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Morning, because the president would be aboard air force one for hours to get him out to california. of course the mueller question is always somewhere close to the surface. he was asked about this. part of what is interesting here is the president is telling reporters that he is personally involved in crafting answers to questions provided to him from the special counsel team, row mueller and his group of propertiors. questions that deal with issues relating to alleged collusion, events that ha...

Obstructed justice, already removed the fbi director james comey, he has tried to fire session, tried to fire robert mueller. he has drafted a statement for his son that was a lie about the trump tower meeting. repeated instances of obstruction of justice. its a very serious situation. and he had better let it alone. he is getting himself in very hot water. hes already in hot water. hes making it a lot worse. im amazed that congress doesnt stand up to him. that they dont do anything and all were...

No willingness on the part of the republicans in the senate and in some of the democrats to stand up to donald trump and do something about this. this is a very dangerous situation. its much worse than watergate because it involves a foreign power that has undermined our democracy, conducting espionage inside the united states, colluded with a political campaign. theres an ongoing investigation. and now the president is trying to fire the investigators. >> and finally, i want to get -- natasha, ...

Plea of guilty, the defendant, yes, your honor. on or about december 2016 in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office i and the ceo of a media company at the request of the candidate worked together to keep an individual with information that would be harmful to the candidate and to the campaign from publicly disclosing this information. i participated in this conduct, which on my part took place in manhattan for the principle purpose of influencing the election. >> so...

Forward to filing some kind of a legal action excellicompelling president to appear in front of a grand jury. >> im joined by nick akerman, brent newborn, and christina belltran. thanks to all of you, bert, your view of this unusual style of cohen pleading and what it portends? >> well, i dont think its particularly unusual. two teams of prosecutors, the new york prosecutor that worked out this particular plea deal, but then theres mueller hovering thinking maybe hes going to be able to get more...

Mueller. instead he is letting the response build tweeting this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt. stay tuned. >> i think the tweets are ad nauseam. he obviously likes to suck all the oxygen out of the room. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says an answer to the mueller question is coming soon but he is dropping hints that the legal team is worried a trap is being set. >> he knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. he is going to ask them. did you tell comey to go easy on flyn...

He defended it by saying, these guys were new. i figured i would give them the answer since they would get the answer, anyway, going through proper channels. its a perfectly appropriate question for the fbi director, or you can help the president find out, what does comey know about general flynn and who else has been recorded if theyre tapping these conversations? which is it? >> if you look further in the memos, there is another scene where reince priebus and comey are in reinces office and ta...

Lawyer. and rudy has a sort of 1980s legal mindset. trumps head is in the 1980s. rudy is that, and he knows the southern district of new york. he comes out of there. he will defend trump capably on tv. trump trusts him, which i think is important in terms of having trust with your lawyer. i think its a good hire on trumps part. >> i agree completely, at least from the communications standpoint. you have a known face who is a good combative on tv. >> i think this is a win for trump. >> now you ha...

>> this is the president were talking about, but is he boxed in, in a sense, at least on the mueller question. rudy giuliani saying hes a man of integrity, i trust him, ive worked with him. rudy says, you dont want to have a special counsel, but if youre going to have one, this is the guy for it. does that box someone in? >> i think the president needs somebody to play the role of the cabinet but also bring the president along with him. so mattis goes in and talks to the president and tells him,...

Also theyre suing folks like paul manafort, george papadopoulos and others all alleging a grand racketeering, hacking and fraud conspiracy here, john. >> okay. shimon, stand by as we continue to track this lawsuit. is there a federal case here? >> reporter: i think there is a very unusual federal case here. the question is will it be thrown out by the federal court? there are 11 different causes of action in the case. i think the most interesting theory is what we call a rico theory. thats the r...