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Cevallos. and nelson, as we head into 2 9 2019, what are you looking to happen in the mueller probe? >> well, we had a break this fall leading up to the the mid-terms when for two months or so, not much happened. the minute that the mid-terms were over, we saw muellers investigation not only seemingly speeding up, but to practiced eyes tying up loose ends. a number of the long-time cooperating witnesses like michael flynn, papadopoulos, michael cohen, of course, and their sentencings were schedu...

Arkansas. he investigated the suicide of vince foster. he investigated fbi file use at the white house. he investigated the travel office firings. those things had nothing to do except they all lightly touched on bill clinton. what were seeing mueller doing is much more tightly linked to the activities of donald trump, both during the campaign, his family, his business, his foundation. and then of course claims of obstruction of justice that have sprung up since president trump became president ...

Denials are weak and dangerous. hes offered up three defenses. his first was to repeatedly deny. he flatly denied knowledge of the payments to stormy daniels. now he says he knew. now trump has turned to other excuses. they turn to another case of john edwards to say it was wasnt a crime. even if it was it wasnt a biggie. there are plenty of crimes so what, who cares? the former is a very week legal argument and the scary. lets me bring in my panel. donna edwards. brian bennet. harry litman. for...

>> nelson, i have to ask you, i guess this takes into account your opinion as a tv viewer and lawyer. how did you think cohen came off in this tv interview? >> you listen to him and he sounds credible. he looked right at the questioner. he was direct. i thought he sounded clear. he made sense to me. and then i thought to myself, you know, this is a guy who, at the same time, pleaded guilty to sheltering $4 million of income through a complex scheme of hiding taxi medallions and false statements ...

End. >> nelson, we have decided youre bearing an appearance closest to mueller of anyone on this program, so please channel him. youre bob mueller. you look up at "good morning america" and you see this guy sitting with george stephanopoulos. how do you take the fact that he might have fallen short of cooperating with team usa and hes out telling his story, perhaps going further than he did behind closed doors? we dont know. >> youre never happy when youre witness is out there making statements ...

Not supposed to lie to the fbi. many people, i in the department of justice had occasions to interview by the fbi. you dont start it out with starchy miranda warnings. flynn was probably already committed to a false story and felt he couldnt go back. but the notion that he was entrapped in some way really doesnt fly at all. >> nelson, when you were here in new york and running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. im going read you what he wrote today on twitter. >...

Brian bennett, nelson cunningham. so congresswoman, i promised to start with you. first of all, do you think cohen is capable of migrating in the public mind to become a credible and sympathetic character? we certainly have seen a migration of the presidents answers on this top kick from i didnt know about the payments to i learned about it later to where we are now. >> if anybody has lied, frankly, all along, its really been the president. so much so that hes had to abandon one defense after th...

Until two weeks before the election that he pays the hush money into the accounts of both giuliani and cohen and common sense, theres a direct link between the payments and trying to keep the truth from coming out in order to affect the election. so they will try to invoke the edwards case to show its not a crime but its only -- the factual differences are pronounced, and they cut very strongly against the presidents efforts here. >> nelson, i have to ask you, i guess this takes into account you...

He said a pretty strong advantage given the presidents continual changes of versions and implausibility on his own end. >> nelson, we decided youre bearing the appearance of robert mueller closest. youre bob mueller. you look up at "good morning america." you see this guy sitting with george stephanopoulos. how do you take the fact that he might have fallen short cooperating with team usa and hes out telling his story publicly, perhaps going further than he did behind closed doors, we dont know....

He was already committed probably to a false story and he felt he couldnt go back. but the notion that he was entrapped in some way doesnt fly at all. >> hey, nelson, when you were here in new york running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. im going to read you what he wrote today on twitter. the fbi 302s, basically transcripts of interviews with general flynn show comey and strzok were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap for flynn. it include...