book, the art of the deal, was a best seller and inspired cohen to strive for an equally glamorous future. michael cohen has said as a teenager he admired donald trump. not only for his real estate acumen and seemed to admire his personality. his brashness, his approach to life. michael was drawn to him. after graduating in 1988, cohen dabbled in politics, volunteering on the presidential campaign of democrat michael dukakis. and attended law school at thomas m. cooley in michigan where classmates noted his big ambitions. michael could handle stress, he was a bright guy and he had a good sense of humor and i liked that. you talk to a lot of people. very personable. i would say he was very motivated. he had his eye on the ball. no question about that. he was a talker and he was going to be a lawyer. he was going to go back and do big deals and be successful in new york city. cohen s legal career began in new york city, working for personal injury lawyer. in 1994, he married his childhood sweetheart, laura schusterman at the swanky pierre hotel. the marriage opened doors for cohen. michael got involved in business and personal dealings with people who his wife s family associated with. but some business associates skirted and broke the law, including his own father in law. he was convicted of tax fraud in the early 90s and he got probation. following in his father in law s footsteps, cohen got involved with the taxi industry. michael was affiliated with a fleet of 200 cabs in new york city and owned some medallions in chicago. in about 2012 he was reporting about $90,000 a month in income from his taxi business. but two of his business associates and taxi medallions, simon gasher and the taxi king were convicted of multiple crimes. this is one of the vulnerabilities that michael cohen created for himself. by being in business with someone who got on the wrong side of the law. gene friedman like psychen checkered history. simon garber has a very checkered history. all of these tax fraud charges run related to michael cohen. but the company he keeps is noticeable. after running for new york city council in 2003 and losing in a landslide, cohen turned his attention to real estate. attracting the attention of a man whose brash persona and glamorous lifestyle had made him a reality tv star. you re fired. donald trump who was enjoying fame on his hit show, the apprentice. he bought a $1 million condo in the trump building and a $5 million in another trump building. where ivanka trump also lived. after cohen became treasurer on the board for trump world tower, he proved his value to donald trump for the first time. donald trump is impressed by the effort that michael cohen helped lead to oppose a tenants movement to reorganize the building. took trump s side against the other owners in the building and trump was grateful. cohen s ambition was rewarded in 2006 when he became a lawyer for donald trump and shortly after, executive vice president of the trump organization. michael cohen had found a seat at the table with the mogul he had long admired. it was a pretty alluring universe to be in trump tower. this is a man who idolized him for many years beforehand. it was a dream come true. coming up, michael cohen was a thug, an absolute street thug in the way that he went about defending donald trump and trying to intimidate people that they perceived to be crossing donald trump. 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trump mentioned the website in a campaign voe. recently a group formed, a very independent group formed, should trump run.com. that website triggered an investigation by the federal elections commission. the complaint alleged that michael cohen couldn t be independent of donald trump because he worked for donald trump. even though he said should trump run was independent of donald trump. but in 2011, the f.e.c. ruled in co-en s favor. for michael cohen, the win was another way of proving his loyalty. the way he initially described it to me was a father/son relationship. and when i asked him why he has blind loyalty, he always threw the question back to me as, would you do this for your father? the end of the day, the only people donald trump really considers as family are his own family. anyone who considers themself to be almost a trump family member, should really take a reality check. because they tend not to stay around very long. but michael cohen did stay and prove his willingness to fight for his boss by aggressively attacking donald trump s enemies, real or perceived. a war of words between a beauty queen and organizers of the miss usa pageant. pennsylvania s representative claims the competition is rigged. just after the 2012 miss usa pageant, co-owned by donald trump, contestant sheena mown claimed the pageant s finalists were predetermined. i would like the truth to be made known. when moanen s father spoke with michael cohen about his daughter s claims, her father said cohen was belligerent. it s terrifying for someone like michael cohen working for someone like donald trump to get you on the phone and intimidate you. part of what a lawyer in that position is supposed to be doing is intimidate people and keep them away from the king. her allegations were not proven and donald trump won a judgment against mown for defamation. cohen acted as an attack dog against one of donald trump s most hated adversaries, the press. the news website the daily beast felt cohen s wrath. the daily beast wrote a story about a deposition that trump s first wife had given in a case. in that deposition, she said she had been raped by trump. she withdrew the claim, saying she didn t mean it in a literal or criminal sense. but in 2015, when a daily beast reporter contacted the trump campaign for comment, michael cohen increasingly assertive in his role as fixer, responded viciously. and npr released the audio. i m warning you, tread very [ bleep ] lightly. because what i m going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. you understand me? michael cohen was a thug, he was a street thug in the way that he went about defending donald trump and trying to intimidate people that they perceived to be crossing donald trump. does michael curse, i m going to go after you, i m going to take you down. that s what people do in business. this is not the way that most attorneys operate. but this is why he became a valued member of the trump organization. over the next few years, cohen would take his loyalty to a whole new level. he s a someone who is a pit bull. he never shies away from a fight. someone who never hesitates to defend donald trump and the trump family. and we will make america great again. michael cohen wasn t just helping with politics, while donald trump s 2016 presidential campaign gained momentum cohen sought real estate deals for his boss. during several efforts to develop a coveted trump megatower in moscow, trump turned to his friend, felix seder. michael cohen and felix seder jointly tried to propose a construction of a new trump tower in moscow during the presidential campaign and donald trump was aware of that effort. it would be an alleged trip to meet with russian officials that earned cohen a chapter in the steele dossier. it s the famous report put together by the former british agent and was paid for by the hillary clinton campaign. there were a lot of allegations in there that have to do with whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. there s an unsubstantiated allegation that michael cohen was in prague and met with russians to discuss hacking of democrats. he continues to deny allegations that were made concerning him in the dossier. cohen s efforts to fulfill trump s dream to develop a trump megatower, which would have been the tallest building in russia never came through. but cohen continued to fight hard for his boss. showing his teeth after the first republican debate on fox news in 2016. during which megyn kelly challenged then-candidate trump. you ve called women you don t like fat pigs, dogs. slobs. and disgusting animals. your twitter account only rosie o donnell. cohen struck back on twitter. he tweeted let s gut her about megyn kelly, who trump was critical of during the campaign. megyn kelly was upset about this. understandably so. very simple, if megyn kelly or anybody else was going to in his mind going after his boss, he was going to fight back. it s the kind of lawyer that trump would want. during the campaign cohen continually took on the media and one target in particular, cnn. you guys are down. it makes sense says who? polls, most of them. all of them? says who? while cohen s aggressive stance may have surprised some, nothing was as surprising as election night. here is the first projection in the trump column of decision 2016. trump had a lot more support and a lot more states. among a lot more people than the polls detected. i just received a call from secretary clinton. as trump filled out the roles in his new administration michael cohen had reportedly hoped to become his chief of staff. but the loyal attorney was overlooked. there are people around the president who were not big fans of michael s so they encouraged him to keep his distance. but at the same time the russia investigation was heating up. michael cohen was testifying in front of the house and congress and so at the advice of counsel on both sides they weren t doing a lot of talking. michael cohen got a very rude awakening before trump even got to the white house. he felt shunted aside. he wasn t given a position in the white house. that he wanted. he was making his disappointment known about that i don t think trump or his family particularly cared. to a certain extent he disappeared off the radar screen when trump went to washington. woe soon reemerge and play a pivotal role in trump s presidency. he had material information about the president s financial dealings. prior to the 2016 election. and that made him a potentially dangerous person to the president. -computer, order pizza. cheers! kayak. search one and done. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. from scandalous romance, to ridiculous plot twists. 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no, i don t know. just four days later, cohen would face a crisis of his own. we have just new report in, the fbi is reportedly raiding the office of president trump s long-time personal lawyer. investigators seized emails, tax documents and business records. bombs are dropping. april 9, michael cohen woke up in the hotel where he s been living. a dozen fbi agents knocked on his door, they did not break it down and snatched the cell phone out of his hand and began a raid into his hotel room. simultaneously, the fbi searched cohen s apartment and his office at rockefeller center. the goal is to execute the search warrant simultaneously and to make their that nobody gets tipped off and evidence doesn t disappear. fbi agents seized a massive haul of information, documents, computer hard drives, phones and other devices and seized other crucial evidence. over 100 audio recordings. the president addressed the media about it in very stark terms, really went after the justice department. president trump interrupted a critical national security meeting to denounce robert mueller, the fbi and the raid on his lawyer s office. i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. a good man. and it s a disgrace, it s a real disgrace. it s an attack on our country in a true sense, an attack on what we all stand for. hours later at 4:00 a.m. the president was clearly still enraged. firing off tweets about the cohen raid including attorney/client privilege is dead. attorney-client privilege is not a magic wand it s a carolinay defined privilege. anything you say to an attorney is not by definition privileged. and certainly not privileged if the attorney is helping you commit a crime or conceal a crime. cohen was not charged with anything at the time. but the fbi s seizures are sparked a firestorm and still burning for michael cohen. and for the president. fake news and the russian witch hunt. [phone ringing] investigation he uncovered some evidence of wrongdoing by michael cohen and referred it to the southern district of new york because it didn t seem to fall neatly within the investigation of russian interference. the week after the raid, the federal inquiry into cohen s business practices broadened when a judge ordered cohen to disclose his roster of recent clients. besides trump it turned out there were only two more, fox host sean hannity and a prominent trump doaner. elliott brody is a big california financier and it s been reported that michael cohen helped arrange another hush money payment in this case to a playboy playmate who said she got pregnant by elliott broadie. broadie agreed to pay the woman $1.6 million. it s very similar to the mcdougal and daniels cases are, a payment is made to keep embarrassing information out of the public eye. keith davidson who is an attorney who represented karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. mcdougal, daniels and bouchard have cases against davidson. saying that he was working in collusion with cohen. weeks after the fbi raid on his home and office, with the legal pressure on michael cohen building, he invoked his fifth amendment right in stormy daniels other lawsuit, the one against trump and michael cohen to invalidate her nda. the president was still defending cohen and himself amid speculation that campaign funds were used to pay off daniels. he did absolutely nothing wrong. there were no campaign funds going why is he pleading the fifth. because he s got other things. he s got businesses. but i m not involved. in that civil litigation with stormy daniels, cohen and trump would later fold. withdrawing their part of the suit and saying they wouldn t enforce the mda. as michael cohen s problems multiplied, many wondered how long his self-professed loyalty to donald trump would even last. mr. president, could michael cohen flip? everybody flips. what is he afraid michael cohen could flip over. in the following weeks, president trump turned to rudy giuliani to defend him in the court of public opinion. but then giuliani appeared to contradict the president s own statements claiming he knew nothing about payments to stormy daniels in a may 2 interview with sean hannity. the president repaid him. i didn t know that. he did? yup. intentionally or not. giuliani confirmed what many had alleged michael cohen did pay hush money to stormy daniels, and the president was fully aware of the payment. the president s story and parroted by his television lawyer, rudy giuliani, has consistently been shifting. and it is no coincidence that they started shifting after the fbi searched michael cohen and now all of a sudden they started to say yes, the president knew and he reimbursed him. as the story dominated the media universe, stormy daniels made a surprise appearance on saturday night live. stormy, this is michael cohen. are you alone? yes. and what are you wearing? excuse me? three days later, daniels lawyer, michael avenatti dropped another bomb on cohen. this time allegations about his consulting business and one client, a private equity firm linked to a russian oligarch who had close ties to vladimir putin. nbc news has reviewed financial documents that appear to support avenatti s claim that the firm paid cohen $500,000 consultant fee funneled through the exact same shell company used to pay off stormy daniels. as the summer wore on, the growing sense of legal jeopardy seemed to take its toll. cohen s already strained relationship with president trump further deteriorated. the relationship soured i believe first over money. who was going to pay for the lawyers. there was another problem lumg. the feds had seized more than one million pieces of potential evidence from cohen including an audio tape of the president. once they started the document sharing process, and seeing what cohen had, including those tapes, there was a sense of this guy could bring us down. cohen began complaining to friends he felt abandoned by the man he worked so hard to defend. this is man who is increasingly angry and upset. and isolated. on june 20th, cohen resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the republican national committee. and after years of putting his boss first, michael cohen sent a new message in an interview with abc news saying quote, my wife, my daughter, and my son have my first loyalty. and always will. i put family and country first. he did not want to be seen as the guy who was going to take a bullet for the president. he wanted to be seen as the guy who would perhaps take the president down. coming up a new strategy for cohen. cohen has hired attorney lanai davis, prominent democratic operative. hungry eyes one look at you and i can t disguise i ve got hungry eyes applebee s new 3-course meal starting at $11.99. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. resumé, and from the plaque on his door and from his business cards. he s saying i m on my own now. and buyer behair. it was a moment where michael cohen was trying to reshape his image from this loyal fixer to a guy ready to tell the truth. cohen hired a new attorney to defend him in court and another to defend him in the media. nbc tonight confirms a report from the new york times that cohen has hired attorney lanny davis, a close clinton ally. lanie davis had previously represented harvey weinstein and bill clinton s scandal-plagued white house. lanie davis is known for being friendly with the clintons, president trump s arch nemesis and trump is obsessed with hillary clinton. so to pick someone like lanie davis to me is a way of sticking it to trump. in a very public way. but when he s also doing is hiring a guy who is really comfortable on tv. who is as much a press agent as he is a lawyer. he s out there doing all the shows. talking about how michael cohen really isn t such a bad guy. davis made his debut as cohen s lawyer with a simple pledge about his new client. tweeting michael cohen said it s time for him to speak the trouth and put his family and country first, i m glad to help him. days after taking the high road, davis attacked the president and giuliani on twitter writing trump giuliani next to the word truth is an oxymoron. there s a number of surrogates for president trump who were trying to shape a narrative about cohen that was damaging to his reputation and perhaps his credibility. co-en tried to reset his public image by meeting twice with a dedicated opponent of president trump, the reverend al sharpton. he said to me, reverend al, would you pray with me? and we parade right there and i said are you going to be all right? and he said yeah i m going to be all right for my kids. i think his state of mind is somewhere between very committed to trying to find a way to repair something for his family. and very much wanting to salvage some kind of refutation to the country. and very much wanting donald trump to understand he s not going to get away with just humiliating him. and belittling him. while cohen sought redemption in the public eye, his lawyer, lanny davis was ready for a fight. he turned to cnn to make a stunning revelation. bewee have one of the michael cohen tapes. and donald trump heard one of the most alarming sounds a president could ever hear his own voice in a secretly recorded conversation. i have just spoke ton allen weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up with what do we got to pay funding, yes. that report appears to confirm that donald trump was in the loop about the september 2016 plan to use ami 0 to pay off karen mcdougal. so i m all over that and i spoke to alan about it. when it comes to time for the financing, which will be what financing? we ll have to pay him something. pay with cash. no, no, no, no i got it. only michael cohen and donald trump know the entire substance of what they were talking about. but it s credible to believe that this was absolutely about hush money. and if it wasn t anything other than that, they wouldn t be so concerned about how they were going to pay it and the vehicles they were going to use to pay it. donald trump wanted to use cash to cover his tracks. everybody heard just now donald trump say the word cash after michael cohen mentioned financing. mr. giuliani who knows from being u.s. attorney, the only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters. there s a lot of parallel here. there are secretly recorded conversations. there s white house that is increasingly crushed under the weight of paranoia. is there going to be a tape as important in the trump russia probe. as there was in water gate. which helps ends nixons presidency. looking back at statements that nixon made he tried lt same tactics trump is using now. i have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious reporting. the dishonest press. when you don t have the facts or the law on your side, which nixon didn t. that s what you do. you attack the investigators and discredit the investigation so peep won t believe what s being put before them. the tape maybe just the beginning. it raises the specker he has a lot more on trump. and more that can be easily proven when you have the tapes you have the tapes. coming up. that bomb shell plea deal means the man who used to fix donald trumps problems, has now become one for the president. that s confident. but it s not kayak confident. kayak searches hundreds of travel and airline sites to find the best flights for us. so i m more than confident. kayak. search one and done. -so, this is covered, right? -yes, ma am. take care of it for you right now. giddyup! hi! this is jamie. we need some help. attorney had previously described him in glowing terms. lt man is an honest, honorable lawyer. after the secret tape leak. giuliani began singing a different tune about cohen on cnn. back against the wall he ll lie like crazy. he lied all his life. the dramatic and dangerous event in the saga of michael cohen so far. that day he glad handed his way into the federal courthouse in manhattan. not as a lawyer. but a defendant about to admit guilt. former private lawyer michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. pleading guilty to serious crimes inlewd colluding paying hush money to stormy daniels to keep her quiet before the election. stunning as it was. his admission of guilt wasn t the biggest bomb shell that day. the president himself of course is described as the person who directed cohen s crimes. that continues to be the most important fall out from the guilty plea. guilty to eight counts of financial crime. bank fraud and tax fraud. some of the crimes are connected to the stormy daniels hush money payment. days after the guilty plea, one of trumps most loyal supporters cut a deal of his own with federal prosecutors. another long time ally turned against him. national enquirer chairman david pecker has been granted immunity. it was a major development from a man who had been close friends with donald trump for years. and used the national enquirer to keep his secrets. david pecker as the head of the ami. is referenced in the information as someone who coordinated the concealment of the affair that donald trump allegedly had with karen mcdougal. there are different reasons the prosecutor may have decided that it was not worth prosecuting pecker and it s still to be determined what information david pecker has beyond what we can read in the michael cohen criminal information. cohen s revelation quick will claimed another trump associate. and this one knew more about the president s private financial world than almost anyone alive. allen chief financial officer for the trump organization was granted immunity to help prosecutors in the case against the president s former lawyer. one wonders not only what allen knows about hush money payments. related to the campaign. but what other misconduct maybe out there. related to the president, or the trump organization. and when you go testify in a grand jury under oath, you have no choice but to tell the truth. that is an avenue that could be disaster for the president. and his children. because there has been reporting for years about some shady dealings that the trump organization has involved itself in. we don t know the details but if anyone does know that, it s allen. cohen s plea in court was a devastating blow to a president already beset with legal and political problems. and it s cig cal na cohen had given up his last best hope ov escaping his fate. a presidential pardon from trump. even if he did pardon cohen. that wouldn t make the problems go away. it might make them get worse. this is starting to look like a problem that can t be solved. i will tell you from my reporting. cohen doesn t expect to get a pardon. he kind of matter of factually said, i can do time. i pled guilty. he surpassed the ambitions of college years. not in the way he would have wanted. his name is forever tied to donald trump. no matter what happens. michael cohen will be part of american history.
and the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. d.w. multimedia series food for god. d.w. dot com or go. hello and welcome to a new edition of ops twenty one. this is its literature i m intentionally messing with you it s the best german language novel of the year will be announced at the upcoming french first book fair we meet the six contenders for the coveted german book prize for. first we had to san francisco and an exhibition showcasing contemporary muslim fashion that explores the fusion between faiths and fashion modesty and maternity. is america ready for the show. when the do young museum in san francisco announced contemporary muslim fashions two years ago the idea immediately sparked criticism dedicating an exhibition to muslim fashion given the current political climate in the us is a bold move but the museum s director at the time maps whole line and choice courting controversy i think i know so it s for life for them. on the one hand there s islamophobia criticism at the front and. on the other there s also criticism from feminists who feel the exhibition celebrates the subjugation of women in muslim countries are looking for fall in with these men. hardly surprising that the opening was so well attended eighty ensembles are on display all designed to cover the body in keeping with his lama principles they prove that there s more to muslim fashion the many realize. you are certain to be afraid of what they don t know. what i find nice and interesting is that once you see something. i don t think it s was scary as you might think. this is that. the fifty three muslim designers from across the globe have loaned their creations to the museum the pieces are high fashion elegant without a whisper of a cliché they might be what s called modest dress but they re also a celebration of confidence style and beauty. the intonation designer dion pelangi is a star of the muslim fashion world her five print designs are shown on runways in koala in poor and jakarta. when people say what comes to their mind is something in a dark colors and. colors but in the end line you can find colors that there s any style off the job so i think that s one of the. our signature. customer base our wealthy women she also sells in the us and europe the twenty seven year old who represents younger generations of fashion forward muslims for her to heat up is both a religious symbol and an accessory which can be used to express individuality that s not as paradoxical as it sounds a lot of people have a different perception about dep itself maybe they think that people who are press that oprah here so we start to be outspoken more in social media to show that we re not oppressed we were stylish clothes things and we can still do anything be anything with our here on. for some westerners head scarves and clothes specifically made to cover women s bodies remain tools of oppression. the exhibition touched on this view by including a book keeney the full body swimsuit which was banned on french beaches in twenty sixteen. the show also features the courageous protest by iranian women against he job loss in their radically changing country there s also been the rise of the muslim female professional and a lot of women are entering into the workforce and they re looking for a wardrobe that is both urban but also it hears to their modest dress codes. could tour design houses like oscar de la renta john galliano and karl lagerfeld are already designing for the growing and lucrative muslim fashion market muslim women spend forty four billion dollars a year on modest fashion the exhibition was partially inspired by the so called generation am confident muslim women and men between the ages of twenty and thirty bloggers fashion influencers from many countries who see themselves as unofficial ambassadors of muslim culture they call them. selves each of the styles or ministers their outfits are creative but also covered in keeping with the teachings of the koran all around the syrian american rapper mona haidar performs wearing her headscarf. pregnant stylish and strong her online activism demands more tolerance for muslims like me but the number of designers are joining her battle calling by making strong statements with her fashion like the saloon samaan designed a jacket with the us constitution printed on the back in arabic originally from lebanon she arrived in canada as a refugee. camp during my time as a refugee my i wasn t proud to being arab i was mocked i was criticized i was bullied i was you know going through a lot of lot of racism it is a political piece if you wish to see it that way but it also represents the u.s. constitution and the first amendment freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of the press america is built on these values and we should remember that and the exhibition worth discussing the museum is well placed to start a much needed conversation about islam and muslim fashion without polemicist and i think it s very timely given our current climate that we re living in and i think that it s highly educational because not everybody may know muslim but art is the means to a conversation and so i think people might come and they might see something or they might learn something and then they re take away next time when they maybe watch the news and see something not so flattering about a muslim would be a little bit better. come spring the exhibition will move on to frankfurt it runs in the u.s. until january. time now. now to put our reading glasses on as we introduce the writers who made the shortlist for this year s german book prize for women and two men we start with susanna and the bird got a contemporary. the story begins with a sacrilege in an isolated mountain village a bird of prey worshiped by locals is killed. the bird hunters children pay the price. vocal describes their fateful encounters with a feather a day. i think birds especially birds of prey have always captured the human imagination. because they are such simple beings and yet they surpass us in many ways they can do so many things that we can t. form a medical student an artist story on and a journalist three supposedly rational people become obsessed with tracking down the mysterious god of birds searching for him and paintings and in a god for saken camp in africa. but that intellect common sense cannot save her siblings who for under the spell. of you think does this in the me tough i think it s a metaphor for our inner selves. of us of us least people are not confronted by something exteriors but by terrible parts of themselves. slickly says and. what are we in the face of nature this novel opens the door to a fantastical world that feels hauntingly real. in six suitcases maxine bello goes on a journey through history with a jewish family. what must it be like to be the son of russian jews constantly on the move seeing family members scattered across the world and never feeling it. might seem billers novel captures a sense of immigration fatigue the author drew on his family s own experience they came to germany in one thousand nine hundred seventy two years after the prague spring had been crushed. my parents suffered a lot leaving not just a city but a whole country and culture when you re forty and knowing you can t ever go back well that s like an amputation. and it s incredibly exhausting and i wanted to write about that i moved from munich to berlin when i was forty and that was hard enough for mentioned russian what can. the books narrator sent down from berlin to get to the bottom of a family secret his grandfather was denounced and executed in the soviet union who betrayed him and uncle. natalia a beautiful actress. the six chapters are written from six points of view the characters are perilous relatives including his mother brother and sister elena is the book or two biographical. because this is nonsense this is it s literature i m intentionally messing with you mixing everything up cooking a great big pot of stew made of truth and lies some of the names are real some aren t and most of the events are completely made up with some comparative from. god knows why i suddenly remembered how when i was a child in prague i was always terrified that my whole life was just this story that spadeful was reading his son who of the neck to help him fall asleep and that space would shut the book of my story one day and that that would in my life to. the narrator s life does not end and the secret remains unsolved six suitcases conic masterpiece full of wit and melancholy. in arky peleg oh. also charts the history of a family this time on a canary island. thousand kilometers from germany off the african coast lies tenerife and emotionally charged a backdrop for a novel which takes readers on a journey through time and space through the political and personal. is the thought of leaving the island is on the periphery of europe and it s always interesting to tell a story from that perspective but more importantly this island didn t fit in with bush one german suburbia were i grew up. the authors mother is from the canary islands so she knows turner if well book tells the story of three families belonging to different classes in society spanning birth adultry love and death. the story is overshadowed by historical milestones the spanish civil war the franco dictatorship. travels backwards in time from the present to nine hundred nineteen a narrative challenge. i have to take everything i know about storytelling about building suspense and conveying information and forget it or turn it upside down after cops despite the complexity of the story her prose is calm and clear. i dislike opulence and corners it s basically sentimentality a sort of beautified retrospective with. nothing is beautified in this epic tale time passing and isolated moments a masterful depicted. i think every moment is the sum of all past moments the past is still present. stephon tom a novel called of the barbarians is set during the opium wars in one thousand nine hundred three china. people are starving those in power are amassing wealth it s a tinderbox riots in syria the typing rebellion is one of the bloodiest civil wars of all time with a death toll of thirty million. in count of the barbarians stefan tom a writes about this tragedy the old who has lived in taiwan for many years he depicts a faraway well and on the brink of a new era the rebellion is led by the charismatic mistake home. he and his growing numbers of followers see themselves as christians. the leader was in contact with christian protestant missionaries in hong kong and from his dreams and feverish fantasies he came to the conclusion that he was the son of god god second son the younger brother of jesus christ and that god is urging him to topple the emperor and make china a christian empire. it s a war on all fronts the british and the french muscle into as they want to force the free opium train. though it was a coalition of world views and political ideas clash of historical systems of order and the question was what form should world order take who has the right and power to decide what kind of a world we will live in. the novel central character is a young german missionary he experiences destruction and violence on his journey through the war zone and increasingly questions his own western values. of the barbarians as both a historical novel and an adventure story. it reads like an allegory of present day religious fanaticism. the cantona general by georgian born nino how to really tells the story of a russian oligarch and the rubble left by the crumbling of the soviet union. nino how to teach billy peers into the very depths of her character s selves. in the cat and in general she uses different perspectives to tell the tale of a monstrous crime. and of the first chechen war. the book is inspired by real life events. the house. was all pervasive people were fleeing their nerves frayed by curfews and cold war to much of the dead in the muddied snow were so disfigured they were unrecognizable as fallen as if the war was creating a new category a new kind of human. the central figure is alexander all of a sensitive russian turned perpetrator by the war together with other soldiers he raped and murdered a young woman in a mountain town in chechnya the spawns and again where i once crazy about this real life case is that the unit was on a kind of holiday. before they were on leave to recover from the fighting. but then they couldn t stand it they started all waging a kind of war within a war. and i d keep in pick. twenty years on all off is a rich on a guard known as the general. but memories of his on a term since haunt him the son of a soviet war hero. so he holds himself and his co perpetrators to account. for it and for many wanted to depict a person who begins seeking some form of punishment because he knows he s done wrong with it and he sees the finality of that and realizes he can t go on living his life as before. leaving. a story akin to a classic tragedy know how to really explores crime and punishment wars inside heads and the evil within us all. now to argentina and the onset of the military dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. . madonna s fail. and superstition the world of maria cecilia better. she s lived in germany for twenty two years and explores her native argentina from that. little town where she grew up on the outskirts of one as iris is called by a staff it s a melting pot where migrants from all over the world come to seek a better future. best name in the internet is the life in argentina is not easy. but people are used to fighting hard for the things they love and love the fields who came for. the heroes of her novel are hair dressers laundromat owners or car mechanics like bob and his grandfather with all their hopes and fears they congregate in the car workshop. there. anyone who wants to build up an honorable life in argentina needs a vision we need a utopia there s no way around it. the reader experiences major political events through the eyes of ordinary people the death of president pair on the terrorism of the one nine hundred seventy s. and social divisions on the eve of the military dictatorship. he wanted us to learn kana i wanted to write about what i know well enough to play inside of course that was life in a dark era a time filled with threats kidnappings murders but still all of these people sought out the light in their everyday lives the little things that make life worth living he wants that mark and. maria cecilia bettors opulent novel night growing is steeped in affection for its characters and depicts a torn society seeking its identity. six try. six rivals for the german book prize worthy contenders will find out the winner on october the yanks. in two thousand and six fall again henkel fontana smocks debut film the lives of others want every award going his latest is never look away doesn t live up to expectations. this fellow doesn t do small long on hankel from donors mark won an oscar for his first ever feature film he made his second one with hollywood stars but was marked by critics now his third film never look away has celebrated its premiere at the venice film festival although there were no prizes there was one success for adonis mark germany has selected his film as its nomination for the best foreign film oscar. this gifts he. said that s what constitutes borders just as either of us had us but couldn t so to. quote from kind of an exhibition about degenerate art in dresden nine hundred thirty seven. the last british just came i live in. america and it s. only confidant is his favorite aunt elizabeth who has schizophrenia. i suppose. it s sure. the mental confusion of kurt s aunt is her death sentence elizabeth becomes a victim of nazi ideology women like her belong in asylums. sebastian coe who plays the monstrous doctor who later sent her to the gas chambers donna s mark tells the suppressive story with much path as a family story. i thought it was intriguing to show how intertwined perpetrators and victims were within a family because ultimately that s what it was like in the whole of germany i mean if you see germany as one big family perpetrators and victims were extremely intertwined and at the same time the historical background is also told as the history of art to. fast forward to post-war dressed and kurt now played by tom shelling is living in communist east germany and studying art he falls in love with a fellow student who reminds him of his murdered and. the life. sphinx next to his or her that soon moves in with allie and discovers that her father is the very nazi doctor who sent kurt s aunt to her death after nine hundred forty five he hushes up his nazi past seamlessly pursuing his career in east germany kurt becomes his son in law and as a hermit you have to be careful and he. is going to need a good sign. and i m not sure that oscar matched. that i believe. most watched most of the best as i. the thing to sniff as if he thinks it s just a phase when he sees this little artist who he doesn t take seriously at all who he totally underestimates who has no power he s just a student painting pictures for him it s just a question of time until his daughter realizes this too hard to type and he s still thinking in a league terms from a position of superiority then at some point he sees that it s bigger than that but he doesn t expect him to get in his way to. be defeated and kurt can t develop as an artist and in nine hundred sixty eight he and ellie flee to west germany i ve been wrecked. kurt wants to study at the dusseldorf academy the center for modern art and his you professor is pretty unconventional. and i ll get us to magazine assess that. there. is actually what it s really. is that the. the film is fiction but inspired by great artists of the time such as joseph boys who revolutionized arch and awareness in post-war germany. on the street boys did not distinguish between man and art he declared meant to be a work of art that was an essential component to his understanding of art and he believed that our can anticipate what still lies beyond the reach of the human mind . curt finds his style his paintings are photo realistic yet alien much like those by the successful contemporary artist gary hart who stuck his aunt was killed by the nazis while his father in law was a nazi gun ecologist who carried out the forced sterilization of women. parliamentary system leading from elements from get out of this life became the starting point for this film that s your point. but then i created my own path and story from there. because i find fiction somehow becomes more real and true when it isn t tethered to pure facts and real life events. a noble ambition but honest mark wanted to much displeased decades of german history and love story and art theory into a three hour film. the results doesn t quite add up despite many strong scenes and strong performances. that sent from ops twenty one this week but before we go if you re in berlin be sure to drop by the. video installation at the hamburger bahnhof gallery the artist won the national gallery prize last october our work is poetic hypnotic for provoking definitely worth saying join us next week for more arts and culture until then good bye on talf it is a. bully. to . have. you romance finally the feeling was all my divine instruction nothing else could change will celebrates forty years as a unit scope world heritage site osman see threads fashion label all showing up close heads in paris daring maneuvers drag races get fun stuff and be a professional. bored bored bored bored bored. tear up at the more everybody camp there s a terrible 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please please please please please explain. to me. this is d w news live from berlin do you want issues that urgent new warning on climate change it says we must act now to prevent disasters that will occur if global temperatures rise much further it s called the next few years probably the most important in human history. also coming up for by politicians i are both sonata has won the first round of brazil s presidential election he will face a left wing candidate for not doha dodd in the runoff in three weeks time a dog has warned of voters that pose an otto is a threat to democracy and u.s. backed kurdish troops step up the battle to expel the so-called islamic state from a stronghold in eastern syria these troops are preparing for their last charge here in syria against right as if they would within the next weeks is going to be a turning point for them that s why they re preparing every day. d.-w. is embedded with the n.t.i. as a coalition and reports from the frontline plus china opens a bribery investigation into former interpol chief magna holiday this is just days after the chinese nationals wife reported him missing his last message a nice. and it was a memorable sunday in the border state as life state overwhelms an armed guard at frankfurt were reduced to ten men but they still beat hoffenheim. i m sorry kelly welcome to the program u.n. climate scientists have issued their strongest warning yet on the risks of rising temperatures they say that we need to take unprecedented steps to avert the worst effects of climate change and that we need to take those steps now they include changing the way that we consume energy travel and construct buildings and if we fail to act we will face more heat waves flooding extreme weather scenes like this could become more frequent if the world does not act now that s the message of scientists on the un s climate change panel whose job was to work out what governments must do to implement the promise accorded twenty fifty. first climate change is already affecting people ecosystems and library which all around the world. second the median warming to one point five degrees is not impossible but will require precedent to transitions in all aspects of society third there are clear benefits to keep warming to one point five do research as compared to two degrees or higher every bit of warming matters. the goal needs to be implemented by twenty thirty but scientists fear will fail to hit it will immediately fact a failure will be more global heatwaves resulting droughts would mean poor harvests impacting the global food supply and harming countries that rely heavily on agriculture. or other parts of the world would suffer from an increase in heavy rains and hurricanes these weather patterns combined with rising sea levels could lead to more frequent and severe flooding the scientists on the un s panel say it s the final call the government s everyone must act the message is over to governments that stage we ve told you before you the scientific facts the evidence the course it is up to the governments no to decide what to do with it. avoiding scenes like this will be hugely expensive so the scientists but it has to be done and it s still possible if the world acts now. and we are joined now by dean dean she is the head of the environment team here and sonia i mean warnings about rising temperatures about climate change are not uncommon but how what is different about this report and why should we be so concerned. well it seems that this one point five degree limit is a lot more important than was originally considered so the difference between one point five and two degrees of warming is really a massive difference as this scientific report has now shown take for example coral reefs under one point five degrees they ll survive there will still be some reefs will lose seventy to ninety percent of them but there will be some there under two degrees we re looking at almost a complete decimation ninety nine percent of all the coralie reefs will be gone and that is a complete huge implication for people s livelihoods for food security people who live off the sea so that s just one example of how this difference actually is a lot more significant they re saying one point five is the new two degrees the report also calling for dramatic action like transforming the economy at a speed on a scale that has no documented historic precedent what does that mean. well the skill you could say is presidents have because if you consider how our societies have changed over the past centuries and how our energy systems have changed how our mobility has changed that has actually that scale has been seen but what would be new is the speed with which it would have to take place because basically with the massive cuts that would be required for one point five degrees we re talking forty five percent by twenty thirty so basically the next few years will be very decisive for the future of whether we can still attain this limit or not and we all know that i mean one of the issues right now is really a political well by where we re seeing some opposition to the paris climate accord among some governments around the world but what can all of us do ourselves. well the most important thing is do something don t just sit there and close your eyes and imagine that this isn t happening because it is happening it will dramatically affect us and affect our future generations so take action and probably the most effective thing that you can do is come together with other people and demand. of our governments that they take action that they implement the policies that need to be implemented hold our politicians accountable of course voting in the right people as well those are all things that we can do song again the head of environment team thank you. it s time for business with ben physical and we are also talking about climate change today very true this is nobel prize for economics has been awarded to two researches for their work on climate change and innovation the royal swedish academy of sciences said that u.s. economists will you know house and a received the award for their work integrating innovation and global warming with economic growth along with a prize the two researchers will receive a million u.s. stole as economics prize is not fully a nobel prize it was created by the swedish central bank in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine in memory of how for no. i don t have a comment from to get your business joins us to tell us more about these two guys again now the two men who ve won the oil and exactly tell us a bit more about these mit so william nordhaus of yale university he s called the father of climate change economics he s been doing this kind of research since the seventy s he s a true pioneer in that field and then we have full roam of new york university he s more looking into innovation technological change and how this drives growth they ve both been rumored to actually win the nobel prize for a couple of years now and to finally have and i guess it s interesting that he s been working on this topic for such a long time because it gives him a really good insight into how things are changing but tell us more about what they ve specifically been rewarded for so nordhaus is essentially asking how can we grow the economy without destroying our planet you know this is the question he s set up a model in which he sees an investigates the connections that the economy and the climate have and in that with this model you can predict how policies like a carbon tax that has been discussed for many years now what effect that would actually have a global warming. on the other side as i said before he s talking about technology and how this affects grow. he says ideas are very central to keeping growth alive but only in certain circumstances it is that ideas can actually you know come to life so what circumstances are these that s his research of ok so in other words it s not always a good idea may not always be good or good for the environment at least now i find it very interesting that this announcement comes on the very day that climate activists saying we ve really got to do something now to save our planet is the timing a coincidence i mean absolutely the report that came out underlines once again that is one of the biggest challenges that we re facing and i think this prize just shows the economy is such a big contributor to climate change to global warming so it actually just makes sense to look for solutions there and the committee has awarded these these two economists who are looking for answers on exactly these big questions so the timing is just right thank you very much for coming in today this is winners of the noble economics prize as you heard there william nordhaus and paul roma thank you very much for such a school for pre-set entered changes to find global warming the international energy agency has issued its annual report it says even though the share of green energy is growing around the world by twenty forty were new bills will account for just eighteen percent of the energy use well short of the agency s sustainability target. renewables will be the fastest growing part of the global elec tricity sector the report says they ll provide almost a third of power demand in twenty twenty three from about a quarter in twenty seventeen renewables currently make up more than thirty percent of germany s energy makes us almost forty percent of the country s energy needs are still met by burning coal. thirteen percent comes from atomic power stations compared to about a third from a nubile energy like wind and solar power. and other sources top up the rest of the energy mix. for love for new bills are forecast to account for more than seventy percent of growth in global elektra s city generation according to the international energy agency s reports. solar photovoltaic technology followed by wind hydro power on bio energy are expected to lead the field in terms of growth but hydroelectric power remains the largest renewable source meeting sixteen percent of global elec tricity demand by twenty twenty three. but despite the growth in the renewable sector the i.a.e.a. warns it won t be enough to meet long term climate and sustainability goals the agency says the areas which are not moving to a new bills quickly enough are transported and he s saying vote for home fund industry. thank you so much ben we re heading to brazil now because far right politician. has won the first round of brazil s presidential election grabbing forty six percent of votes he will now face a runoff in three weeks time against left winger fernando had dodd who finished a distant second. to attract support by promising to fight corruption and restore what he called traditional values his opponents say he poses a threat to democracy and the largest country in latin america. so not all supporters believe he s going to turn the country around and sunday s results gave them reason to celebrate their candidate share of the votes surged past pollsters predictions i guess the country is under siege within the government and on the streets we need to end this and he s the most capable of doing so no doubt about it now on my son. was a big problem in the images i m sure jackie was not the only one was. also narrow didn t appear in person after the election results were announced the full military officer was staffed at a campaign rally last month and doctors are still wary of his health but he did appear on social media. i m sure that in the second round we will intensify our efforts and will obtain the victory. the sixty three year old has vowed to crack down on corruption and criminals. but opponents have condemned incendiary comments from boston are all about women and minority groups during the campaign. also now is also being criticized for his plan to give police officers a free a hand to shoot drug traffickers his price for the military dictatorship the group brazil from nine hundred sixty four to nine hundred ninety five has also alarmed critics. i his opponent a leftist candidate for nando how says electing a ball so narrow could pose a risk to democracy i told supporters he would now concentrate on the second round and called for calm. doesn t mean we will face that debate with respect we go on to the democratic battlefield with just one weapon the argument we don t carry guns out of those who are the final runoff for the presidency as shadowed for the twenty eighth of october. and also lotto success marks another notable victory for. and populist in global politics and as you have already heard social media is playing a key role called last night of course from data via social media and therefore is joining us now to break down how exactly this happened because any wellstone r.-o. he was really regarded as a french figure right even though he has been in the brazilian congress for almost thirty years. how has bee he been using social media in particular to boost his profile i mean he s been around he was a mayor for a long time but still kind of relatively unknown mission you can see his rival fernando dodd has only a little around you know a quarter of a million that s a big difference a huge difference and that s something that both sorrow was able to use as kind of a big edge for him you know he s not backed by a big party doesn t have those typical resources that you would otherwise have the traditional resources instead he really did use facebook to get his message out there and to get his voters out there in fact after that near fatal stabbing last month that we heard about he kept campaigning and he did so on facebook take a look actually this is from his hospital room he went live on facebook with a video he kept broadcasting several speeches interviews live on facebook these god more than million more than a million views per video and this was actually instead of going to the most important t.v. debate so he kind of avoided the criticism instead took to facebook and broadcast it live he has a big backing as well from several high profile brazilians on social media famous brazilian footballer ronald denio has expressed his support on twitter for him and you know social media it s a family business as well one of his sons who is also a politician has a big twitter account he posted recently a picture of steve benen president trump s former campaign adviser so clearly using some trumpy in tactics by going straight to social media going straight to the people but what about the role of social media and spreading so-called fake news yeah i mean that is definitely a problem in this election in brazil is a big focus from facebook and mark zuckerberg but really it s on whatsapp that are you see a lot of this. new spreading is used by more than half the population of brazil one hundred twenty million people are on one stop and this is the main battleground there for fake news it s so hard to combat because all this is happening in closed groups of supporters we can hopefully show you just one example of kind of what we re talking about when it comes to fake news this is a video that was circulating why leave had millions of views supposedly it shows people attacking a car because it had a pick sticker in the window supporting olsen or oh turns out that s not true this is from twenty seventeen this was a protest against the current president michel tame air that video was actually finally debunked then by a group of journalists in brazil they ve been working all campaign long called come prova they re trying to debunk this sort of fake news that s out there and spreading on social media but you know the descale is so big and the impact is really hard to judge because whatsapp you can just really hop in like facebook is not public these are private messages that were not happening in about two weeks those checkers will be busy there is more stuff out there and clearly the campaign is heating up lots of emotions now and as so much happening online cost and putting it into perspective for us thank you so much for. that a quick check of some other stories making news around the world turkey has demanded to search the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul for a dissident saudi journalist according to local t.v. reports he disappeared last week after a visit to his country s consulate turkish authorities believe that he was killed inside of the building. around one hundred twenty migrants have arrived in malta after being rescued in the mediterranean by multi-use armed forces the group was traveling on a small inflatable boat malta has stopped allowing voluntary rescue ships to operate unless other e.u. countries agreed to take in some of those rescued. and space x. has successfully launched a rocket carrying a satellite for argentina a spacecraft the first stage coaster and returned for landing is the first time that the company s california launch site has conducted the maneuver space x. is attempting to decrease the cost of space launchers by reusing rockets. the government in indonesia says that nearly two thousand bodies have been recovered since an earthquake and tsunami struck two weeks ago they fear that the number of dead could rise as thousands are still unaccounted for a lot correspondent and heartache reports from the city of close to the epicenter of the disaster he s been following the efforts of one family to locate their nine year old son who is still missing. but. he was wearing jeans and a great t. shirt i saw him there that night after the earthquake he didn t tell me his name and he was just crying and looked afraid. a new glimpse of hope for omar and his wife me so they were separated from their nine year old son rod and when the earthquake and the tsunami struck since then they ve been looking for him around the clock not knowing if he s still alive now they think because a break from the time of the record governor my hopes up. that one of our relatives says he saw my son with his own ice wearing a gray t. shirt and jeans now i feel more confident that he s still a life. being a limousine. you do they follow the lead. let me fire someone so my child here in the area around the often you will great. get by i think i saw him over there he was getting water. there but whom are loses no time. about it. but rodman is nowhere to be found. but i daren t. day after day of uncertainty and stifled hopes for me said it s becoming harder and harder to take. me and my son always together whatever i went he was always with me why did we get separated. when. you have to keep praying. maybe he got help from someone. some of his friends don t give up i m sure your son is still alive. but you need posted pictures of rotten on facebook she went to the police to rescue service the local radio station so far nothing but dead ends. this is in an aegis national search and rescue agency and this is where nice it came to report her missing son because on social media was purported that if people want to find out about the fate of their family members this is where they should turn to now we re here to find out what happened to me says report. were shown the missing persons record. meaning not exactly a high tech database helpers priority here is search and rescue but they ve had some successes. out of. the rubble so far we were able to find some twenty people from these lists who are still alive. the. unfortunately rotten so far is not among them his name is still on these lists but lisa says she knows her son is still alive it s only a matter of time before they find him. you know i can never have i won t give up. i always think about the time before the earthquake when we were together all the time my husband my son and i and i m sure it can be like that again and support the it. so she and her husband still keep on searching that because they know it s somewhere out there they ll find their missing something but i feel. and when to say good news now and on sunday rb leipzig pummeled norm bergen a one sided affair the ball splashed home six goals lifting the club to second in the band to see. if nuremberg coach michel kona couldn t believe what he was saying pre-match he was in for a rude awakening come kickoff let s see when to head off to just three minutes team event with the leg work kevin kapil with the finishing touch. i call conversion box keeper five pm pred should have done better just four minutes later use of pulse and made it to nil five was then or again the playmaker cosen netting his good goal in two games. after twenty one minutes it was three nil muscle some of it s a smashing home on this occasion. and the not their first half was an over thing nuremberg as vanno made it a full five. nuremberg defense all it see. brad blauser struggling to wake himself up heading into the bright. the morning continued in the second half saw that so with his second five of them and then according the aussie on the cake to make it six nailed by. it was lot six biggest ever win in the bundesliga of the full color nuremberg it was yet another haas footballing lesson. also on sunday frankfurt and hoffenheim went into their clash with identical bundestag of records right down to the goal difference frankfurt came into the match after a big win and europe and continued their fight in form with another victory. both union knuckles man and i.v. hooks are rotated following european action in midweek after a slow start the game suddenly came to life around the half hour mark hoffenheim went post to scoring twice but laying out a bit in court and then karen demi a by were denied by the woodwork. frankfurt were more clinical u.k. yo bitch put and say read it through and go and be made one nil by the croatians third goal of the season off and i m keeping all of the bowman might want to watch the replays. after half time the visitors doubled their lead this time you know which supplied the finishing touch himself again keep about him and could have done better but then in the sixty fourth minute rate which received his second yellow card with the man advantage hoffenheim pushed forward and substitute rhys nelson made it to one. but that s as good as it got for the hosts another big two defeats for you leonardo s none. of the yellow tie footballers who made headlines around the world when they were trapped in a cave have been honored by the international olympic committee the wild boars were guests at the youth olympics opening ceremony in buenos aires argentina and afterwards they tested their skills against the club that is now a south american soccer institution. they couldn t attend the world cup final invest because of the fragile state those were doctors or to us. but now the thai junior football team that was trapped in the cave for more than two weeks are in argentina for the trip of a lifetime and a game against south american football giants river plate they took on the collapse under thirteen s inside the a star you monument the stadium that host at the one nine hundred seventy eight world cup final river played on at the boys and their coach just before the game. but the real excitement started right after kick off although it was just a friendly the wild boars fought their way from behind to settle for three three draw. looking at the joy on their faces it s hard to imagine the horrific ordeal they went through back in july. we. are now to one of the sport s most ruling indoor obsessed and one of the world s most inhospitable environments the after come across a drew to a close this weekend after six days of competition in the searing heat of chillies a comma desert runners from thirty six countries laced up to tackle the elements on the two hundred fifty kilometer course which is part of the four desert all trim marathon series one hole chung was the first male competitor across the line in san pedro but there was no light relief for everyone who made it. you re watching news still to come on the program the battle to root out islamic state from one of the last strongholds in syria a special report from the front line with g.w. reporters embedded with the n.t.i. ask coalition. all that more i m sorry kelly in berlin i hope to see you soon. a high tech search for clues in. an archaeological dig that doesn t need shovels. and modern technology is used to explore historical sites and discover long lost cultures. bringing the secrets of the past to light to. archaeology to point out. to me. the two books of technology. the result of the market. the momentum of the board. made in germany. your business magazine d w. movement in fighting for the case to be taken seriously in the world of work here s what s coming up. on t.w. . the female superhero on a mission smart women smart talks smart station and the police and by no means miss out on it we re increasingly dangerous time to make sure minds. people know the system being tarnished empires came from jurors or didn t have any and then they killed many civilians in the irish coming including my father sometimes i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became relish a kind of song. providing insights. that matters w. me for mines. welcome back here in news i m sarah kelly in berlin our top stories the u.n. has issued its dark and starkest warning yet on climate change in a new report it says that the world has been a little more than a decade to take radical and warming measures will face disastrous consequences. a final push is under way to take back territory still controlled by the so-called islamic state it is hoped that this will be the final chapter in the war against the terror group that started more than four years ago in syria the group holds a sliver of land in the east of the country the region is around the small town of hygiene not far from the border with iraq and alliance of kurdish an arabic militia the syria democratic forces together with the help of the u.s. backed coalition are trying to capture the iowa stronghold now the u.s. military invited reporters were good to shoka and to far of dual covering to see for themselves what s going on. these recruits are here to liberate the last areas in syria held by islamic state in just a few days the young men from the syrian democratic forces will be transferred to the front about thirty kilometers away. these troops are preparing for their last fight here in syria against i as if they win within the next weeks it s going to be a turning point for them that s why they re preparing every day. marching shooting practice and tactics the u.s. estimates that up to two thousand fighters a still entrenched in hygiene. the twenty four year old commander of the kurdish arab militia is rallying his troops for the bloody battle ahead. i ve lost so many friends so many i can t count one died in my arms and another right next to me there were so many. the u.s. invited us to visit the s.d.f. as part of the press trip with the group is us commander of the special operations forces in iraq and syria major general robison since twenty fifteen the u.s. led coalition has been supporting the kurdish arab militias in their fight against the so-called islamic studies with the air raids weapons vehicles and training. the offensive against the lost iowa stronghold operation round up has been running for for weeks now but the militias a making slow progress ah yes fighters have dug a tunnel system under the city set up combat positions in residential buildings and mines everywhere. isis is brutal they ve basically booby trapped. any structures they can and they ve laid out minefields everything is basically you know rigged as we say so that s a challenge that s all we take most of our casualties we trained you know. the techniques we ve got vehicles but it s a challenge. everybody appreciates. the world thank you. bought the s.t.s. it might not be an easy partner for the u.s. many of the fighters support the band could ish workers party p k k which is on europe s and washington s terror list locals also accuse the militia of forced recruitment when question s.d.f. command is tennis. we don t force anybody to join. the commander prefers to talk about how we ll co-operation is going with the u.s. and that the n.t.i. is coalition will be needed on the ground in syria for some time. because. we need stability in this whole area we cannot achieve this without coalition troops. this message is echoed to us by the u.s. commander even after a victory in haji in the mission here is far from over u.s. troops will still be needed. in the remnants of isis there are small pockets small they call sleeper cells here so i think those are things that we have to basically clean up on the back side of all of us so again you ve heard about the enduring defeat of isis so it s not just their so-called you know physical area that they control in order to prevent a resurgence of i.a.s. local security forces would have to be trained and civilian structures established no one here is willing to say how long this could take where the months on here is where left with the impression that it s more likely to be. and for more i m joined here in the studio by the that is by going to shoko one of the co-authors of that report in fact we just saw you there in that report what was it like to be embedded with the u.s. troops there and war torn syria it was very interesting because we got to. see the situation on the ground where you talk to many people and we got a very good side on the u.s. perspective of this complicated situation in syria but as a reporter it was not that easy because our movements were very restricted its forces had chosen the locations we could visit and most of the people we could talk to so. so to get a broader view we also tried to speak to other people but this was all be possible on the phone to get their view on the situation in iraq and also in hygiene and as we heard you talking about hygiene of course this is the last rebel stronghold you know what is the situation like there for civilians were you able to get a sense of that would we hear it is that there s still thirty sauza civilians in the town and s.t. s has tried to secure a puff out and they have asked the people to leave the battle area and go to a secure refugee camp but so far only one hundred fifty families have arrived there so many people don t want to leave the talent because they re afraid to lose their property and sources from inside haji told us that i as is trying to trap the people inside town to use them as human shields and that makes the mission to liberate hygiene from my is so difficult because u.s. forces told us they re trying very very hard to distinguish between civilians and fighters and to verify their targets but as i asked has this fighting positions inside homes inside buildings it s very very hot and i think there will be more civilian casualties definitely some short term term challenges there but they do seem hopeful that they will be able to retake this area you correct me if i m wrong there therefore that leads me to what is the long term strategy for fighting i asked because it s not just about territory anymore is it no not at all there are in iraq as we ve heard there s still sleeper cells operating there and what the u.s. is doing is trying now as in the first step to stabilize the region they flow rated from i.s.o. they try to work together with civil councils they try to train local forces on the ground they try to. because the bottom line is that if people don t get their their basic needs they they might be desperate and ready calista again but we also have to add that the strategy of the u.s. is also good to have their feet on the ground like be as is. countries who are involved in this war like like russia or like like tricky ally saudi arabia they all try to defend their interests and one of the interests of the u.s. is definitely to push back iran s growing influence in the region and the second big. goal there is to establish a political solution and in the in the eyes of the americans it should be a political solution with. the dictator bashar al assad did abuse we re going to show just returning from syria where you were on the ground with u.s. forces fighting the so-called islamic state thank you. china s government is investigating the former head of interpol meng hong day for bribery and other crimes a spokesperson for china s ministry of foreign affairs said the investigation shows the government s determination to pursue the rule of law and fight corruption man s wife said that he disappeared two weeks ago after he left france for a trip to his native china. on funday interpol announced that he had resigned as president of the international police agency. and joining us now from beijing is t w reporter mathias is covering the events for us from the chinese capital and mathias i mean we just have to say that this has really been a bizarre case from the very beginning to we have any more clarity on how his disappearance came about to the chinese foreign ministry or other officials a clarify about. no there were no details about what happened when he was arrested where he is under what circumstances he was arrested there were only some statements that said he was investigated for corruption and it s not unusual for these high profile corruption cases that people disappear first and then after some time there is a small note is issued just to cater for corruption what is unusual about this case is that he was an old fishel that was sent by china only two years ago to the head of interpol and that he was now called back or he was arrested while visiting china we don t know why he was visiting china so this to to to do this in such a high international profile case this is really unusual and it shows that china is not really concerned about international opinion when it comes to these corruption cases to this current to corruption compay in that she s in being has been running since he s in office and of course i mean it s a very big campaign that anti corruption campaign so tell us a little bit more about man s background and why he might have been targeted. we were really speculating at this point there was no there was only a very very short statement saying that he s accused of taking bribes and violating the law which the law. was not specified was a hint in one of the statements that this was helping to they wanted to to contain the influence of joe young conjoin young kong is a former head of security under the former administration he was the most important person in the security a perishes and he s the highest profile the highest far purged official from the former administration it s a very high profile case and it might be that months arrest warrant is in connection with joe young can t. whose arrest at the time was seen as a pushback against the faction that led the former administration so we can probably see this as as a case of into factional cattles within the communist party and volunteer in beijing thank you so much for your reporting thank you well it s back over to bed now and a change at the top of one car a turbulent times can make a dime other companies but agile chief has surprisingly announced he ll step down his contract is due to expire at the end of next year but he still can t make a comment as head of the supervisory board he would not seek an extension it is the pacha call comes on the heels of don the boss dated such as announced that it will pass the baton in may next year. time to head frankfurt now correct booze in is out of frankfurt stock exchange for us and two of the big topics this week both saying i.p.o. s what s happening. there spend two i.p.o. s are scheduled this week here in frankfurt two very different companies from very different sectors tomorrow west wing will have its listing and internet shop selling furniture and other trendy stuff via the internet all over europe and on friday very big relatively big i.p.o. will happen here in frankfurt canonical grams of makes breaks for lorries and also for railway trains the i.p.o. could be valued or the company market valuation of the company might be up to fourteen billion euros and this would mean that this i.p.o. of might be bigger than the one which up until now has been the largest one here in germany so far siemens healthy there just briefly good timing for these guys i mean there s a sell off at the moment which continues. that s true but if anything this encourages companies to make their i.p.o. s now you know with interest rates rising in the u.s. there is the idea on the markets that we are ending the end of a cycle and that this is the time for a company to go public if you want to do it cannot who is in at the frankfurt stock exchange things. representatives of swiss banking giant u.b.s. are appearing in court today on charges that the bank orchestrated a huge tax fraud scheme it s accused of enabling wealthy french clients through donor proceeds from tax for that took place between two thousand and four and put in twelve drug comes after a six year probe that was launched on for a former employee alerted authorities to the bank s alleged criminal activities. now from the u.b.s. worker who broke that story and what he expects the outcome of the case could be my understanding is if they re found guilty certainly the amount of the fine will be much higher i believe than the one point four billion euro and it should be more should be as a percentage of the assets with the french government has been cheated the french taxpayers have been cheated and they should set an example for u.b.s. . you know the energy sector only a few names there is connected with the dangers of nuclear energy as the ukrainian town of chernobyl in april one thousand nine hundred eighty six a botched test a reactor number four ultimately led to thousands of deaths and clouds of nuclear fallout across much of europe now just a stone s throw away from way europe s biggest nuclear calamity took place new solar power plant has been. the seat of power for the future next to the socket for guests of power as past genoa build built in a contaminated area which remains largely uninhabitable these solar panels produce enough energy to power two thousand apartments. and this is not this just. sort of long. this is the only you are lucky to have it needs a strong. economic reforms he was a slow that worked in life and it s in april nine hundred eighty six a botched test at reactor number four at the soviet plant sent clouds of nuclear material billowing across europe and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate . the total death toll and long term health effects remain a subject of debate. the one megawatt solar plant is a joint project by ukrainian company rodina and germany s in a park arche investment in renewables in ukraine is growing sharply in just for. the present you stop us. between january and september more than five hundred megawatts of renewable power capacity was added in the country that s more than twice as much as in twenty seventeen according to government figures. in the last reactor was stopped in the year two thousand and it seemed as though that was it generation of power has died on this platform and this will never generate energy again but now we re seeing a new super out still small we are producing power on this site and this is very joyful. but this is one of the rare projects which has european money behind it ukraine is still heavily reliant on nuclear power and the switch to renewable energy is largely being bankrolled by the chinese. etc now i wouldn t say the sun shining down just politics at the moment absolutely not and here s an interesting trend actually ban something that you might not expect because germany s far right alternative for germany or the f.t. party has been criticized for playing down the significance of the holocaust nonetheless it s been attracting jewish voters and party members some of them launched their own group within the party over the weekend and they say that they joined the a.f.d. to fight the anti semitic views of muslims. several senior figures in the far right any of d c jews have a place in the party around twenty jews have now launched their own group within the dea and say they have very good reasons for joining us. i think recent one of the biggest issues will be islamic anti semitism will be pursuing that with great vigor it. is the only party that consistently criticizes the financing of islam is terror especially against israel. but the head of the central council of jews in germany staunchly opposes the creation of a new jewish group within the fifty an apartheid and for the party puts an entire group of people under suspicion in this case the muslims jews more than anyone should know what it means to be placed under suspicion so possibly like this cannot be a political home for jewish people come kind of politician i might figure to mention sign these people have been misled with some sort of promise is that the only way i can explain this. is the leaders have made several provocative comments about the nazi era. we. are in the nazi is a droppings and over a thousand years of successful german history. another eight of d. politician called the holocaust memorial in berlin a monument of shame this alternative isn t kosher that was the slogan for a street demonstration by about two hundred people on sunday in frankfurt they oppose the populist party s efforts to play one minority group against another for political gain. the most prestigious prize for german language literature the german book prize is about to be awarded and with me here in the studio is yalda as our vosh from our culture desk to tell us all about it and why this is so significant or you know the german book press is actually the most important and prestigious award in german literature it s comparable to the man booker prize in the u.k. and the winner of the the award winner is awarded with twenty five thousand euros but what is actually even more important or for many that the when there are usually ends on the bestseller list of course at the end of the day it s all about selling more books you know making more awareness so it s a very big deal what s the selection process it s really like a multi-stage process so to say so there s every year there are six nominees who make it to the so-called short list. many hundreds like this year they have been over two hundred titles submitted but there s only going to be one winner and this matter is going to be announced this evening actually in a few ships like in just over an hour in frankfurt the city where the famous book fair is going to kick off very soon so the six shortlist others actually they themselves have no idea who is going to be the winner oh yes oh it s going to be excited even when it s it is it will be announced but before that maybe let s have a look on three into three of the main contenders. really. the story begins with the sacrilege in an isolated mountain village a bird of prey worshipped by locals is killed. time to strike the price. god who describes the faithful encounters with the fifth the day. i think concerns especially birds of prey have always captured to human imagination because. they are such simple beings and yet they surpass us in so many ways before also. what are we in the face of nature this novel opens the door to a fantastical world the feels hauntingly real. maria silly about better has lived in germany for twenty two years and explores her native argentina from there the little town where she grew up on the outskirts of one a set as is a cultural melting pot called by a standard the heroes of her novel are hairdressers laundromat owners or car mechanics like bob betters grandfather with all their hopes and fears they congregate in the car workshop the reader experiences major political events through the eyes of ordinary people. i wanted to write about what i know well of course it was life in a dark era site. maria sicily above but as opulent novel night glowing is steeped in affection for its characters and depicts the tone society seeking its identity. often nino heritage should really peers into the very depths of her characters sols in the cat in the general she uses different perspectives to tell the tale of a monstrous crime and of the first chechen war the book is inspired by real life events the central figure is alexander all of a sensitive russian turn to perpetrate about the war together with other songs as you break and murdered a young woman in a mountain town in chechnya what s crazy about this real life case is that the unit was on a kind of holiday. but then they couldn t stand it they started waging a kind of war within a war. and i d keep. a story akin to a classic tragedy. billy explores crime and punishment was inside heads and the evil within us all. so not topics some pretty heavy ones there and it s how the stories but the stories they explore really did wide reaching topics and what i personally think is very interesting that this year three of the six nominees are not german native speakers actually so two of them we just saw in the report. about better who is born and raised in argentina and went there to a german school the other one you know how to really who was born in georgia and they mind their past and they the stories like the past of their own families outside of germany for. their stories and their novels or there s many personal background in there like another author on the shortlist in belair. he was born in prague and his parents are russian jews and his novel six suitcases he explores themes like this placement and identity based on his own family story although he emphasizes it is not an autobiographical novel it is literal literature his parents came to germany in one hundred seventy two years after the practice spring and maxim miller says that it was really difficult for himself just to move from munich to broaden so only like within the same country so think of his parents were to leave their home country at the age of forty not being able to go back so this is. a very interesting novel if you like yes mutant so it s worth reading it actually but there also are two other interesting titles. marker with archipelago and stephen tom calma with god of the berrien and what is really i think personally very nice to see there are four out of six nominees a woman this year we find out in about an hour whether one of them one we thank you so much. for joining us 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