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Cohen asked him straight up for a million dollars during a conversation about potential qatari investment. nbc news confirmed that claim with a spokesman for al rumaihi. joining me is it the author who broke the story. great reporting, ryan. set the context here. al rumaihi ran an investment fund for the qatari government. is that right. >> yeah, he was a senior official in their sovereign wealth fund worth a couple of trillion dollars. he had responsibility for a piece of it that had about $100...

Offering consulting, it very much mirrored what rumaihi said. >> cohen said it was untrue. and these are salacious stories that are you know, and that theyll be proven wrong in court, something along those lines. >> well see what happens. ryan grim, thanks for being with me. hundreds ef pages of testimony today paint a picture of a presidential campaign very interested in col including with russia. what we learned today about the infamous trump tower meeting after this. people said it just made ...

Of dollars which he would pass to trump family members. we didnt know if it was true. now that story had a single anonymous source but now the guy at the center of it, ahmad al rumaihi has gone on the record. his claims are not quite that but still sensational. city told the intercept that cohen asked him straight up for a million dollars during a conversation about potential qatari investment. nbc news confirmed that claim with a spokesman for al rumaihi. joining me is it the author who broke t...

Part of u.s. foreign policy or whether it was part of the global expedition to acquire refinancing funds for this under water property. >> now, his lawyers say theyre not even going to dignify these questions, so they didnt answer them. you have more digging to do on this. so do the rest of us. appreciate you giving us a couple pieces to the puzzle ryan. if nothing else, once again dealing with a manifestation of the problems created by apparent conflicts of interest. thats new in our government...

>> so a little bit of concern about the messaging there from secretary price. im joined by the huffington posts ryan grim, betsy aaron still hanging out. talk about fault lines inside the gop. whats the strategy? how could the president use this to his advantage? >> the strategy for paul ryan here is telling the freedom cau caucus this is a take it or leave it thing, saying this is basically obamacare-lite. its tax credits to subsidized health care replacing tax credits to subsidized health care...

Somebody that doesnt blow back on him. >> ryan, really quickly, have you gotten a sense that anybody within the administration may be in his sights over this particular issue from your reporting and sources? >> i mean, at this point michael flynn is the diceiest one. he is still claiming that he has trumps support, and trump is saying that he has his support, but with flynn operating behind the scenes and with so many people out to get him, you know, he may wind up being the first to fall. its a...

Posts now and the cabinet, we can perhaps expect that they would try to work through that process with them given the backlash after the executive order was rolled out. >> ryan, its probably unlikely that any of the presidents men -- given that theyve been heavily criticized and now theres a legal setback with the ninth circuit court. >> you have twin tendencies of trump competing. one is the extreme loyalty to people who have been around him for a long time or who he feels has gotten him, you k...

Delaney and others. and i think its something out there bubbling and usually that means its coming our way. anyway, ryan grim, youre the quiet man. in full flower tonight. thank you very much for coming out on a late weekend. youre a great reporter. when we return, let me finish with the pictures of women gathering in protest today.

Energy and true democracy like i have never seen in my very long life. it is wide in age, it is deep in diversity and remember the constitution does not begin with "i the president", it begins with "we the people." >> that was the great gloria steinem speaking in washington today. and ryan, you going to tell me something i dont know. >> im going to try. . >> take your time, brother. >> so around it country a lot of towns are 5,000/10,000/20,000. and had even 12% of their populations. palmer, ala...

Were probably the best 20 or 30 minutes of the entire campaign for donald trump because he was focused on the issues. he was serious. he was sober. he was talking about where he wants to lead the country. thats what he needs to do to be competitive on election day. if he continues to take personal attacks, thats off message for him and a distraction not just for his campaign but the party. >> also, alex, wheres mitch mcconnell? this is something that came up this morning. we continue to talk abo...