even the president told the public he had no business deals with russia the buzz feed report claims the businessman trump and his children got regular detailed updates about the real estate developments with cohen who they put in charge of the project. :pleaded guilty to lying about the deal, he set to testify in congress soon so we will see which version of the truth you selling this time and also new allegations at donald trump as the president s lawyer rudy giuliani tries to clear up collusion confusion he created last night. katherine urges details. rudy giuliani s comments got so much attention because he seemed to draw a distinction between donald trump s actions and those of his election team. i never said there was no collusion between the campaign of people in the campaign. i said the president of the united states. there is no evidence the president of the united states committed the only crime you can commit, conspired with the
there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian people. now, of course, we know at the very least paul manafort shared campaign data with const constantine, and conducted interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. now that we re here not only are we wondering what s next, we re wondering if rudy giuliani is admitting that neither he nor president trump knew about any collusion or conspiracy that may be going on by any member of the trump team does that not justify completely the mueller investigation to get to the bottom of it all? as cnn s jessica schneider reports rudy giuliani is trying to clean up the collusion confusion. reporter: some democratic leaders jumping all over the stunning statement from the
talked so much about it being pr. he says his strategy is to confuse everyone. here he was. he didn t know. i know he didn t know. and if he did? i know it, even beyond being his lawyer. if he knew, is it a problem? no. and no. no. he didn t know. i m not going to get into the hypothetical. he did not know. okay. because you get into the hypothetical about mueller and the comey that confuses the hell out of people. if fact-counting is anything, we never had anybody with a level of mendacity he has. it s in the eye of the beholder. no, facts are not in the eye of the beholder. so saying, you know, he wants confusion is the point. that they ll unload on, you know, the special counsel if this whole thing isn t over in a couple of weeks. right. what has happened with rudy guiliani? well, look. i think this is his assignment, you know, collusion confusion is his assignment.
there to somehow shroud the reality of what s going on. the one person who i don t think is clouded by all of this is probably bob mueller, whom i guess is not much interest in rudy guiliani s commentary, and is going about his business. and he ll either have a case to make or he won t. and i think he ll deliver it in due course, based on the work that he s doing and not based on some schedule that the president and his television lawyers throw out. david axelrod, fungible facts and collusion confusion. bumper stickers, perhaps. thank you so much. and just a quick note, as always, on david. thank you on the action files, guests include editors from the washington post. saturday, 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. as we wait for sarah sanders,
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