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Chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, is bringing in acting attorney general matthew whitaker to testify to the judiciary committee about his conversations with president trump. chairman nadler sent a letter to nadler today telling him exactly what the most important questions will be, and every question is a heavily loaded question. for example, on january 18th the special counsel issued a rare statement describing some aspects of the buzzfeed story as inaccurate. did you hav...

Giuliani brags about his skills as a lawyer, especially as a criminal defense lawyer which is the role he now sees himself playing for the president. and ive got to say one thing i have never heard a great or even good, even okay criminal defense lawyer say is i shouldnt have said tapes. in fact, with good lawyers you never hear them say i shouldnt have said -- anything. rudy giuliani finished his answer to the question about what tapes he has listened to by saying, buzzfeed alleged there were t...

Contradictory and hypothetical statements about president trump and his ties to russia, rudy giuliani has more than a few of us asking one question, what the heck is he doing? anyone? anyone? yeah. last wednesday, rudy giuliani talked to chris cuomo where giuliani did this total 180 on the all-important topic of collusion. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign -- >> yes, you have. >> i have not. i said the president of the united states. th...

I am not lying for the president. that is what rudy giuliani personally attorney to president trump just told dana bash after several days of baffling contradictory and hypothetical statements about his client and his ties to russia. all of this has more than a few of us asking one key question, what the heck is he doing? last wednesday rudy giuliani talked to chris cuomo where giuliani pulled this 180 on the all-important topic of collusion. >> i never said there was no collusion between the ca...

Longer into the year and giuliani now is trying to push it back to the beginning of the year, but the fact that they were even going on at that time was very serious overlap there. >> given everything else we know, it doesnt even almost matter to lauras point that it wasnt illegal, but there is a lot to digest from in new yor r yorkerer interview, in particular an exchange about the fact that giuliani reached out to the special counsel after hearing this buzzfeed story to try to get it knocked d...

Discussions went and there is no way to determine that because there is no record. then later giuliani releases a statement saying his comments were, quote, hypothetical and not based on conversations i had with the president. he told the new yorker even if trump did have conversations until the election, it wouldnt have been a crime. thats a big flip from directly quoting the president on a specific date to saying this is all a hypothetical. giuliani is also creating some confusion about conver...

Having negotiations during the trump campaign. michael cohen said it went at least through june. what he is saying is its no big deal. >> in the most recent interview he said i am a criminal defense lawyer. i am only trying to protect the president from any criminal liability. im not talking about what he might have done thats not ethical. >> clearly he himself is confused. maybe hes receiving contradictory information from the legal team, et cetera. but yes, this is causing a problem, i would t...

Told cohen to lie. what if the conversation was, come on. you remember, do the right thing. deal with the situation. >> sounds like trumps conversation regarding michael flynn. >> find a way to let this go. >> does it not? >> it does. that may be the problem with the buzzfeed story that you dont have to give direct instructions but everybody knows what they have to do. >> there was much praise for rudy giuliani in your book. there was a lot you admired about him. help us understand why he would ...

Nationals on the project ended before the february 2016 iowa caucuses. he said, quote, i made these misstatements, he told the judge, to be consistent with individual ones political messaging and out of loyalty to individual one. he lied, he says, his lie benefits the bosss campaign. the only question, did his boss, donald trump, tell him to do it? buzzfeed was and still is reporting robert mueller has evidence he did. muellers office is saying this, quote, buzzfeeds description of statements to...

But where it could become seriously problematic and illegal, of course, is if the president suggested, asked, demanded that michael cohen say any particular thing. certainly, if that particular thing was not true. and of course, we know that michael cohen is not particularly faithful to the truth. the president is not particularly faithful to the truth. so if there was a meeting, and the president was encouraging michael cohen to lie to the special counsel, this, of course, takes us back to the ...