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Air force i he knew nothing about the $130,000 hush money payment to daniels, one made by cohen, and said he knew nothing about the case. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? then why did michael cohen -- >> you have to talk to michael cohen. mike sell my attorney. youll have to ask michael. >> reporter: do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> no, i dont know. >> again, this is a president who will say whatever he wants whenever he wants and the quest...

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Speak with one voice on sensitive issues like this? >> it is donald trump. he is the one here that seems to be unable to have a consistent take on russia. have have been times when this administration has been tough on russia. you think about the ejection of the 60 russians in the wake on the attack on british soil, on the double agent. but he even seemed to be a little dissatisfied that so many russians got expelled. he was looking at european nations and saying they only ejected a handful. why...

>> let me make it worse for john right now by saying thats exactly the person i believe john kelly to be. that sounds exactly like the john kelly that i know. >> comey writes about -- doesnt reveal classified information in regards to then attorney general lorta lynch. comey writes that in early 2016 the government obtained information regarding lynch that he fears critics would use to raise doubts about the investigation into hillary clinton quote the source and content of the material remain c...

Going to be discussing this. he had several dinners including one last week with corey lewandowski and david bossy, so those campaign aides. it will be very interesting to see how that happens. who the next house speaker is and how the president interacts with them. he had a rocky relationship with paul ryan at times. >> but he has good relations with steve scalise, the whip right now, and kevin mccarthy. >> and a lot can happen, phil, between now and november in the mueller/russia probe that ca...

President trump? >> to be flame enamed in a sear warrant. its a little obvious when the fbi made an aggressive move against his personal attorney but michael cohen does other things in his life. the fact that the president is named. the fact it is related to "access hollywood" is a huge deal. it gives us a bit more of an indication about why the president has gone so beserk about this. we dont have suspicion anymore that this is related to donald trump. we know. >> its a big deal indeed. phil mu...

Tried to stay away from. he wants to be on the platform, not the publisher side. so i think that is interesting in terms of possible regulation of things to come. >> obviously one of the biggest issues here is privacy. senator dick durbin had an intering exchange with zuckerberg about the issue of privacy. take a look. >> mr. zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night? >> um -- ah -- no. >> if you messaged anybody this week, would you share wit...

Broke into their offices, the president says, a disgraceful situation, a witch-hunt, phil mud, he says, the president of the united states, this is an attack on our country, what we all stand for. >> it is an attack on our country and it is disgraceful and thats on the part of the president of the united states. this is high school civics, what we call the balance of forces in this country, legislative, judicial. a judge decided outside the mueller investigation that it was appropriate for feder...

Fact that michael cohen, someone who he described more than once in that press availability, as his attorney, not his friend as were hearing the last couple of weeks, as a threat to the united states, rather than as phil says, the duly prosecuted investigation of someone whos involved with the special prosecutor and with the new york attorney general. >> the attorney general is a republican, the deputy attorney general is a republican. the u.s. attorney in manhattan, a republican. robert mueller...

I think the timing is really the most significant piece here. i expect the white house to come out and say all you who criticize us, look at this document. the mueller indictment listing the internet research agency and others was issued as you know in mid-march. why do you think the treasury department comes out now and says were sanctioning the same people who are indicted by the department of justice. treasury had no choice. what are they supposed to do? not going to do anything about the mon...