so glad to have you with us. and we have breaking news. the president angry, lashing out, going off on twitter by attack robert mueller, the free press, and even threatening a government shutdown if democrats won t agree to pay for his border wall. the president arrived at the white house just a few minutes ago. it s unclear right now if he ll continue his tirade once he settled in for the night. it s also unclear what exactly has set him off. but it could be a number of things, as we ve told you. his former attorney and loyal friend michael cohen appears to be ready to flip on him. sources say cohen is willing to tell mueller that trump knew in advance about that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting, the one with the russians, offering dirt on hillary clinton. and on top of that the president has learned along with everyone else that cohen has been secretly recording their private conversations for who knows how long. we played one of those tapes for you last week. it s the one where t
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hmm, now here s what he just told fox news. why do you feel it s necessary to get on the record with things that haven t been asked yet or that are not public yet? what s coming? when i thought when i thought when i thought it was going to be published, i wanted to get out in front of it. as harris faulkner points out, no report exists right now. as of now there has been no reporting at all that michael cohen claims that there was another meeting. now, it comes on the heels of a busy weekend for the president, at least on twitter. in a trio of tweets rife with questionable claims he called the investigation a rigged witch hunt and an illegal scam. quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious business relationship. i turned him down to head the fbi and comey is his clo
hello, everyone, i m kate boldu bolduan. thank you so much for joining me. shock and surprise. you would think at this point it would be nearly impossible for a comment from the about the to shock or surprise anyone. but he did in a jarring oval office interview. president trump said he d welcome foreign interference in the upcoming election. here he is with abc. listen. your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on opponents, should they accept it or call the fbi? i think maybe you do board of health. i think you might want to listen. there s nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i d want to hear it. you want that kind of interfeesinte interference on our elections? it s information.
i think i d take it. if i thought there was something wrong, i d go maybe to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong. but when somebody com
Of law in this country.ense how does that make any a sense t the rule of law? that guy should have won the emmy best actress in a dramatic series. oh, sorry. i didn t mean to say actress. fbi is an honest, apolitical organization. i hope people will stare at that and learn about what the fbi is like. human and flawed, but deeply committed to trying to do the right thing. honestion trying to do the rt thing. wha t a prevaricating prigg that s not what durham concluded, but the political class, terrified of a bold populist like trump in office. they did everything they could to corroborated of the fbi instead of act as a legislative check on it. legislata check on its overreac, one word shiftless. there was direct evidence ino the emails from the russians through their intermediary, offering dirt on hillaryr need clinton as part of whatd is described in writing as the
With russian tice well before confirmation of the russian effort. they found papadopoulos communicated the information he learned to at least two separate foreign governments. the committee could not confirm that papadopoulos wanted the information. though the committee finds it implausible that papadopoulos did not do so. in other news, offering dirt on hillary clinton, this is what the intel committee with the chairman rote. committee assesses that at least two participants in the june 9, 2016 meeting have significant connections to the russian government, including russian intelligence services. and trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain