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Good to have you on. michael, there are now so many questions into president trump. you say that trump believed that the real estate business in new york was corrupt and deceptive and he acted accordingly. explain. >> right. he did believe it was and he did act accordingly. when donald trumps dad was coming up in the 30s and the 40s, it was a profoundly corrupt business. you had to pay off the unions. a lot of what you purchased had a big markup because you were also paying off people there. pol...

Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. only at your lincoln dealer. robert muellers investigation into russias attack on the 2016 election is getting the most, most of the headlines. but president trump is also facing questions about his businesses, and he has warned that would be crossing a red line. right now the president is surrounded by investigations of his campaign, his transition team, and his administration. plus ...

Was out there and they did nothing to correct the public record. in fact, the president was saying, you know, as president i had nothing to do with russia. as far as i know, nobody i was doing business with was in contact with anybody in russia. it was all not true. >> all right. as we just say, a lie. >> well -- >> thank you. >> ill let you say that. >> thank you, michael. i appreciate your time. >> any time. >> get the book, "russian are you roulette." robert mueller isnt the only investigat...

In his best interests and his familys best interests. >> its part of -- he did say hes acting in his familys interests and today when the president said you know, he wants a lighter sentence. who the wouldnt? >> of course who wouldnt. right. >> who wouldnt want a more lenient sentence. he does not have a deal with the special prosecutor, michael, for a more lenient deal. how it would behoove him to lie at this point and then go back and lie to the special prosecutor? wouldnt that in fact, backfi...

Endorse trump back before anyone knew his campaign would go anywhere. trump was loyal to jeff sessions. where is jeff sessions now? >> interesting. michael, listen, cohen was one of trumps inner circle, right? he was in a core group that included the family. it was suppose to be bound by loyalty. was today the ultimate betrayal in donald trumps eyes? >> well, i think it was. but i think this has been obviously unraveling very slowly. the presidents been aware that michael cohen is sort of a lost...

Who had written all over him im vulnerable to this. ill join into this, what is essentially a conspiracy. everything that donald trump did through his business life was to evade straight up competition. these are not people who wanted to go toe to toe with somebody. they always want to have an advantage. some way of gaming the system. and i think cohen indicated he was ready to do that. >> in the short time i have left, frank, if that is indeed so, then it would seem that donald trump picked up ...

So michael cohen once said that he would take a bullet for donald trump. that was then. and this is now. now cohen says he is guilty of lying to congress out of loyalty to this president. and hoilt has always been very, very important to donald trump. >> we could use some more loyalty. >> i love loyalty. loyalty can be a wonderful thing. >> loyalty is very important. im loyal to a fault, im loyal. >> loyalty. you know, some of these people have like a 10% loyalty meaning if they sneeze in the wr...

Know, the way you put it, frank. i think he may have ended up closer to the way youre putting it, michael. >> well, whats amazing to me is to think about how much michael cohen gave up to donald trump. so he was a young man who went to a law school that wasnt exactly harvard or yale. trump gave him all these rewards and status probably before he was ready for them. elevated him very quickly. and he gave in exchange essentially his ethics, his morality. >> what is this favor trump was talking abo...

Push the envelope on proliferation and other illegal activity and show off and have a nice lunch with the president of the united states. >> michael? >> lets look at one other aspect. >> hang on, carl. michael quickly and then carl. >> i think were seeing that in some ways north korea is reshaping the world more than the ud states. we have america losing friends because the president is pushing them away, and we have north korea being brought into the warm embrace of the united states. so when w...

>> youre making me hungry. the most important meeting according to most observers was the face to tasface between the two leaders and then you had this bilateral meeting and then to the working lunch. theres probably a lot of details that had not been gotten into during the face to face and this is yet another opportunity to try to build some bridges and figure out what that path forward is. >> anderson cooper is covering this historic summit in singapore. thank you. i want to bring in jonathan ...