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>> cherilyn, susan collins had a long section in her quite lengthy speech today about presumption of innocence. its a theme that mitch mcconnell returned to. and i suppose the upside for you as someone who works for legal defense fund you have a bunch of new allies in ending cash bail and reforming the criminal justice system with functions daily on a presumption of guilt. thats the good news. >> yeah, thats the good news. the bad news is that any one of the clients that we represent who did wha...

Depending on what cob corroboration there is, hes a valuable witness. depending on what purpose you want to use michael cohen for, whether hes in a narrative for a report that gets sent to congress or someone you want to testify in court with respect to a charge against donald trump. if its the second thing, the ca caveat about michael cohen is hes a proven liar, over and over again, so he has credibility problems of his own. on balance, i think incredibly important witness. >> we do know, preet...

Knows, and it depends on what donald trump told michael cohen. with respect to the obstruction portion of this investigation, as people have been saying for many months now, the critical piece is not so much what the president did, although that helps to develop the narrative on obstruction but what was the president thinking when he did those things. he probably doesnt have e-mails or a journal in which he said im doing this thing to obstruct justice. instead you glean what his mental state was...

Trump said i sent a tweet or two afterwards saying this is sort of a good step so its still ok but you know there has been movement on the really big issues of nuclear weapons and missiles yeah lets lets look about a little closer so that no throws a great to potentially dismantle its main nuclear sites if the united states makes concessions and and makes reciprocal concessions just cant believe the united states will agree to this yeah thats actually a really good question because under this pr...

Particular person. i think muellers mission from day one and the way he operates and i know this because i worked for him is to get the truth. cooperators are criminals, typically and they have credibility problems, typically. theyll have to corroborate what mr. manafort says. we saw that in his last trial. gates was the criminal. gates was the cooperator and they didnt -- the government didnt just rely on gates at the manafort trial. they relied on gates and tons of documents and bank records a...

Bob woodward, the celebrated journalist, is going to fall in the minds of some people. but those are people who support donald trump anyway. and no matter what the facts are presented, they are going to be hardened -- >> so thats what this is serving. as we said in the cnn poll yesterday, 32% of the country find the president credible. is that what this charade is about? >> everything funfun funnels ba trump. not speaking to the nation, speaking to one people behind them. all these statements ar...

Congressman ryan costello. i want to start with you can really play ball. i asked the best ballplayer in congress, you were in a lobbyist game, and you can genuinely hoop. >> thats very true. >> i like it. well play sometime. zblim ready for your questions. >> okay. first, michael cohen stood up in a federal courthouse a few weeks ago, and he said under oath, and theres reason the guy has credibility problems, he said under oath and prosecutors let him say the president of the united states dire...

But not all of the comments. but, yes, the secretary of defense james mattis has put out a statement saying that portions that have been attributed to him are not true, as has rudy giuliani, who as we know from these excerpts released by bob woodward earlier today is described by the president as somebody as a baby in a diaper at one point, and giuliani is saying that did not happen. anderson? >> jam acosta, thanks. again, its somewhat strange here, the president saying what he is saying about b...

Saying he has credibility problems. but anderson, as you know and weve talked about so many times, the president with his problems with telling the truth has his own credibility problems. and im not sure he wants to fight this fight with bob woodward. >> frankly, the president is on tape talking to bob woodward, telling bob woodward that bob woodward has always been fair to him. >> thats right. >> well play that tape coming up. its not just the president. a number of administration officials hav...

The real question start tomorrow, and today already plenty of fireworks. today president trump and top administration officials are fighting back against a veteran journalist. chief national correspondent ed henry has the latest fallout. >> they are pushing back but hes going to sell a lot of books. the president is fighting back and so are some of his top advisors. this is just another bad book about him, lashing out at bob woodward charging his credibility problems that some of the anecdotes a...