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Trump? lying. >> so michael cohen has made many statements to the house, as i understand it, and the senate. he put out a statement talking about a project which was essentially i guess more of less of an option that we were looking at in moscow. everybody knew about it. it was written about in newspapers. it was a well-known project. so hes lying about a project that everybody knew about. this deal was a very public deal. everybody knows about this deal. >> so that is not true. the potential de...

I dont think the president believes that. we dont even have any proof for all the papers they showed us that day, all the mountains of trees he had in papers, i dont know what was in those documents. i dont know he walled himself from any of the business. the reporting is hes still very much in the loop. >> thats what i was going to say. >> what happens in the business. >> hes still running it. hey, can we talk about michael. youve known michael for, what, decades now, right? >> ive known of h...

He was doing because he knew it was wrong. and all the twisting and attacking and fake this and hoax that cant make mueller believe that the president was lying about it any less. as we teach our kids and as walter scott explained perfectly, oh, what a tangle web we weave when first we practice to deceive. thats all for us tonight. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d lemon starts right now. okay. so it may not have been illegal, but it certainly shows you where his priorities were, ri...

>> just a little awkward. yeah, we got to play it one more time. lets play it, please. >> so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with anyone russian oligarchs. >> thats what he said -- thats what -- thats obviously what the -- our position is. >> oh, that was really, really awkward. i still have no idea what he said there but thats -- doesnt that just sum all of this up, the whole day, just all of it? thats what he said -- thats what -- thats what -- i mean, if thats what he sa...

Know, the way you put it, frank. i think he may have ended up closer to the way youre putting it, michael. >> well, whats amazing to me is to think about how much michael cohen gave up to donald trump. so he was a young man who went to a law school that wasnt exactly harvard or yale. trump gave him all these rewards and status probably before he was ready for them. elevated him very quickly. and he gave in exchange essentially his ethics, his morality. >> what is this favor trump was talking abo...

Someone would be a mayor net or have some self-interests or financial ties that might give you the motivation why, one, russia would feel they have that receptive ear and why perhaps the president has acted, at least to the outward eye, that he is beholden to russia and not criticizing them. what you saw from this cohen guilty plea, if we are to believe it, and certainly robert mueller who has much more access to information than we do and corroboration, if were to believe what he has to say the...

Beginning when they were pursuing the opportunity to spy on the trump campaign. listen, it was 192 days ago at 8:33 in the morning when the president tweeted about fisa saying that the congress is about to reauthorize this, and it may have been used to spy on his campaign. as we know today, he was absolutely right 192 days ago. >> hold on, michael, a couple things. first of all, lets fast forward to one week ago. it was one week ago we were in helsinki. and youre not answering my question. why d...

Actually -- that it would be a good idea for kim jong-un to make his society more open, because if people in north korea see what its like to live in other societies that are not as brutal, ones that have economic opportunity, how can somebody like kim jong-un stay in power. >> yeah, thats western thinking, if you have an open and vibrant society, the leadership cant survive. but the kim family for seven decades has kept themselves in power by keeping people destitute. >> exactly. >> when people...

Comey because of the russia investigation. news flash, anybody who watches a television or has a pulse knows that he told lester holt that he fired james comey because of "the russia thing." and he also tweeted, "not that it matters." what does it mean? not that it matters whether he fired james comey for russia, not that it matters whether he obstructed justice or not? >> trump is continuing to build a public relations strategy convincing his base that mueller is biased against him and that any...

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