michael cohen was central to coll between russia and the trump campaign. those are unproven at point. we don t know that s true. those are the two polls of formation just within the campaign period that are robert muestigators would love to know more about. on either end of the campaign, he knows all sorts of things, as well. how do you think george stephanopoulos and abc news got the story he s about to go state s evidence? based on what the story says, it suggests someone close to michael cohen, it s not clear. could it be the president of the united states? i mean, i wouldn t speculate on that. say to george somebody, i haven t talked toit s just trad. george was just over with the president. did the president tell him michael about to switch? it s certainly possible. we ll find out down the road. it s a big story abc is standing behind. greg, what would you rather do if you were michael cohen? would you make a deal with
criminal justice process our procedural things that are in place 10 to sure that if crimes are committed they re investigated. and as was mentioned that the american public are kept safe and individual rights are protected. it s important to rib heemem here there s a big house gop operation for what they re doing. there s a memo that details the mueller probe that was turned over to a judge yesterday. republicans are trying to get their hands on this document. all of this we can t forget that trump trump s allies in congress are pushing for this information that could further hurt the investigation. and, greg, when it comes to the idea that mueller is talking more about the scope, is that a signal to you that he might be guess close to wrapping things up? because when you look at how long special investigations have gone, we re on day 366, others have gone more than a thousand days in the past? it s hard to say in the say large, very complex, multifaceted investigation. if i kn
assistant fbi director under james comey and his inaugural appearance on this show. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel on white waur alon ashore along with new york times reporter ken roble. good crowd on a good news friday. greg, is it true there was an informant from the fbi planted inside the trump campaign? you can tell us? i don t know, hallie. the idea, the genesis of this idea is suspect to say the least. the fbi does use confidential informants all the time in a wide variety of types and cases. what s suspect and dubious about this particular allegation is that it s being done or was done for political purposes. that simply makes no sense to. he explain a confidential informant, a confidential source there is like a regular person with whom the fbi happens to have interactions with that s on the fbi payroll, fair?
investigation. here s what he said. it s my belief that he turned all of it over. all of it? that doesn t mean i don t communicate, as they should. they should kmoount communicate. or that he could reclaim based on the finds. that would send ace signal that he believes there was a connection to the president. as long he s leaves it will are rebelieves there isn t a connection to the president, which seems, from everything i know, to be correct. greg. i think the bottom line is that whatever this particular whistleblower or would be whistleblower saw or thought he saw, bob mueller likely has the information he needs or will get it and it will be part of the investigation. whether it s valuable evidence or not,ness up to the special counsel. but i m sure he s not being thwarted in in way because of this week. greg brower, first time here will you come back? absolutely. coming up, the trump administration is take aim at planned parenthood this morning in a move tha
becoming less safe. greg, that s serious four. very serious. and he is absolutely correct. we struggled in recent months with this issue at the fbi and at doj because of the nature of some of the unprecedented requests we were receiving. the doj and fbi is all for congressional oversight. but what raised a big red flag for us in recent months was the fact that many of these requests, indeed rau, all of th type of request were all coming from one skblied and that sent up air red flag. exactly. when it s done proper properly it s bipartisan and we weren t seeing that with this issue. and it seemed like there might be a difference, one person sort of confidential informants source or spy, another person says whistleblower. right. the bottom line is with respect to ongoing counterintelligence orion going criminal investigations it s critical that the details of those investigations while they re ongoing be remain confidential. is it concerning to you that