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Public. one of the interesting things, though, theyre starting to sort of tailor their response. they want to focus on any allegations that has to do with president trump and hammer the idea that the president did nothing wrong. he wasnt engaged in corruption, he wasnt engaged in collusion. russian poll farms, paul manafort, none of that has anything to do with me. the buck kind of stops with the president when youre in the white house, so well see how that goes for them. >> great reporting, pam...

>> there was no collusion whatsoever. there never has been. the last thing i want is help from russia on a campaign. >> joining us now, john avalon and eli hodding, leave the fact that giuliani lied aside. the president did say nobody colluded. im dying to know why rudy giuliani came on cnn last night and moved the goal posts so far that hes only saying the president didnt collude now. why. >> it is ridiculous what giuliani said. i think it is a strategy and one i have seen before as a prosecuto...

Try to tackle what is happening. david gregory, i want to start with you. what is rudy giuliani doing? >> it is always a mystery with rudy giuliani because we dont know what he knows. hes in this role of this fighter for the president on tv, his tv lawyer. but as weve been discussing this morning, so often he says something that raises eyebrows, that makes you go what? are you moving the goal posts here? and its because something is about to come out. does he sn does he know something thats comi...

Well let you ruminate on the title while i go to susan first for reaction on rudy giuliani, the presidents lawyer saying the president didnt collude. as for everyone else on the campaign, who knows? >> look, there is a word for this called chutzpah. your word is well taken. the president and his lawyer seem to be moving the goal posts here. is it up to them to decide what the goal posts are? again and again this is about the fourth or fifth time they have changed their standards. it doesnt reall...

The missing link. this is the connection between contact with the russians and collusion with the russians, if its true. having contact with the russians during a presidential campaign is not criminal. it is criminal, however, if you slip them polling information so they can hack into or use hacked materials to try to influence selected districts that might be in the interest of the trump campaign. >> right. >> thats the missing link that could turn it into a serious collusion case. >> so the go...

>> right. >> he said it and didnt back away. i wonder why. >> when you move the goal posts maybe somebody realizes that the ball is getting closer to the goal. then you want to move it back. we have seen in lots of filings in various jurisdictions we see this redacted information from paul manafort. i assume the president and his lawyer know something about what welterweight on the went on there, whats been deemed too sensitive for public release as of yet. everything we are hearing is the muell...

>> hi, rachel. >> good morning. >> so to reiterate, rudy giuliani to chris cuomo, quote, i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or people in the campaign. has he effectively moved the goal posts and narrowed them as well? >> moved the goal posts absolutely. and hes done this before, right? clearly they are concerned right now. there is a report just a couple da days ago that paul manafort gave internal polling to an oligarch licked to russian officials and that is scaring them....

Tweets denying collusion and declaring the mueller probe a witch hunt. this is by no means a comprehensive list. talk about moving the goal posts here. beyond that in such a significant way. why? >> yeah. it is certainly significant. nothing anyone expected rudy giuliani to say. we certainly never know what rudy giuliani is going to say. by all means this is probably something more significant than he has ever done. because this goes to the heart of whats been going on the last couple of years i...

Remarkable. it was november 2016 that hope hicks, president trumps spokeswoman at the time said there was no contact between any campaign -- between the campaign and any foreign entity. by the washington post count this morning there were at least ten times where spokesmen were the president or his legal team moved the goal posts in terms of what the communications were or whatnot between russia and the trump associates and the trump campaign. the latest comment from rudy giuliani clearly is a m...

A remarkable shift in strategy by the trump legal team. rudy giuliani says there was no collusion between the president and the russian government, but he cannot say the same for the presidents campaign. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. i have no idea. i have not. i said the president of the united states. there is not a single bit of evidence the president of the united states committed the only crime you can commit here -- conspired...