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Guilty plea. rudy giuliani sang "documents these special counsels office is using to show that cohen lied to congress were voluntarily disclosed by the trump organization. its hardly coincidental that the special counsel once again files a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world leaders." you might remember he indicted 11 russians on conspiracy to try to throw the election just before the president went to meet with putin, who you see there, in helsinki. buzzfeed also ha...

Know what was going on. rudy giuliani also learned about it. he spoke to the president last night and again this morning. the president, as he was leaving the white house this morning, unloaded on cohen with both barrels. listen here. >> we decided, i decided ultimately not to do it. there wouldve been nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there wouldve been nothing wrong. thats my business. so hes lying very simply to get a reduced sentence. >> we also found out today that the president...

Oh, this is too hot, mate. >> shepard: president trump now is far from washington but still feeling the shock waves from the bop shell back home in the russia investigation. after insisting on the campaign trail that he had no ties to moscow, the president now says he was lightly looking at lightly building a trump tower there. according to buzzfeed, the trump organization was ready to give vladimir putin the $50 million penthouse. theres reports that the special counsel robert mueller is lookin...

Guilty plea. rudy giuliani sang "documents these special counsels office is using to show that cohen lied to congress were voluntarily disclosed by the trump organization. its hardly coincidental that the special counsel once again files a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world leaders." you might remember he indicted 11 russians on conspiracy to try to throw the election just before the president went to meet with putin, who you see there, in helsinki. buzzfeed also ha...

>> felix was working directly through michael. in some of these text messages, as we reported, hes saying that he will kind of be in the shadows on this. and michael cohen is the point person. so what felix was told was coming directly from obviously from michael and he was apermanently getting some word from higher ups inside of the trump organization. >> all right, jason leopold, part of an amazing investigative team over there at buzzfeed, whos been a great journalist for a long time, doing g...

Cohen would have some insights into that trump tower meeting? >> he worked in the building. i dont know that he has any evidence, any kind of proof or any direct knowledge of that. perhaps he does. i dont know that. i do know there was a report in buzz feed earlier this year that ivanka trump received an e-mail from the wife of a wrestler in russia who was looking to set her father up with vladimir putin to talk about trump tower. ivanka trump received this e-mail and forwarded it on to michael ...

Is born out by what muellers office just charged michael cohen with in federal court. well, now tonight, as cohen has just plead guilty, these same reporters from buzzfeed have broken something new on the same story, and as a little public service announcement, if you are drinking or eating anything rights now, pause. swallow. i dont want you to spit anything out on your nice couch. i like your couch. this is their headline tonight "the trump organization planned to give vladimir putin the $50 m...

Started, which is the official trump line on the story. buzzfeed had it back in may. actually the trump tower moscow project went on for months into the campaign, into the summer of 2016 by which time, frankly, the primaries were over. buzzfeed at that time published texts between felix sater you see on the left and michael cohen you see on the right. texts from that summer which showed the two men during the campaign trying to arrange a meeting between trump and putin to discuss this real estat...

Direct knowledge to the trump tower moscow negotiations told buzz feed earlier this yeerd that cohen was in frequent contact with foreign individuals and that some of these individuals had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling." this comes, of course, from the same reporting team that six months ago wrote this piece that almost matches word for word todays indictment. they got it completely and totally right. here to talk about all of it, one of those reporters, jason leopold. ...

Understand the significance of the moscow project at the center of the cohen court documents, you have to understand the deep, decades long effort by donald trump to expand his business into russia. this morning the washington toast calls the idea of trump tow er in moscow a dream born into the 1980s. we know through michael cohen it was a dream he continued to hold onto even as he was winning the republican nomination for president. heres the question. to what degree were top russian officials ...