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Any sort of criminal activity on the presidents side. so this is all much ado about nothing. its cohen himself trying to either get a better plea bargain from mueller. this is about the public opinion and the media that is very anti-trump trying to make this a big deep when theres no evidence. even if it were true, what is the crime? >> neil: so a meeting that was gives a head up on and a russia is there or russian operative, whatever you want to call it is there, how do you prove collusion? its...

Trying to address issues in americas national security concern. in this case, there is no substance. it is just about the optics. >> yesterday, secretary of state mike pompeo, or two daze ago, testified in front of congress. he didnt give a lot of answers as to what happened in that meeting or whats going on with north korea. whats going on with the communication between this administration and the intel community, but also between lawmakers? is it usually -- is there tushl usually this much of ...

Get. so they are going to talk to people and say, hey, what did you mean when you sent this? look at the manafort case. we have five bankers and accountants that have been given use immunity. who do we talk to here to try to get intent, to try to get information about what was behind this meeting? any sort of meeting. what was behind this particular payment? why was money wired here? and they are going to take a lot of time to get that and get it right. they are going to have to go to people. th...

Do we believe the rudy of may or last night? can we take the president at his word? a man who by "the washington posts" accounts, has made a false or misleading claims -- has made claims 3,251 times. that was the count as of may 31st. the big question today, who is more credible? donald trump or michael cohen? joining me now is tom winter, an nbc investigations reporter, a columnist for "the daily beast," eli stokols, a white house reporter for "the l.a. times" and joyce vance, a former u.s. att...

Only one that i can think of with michael cohen, and i have racked my brain, and maybe you have one that you have, is telling chris cuomo that he was not recording him in his office when -- or in that meeting that they had when he was recording them. credibility within this organization, why would rudy giuliani look at michael cohen and say he has none of it? >> well, because right now michael cohen could be very damaging to the presidents case, and thats why you see rudy giuliani suddenly attac...

Prolific tweeter and he has posted negative tweets at least 14 times about jeff sessions. this as were learning that muellers prosecutors have requested 50 new subpoenas in the manafort case. michael schmidt is here. and greg brower, a former u.s. attorney, a former assistant director for the office of congressional affairs at the fbi and a partner brownstein hyatt and shrek. the tweets in question, how much are they paying attention to the jeff sessions tweets in particular, and what are they l...

I thought it was striking that mr. giuliani did not deny the report that you talked about that basically is not going to be -- the president is not going to be talking to mr. mueller at all about obstruction of justice. if he talks to him at all, it will be about collusion. i think as a lawyer, thats a good position to take. >> laura: professor dershowitz, before we let you go, im glad we got that question in to rudy. because that report has been floating around. he was like, they are focused on...

This is the least of the presidents troubles, i think. i thought it was striking that mr. giuliani did not deny the report that you talked about that basically is not going to be -- the president is not going to be talking to mr. mueller at all about obstruction of justice. if he talks to him at all, it will be about collusion. i think as a lawyer, thats a good position to take. >> laura: professor dershowitz, before we let you go, im glad you got that question to rudy because that report has be...

Its an odd choice. >> i dont know. i cant comment on that, laura. i dont want to do that. i question the whole tactic, the comments tonight, shifting the thing to cohen. >> laura: rudy, finally here -- >> you have to be able to answer for your client or not answer all all. we do finally on the issue of talking to mueller, special counsel here, reports came out that you all will talk about collusion and nothing else. is there any developments on that you can tell us? >> no, i think we have been d...

I cant comment on that, laura. some will say im interfering with counsel if i do that. i dont want to do it. i question the whole tactic, the comments tonight, shifting the thing to cohen. throwing him under the bus. >> laura: rudy, finally here -- >> you have to be able to answer for your client or not answer at all. >> laura: finally on the issue of talking to mueller, special counsel here, reports came out that you all will talk about collusion and nothing else. is there any developments on t...