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He dealt with his negotiations. he negotiated this building he built in georgia. he handled the stormy daniels payment. this is not some bit player that president doesnt know. for years and years he trusted michael cohen to take care of his most sensitive problems. and why would michael cohen do this? hes a multimillionaire. he is a very wealth why i man. he doesnt need this money. its something wrong here. either terrible judgement or something worse. >> before we go, want to ask you. theres be...

You name it. david, do you think were going to hear from him on this? >> i think we will and well see how it goes. the last time it didnt go so well. and what fascinates me about this is michael cohen was the closest person to donald trump. he dealt with his negotiations. he negotiated this building he built in georgia. he handled the stormy daniels payment. this is not some bit player that president doesnt know. for years and years he trusted michael cohen to take care of his most sensitive pro...

Arguing that these documents seized from body his home and office are protected. its that attorney-client privilege. heres the thing, though. if the president is the one telling the truth and its just not that significant, cohen did a tiny little fraction of the work, then why is the president so consumed with the fbi raid on cohen? apoplectic tweeting, attorney-client privilege is dead, and now they do the unthinkable and raid a lawyers office for information, bad. so could it be that cohen, se...

The comey thing is more interesting to pit himself against comey. comey is really just sort of a bit player in this. its not about comey. anything they would get from comey they would be able to get from any number of other witnesses theyve already talked to. comey is in the news and he cant resist taking a shot at someone taking a shot at him. >> disputing the comey memos trump said during the miss universe, this is the first time he said is this morning on "fox & friends," did he stay overnigh...

Relevant, assert his voice in the discussion, less his reputation and his legacy in the short tenure hes had as attorney general. looks like hes been a bit player who took himself out of the game early, latched his star to president trump in a way he didnt intend, and now is sort of tied to circumstances rather than a cabinet member leading the charge on the central issue of the trump presidency. certainly from the perspective of the doj. >> and, larry, many people on this say this is like a soa...

Of facebook users information. now officials with the firm have been caught on camera boasting about their role in mr. trumps campaign, claiming their work was integral in winning the election, and suggesting the laws may have been broken. lets bring in sara murrayment she is working the story for us. you have new revelations about this undercover effort. >> we know this is a firm that has already been under plenty of scrutiny. buttette goes further in this latest undercover video that came out ...

Investigation. >> and josh, of course, this changes the calculus a little bit for paul manafort and does this put a lot more pressure on him to cooperate with robert mueller? >> well, he is clearly frustrated with the statement yesterday that he said that he is disappointed in the former business partner robert gates for pleading, and he was explicitt with the first statement released by the team. the two of them were almost interchangeable, and they were together in all of the business ventu ve...

Campaign. and i spoke with ty cobb tonight, who is the internal lawyer working for the president, who said that the white house has repeatedly declined to comment on the matters involving mr. manafort and mr. gates, given the fact that none of the charges pertain to the campaign or to the white house. and so what theyre saying is this is completely separate from us, we have to nothing to do with this. and you know, anderson, for the past year, they have consistently described paul manafort as a ...

This is completely separate from us, we have to nothing to do with this. and you know, anderson, for the past year, they have consistently described paul manafort as a bit player in the campaign, who was only there for a period of, what, four or five months. but i will remind you that he was also in that trump tower meeting with the russians in don juniors office. >> ive never met a more important bit player, by the way, or interviewed a more important bit player. >> exactly. >> jeff, the other ...

>> the statement from the president really was scathing saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. i know you have been covering this white house. just how close were bannon and the president? what can you tell us about their day-to-day relationship? >> he was running the campaign. you see steve bannon, he came into office, he was responsible for the travel ban, the first, you know, week he put together a lot of the policy portfolios for the early days of the administration,...