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Inflounce t influence the proceeding. i want to go back to what matt was saying about the lies around trump tower. this is one of those things regardless of why they lied, why he lied, its a huge deal. this was a fraud on the american public. this was donald trump -- we know from the cohen plea documents -- was in communication with michael cohen, knowing michael cohen was talking to the putin government about a project that needed vladimir putins approval. while the russians were attacking our ...

Trumps current lawyer responded with this. if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. but he also exposed the lie that the dealings went longer than that january 2016 date. >> did drunk know that michael cohen was pursuing trump moscow, a co-- according to the daytimee gave it would go up to november 2016. you had some time to sift there it, what do you think? >> this clip is very important. some of this we knew, we sometimes forget what we have already learned. in ...

So explain how your former colleagues would have arrived at this butina deal. >> if you look at the plea documents that were filed today to which maria butina pled guilty, its clear this is part of a long-running investigation, back in 2015. >> before anything with the election. >> before special counsel mueller and his team were appointed. this goes back a long ways and its part of, frankly, a long-running effort by the russians to try and influence us to try and seed operatives in here. this i...

Cooperator. shes pled guilty and shes looking for consideration from the government by cooperating with them. and shes going to be interviewed and debriefed. she has already as evidenced by the fact that now shes pleading guilty. shes signing up to be very forthcoming and clear about everything shes been involved in. so she signed up to and pled guilty to acting as an agent of the russian federation and at the direction of -- this is interesting, in the plea documents, if you look at them, at th...

It is not a crime, that campaign finance law is not a crime, it most certainly is a crime. harry litman may disagree with me on this. i might suggest that campaign finance law, this particular violation is defensive bull, and history shows us through the john edwards case that these cases may be defensible in the sense that they dont always result in a conviction because it is difficult to prove the actual willfulness of the conduct. but thats a totally different inquiry than whether or not it i...

Response to congressional inquiries. now, thats where he lied. he lied to the congressional inquiries about the dates of the moskow project, what was involved with the moskow project. but that note there that he circulated, he circulated what he was going to say to congress raises the question of who did he circulate that with? did he send that to the presidents lawyers? did he send it directly to the president? did the president say back to him this is what i want you to say? >> it absolutely r...

Questions youre raising. >> ken dilanian, the thing that comes right here at the tail end of what mueller says michael cohen has provided, he says that he described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to congressional inquiries. now, thats where he lied. he lied to the congressional inquiries about the dates of the moskow project, what was involved with the moskow project. but that note there that he circulated, he circulated what he was going to say to congress raises th...

Inquiries about the dates of the moskow project, what was involved with the moskow project. but that note there that he circulated, he circulated what he was going to say to congress raises the question of who did he circulate that with? did he send that to the presidents lawyers? did he send it directly to the president? did the president say back to him this is what i want you to say? >> it absolutely raises that question, lawrence. and if you remember in the plea documents that were filed a f...

One of the key things that you would imagine that mueller wouldnt want to do would be to sort of give the president the cheat sheet before he answered the questions. let the president give the story hes going to give about what happened with this deal, with the trump tower deal, and then present what mueller thinks really happened. it doesnt surprise me that the timing of this was such that the revelation didnt come out until after the presidents answers came back to the special prosecutor. >> p...

Mueller is trying to do here, trying to use corsi? did stone use corsi? >> he spent two months investigating that. its unclear from the plea documents that ive seen that they can absolutely prove without a shadow of a doubt that corsi got information from julian assange, gave it to stone who, you know, in turn gave it to the trump campaign. >> right. >> what theyre trying to get corsi to plea to is that he lied to investigators about all those e-mails. now this could have been all bluster, but w...