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Everybody, on the notion that when the information came out there was a tape that it was not michael cohen that would have put that out but the trump side. you hit that head-on. the suggestion, thats happening now. not michael cohen but somehow put out by donald trumps side. i understood in the first instance why the trump people would have wanted to get ahead of a tape and try to contextualize it, spin it, set it up that they knew it would come out anyway. what is, a., do you think this is the ...

Most lawyers tell you if youre under investigation dont talk about it. especially under investigation for obstruction, you really shouldnt talk about it, but he has continued to do that. if you look at the 49 questions mueller wants to ask trump about, several of them are just about his public statements. what was he saying publicly? >> we talk about this case. funny, somebody said on the set several months ago watergate had to comb clue fithrough and find tapes, with president trump, an intervi...

Operations, often inexperienced -- people have to start some place. theyre often young. you can make a mistake like this. sometimes the people who be most vulnerable are actually people who are older. john podesta, for example, fell victim to this whereas other staffers didnt. >> think about congressional campaigns. a lot of these campaigns, not like they have an i.t. department and their security amounts to a mcafee anti-virus heavy installed in their computers. theyre not running with the he o...

Robert mueller asks you this question if he does. your answer can be, did you hear donald trump say that and donald trump jr. say that to donald trump your answer is yes, no or i dont recall. so one reason on the giuliani side of this case why you might want this out there is it is now extremely difficult for the trump-giuliani side of the case to communicate directly to all the other witnesses who could have been in that room. so getting this out there is saying to them, you have to make a deci...

Long time now. is this the kind of thing on the base of the totality of your reporting, does it strike you as plausible that such a meeting could be occurring in trump tower, and that donald trump would be publicly touting the notion theres new information coming out about hillary clinton in days, we know thats in the public record, is this the kind of meeting thats going to likely that donald trump would not have any inkling of in this moment? >> seems if there was any currency in trump world, ...

Violation of the emoluments clause why is this not getting more political traction. and might it in the future? >> i think it might in the future y-it hasnt to this point, im not entirely sure. it could be because weve never had -- weve never been here before. this federal judge in maryland just for the first time told us what he thinks the emoluments clause means. so nobody has in politics has any muscle memory as to how to use that clause in the constitution, and really how it applies to donal...

The president tweeted, the remains of american servicemen soon loving north korea headed to the united states. after many years this will be a great moment for so many families. thank you to kim jong-un, tweeted president trump. still ahead this morning, much more on michael cones reported willingness to inform the special counsel donald trump as a candidate new an inn advance of the infamous trudge tower meeting in 2016 with russians. plus, president trump has a history of making personal a...

Physically present during that meeting and we know that within hours afterwards, he was meeting up with paul manafort at a luncheon just down the street. so there would have been every opportunity for the president to have been briefed and, again, to take you back to steve bannons remarks in the book it is incredulous to believe that the president hadnt been debriefed. so i think where this becomes important if theyre going to try to discredit michael cohen is to look for corroboration from othe...

Department is going to frown, i think, upon this continued public discussion that has gone on with these lawyers, with lanny out there discussing things the way he has. im not sure how this has helped michael cohen. im just not sure. >> clear, donny, were a long way from, i would take a bullet for donald trump in terms of where michael cohens head is right now. >> yeah. >> and his stance towards the president of the united states. >> were about as far away from that as you could possibly get. ju...