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This is cnn blakicnn break im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Were following Breaking News on the president s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the russia investigation. Two Court Filings just released, one by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, the other by prosecutors in new york, and theres new information about cohens cooperation. What it could mean for President Trump and for Michael Cohen as the f...

It does not say the director can only forward this if it involves a person under the directors jurisdiction. and that seems to be the sticking point that the director is clinging to at this point. >> or that the director can only forward this if it doesnt implicate executive branch privilege in some way, which seems to be the other thing theyre claiming. >> not a word about that. >> one thing, lawrence, i would be very interested in figuring out is whether -- remember the way this happened, went...

Messaging battle and political battle over what the report might say before her was submitted to the attorney general. democrats have been doing the same thing and now theyre trying to win the battle to say even if it doesnt implicate president trump. even if its not politically problematic, it is in here is what we think so. this political battle is going to head all the way into the 2020 election. the president himself common even though its been a quiet couple of days one of talking about thi...

Important thing is the concentration of capital, and it means that we seek and prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else and we seek it at any human an environmental cost. to me, that ideology is not sustainable and cannot be redeemed. >> quite something. new polling by the des moines register crohn indicates an appetite of democratic voters for socialism with bernie sanders trailing only joe biden as first choice for president. of course, there is the mueller report. while ...

Pardon, that is highly problematic. that is even the kind of thing our new attorney general william barr suggested he would see as a potential charge -- >> is it legally problematic? >> it can be construed as obstruction of justice, witness tampering. holding out the idea of a pardon, the promise of a pardon in exchange for the person not testifying, or testifying in a way that doesnt implicate you. so its highly problematic. >> but not surprising. >> how are you as a former federal prosecutor m...

Take the fifth because i dont want to tell the real story. the question here is not whether people lied. its about contacts with the russians. if they werent significant, why does everybody lie? >> i think, yes, it is about context with the russians, thats what mueller is investigating, whether there was collusion but i think it matters that donald trump lied if you believe what investigators have laid out in all these documents when he was a kacandidate, hes koblted to lie to the american peopl...

And david axlerod. david, what do you make of this reporting from the washington post that we are just getting that the trump administration and the saudi royal family are searching for a mutually agreeable explanation for khashoggis death that somehow doesnt implicate the crown prince? >> my impression from the beginning was that the trip was more about getting the stories to coordinate and jibe than a fact-finding mission. this is a sticky wicket for the administration that they have lashed th...

Brought implications for foreign policy well beyond the trump administration. >> the secretary will tell the president what he learned. what possibly could he have learned if the secretary of state told us that the saudis didnt want to talk about the facts? thats a stunning statement to have heard from the secretary of state, especially now, given the reporting from the washington post, that the white house and the saudi royal family are trying to cook up a story. a mutually agreeable version of...

That the trump administration and the saudi royal family are ren searching for a mutually agreeable explanation for khashoggis death that somehow doesnt implicate the crown prince? >> my impression from the beginning was that the trip was more about getting the stories to coordinate and jibe than a fact-finding mission. this is a sticky wicket for the administration thaws they have lashed themselves so closely to the saudis, particularly to the crown prince, and if he is implicated as a mastermi...

He is, as you mentioned, a colonel in the intelligence services. he is a former diplomat, part of the circle of the crown prince. he has been photographed many times with the crown prince. turkish authorities hearsaying they expect their side of the investigation to wrap soon. john? >> and again, this is what makes it so stunning that the united states and saudi arabia askordiaskord i -- according to the washington post looking for a way to explain that doesnt implicate saudi arabia. thank you s...