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Direct knowledge to the trump tower moscow negotiations told buzz feed earlier this yeerd that cohen was in frequent contact with foreign individuals and that some of these individuals had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling." this comes, of course, from the same reporting team that six months ago wrote this piece that almost matches word for word todays indictment. they got it completely and totally right. here to talk about all of it, one of those reporters, jason leopold. ...

The president calls collusion -- no collusion. were lining everything up and connecting the dots with respect to that connection. then the question really becomes how does the house of cards fall or not? i think at this point its really unlikely it wont fall. but i think the two big pieces for this president would be his family, number one, and his organization. >> yup. >> if hes going to pull a lever, i dont think its going to be around michael cohen yet. >> kim wehle and ben wittes, thanks ver...

Hes threatened to do it is much, much longer than the list of things that hes actually done. >> what do you think of that, kim? >> well, i think as a factual matter, the mueller investigation and whats being -- what we know publicly, were getting close and closer to what the president calls collusion -- no collusion. were lining everything up and connecting the dots with respect to that connection. then the question really becomes how does the house of cards fall or not? i think at this point it...

Robert muellers question about the trump moscow project was basically identical to what cohen admitted today in court. in other words cohen is a liar who is telling the truth on this and also the president is too. talk more about how the president is handling this, im joined by kim wehle. ben, ill start with you, you just wrote a piece on the law fare blog, how to read michael cohens latest plea, what is your takeaway about the import of today, the presidents answers he submitted to mueller? >> ...

Leopold. everything you said shows up today. the reporting you have tonight, what was this plan and how far did it get? >> well, first, thank you, chris, i appreciate that and the kind words. the plan was discussed prior to january 2016 when michael cohen said that all of the negotiations related to trump tower moscow ended. felix sater is the one who said he came up with the idea for giving vladimir putin -- or handing this penthouse to vladimir putin as a way to entice oligarchs into purchasin...

Citizenship in the bill, he said, to some reporters at the capitol late in the week, if the bill is conditioned on a path to citizenship and, yes, senator cruz, it is, he said it probably wont pass. he hasnt decided he is going to become kind of part to rubio, a face to the opposition but racing questions to show the two republican stars will give different camps places to line up behind. >> is that a smart play? does he want to come out, ted cruz, and stand across from marco rubio and be the op...