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Jared kushner. the presidents son long insisted his father had no knowledge of the meeting. >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. >> the president offered his confirmation of that yesterday via tweet. i didnt know of the meeting with my son donald jr. someone is trying to makeup stories to get him out of an unrelated jam. this is after he leaked a attack about hush money they paid to a playboy model. now the inner circle are painting an unflattering picture of cohen. rudy giuliani...

The president taken to twitter yesterday to reinforce the claim he has made several times. saying, i did not know of the meeting with my son. sounds like to me someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. the president son is also long assisted his father had no knowledge of the meeting. >> it was such a nothing, there is nothing to tell. i wouldnt have even been remembered until he started scouring through things which is a shame.>> someone like the reco...

Standoff between the president and cohen, his long-time confidante. >> i always liked michael, and hes a good person. >> reporter: the presidents new attorney once praised cohen. >> the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> reporter: but now? >> hes been lying all week or hes been lying for years. theres nobody i know that knows him that hasnt warned me if his back is up against the wall, hell lie like crazy because hes lied all his life. >> reporter: on twitter, the president ripped into his f...

Himself out of an unrelated jam. taxi cabs, maybe he even retained bill and crooked hillarys lawyer. gee, i wonder if they helped him make the choice." well take the tweets in kind starting with the first one here. the interest in the tweets. what we can learn about the president and his thinking from his 140, 280-character tweets over the last two years. >> we can learn a lot. we can learn that hes a very focused thinker whos clear about what hes trying to say, right. and whos always on message...

Direction that mueller or the southern district of new york may like him a little less. >> and referring to coenh, the president tweeted i did not know of the meeting with my son donald jr. sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of unrelated jam. how could these attacks on cohen come back to legally jeopardize president trump? >> as if cohen can corroborate his story. right now we dont see that much corroboration with cohens story. we see a whole lot o...

Its been a crazy week, saturday is a good day to take stock of that. there was this report about michael cohens willingness to testify, that donald trump knew about the meeting that took place in trump tower. i want to get your reaction to the reaction, what we saw from president trump after that was reported first by cnn and other outlets, including nbc news. he tweeted this, "i did not know of the meeting with my son, don jr. sounds like someone is trying to make up stories to get himself out ...

Smoking gun. saying that donald trump knew about this june 2016 meeting can be just as powerful and credible as the fact that we know that trump a participated in that haye hasty cover up after that trump tower meeting occurred in 2016. >> here is what the president tweets, i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds like someone is making up stories to get himself out of an unrelated jam. can this come back to jeopardize the president? >> absolutely. the tweet is being made by...

Evidence. for instance, donald trump jr. called an unlisted number shortly after that meeting. get cell phone numbers leading to donald trump himself would be very strong evidence. >> brian, the president verbally silent, publicly speaking. you go to twitter and in a tweet says cohen is "trying to make up stories" to get himself out of an unrelated jam. different than the tone when the pr president called cohen a great guy. can you make heads or tails what this looks like? >> estranged now and u...

On a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 554 of the trump administration and the president escalates the war on his former lawyer and confidant michael cohen while denying he had any advance knowledge about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower. a source has told nbc news cohen is willing to tell robert mueller that donald trump junior informed his father about the meeting before it took place. trumps son had the meeting with several russians ...

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