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Person repeatedly proposed a meeting between individual one -- thats trump -- and the president of russia." the person told cohen such a meeting could have a phenomenal impact, not only political but business dimension as well. referring to the moscow project. because there is no bigger warranty than any project than the consent of the president of russia. cohen didnt follow up, but there you have the trump campaign interacting with a russian national claiming to have influences in putins circle...

Touch with the russian government, russian officials. and he flatly denied it. this footnote that eyouve been referring to completely refutes that. it says he conferred with michael cohen about reaching out to the russian government. we shouldnt forget that. i know were used to donald trump not telling the truth, but this is a mayor deal. he adamantly deny nice ties to russia and these documents suggest there was outreach to russia. and michael cohen has told the special counsel a lot about it. ...

Had, he came clean. thats the kind of complexity of the story. heres a guy whos a career liar cheat, he was willing to do it again, but like any solid prosecutorial team, they had solid information, they knew they had facts he didnt enjoy they had, that also means they can prove it without him. even if his credibility is somewhat impugned, they have additional evidence. >> when you put it like that and we just got all of this so were just making sense of it. so youre saying its an elegant implic...

>> a bunch more subpoenas with vil to go out on who saw the cohen information before it went out. >> as a footnote to that, remember don junior has said, yeah, ill probably be indicted. you know, with that kind of consciousness of guilt, rarely do we have that from the stone, the don juniors, somebody who is entirely -- >> we have the language, political synergy we saw in the sentencing memorandum. thats a big deal. thats just a fancy way of saying what, collusion. >> collusion. >> conspiracy. l...

Who claimed to be a trusted person in the russian federation who could offer the campaign political synergy and synergy on a government level." "the defendant recalled this person repeatedly proposed a meeting between individual one -- thats trump -- and the president of russia." the person told cohen such a meeting could have a phenomenal impact, not only political but business dimension as well. referring to the moscow project. there is no bigger warranty than any project than the consent of t...

Provided useful information, quote, concerning certain matter s core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign as well as, quote, relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. that brings it up to this year. and describe the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to accept re...

And in a footnote on the trump russia meeting, you know, that weve had a lot of discussion about should trump go to russia, michael cohen admitted that he had lied about it and that, in fact, he had conferred with individual one, who is the president, about -- who was a candidate at the time -- about contacting the russian government before reaching out to gauge russias interest in such a meeting. the meeting did not take place, but you will recall there was a discussion among his foreign policy...

If there was any agreement going back and forth about his curtailing information, withholding information, that would be on all fours an obstruction case that would be, no one would doubt that as a definition. heres the problem. theres a crime fraud exception to privilege arguments. if mueller argues that what they were doing was using that defense agreement undermine the investigation, a judge could strip them of privilege and you could have a bunch of attorneys being put on the stand. >> bret:...

A number of other sworn testimony testimony weve had. >> reporter: were looking at perhaps a second session with the former fbi director and maybe even a session with the deputy attorney general before republicans lose control of these committees and the democrats take the gavel. just as a foot note, the incoming chairman for the house judiciary committee said he is going to shut down the investigation. thats one of the first steps he takes when he gains the gavel. >> all the more pressure for t...

One, pages 10-12, 17-34, then the gang of eight information, the four buckets. what john is saying here -- >> thats correct. remember, sean, the first three, the president has actually called to have declassified. speed when hes holding it back, he recently said. what i want to ask is, if they knew, and if the intelligence committeew knew that they were questionable, the whole dossier was questionable, it was the bulk of the prize applications, and they used it anyway, we know that they omitted ...