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Deposition, and there is no way that donald trump can escape that. no way on earth. >> and richard, back to the point that you made earlier, and the cohen spokesman and david schwartz, spokesman said that he had no idea about the agreement with stormy daniels and no idea about the $130,000 payment to stymie her. this is the interview on cnn. >> the president is not aware of the agreement, and at least michael cohen never told him about the agreement, and you asked a whole bunch of questions and ...

President was never in any way aware of the $130,000 or the agreement itself? >> the president was not aware of the agreement. michael cohen never told him and you asked a bunch of questions so let me cover that. you asked 12 days before -- >> not aware about the agreement. what about the money? >> he was not aware about any of it. he wasnt told about it. michael cohen left the option open. thats why he left the signature line. michael cohen chose not to go to him. you have to understand the str...

$130,000 or the agreement itself? >> the president was not aware of the agreement. at least michael cohen never told him about the agreement. i can tell you that. you asked a whole bunch of questions. let me cover that. >> mm-hmm. >> you asked about 12 days before -- >> what about the money? >> he was not aware about any of it. >> okay. >> he was not aware. >> okay. >> wasnt told about it. michael cohen left the option open. thats why he left the option open. an option to go to him. he chose not...

I can tell you that. you asked a whole bunch of questions, so let me cover that. so, you asked about 12 days before -- >> not aware about the agreement. what about the money? he >> he was not aware of any of t. he wasnt told about it. michael cohen left the option open. thats why he left that signature line. the option open to go to him. he chose not to. >> wow, that was david schwarz, the lawyer for trumps lawyer and fixer michael cohen, the michael cohen who paid $130,000 in hush money to stor...

Down. >> you havent answered the substantive question about whether the president was aware of the $130,000 payment that was made under agreement in which he is explicitly named to keep stormy daniels silent. can you answer that question? you were asked three weeks ago you werent aware. are you aware now? >> look, the president has denied the allegations. weve spoken about this issue extensively. and i dont have anything to add beyond that. anything beyond that i would refer you to the outside c...

From the doj. would it have been more helpful not to boycott, to be there in front of the president to air your grievances with president trump? >> actually, when i got -- you know, invitation from the white house just a week prior to going to washington for the meetings, i reluctantly rsvpd to go. i was about 90% sure i wasnt going to go. but the 10% was about the fact it was not about my personal political thinking around this, the president, his policies and his administration, but the fact t...

Then candidate trump. court documents he mentioned setting up a meeting with then candidate trump and vladimir putin. trump did not dismiss the idea but left the option open. the person who did dismiss the idea was general jeff sessions. he said we should not move forward with this idea. this is raising a lot of questions on capitol hill because sessions did not disclose that when-asked about russia. tonight the democrats are asking questions. >> jeff sessions concealed his meetings with russian...

Source who was in the room that the then-candidate trump did not rule it out. he kept the option open. didnt say yes or no. made some remarks about this. and later in the conversation, it was jeff sessions, now the attorney general, then the senator from alabama, said pretty clearly, this should not go forward and rejected this idea. now, how the president responded, we believe, from our sourcing, is that this is going to be an area for the special council to likely look at going forward. as par...

Are they aware of it? >> i think they dont -- they got two things handed to them in the last 24 hours. one is do something about health care. make it work. the other is figure out something to do about iran. you know, theres some level of buck passing by donald trump. as aaron points out, he is trying to thread a very fine needle here. they believe this is about donald trumps personal politic. aaron noted it. donald trump doesnt have any iran policy. he didnt run on an iran policy. barack obama ...

That cnn is reporting that hezbollah, not isis, not al qaeda, but hezbollah added now to the equation backed by iran is perhaps plotting terror attacks on u.s. soil. i assume youve seen those reports. thats pretty alarming, given hezbollahs record, the u.s. marine barracks in beirut where a couple of marines were killed. what theyre accused of doing in argentina, the jewish center there. how worried are you about hezbollah terror threats to the united states? >> i saw those reports. i obviously ...