His son to cancel the meeting. He did not tell the fbi about the meeting. And if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack, because he went out just about a month and a half after the meeting and said, russia, if youre listening, which years ago from today, as you pointed out, you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. Michael avenatti, after, represents Stormy Daniels said Michael Cohen has far more incriminating things about the president. I demanded release of all trump tapes and stated at the time there were multiple recordings and we know there are indeed over 100 recordings seized. This information on the Trump Tower Meeting is not the best information Michael Cohen has. Issure you of that. Start with kelly odonnell. Not far from where the president is spending the weekend at his
bedminster resort. Good morning. The president refused to answer questions on camera about Michael Cohen and that infamous meeting at trump tower with the russia
inappropriate. what s your gut on this? my gut is it s political. so you think it s the latter, it could just be we just want to make people talk. or they stretch predication to get this benefit. i ve been suspicious of the original investigation from the start, given the things bill barr has said publicly about it. he has said i believe there was spying. he has said some of the answers i ve been seeing have been inadequate. understand how inappropriate that is and unusual for an attorney general, a, to comment on a pending investigation, and b, to do it in a subjective sot of con clclusory way. the timing is significant, also. what is wha does it mean for sort of the worker bees under attorney general barr? i mean, you re taking your orders, but this is your job. you are likely not there for political purposes. almost certainly not, the people who are running this. although as we ve seen, bill barr for some reason is flying all around the globe coordinating with leaders o
facts take them. it s a very different way of doing things. i would tell people, if you don t like what s happening on the house side and i certainly understand why look at what the senate is doing. they re doing good, smart work under senator burr and senator warner, who s the ranking member. that s a better path forward. max and doug, good to have you both with us. thank you. thank you. just ahead, the russia probe is back, sort of. cnn learning the justice department has opened a criminal investigation to investigate the investigators. so, what s behind this shift and just what does it mean? that s ahead. plus, a final good-bye in baltimore. the funeral for congressman elijah cummings now under way. former presidents bill clinton and barack obama among those set to give eulogies ahead. stay with us. hey there people eligible for medicare.
speaking out against donald trump, that s yet another excuse that republicans will no longer have to defend donald trump. before we go, lindsey graham, of course, introducing this resolution which condemns the house process yesterday. but it s important to point out, as the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, doug, if lindsey graham really wanted to, i mean, he could start hearings of his own. he could have public hearings. he could start an investigation into anyone he wants. and yet, he s offering up a resolution to condemn what s happening in the house. what do you make of this? well, i make that this is completely political and obviously is designed to draw favor not just from donald trump but from conservative media. i would point out, i used to work for senator richard burr, who is the chair of the senate intel committee. as we look at what happens on the house side, whether it s under adam schiff as chairman or under devin nunes as chairman, it s really been a clown
interview for this investigation have not been willing to voluntarily submit to interviews. so now what s been happening is by escalating it like this, they re now allowed to subpoena some of the folks, and that s generally what s happening now. we don t know, really, if there s something else that has occurred here, but it is an escalation. and certainly, we should note, it comes at a time when, obviously, the president is under intense pressure, a lot of attention surrounding the impeachment of the president. so you know, some folks wondering whether this is just a quince din coincidence that this is coming out at this time or if this somehow gives some points to the president with this announcement. and we can imagine that folks in those two very different areas will be spinning it as they want to. yep. shimon, appreciate it as always. thank you. let s dive into this deeper. former prosecutor and cnn legal analyst elie honig is with us. first of all, set it up here. as we lear