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>> you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? >>s shes an informant. an informant to the prosecutor general. think about that. this person who met with the campaign chairman, his son, and son-in-law, met promising dirt on his opponent. where they were expecting to get that dirt on hillary clinton. this person is an informant to a top kremlin official. the house intelligence committee has concluded its investigation. special counsel robert mueller has not. and we know for a f...

Campaign chairman, his son, and son-in-law, met promising dirt on his opponent. where they were expecting to get that dirt on hillary clinton. this person is an informant to a top kremlin official. the house intelligence committee has concluded its investigation. special counsel robert mueller has not. and we know for a fact he is interested in the trump tower meeting, because just this week in a court filing on that manafort case, muellers prosecutors revealed a warrant they obtained last summe...

The contact you had with the most senior people who are now in our government. >> you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? >> shes an informant. an informant to the prosecutor general. think about that. this person who met during the campaign with the presidents campaign chairman, his son, and son-in-law, now a senior white house adviser, met, promising dirt on his opponent, where they were expecting to get that dirt on hillary clinton. this person is an informant to a top...

Fighting back. truth does matter. >> truth does matter. and if its a legitimate defamation suit, you could continue it and maybe win it even during this criminal investigation. that just changed. this is super important. cohens not fighting back anymore. in fact, while cohen claims that his basic suit there would have merit, he says he now doesnt have the time to do this case. the decision to drop the lawsuit comes, though, just days after a report that mueller is confirming part of the dossiers...

That now will allow her to talk about the relationship. it comes after the raid where the fbi seized materials regarding cohen effectively buying her silence. why did you get such a good outcome for your client? >> i think the short answer is, this is not a case that am. >> -- ami wanted to fight, and theres a risk to them with the discovery and the things we allege would be established. so they folded. basically everything we wanted at the beginning they gave us. when that happens, you have to ...

Theyre terrified of him. he is known -- >> why are they terrified of him? >> hes known as an absolute pit bull. hes known to be brilliant and he was one of the top prosecutors of all the mob bosses in new york city. he also was very instrumental in taking down all of the players in the enron scandal. so he has a pretty pristine reputation, and the place where he could run into some trouble is these credible -- these potential allegations of bias that may taint his part of the investigation. >> t...

Things about what was happening and theres some corroborating evidence to suggest comey was right. if you read the report, thats basically what it comes down to. typically on a case like this, you dont charge based on a he said/he said in terms of false statements. >> what we see here, matt miller, if you want to take a skeptical view, two key witnesses, comey and mccabe, against potentially donald trump in the obstruction matter, are now having a public feud with the looming threat of jail, whi...

Given the facts of this case, it would be kind of startling to me that he was. >> and a big difference, renato, in contrast to the clinton case, the sitting president at the time was not on a war path, publicly attacking and impugning a person. the process played out in a slightly more normal way until james comey got involved. does this concern you, renato, and do you think there is a case for indicting andy mccabe? >> well, first of all, going to that public attack that you talked about, ari, ...

Talking about jailing these people. thats where we are. its almost as if some people want to not look at that. renato, jake tapper did a very solid interview with james comey, pressing on some key points, and at one point raised the issue of whether he could become a witness in this case. take a listen. >> given that the i.g.s reports reflects interactions andy mccabe had with me and other executives, i could well be a witness. >> what do you think of the way james comey is weighing in on this, ...

With "the national enquirer," why was michael cohen involved? >> its the $64 million question. >> or is it the $130,000 question, depending on the case? >> 150 in ours, yeah. >> you dont know? >> we dont know, no. >> do you think its nefarious? >> of course its nefarious. >> in the complaint here, you say that ami worked in cloberation with cohen and mcdougals own lawyer. and now in your new settlement, nothing in agreement releases any claim that mcdougal, you guys have or may have, against kei...