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Government, i think that that is the ultimate redirect and i think it bas tarrize iz bastard >> im asking you about legal questions and how you feel about knowing now that michael cohen has testified under oath that president trump directed this. >> this is not a crime. its not a crime. >> it is a campaign finance law violation. >> it is not. it is not. name a person in this country who has been prosecuted for this alleged crime that you say occurred. name the name. >> michael cohen. >> michael ...

Read all about donald trump. nobody in my party or nobody of the folks that made up the trump coalition were naive to the fact of the life he had. >> so you were okay with those things. >> no, i never said i was okay with those things. >> you support him. >> i support him strongly. >> so we have to connect the dots. >> alisyn, i would like a minute here. >> hes an unindicted co-conspirator in these campaign finance laws. >> i would like this interview to be along the same tone as elizabeth warre...

Senior political analyst john avlon and also joined by laura coats. laura, let me start with you, can the president get involved and run the mueller investigation of which he is a subject? >> in a word, alisyn, no. he is the head of the executive branch but mueller operating under a special statute where he is account to believe the attorney general. i think if i had to trump splain this morning, hes head to decide who is the attorney general and the deputy attorney general, both of whom serve a...

Actually. >> reporter: the president now echoing the concerns of his attorney rudy giuliani, that an interview could be a, quote, perjury trap. saying, its my word against comey. and hes best friends with mueller. so mueller might say, well, i believe comey and even if im telling the truth, that makes me a liar. thats no good. >> how do we know what the truth is? >> youre talking about whether or not the president asked james comey to go easy on michael flynn. >> thats right. they will possibly ...

Show is we are all music nerds and theres a lot about the music we love that transcends political tribes, for example john bermans grateful dead are also loved by tucker carlson and ann coulter. surprising but true. but there are some lines that cant be crossed. you cant call the dead a top 40 pop act. like wise, you cant take one of alisyns favorite, the l.a. punk band x and file it under easy listening. no disrespect to lionel. and thats where some staffers on the national republican senatoria...

1997, something he strongly says this did not happen, that this young man, jimmy bennett is his name, was revictimized, that it was too much to see her at the forefront when he knew what happened to him. 10 his attorney sent a letter to her with a notice of intent to sue and thats when the nations began. it is april, according to the "times" when she was to pay him $380,000 in payments. john and alisyn, we heard from the attorney for the young accuser who is now 22. they say he wants to come out...

He served as an armed guard in poland and lied about it to immigration officials when he came to the united states after the war. a colorado man charged in the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters will be back in court today, but in an unsealed affidavit, he says he is not the one who killed his children. cnn is live in colorado with more. this is a twist. >> reporter: it is, alisyn. this affidavit had been sealed since chris watts arrest on wednesday, but in it, some explosive detai...

President trump seems to be expressing some growing frustration with the special counsel probe and telling reuters in that interview that he has some concerns that he may be walking into a trap. this is after weeks and months of saying he was willing to sit down with mueller. >> reporter: president trump insisting he could intervene in the special counsel investigation if he chose to. telling reuters -- i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want, but i decided to stay out. but...

Then came his version of a confession which he says that conversation about separation led to this familys tragic turn. he confessed to killing his wife. he says he strangled her in a fit of rage only after he found her strangling both of their daughters. now, he then identified for authorities where he discarded the bodies, interesting enough, authorities had already located the bodies with the help of a drone survey of that petroleum company in the field where he worked. that drone spotted a b...

Giuliani now claiming the presidents lawyers did know the details after sources say the president thought the revelation made him look weak. >> at the time john dowd got a complete version of what mcgahn said. >> reporter: giuliani also down playing the significance of mcgahns testimony. >> i knew not to worry about it because if the president had said anything criminal to the counsel of the white house, mcgahn wouldnt be there now. mcgahn as a matter of legal ethics and possibly even law would ...