Hillarys lawyer. I wonder if they made him help the choice. T the president steered clear of this topic during his event at the white house today designed to highlight economic numbers. As trump wrapped up Kristen Welker asked him about Michael Cohen. Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . As we say its been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the Cohen Audio First aired tuesday evening. Theres only been three White House Press briefings in the entire month of july. On the cohen front politico reports the president advisors have been taken aback by cohens no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations
with the president. Asked to describe the mood among trumps close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good. Trump is enranged over the cohen revelations. Emily jane fox who is standi
With the black boys, you know. The black boys not players so im not going to make it there. I kept playing and playing. I said one day im going to play baseball. Tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight, the president swears he did not know about that Trump Tower Meeting in advance, while someone close to Michael Cohen tells vanity fair cohen is sitting on top of a Treasure Trove of damaging information and theres a lot more to come. For the tenth straight time the president ignored questions from reporters and thats since the trumpcohen tape came out on tuesday. Donald trumps First Ever National Security Council meeting on the topic of election safety was convened today hours after the president was invited to moscow by vladimir putin. All of it as The 11th Hour gets under way on a friday night. On a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 554 of the Trump Administration and the president escalate
help me go through the two camps of belief, will you please. how these recordings have entering the public domain. there s belief number one that cohen has leaked these as a brush-back pitch to say mr. president, there s a lot more where this came from. theory number two is this is coming from the trump team, to go ahead, embrace and own some of the worst that they know is coming because that also takes an arrow away from cohen and his value as a flip target to the feds. please. this is a both very important and very complicated parlor game that we re playing here. it s difficult because both sides have credibility issues here. on the one side the cohen camp not only have people been saying, as you said, perhaps he s sending this as a signal to what he has and what he can
you see these sources talking to cnn and saying that cohen is willing to talk to mueller. the question is will mueller call cohen to do an interview. to sit down and talk about that meeting in 2016. let s talk turkey here and a lot of reporters are pushing and chasing down a narrative that here is news that cohen can put donald trump in possession of knowledge about that meeting. the narrative is that the trump camp leaked the story because it s bad to own it in advance. what it also does, it diminishes the value of mr. cohen as a potential flip target for the feds, the southern district of new york. can you speak to that possible strategy. when you look right now at michael cohen s legal situation he s not been contacted by mueller thoo at we can report a