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>> trying to offer insight to what the president is saying there is this, there is omarosas upcoming back. the claims that she levels against the president. when you look at them, john, given that omarosas credibility has been in jeopardy will they stick? >> im not sure omarosas allegations will stick. honestly, i wouldnt believe anything that shes said, the way shes oscillated with public presence for the president and now saying negative things. i think people are going to judge president trum...

Major new credibility problems for gates. we already knew he lied to the government about his wrongdoing. now hes submitting he also stole money from manafort and maybe even from the trump inaugural committee. can they sway the jury in a damaged witness? and even when muellers prosecutors tried to bring the trump camp and the inaugural committee in the court today for the first time, it seemed to fizzle out. gates admitted he had an extra marital affair. he insisted it was not used to pay for wh...

Credibility problems for robert muellers star witness who to the government about wrongdoing, now he is admitting he stole money from his former boss, paul manafort and stole something from the trump inaugural committee raising questions whether muellers team can sway the jury in a case that has nothing to do with conclusion in the 2016 campaign. and bringing the trump campaign to the case, gates admitted he had a next her marital affair, insisted embezzling from manafort, and fake invoices for ...

Prosecution feels they have a strong case without gates. >> it is a risky move because gates being on the inside the way he was will be able to authenticate all of the different documents. so the government must feel k confident they can get somebody in to say, yes, it is a bill, an e-mail, i can authenticate it because i was a recipient. as long as they can authenticate all of the damaging documents je against manafort, and there are many, then the government is okay because it is a risk. the p...

Point the finger at manafort and say thats the guy i did the crimes with. government also realizes that cooperating witnesses have major credibility problems because in most cases they are admitted criminals on the stand saying i lied in the past, but this i swear im telling the truth. >> thanks for this analysis. looks like were getting closer to a sit-down between president trump and robert mueller. new reports say hes pushing for an interview and mueller could be narrowing the scope of the ...

>> harris: is a lot of information. >> the one that would be a real problem for him aside from credibility problems with the others is the one with his client. the one with president trump. >> kennedy: who leaks the tape to cnn? >> the first one was leaked at the time to michael schmidt, they went on the restaurant, record and said it was in us. it is turn them over to us. they didnt get until a day later. >> melissa: does chris palma know about this? >> he knows everything about it, he reported...

Who has a self interest, and whose interest does lying benefit? if michael cohen is lying about something against his self interest, thats very unusual. people dont lie against their self interest. they lie in their self interest. but at the end of the day, bob mueller is not charging any crime, the southern district of new york is not charging any crime based on michael cohens word alone. so its not going to be a he said/he said. there has to be significant corroboration, because michael cohen ...

Reporters. this really should be up to the american people, for reporters and others to decide whether these tapes do anything for president trumps argument right now in the ongoing mueller investigation or southern district investigation about cohen. >> and jonathan, michael cohen versus rudy giuliani and who are you going to believe and we had sam nunnberg on "meet the press" yesterday dodging and weaving around whether donald trump has ever lied to him. whose credibility is on the line here? ...

Actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? >> well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things weve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he p...

American people about it all along. the second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if youve got a witness who -- or somebody who may have some credibility problems, you are going to look for corroborating evidence. what do the other people who allegedly heard this say? what happened with these phone calls around the before and after the meeting to the blocked number? who were they? what was don jr.s practice in terms of telling things to his father. it is not a simple he said he said swearing c...