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Patrick healy and kate bennett are with me. the visit from the president is giving the white house normalcy, but when you look behind the scenes at the barrage of tweets over the last week, you should see attacking journalists on michael cohen. it really tells a different story, doesnt it. >> trump has been on fire lately. he went after my colleague about a story in which all the sources were on the record about michael cohen. he has not let up many sort of over the weekend. he realizes michael ...

And brigitte. behind the scenes, it is a very different story. a source telling cnn the presidents lawyers are preparing for all possibilities. sources say theyre not worried about michael cohen flipping opinion listen to sarah sanders dance around the question. >> its hard to close the door on something that hasnt taken place. i dont like to discuss or comment on hypet this kalg situations that may or may not happen. i would refer you to personal attorneys to comment on anything specific regard...

What are you doing? um...nothing? marvel studios avengers: infinity war, in theaters april 27th. now...where were we? the white house rolling out the red carpet tonight for the french president and his wife, in the midst of all the pomp and circumstance. president trump and his team have michael cohen on their minds. patrick healy and kate bennett are with me. the visit from the president is giving the white house normalcy, but when you look behind the scenes at the barrage of tweets over the ...

Sanctions will be coming down. secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday, if he hasnt already, and they will go directly to any sort of companies with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use. >> michelle kosinski isou "outfront." so what happened? >> reporter: this is hardly the first time weve heard mixed messages coming from this administration. but nikki haley made it sound like this was such a done deal, it might even be announced while she was speaking. shes outspoken...

He involve donald trump and if he did not, was it a violation? you yourself named sean hannity as somebody who was not a journalist and wouldnt be bound by the same ethical constraints as an attorney or a journalist. >> and the bottom line is it opens the door. it opens the door to what was there? what were these conversations? what was this information that was gicven to sean hannity? what was he doing with it, and what was the nature to this? >> the an, we dont know, but i will be shocked if i...

The russians have been far more aggressive in shutting down our functionaries in their country than we have here in the united states. >> so you said compromat. and i want to play for you what the former fbi director jim comey said in his interview when he was specifically asked whether the president could have something to blackmail the president, about this issue of so-called compromat and heres how comey responded. >> do you think the russians have something on donald trump? >> i think its po...

Laura, again, it just doesnt -- it doesnt make sense. if theres nothing to hide, why is michael cohen trying so hard to hide something? >> well, we said its very embarrassing. perhaps he meant, it will be very embarrassing to confirm that this is actually not my client and i needed to have a third name to have the appearance they had a more credible client list. you see, normally the accidental client is a lawyers worst nightmare. somebody who thinks that you are my client and i dont think were ...

Erode the independence of the fbi. >> does he convince you there? hes saying i was concerned about my constitution. thats why i was dreading it, not because it was a political point of view. >> i dont know. i dont understand why it would be "dread." i can see that you can have some concern that the president might disagree with you on some things. louis freeh in his career as the fbi director had issues with bill clinton and only met with him one time. louis used to sit in the hallway outside th...

His e-mails. >> they have been monitoring him. >> right. >> so thats ongoing. >> so, you know, youve worked, obviously, on these sorts of things in the district. is this the biggest threat to the president? >> well, i would say so. for this reason. muellers investigation, first and foremost is a counterintelligence investigation. its got this important component of whether there was collusion in russias effort to interfere in the election. its got this obstruction angle, which is legally very de...

Words, you investigated russian meddling in the election, do you have any reason to believe the russians actually have material that could compromise or blackmail president trump? >> i think thats very feasible. i mean, thats what they specialize in. when u.s. businessmen and women go to russia, they are observed during their entire visits, they are looking for compromat. now, the fact that jared flynn and jared kushner, early on in the administration, were trying to create a back-channel with r...