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Probably know, "the washington post" fact checker, their analysis reports that the president of the united states has made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years. how do you reconcile that? >> well, i dont know how to reconcile that, because i dont know. you have a fact checker for the president but i dont know if you have a fact checker for the media at the same time. >> pastor graham, pastor graham, you and i both know that this president has said things over and over that are...

Everywhere. >> andy: but there is a particular reason for it in washington. that is, a lot of times what you need to cover up in politics is crummy, icky political stuff that youve done that would be embarrassing and that the voter might take out on you if they found out about it. but its not necessarily a violation of the criminal law. like taking information from bad people. theres a lot of awful things to say and feel about that. its not a violation of the criminal law. i think a lot of times...

I have the documents. they gave him a script. if he reads from the script, no jail. if he doesnt read from the script, he gets maybe five years in jail. >> so you are -- >> so whats the temptation to read from the script, if you are a guy like cohen who was a lawyer taping his own client and lying to him about it. taping chris cuomo and lying to him about it. stealing money back when he was fiercely loyal. in this transaction just uncovered, he kept $37,000. >> so let me just ask you, because yo...

>> your position on michael cohen is long established. youve just been talking about and suggesting that the special counsel is not on the up and up. that hes trying to get people to say things that arent true. i want you to take a listen to something president trump said on sunday -- >> he wouldnt say that. in fairness to the special counsel, they would say, they -- maybe they believe thats the truth. thats what the adversary process is all about. but dont take it as, you know, gospel because g...

>> the white house, as far as i know, have not acknowledged that they have lied about anything. >> correct. i think thats -- they have acknowledged sometimes errors. very infrequently. so this is why when i had a lot of people around the white house and around the president saying to me today, why is everyone not just -- why do they have -- why does the trump team have to give a response? because people are not going to just assume that because the presidents folks say were not going to dignify ...

Credibility. >> they are not wrong. michael cohen has lied. >> he has acknowledged that. the white house has a massive credibility problem. this is why when you have -- its very rare -- >> the white house, as far as i know, have not acknowledged that they have lied about anything. >> correct. i think thats -- they have acknowledged sometimes errors. very infrequently. so this is why when i had a lot of people around the white house and around the president saying to me today, why is everyone not...

Attention, being out there representing the president. i cant really take him for factual based statement just on what you read now. >> can you say that again please? he just spreads propaganda when he comes on. sometimes its effective. theres no evidence and he is speaking all these things that arent true. it may be affected by the trumps circle. effective. maybe it is working, you know. >> the first eight minutes, he argued about a footnote over the fisa filing. and the texts of the strzok, pa...

Nonetheless, i think thats her concern. >> if you call the president out on saying things that arent true, what she is saying doesnt seem to be true. >> we have a phrase for this. bollocks. think about what the president gets accused of. stepping on norms. just flat-out lying to make a case. she was petty. shes lying. shes flat-out lying. well see if that gets reported. nancy pelosi falsely claims, which is how the president gets reported when hes fact checked, theres no security problem here, n...

Billing night. weve got some biggests. heres another one. former federal prosecutor john fl flannery who just told me about this report from muellers office. what is your point of view? >> whats important is being a truth teller and really cooperating to not. the false statements he apparently made, although a lot of this is blocked out before the grand jury and briefings and witnesses they have and so forth. it sort of goes to false loans, moneys that were paid, lies about offshore people actua...

>> i can relate. and im sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. >> reporter: he has made his case with a blizzard of false claims. and today, i asked vice president mike pence about the administrations credibility under fire. how can the president be -- how can his word be trusted on this when he has said so many things that are just not true about this crisis? he said that barack obama has a ten-foot wall built around his house here in washington. you know that...