to what he has said in the past and it doesn t take you very long to see in july 2016, for the record, i have zero investments in russia. russia has never tried to use leverage over me. i have no deals, no loans, nothing. february of 2017, i can tell you speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia, i have no loans in russia, i don t have any deals in russia. yea. and those are the public comments. one is the deal didn t go through, at least this one, so he s on terra firma there. most importantly, i really think its important to underscore, the president of the united states has given a list of written answers formally to robert mueller. he has them. he knows what the president has said to a host of things. we reported on two of them yesterday, now the question is, what it the president say
i ve never i m not contemplating business with russia, even though he was, and saying, you know, this never went anywhere, so what is the big deal about it? and now we are learning that, in fact, it was continued to be pursued and that michael cohen, according to the documents we ve looked at today was the one who was continuing to pursue it. i think the question we now have to ask is, did he continue to pursue it with the candidate s knowledge at the time and again to dana s point, what did trump tell the special counsel about this letter of intent which we re presuming that the special counsel asked him about? kate can i just underscore what gloria is saying here about her reporting to that you were sold a bag of goods back in the fall of 2017 by people around michael cohen and the whole reason for that, their
strategy was, to protect the president or to protect something. strategy lying to congress which is a crime was to protect the president. why was he trying so hard to protect the president? why did he not want why did he go to these lengths to prevent the public and congress and the prosecutor from knowing and the public from knowing why the president was doing what he was doing or what else was happening vis-a-vis trump, his organization and russia during the campaign? that s the big open question. maybe robert mueller has the answer, but that s fascinating. especially in the context and especially in the context of how the president is talking about it today, which was it doesn t matter if i did or didn t, what i knew and didn t know doesn t matter because its all good because i thought i might ve lost so i needed to have opportunities and options available. guys, stick with me. we do have much more to come
consequences with it. he s admitting to what now is the truth and that truth brings him consequences. he could continue to maintain he didn t and try to avoid the consequences or litigate them out. he s actually going ahead and facing consequences as a result of finally telling the truth, but this is a pattern that we see among everybody who s surrounded the president during his campaign and you only lie at the end of the day if you re trying to protect the principle, in this case now the president, then the candidate. donald trump says that michael cohen is today the liar calling him a weak person. the president is many times said that he s zero ties, zero investments in russia. this does somewhat fly in the face of all that is coming out now, but does that mean that the president it anything of legal, continues to remain a question. its not a crime to lie to the press, unfortunately. no, its not but as the
we haven t seen definitive evidence that ties him directly to that. what we have seen is a number of individuals that we know are tide to that and those individuals have been sanctioned. reporter: as sanders was speaking, the president upstaged his press secretary, breaking the news that he may punish general motors over its plans to close car factories in the u.s. tweeting, we are now looking at cutting all gm subsidies. the white house is blaming gm, not trump administration economic policies, for its current woes. they re making a car, frankly, that people don t want to buy. reporter: now, the white house said the president won t be meeting with the saudi crowned prince when mr. trump travels to argentina for the g-20 summit later on this week. the president will be meeting with russia s president vladimir putin and russian aggression against ukraine is likely to come up in that discussion when those two leaders meet. what the president will do about it, though, wolf, that r