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I am a medical doctor and not a lawyer here. break it down for me and other people that are not understanding. i am referring to the foot note on page 4 where cohen said he conferd with then donald trump about a potential meeting to gauge russias interest about meeting together. that meeting never happened. i know that cohen had been with trump for a long time. perhaps was cohen saying he wanted to have this discussion for potential financial future if president trump didnt get elected? >> sure....

Continuing to accept responsibilities for the false statements within it. the circulating and response part is getting some look. that means circulating what he would say under oath with the people inside the white house. thats a key part there. there is a foot note on page 4 that says cohen talked to individual number 1 donald trump about the russian government. >> interesting. kennedy? >> you bring up a great point, bret. obviously this is the thrust of the investigation. this is the reason th...

Basically cohen came in and just lied all over the place. and then he came back. >> bret: to federal investigators. >> came back and just corrected it and can you see michael flynn reading this okay. >> bret: what happened to me? >> what happened to me. they say he came back and basically said sorry and corrected it there is a real disconnect how mueller is treating false statements. >> bret: other footnote mentions cohen talking to individual one which we have established is donald trump numero...

Learned that wasnt necessarily the case. it kind of underscores the fact that what a lot of these folks say publically may not be at all whats going on. >> ari can we sort of cut through some of the way were describing this? if robert mueller is outlining in this memo especially attempted obstruction of justice, which is what the one aspect of circulating, prepared congressional testimony is not implying, it is accusing. robert mueller is essentially then saying, here, congress, heres an impeach...

>> which when you put it like that -- and we just got this so were just making sense of it -- what youre saying is a very elegant, implicit rebuttal to the donald trump claim that, well, michael cohen is saying anything to get out of trouble so he brought this seemingly bad stuff to mueller and theyre chewing on it. youre saying this footnote elegantly shows no here is the timeline we had a bad stuff. one extra witness but not our primary one. >> and cooperate with us and youll be in a lot bette...

Deficit reduction deal, which had more tax increases for the economic boom and the budget surpluses of the late 1990s. that was delayed gratification. donald trump does the opposite. >> the footnote here is that i worked on the clinton deficit reduction package but not the bush deficit reduction package. thank you very much for joining us. if you follow john harwood and bruce bartlett on twitter, you will know everything i know about public finance and economics. coming up, when we come back, ...

President trump is somebody who thinks about whats going to be good or bad for him in the next five to ten minutes. we saw a report in the last 24 hours that when he was shown signs that the deficit was going to be ballooning he said, well, im not going to be around then. george h.w. bush took the opposite approach. he broke his pledge. he accepted those tax increases in that spending deal. for all i know, lawrence, you might have been part of negotiating that deal. im not 100% sure, but he did ...

The coming days. >> tucker: i dont think he will be -- very quickly, mr. starr you knew george h.w. bush for an awfully long time, 50 years. >> oh, yes. >> tucker: what was your feeling but the service today? >> oh, it was an absolutely gorgeous outpouring. i loved, among other things senator allen simpson talking about the road in washington, d.c. of humility is not very crowded but thats the road that george herbert walker bush walked on. i was overruled by him by the way as president of the u...

Is matt whitaker, the acting attorney general under the regulations. so lets see what unfolds in the coming days. >> tucker: i dont think he will be -- very quickly,t mr. starr, you knew george h.w. bush for an awfully long time, 50 years. >> oh, yes. y >> tucker: what was your feeling about the service today? >> oh, it was an absolutely gorgeous outpouring. i loved, among other things, senator allen simpsonon talking about the road in washington, d.c. of humility is not very crowded but thats t...

What mueller knows, and hes been operating secretly, which is exactly what he should be doing. >> and to that point, greg, we really dont know much about mueller except for these filings, which are in his own way basically statements to the public, and i know that in fact, sometimes lawyers like manaforts and others including on his team, they actually use the footnotes in the mueller documents to try and, you know, parse words, correct the record. on june 22nd he said several newspapers incorre...