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Good morning. its friday, november 30th. we begin with the special counsel counsel. robert muellers probe brought a charge that says donald trump was attempting to do business directly with the kremlin during the height of the 2016 campaign. michael cohen, former executive vice president of the trump organization and the personal attorney to trump during his first year in office pleaded guilty of a single count of making false statements to congress about the scope of a project to build a trump ...

Down, have a couple sideline meetings and get out of town. no such luck. >> three mine fields, the russian one, the saudi one with mbs, the crown prince trying to make believe that everything is normal, and what might ultimately and economic and policy terms be the most consequential, the meeting between president trump and xi jinping. >> well get into all that in a moment. but first, in federal court, michael cohen, former executive vice president of the trump organization and the personal at...

Absence of corroboration. thats why its necessary to see the emails referred to in the charging document today because they corroborate michael cohens story. its not just taking his word for it. but remember how much michael cohen had access to. his office was right by donald trumps throughout 2016. what did he know about roger stones conversations with the president about wikileaks? what did he know about the trump tower meeting in june with paul manafort and donald jr. and jared kushner? a lot...

Family members of individual one, thats the president, about the trump company, about the project. the presidents eldest son donald trump jr. had this exchange with the senate judiciary committee last year. the question, quote, its been report i believe on cnn that mr. cohen had reached out to an e-mail box at the kremlin that was a generic mailbox for dmitry peskov. were you aware that have? >> he said i was lot. >> did you know of this deal in moscow? >> he said i was peripherally aware of it ...

Knows because he been around donald trump for so many years. >> interesting. jeffrey, prosecutors say they think cohen is now telling the truth, but what do you think of the trump teams strategy to dismiss cohen simply as an admitted liar? >> well, that is certainly what always happens when somebody flips is that people he flips against -- flip against say hes doing it to save his own skin. the problem that the trump people face with that is if you look at the charging document, the document fil...

Innocent. its just a charging document. that is the way we should read the report issued by mueller. this is simply an accusation. we must see the other side of the story before we can come to any conclusion. somehow people think that it deserves more credibility because its a special counsel report. that is not true. special counsel is just another prosecutor looking at one side of the case. he will present a one-sided account which will be very critical of his subject. >> tucker: so the report...

Its just a charging document. that is the way we should read the report issued by mueller. this is simply an accusation. r we must see the other side of the story before we can come to any conclusion. somehow people think that it deserves more credibility because its a special counsel report. that is not true. special counsel is just another prosecutor looking at one side of the case. he will present a one-sided account which will be very critical of his subject. >> tucker: so the report, there ...

Is just the first domino to fall in the dominos of witnesses who have lied to congress to protect the president. >> i heard differing analyses from former federal prosecutors today when i suggested that many of muellers documents are speaking documents. and that perhaps what he was trying to say with todays charging document against cohen was what you just said. anyone who else lied to congress should lawyer up or pack up. who do you think would be on the list of people today who might be nervou...

They knew to hide it. that goes to felix who you interviewed, fair to say we both crossed paths with a few interesting individuals. >> yep. >> in all of this. and you pressed him on what he wrote about trump tower, what you were pressing him on which i am about to play is all in todays charging document. lets look back at that. >> you wrote that? >> i did write that, yes. >> the e-mails, theres two of them. why are you making a connection between building the building in russia and his electoral...

Guccifer 2.0 -- thats in a charging document from this summer. one of the questions then was why was robert mueller charging wikileaks? maybe he was and maybe it was sealed. number two, the other reason this is so important this morning is whether its about russia or chelsea manning, the president of the united states has gushed -- gushed over wikileaks. lets listen. >> this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. you got to read it. another one came in today. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. w...