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Side his scorn for his former personal attorney michael cohen after cohen implicated him in a crime claiming under oath that trump directed him to pay two women who claim they had affairs with them. >> turned out he wasnt a good lawyer. he has been a lawyer for me, didnt do big deals, did small deals, not somebody that was with me that much. they make it sound like i didnt live without him. he was somebody that was probably with me for about ten years and i would see him sometimes. >> reporter: ...

We are talking about somebody like robert mueller or whether we are talking about robert fitzgerald. >> sure. >> or whether we are talking about kenneth starr. we remember the questions that were raised about what kind of mandate kenneth starr have investigation those are the questions that still remain to be answered with robert mueller. in mccarthys case, he was accountable, he was held accountable for what he did wrong and history judged him on the basis of that. >> in mccarthys case in that ...

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Around the president that his tone isnt always that of an innocent man? >> reporter: absolutely. his lawyers, his legal advisors, you know, around a year ago when he first started building up the legal team really emphasized to him that you cannot be making public attacks against mueller or against this investigation. they were successful. last time trump would say no collusion and he pretty much tamped down in the personal attacks on mueller but that strategy he felt wasnt really working for hi...

Moment -- there was a particularly activist michael could he heen raced and he had already been intesting the water and the rhetoric. he had been told this investigation would be done by 2018 with his lawyers. he continues to see voompt from people in his administration and campaign. that was the moment he said, forget this. im going on full attack mode. rudy giuliani was brought in to be the public attack dog of the client. it is a major share we were when the latest advice. >> you wrote about ...

I mean if you think about the fact that giulianis children, particularly his son, andrew, is somebody who got to know donald trump as a young kid and now andrew is working in the donald trump white house and actually gets along in a very personal way with the now president kind of explains a lot and tells you a lot. and, yeah, rudy giuliani has kind of become a trump whisperer. he has kind of rare latitude to go out and say things that he believes that the president will be okay with. a lot of t...

And what the president wants right now is what giulianis doing, and that is an attack dog. that is no holds barred. he wanted to change direction, take the gloves off with how he approached the mueller investigation and robert mueller himself, and thats what hes got. >> dana bash. thanks. >> thank you. coming up, the president threatens a government shutdown if he doesnt get what he wants on immigration. well hear from someone who worked at the white house until just ten days ago. ♪ ♪ let ...

Monday night show. jonathan, white house reporter for the associated press. ellie is here, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and former assistant attorney general in the great state of new jersey and anita, white house correspondent. are we, in fact, watching, as has been theorized, an evolving policy? no collusion, no collusion, no colug, collusion, if there was, it sure wasnt a crime. >> rudy giuliani is the presidents lawyer but hes the attack dog that is fi...

For the southern district of new york. and anita kumar, white house correspondent. are we, in fact, watching as has been theorized, an evolving policy? nocollusion, no collusion. >> we shouldnt be thinking of him in legal terms. he is all about the public relations battle. he is the attack dog filling the air waves. this does seem like a deliberate step that we have seen, as you traced there, since 2016. there was no collusion. and yet suddenly today we have giuliani trying a new line suggesting...

Starts to bring the investigation into donald trumps wallet. i think theres been a lot of media around michael cohen is hes the man who knows everything, he played a pivotal role in the trump organization and i dont think de. i think president trump used michael cohen as an attack dog. he was sort of a third rate cone. there were two other people in the trump organization that trump relied on to do business. one was jason greenblatt the lawyer for the trump organization. he signed off on everyth...