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His answer was, its peanut stuff. keep in mind, by our count, at least 16 trump associates have had contact with russians during the campaign or during the transition and he also said in this interview that payments made to women who said they had affairs with him were not campaign contributions. pamela brown is "outfront." pamela, what else is the president saying in this interview? literally these headlines are just crossing. >> reporter: im just reading the headlines that are coming in, realt...

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Ambiguous question. the jury wasnt convinced about whether he was doing it for political campaign purposes or to spare his wife, who was -- >> fighting cancer. >> very, very ill. this is not that case. he was not doing it out of a warm-hearted view of melania he was doing it -- this will have to be proven, but he was doing it to fool the american people so he would win the presidency. thats serious stuff. in fact, the framers of the constitution had that in mind, that very kind of thing when the...

Lying to the fbi. the president insists he does not fear impeachment. he shrugs off campaign contacts with russians as, quote, peanut stuff. we will dig into this in the hour ahead. we are outside the federal courthouse in manhattan. the sentencing range here 50 months to 63 months up to about 5 years. do we have any sense of where it will fall for him in that range? >> no. its ultimately going to be up to the nudge tjudge today. michael cohen will be asking for more leniency, saying he intends ...

Foreclose the prosecution, to give an immunity deal to somebody. >> david pecker with the "national enquirer" got an immunity deal. al anne weisselberg with the trump organization got an immunity deal. michael cohen secretly recorded conversations he had, including with the president of the united states. cnn obtained one of the conversations where he talks about weisselberg and the money pay-offs. listen to this. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- ...

♪ theres no place likargh!e ♪ im trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ breaking news, peanut stuff, president trump just using those words in a brand-new reuters interview they just actually left, theyre pushing their headlines out now. he was asked about people who worked for him that had contacts with russia.

People who had worked for him met or had business dealings with russians before and during his 2016 presidential campaign, trump said, the stuff you are talking about is peanuts stuff. president trump is also talking about michael cohen who will get sentenced today and go to prison. when asked if he had discussed campaign finance laws with cohen the president said, quote, michael cohen is a lawyer. i assume he would know what hes doing, adding that, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. ...

Across. >> i think it caught a lot of folks eye. he was asked when it related to a number of people, 14 or so met or had business dealings before or during the 2016 campaign. he said to you, the stuff youre talking about is peanut stuff. does it tell you they understand the seriousness of this or does he have a point? is there a world of possibility that it might be peanut stuff? >> i think matt is absolutely right. the president just needs to stop talking. it is stunning. >> lets just say that....

>> and, sam, directly off the point bob just made, theres no replacement for chief of staff publicly identified yet. president says a lot of people want the job. all evidence to the contrary. president today owned a potential government shutdown. as steve schmidt would say, wheres the rigor in the west wing and is this peril destined to increase? >> yeah, i think it is. you know, its fairly abnormal for someone heading into a shutdown fight to claim ownership of a potential shutdown. in fact, he...

Reuters asked president trump about prosecutors assertions that many people in his inner circle had met or had business dealings with russians. heres how hep respo responded. quote, the stuff youre talking about is peanut stuff. he also tried to shift blame for the payments michael cohen made to two women at his direction on the campaign trail. payments that federal prosecutors say were illegal, but the president told reuters, quote, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. if it were, its ...