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Door to a different line of defense. >> im not sure thats a crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime. the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> that certainly is the original -- >> the president didnt hack. >> reporter: giuliani also pushing back on allegations that then candidate trump knew in advance and approved his campaigns 2016 trump tower meeting with russians, promising dirt on hillary clinton. a claim sources tell cnn that mr. trumps former lawyer mich...

Clinton. and today, the presidents current lawyer, rudy giuliani, offered a new message. it doesnt matter if the president colluded, because collusion, giuliani says, is not a crime. >> ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. >> its not. >> collusion is not a crime. >> reporter: its a message giuliani repeated throughout the day. >> you dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russ russians. >> okay -- >> you start analyzing the krip. the ha...

Russian hackers to hack into hillary clintons e-mail servers. they did it the same day. >> thats got to get resolved. to me, this blows my mind. that he -- that rudy giuliani would go on television and say hacking is the crime and the president didnt hack. >> right, right. >> of course the president didnt hack. of course the president didnt call vladimir putin and say, hey, vlad, can you try to hack into the election and maybe favor it my way -- >> he kind of did, he said, hey, russia -- he came...

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Confused, one goal of mr. giuliani was pretty evident. >> ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. >> its not. >> collusion is not a crime. >> i dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. >> okay. >> you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. >> that certainly is the origin of the -- >> the president didnt hack. >> of course not. thats the -- >> he didnt pay them for hacking. >> as you know, it has led -- the meeting wit...

Crime. hacking is the crime. the president didnt hack. he didnt pay for the hacking he said on cnn. the article goes on. it is just a word choice, said a criminal law professor at georgetown. im sure nobody in the justice department has ever investigated collusion but they have investigated conspiracy. and rudy, she said of mr. trumps lawyer, knows better. for the record, the president has said collusion on twitter 94 times. giuliani has been giving interviews throughout the day. here is what he...

New tonight, did rudy giuliani, president trumps own lawyer, admit there was collusion with russia? thats kind of a crazy thing to even ask, right? but one must ask it when giuliani said this not once but twice today, saying, oh, collusion isnt a crime. >> i dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> that certainly is the original crime. >> the president didnt hack. ive been looking in the feder...

Lied before your committee and he wont call him back. are you satisfied with that? >> not particularly but on the other hand again it points out how important it is for the mueller investigation to continue even as trump and his minions and his enablers continue to go after mueller in a very personal way and theyre just heightening their personal attacks on mueller, and this is why that investigation must continue. >> rudy guiliani tells cnn, i am quoting now, the president didnt hack and didnt ...

Crime. colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> the president -- its a sign the presidents legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to president trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. >> he was never involved in intimate business relationship with donald trump. >> the presidents lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. all thi...

Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. lets watch. >> ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. >> its not. >> collusion is not a crime. >> i dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime. the hacking is the crime. the hacking -- >> that certainly is the orig...