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Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the pres...

Headliner michael cohens attorney lanny davis since he began representing the presidents former lawyer. lanny davis, good morning to you. >> an old veteran of fox news. im back. >> sandra: nice to see you this morning. first off the question a lot of people are wondering, will your client cooperate with robert mueller? >> the answer is he will cooperate with everyone because he is committed to telling the truth. thats a general statement. i cant give you a specific answer regarding mr. mueller o...

First interview with george stephanopolous some very specific principles that he is on the opposite side of donald trump. he mentioned, for example, his respect for the f.b.i. he mentioned his respect for the intelligence community. unanimous judgment including donald trumps own director of national intelligence that the russians interfered on mr. trumps behalf in what is the functional equivalent of corrupting our democracy and only one person is left who denies his own intelligence communitys ...

Coordination with the prosecutors language there that he agreed to. and donald trump is disagreeing with the prosecutors, with mr. cohens description of this as a crime. the same way he disagrees with the entire intelligence community. not one dissenter in his own administration. so when rudy giuliani says truth isnt truth, you just heard donald trump reverse truth and make it into a falsehood. classic. >> eric: in court yesterday your client said he was directed by candidate number one basicall...

Possibility isnt a fact. it is my judgment and observation that there is that possibility. and he will have to leave the specifics as to whether or not that possibility becomes stronger than possibility up to mr. mueller or whoever is questioning him. >> sandra: mr. davis, your client once said he would take a bullet for this president. what changed? >> right. thats a great question and it was one of my first questions when he called me. because i was not interested in representing him if he wer...

President george w. bush. what a morning, night, afternoon, the news keeps coming in. paul manafort, what are the implications of the outcome of this trial on the mueller investigation and president trump? >> absolutely. what an afternoon it was yesterday. developments occurring every hour on the hour it seemed. as far as manaforts significance, there are a few things to take away here. the first is look, this trial did not concern any of the work that manafort did in his role as campaign chairm...

Tibbetts would be going to college in a couple of weeks as she should be. it is heartbreaking. >> eric: not just the wall but its actual laws were enforced then perhaps that would be the case. the difference between kate steinle and this, this suspect has confessed as opposed to going to trial. >> so we will not have an opportunity to have 12 people get it wrong like they did in the kate steinle case because they were picked from a pool in a sanctuary city. we have a confession. unless he retrac...

This illegal immigrant had used the e-verify system and they said the illegal immigrant had come back as legal and able to work for them. so that needs to be looked into. one, is it accurate? two, if there is a hole in the system it has to be fixed. in 76 days voters are going to get their chance to have a say on this. and every candidate needs to be asked what are you going to do, what vote will you cast to make sure that illegal immigrants dont come into this country and continue to commit hei...

To tell the truth does your client know anything about alleged russian collusion and anything that donald trump told him about a candidate as b alleged russian collusion and testify any actions the president may or may not have taken concerning the russians? >> i know youre doing your job and you wont be surprised to know im not going to answer a question until mr. mueller is finished with his investigation. and well leave it up to mr. mueller and other investigation bodies before we tell people...

Never been decided. i see no quotation from mr. mueller. i see attribution anonymously but there are two opinions of the office of legal counsel. many years ago the supreme court has never ruled. i think there is a traditional view that you dont indict sitting presidents but thats an insettled question. >> sandra: obviously, mr. davis, there is a question of whether or not he committed a federal crime. that doesnt exist today. >> excuse me, im sorry to interrupt you but there is no question. and...