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Usually if there is a big story, there are multiple sources. its a black eye for every organization. not that it shouldnt have been covered. but they blanketed it with pun h punditry. rudy giuliani said i never said there was no collusion in the campaign, just president trump. sara: rudy giuliani is trying to be the presidents attack dog. but its hard to be the attack dog when the allegations are so fluffy. howie: whats gets lost in this environment is another michael cohen story confirmed by co...

Which is what previous nominees have done. >> why would he write the memo, not agree to adhere to an ethics official and then third, why exactly does he want this job? >> i think the answer i suspect its the right answer is that hes an institutionalist. >> what does that mean. >> that means he believes in the importance of maintaining the integrity and reputation of the justice department no matter who happens to be -- to be the president. you know, he doesnt need it, hes a very successful attor...

Shes tough. she doesnt shy away from stuff, but does she let them be attack dogs on the trump administration and be a moderating force? how does she navigate that? >> i think they work together. thats how it goes. people automatically assume that nancy pelosi is someone who is going to go out there, and shes going to be an attack dog or a moderating force and somewhere in the middle. nancy pelosi is someone who is extremely intelligent who would sit down with her chairman and say look, here are ...

Have the appearance and sound of being a bit rambling. and because hes talking about things today that he wasnt talking about, say, two months ago. >> so katelyn, the president, he perhaps added to all of this with his tweets about michael cohen over the weekend, talking about cohen being a rat and talking about lying about the fact the fbi broke into cohens office there. where are we in the control of the presidents twitter stream, particularly with john kelly on the way out and mick mulvaney o...

With his tweets about michael cohen over the weekend, talking about cohen being a rat and talking about lying about the fact that the fbi broke into cohens office there. where are we in the control of the presidents twitter stream? particularly with john kelly on the way out and mick mulvaney on the way in. >> i think most staffers have realized you cannot control the presidents tweets and they have largely stopped from telling the president what he should and shouldnt tweet, and thats become pr...

Trying to make. he is trying to move the goal post, and its rudy and his attack dog. the thing is, rudy doesnt believe he is saying if you judge by the things he said and stood for his entire career. rudy the prosecutor and rudy the presidents defender is reading from different scripts. i worked for him for years, and this is beneath the rudy guiliani that inspired the nation after 9/11 and was a tough as nails prosecutor. he is doing it because thats what his client wants to hear. it really is ...

Payments or episodes of collusion, first it was complete denial, and now its just well, if it happened, it wouldnt be a crime. >> right. >> youve covered this administration for some time, jonathan. why do they continue to put out rudy giuliani? why is he the sunday morning show guy or -- is he the best voice for legal matters pertaining to the president of this administration? not to put you on the spot. i know youre going to talk to him later. >> its a few things. first, for a long time there ...

Recording. when you couple all of those things together, i think you can put together a strong case of willfulness. >> i want to go to the michael cohen interview to the panel here for a minute. i think michael cohen wants to be john dean here. right? he wants to be john dean. is he succeeding? >> no. i dont think so. i mean, look. maybe if michael cohen wasnt out there during the campaign, maybe he wasnt such an attack dog for donald trump. maybe if he wasnt so closely tied to this family, mayb...

Nobody is getting that job unless he wants him to. >> thats right. that lines up with our reporting as well. they have certainly had their ups and downs in terms of their power over the past two years. because they are family and a president sees politics as a family operation they are highly influential telling the president they are in the white house for the long haul. anyone to succeed in this will probably have to have a strong relationship. >> what flames pnames pop up fo? >> none of them....

It telling you? >> he is seen as an attack dog inside of the white house. he used to work on investigations and help fend off subpoenas. >> you also have kushner talking about that. she mostly talking about prison reform but also asked about the scramble. >> the president will make the right choice for chief of staff. it is someone that will help navigate through the good opportunities that immerge to keep pushing forward. >> the interesting piece is how much of a force both kushner and trump ha...