The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. All things Michael Chone and hes doing quite a lot of talk ing. Jake. Jeff, thanks so much. Lets talk to our experts. Laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. I dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. Start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. Before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
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he s decided to be his own man. i think he wants the love of his family and has decided i m going to try to do the right thing now, i m going to tell the truth. i m not sure i see it that sunnily. i m not sure michael chone has decided to be loyal to morality and do the right thing per se. i think he s still acting out of self-interest. i think he wants a lighter sentence. trump is right about that. he s wrong that michael cohen is lying now. and we know that what michael cohen is saying now about what happened from january 2016 to june in terms of the trump tower in moscow we know he s telling the truth because it s backed up by the documentary evidence mueller has. that s why he had to plead guilty to lying to congress before. but i don t think he has suddenly found morality and rectitude in public service. i think he is once again acting in his best interests and his family s best interests. and no one should begrudge him that but it s not something it s part of he did say i
crime. colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. the president it s a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to president trump s inner circle, he s trying to distance him from manafort. he was never involved in intimate business relationship with donald trump. the president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. all things michael chone and he s doing quite a lot of talk ing. jake. jeff, thanks so much. let s talk to our experts. laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. i don t know if that s a crime. colluding about russians. start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the president didn t hack. before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
tweeted something nasty about the media as he is oft to do. michael cohen took the other side, trolling the president on twitter saying freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. it is democracy. that s what he responded to walter krcronkite. the wall street journal reported recently, april, that in 2009 cohen s working for trump trump tried to push him out and cut his salary in half. if someone tries to cut your salary in half, you know what they think of you. why is trump surprised that cohen was keeping tapes of anything that could make him look bad? i don t know why president trump is acting surprised. michael chone tried to throw him under the bus a couple of times. people tend to gravitate and stay around power. even though he may have cut his
he sought reimbursement of these expenses and mr. trump fully reimbursed mr. cohen in 2017. the category of value would be 100,000 to $250,000 and the rate would be zero. of course, expenses were mincurd in 2016 when daniels was paid and the president did not include them in his 2016 financial disclosure report. no mention of the daniels debt to michael chone. when you re required to report debt, not just pachlts. why? for the second straight day, there has not been a white house press briefing and p president himself today refused to answer questions. mr. president mr. president, why didn t let s! not just the american people who deserve answers to that question. the government s top ethics watchdog wants them, too. the act director firing off to rod rosenstein suggesting he may