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Yourself, have criminal liability. it betrays the fact theres an assumption amongst trumps camp he has criminal -- and michael cohen knows something about it. >> renato, you bring up a very good point from an attorney who has worked with him for a long time is saying this, because otherwise why would you have to give him that advice, right? >> well, yeah, you know, when i was a federal prosecutor, a junior prosecutor, my supervisor was teaching me, he said all these people are cooperators, the r...

>> -- that investigation. now, he keeps saying theres no collusion, nothing there. papadopoulos -- >> a lot of links. >> -- pleaded guilty. michael flynn pleaded guilty. paul manafort was indicted. rick gates pleaded with the mueller team on one conspiracy charge. russian nationals, three russian companies were -- >> to be fair, theyre not about -- its not about -- >> it has arisen from this investigation. if youre going to talk about it, then you need to give the whole scope of the investigatio...

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Was or we dont know what the things were that not only the prosecutor in the u.s. attorneys office and the judge and, frankly, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein knew about this. all of them thought that there was enough evidence or enough concern that this unbelievably unprecedented raid on a president of the united states attorney, fixer, whatever you call him, could go through. it certainly does tell you that there could be a -- to use ryans term -- crime that michael cohen could flip...

To counter-punching at a press continue tonight. asked about firing mueller, said no collusion at least five times. never mind mueller and comey and so many others at the center of the russia probe are republicans. what does this flailing answer tell you? >> ill tell you, it suggests to me that hes trying to do something a lot of people do when theyre under criminal investigation which is attack the prosecution, demean the prosecution, demean the people who are investigating you. it usually does...

Me that hes trying to do something a lot of people do when theyre under criminal investigation which is attack the prosecution, demean the prosecution, demean the people who are investigating you. it usually doesnt matter. usually we sort of, you know, you know, you laugh it off, ive been criticized, ive been atta attacked. i think any federal prosecutor has. the difference here is this guys their boss and what hes done is hes convince add lot of people in this country, a lot of republicans that...

He has criminal -- >> renato, you bring up a very good point from an attorney who has worked with him for a long time is saying this, because otherwise why would you have to give him that advice, right? >> well, yeah, you know, when i was a federal prosecutor, a junior prosecutor, my supervisor was teaching me, he said all these people are cooperators, the reason they have this information is because they are associating with criminals. and they are, you know, often criminals, themselves. i mean...

Subject but not a target of the investigation. now everybodys doing amateur law school trying to figure out what that means. my question is, did they have to tell the presidents lawyers that? why would you tell somebody that theyre a subject? >> again, i dont have any personal insight into the status of any individuals in the special counsels investigation. but to answer your question, it, if someone asks, is my client, in a federal investigation a target, subject or witness, you do need to tell...

Available to the public. >> okay. >> and its one of the things that a junior prosecutor will learn very early on. because someone will ask them, well, you want to talk to my client. what is he? and so people, prosecutors, experienced prosecutors are very familiar with the concept, but its pretty simple. i mean, someone who a prosecutor wants to talk to will fit in a wide range of categories. and one extreme will be a witness, a witness, thats someone who has relevant information about the invest...

You have lots of unpaid advisors on every campaign, and this guy was in meetings with donald trump and jeff sessions, the head of the foreign policy advisory team. he was clearly -- he talked about possibly going to russia for the campaign. ended up not doing it, because they would not pay for him to g go, but it is misleading to call him a coffee boy. spill what you think about the dossier, it is an important role in sparking the investigation. >> it did play a role, but as a former prosecutor,...