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Happen doesnt matter. he was trying to curry favor with them. >> this is how an intelligence operation would work. you figure out vulnerabilities and cast out the net and real them in. then maybe that goes astray because he gets the nomination. thats around the same time the trump tower meeting happens with the offer for dirt. you pulled him in a little bit more. when all of that is secret, that becomes your leverage over the person. >> for its assumed that donald trumps statement is in contrast...

>> fact check -- here is why cohens plea deal with mueller really matters. it raises the possibility of trump concealing his business dealings with a foreign power in this case, russia. it also raises the question of whether the kremlin had leverage over trump while he was a candidate and as people were voting for him during the primary. and think about the deals impact on the future of this entire russia investigation. michael cohen has now shared information with muellers team at least seven d...

Bank on him as a witness. >> president trump said -- the deal was scrapped so it doesnt matter and it wouldnt matter if the deal wasnt scrapped any way. does it matter? >> it absolutely matters and heres why. you have a candidate for the president of the united states, the most awesome power in the land was in active negotiations and it wasnt disclosed at the same time he is taking a favorable foreign policy stance toward russia, wanting to change and did change the platform on ukraine at the re...

This morning. >> well, if mr. cohen misled the congress about the presidents business dealings in russia deep into the campaign, it also means that the president misled the country about his business dealings and that the russians were, apparently, attempting to gain financial leverage over the potential president of the united states. this is just underscores how important it is for us to finish the investigation, to determine what financial links the russians have to the president and the trum...

Are a number of judges, about 25 or so that we havent moved through the judiciary committee that my vote is needed to move them through. and ive indicated i wont vote for those judges. in fact more than a dozen are slated tomorrow morning in the judiciary committee and i will vote no, which means they cant progress to the floor. in addition i just voted no on one they had to bring the vice president in to put on top for a cloture vote. i can use that leverage and i will, but unfortunately, you k...

I guess we had in a form it was an option. >> i dont know what you call it. we decided -- i decided ultimately not to do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. it was my business. hes lying, very simply, to get a reduced sentence. >> quick fact check. very few people actually knew of this trump tower project in moscow at the time. it came to light after the presidential inauguration. and here is why cohens plea deal with mueller matters so much. among the many questions, it rai...

This is -- we dont know what other businesses there are in other parts of the world or in moscow or anywhere else. but i think as i said, the important part of the michael cohen today is what did he say other than about the moscow project. >> do you believe, senator, that this proves that the russians had leverage over president trump? >> well, it certainly indicates that they had some -- that the president was interested in doing this deal. i dont know if id escalate it to say it was leverage. ...

To what he has said in the past and it doesnt take you very long to see in july 2016, for the record, i have zero investments in russia. russia has never tried to use leverage over me. i have no deals, no loans, nothing. february of 2017, i can tell you speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia, i have no loans in russia, i dont have any deals in russia. >> yea. and those are the public comments. one is the deal didnt go through, at least this one, so hes on terra firma there. most importantl...

Visit russia saying it was his trip before cleveland. sater was in close contact with cohen during the campaign and boasted about his ties. our boy can become the president of the united states and the we can engineer it. ill get all of putins team to buy in on this and ill manage the process. the trump tower moscow deal never came to fruition, but the changing story for michael cohen has them calling for more investigations. >> this only underscores the importance of bringing mr. cohen back bef...

Hew whitaker who has not ben con23rco confirmed by the senate and like i said when he was auditioning for this job, expressed a lot of hostility towards the mueller probe and indicated at that point there are ways without firing mueller into the probe, like starving the probe of funds. and we just dont know how much interaction there is right now between mr. whitaker and mr. mueller. mr. mueller might have to ask permission to issue certain subpoenas or to take certain actions that might be deni...