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Sway the presidential election in mr. trumps favor. potentially in coordination with the russians. really? not just russia interfering in the election to help trump but russia and the uae and saudi araby potentially working together to do that. joining me to kirkpatrick correspondent for "the new york times." i appreciate you being here tonight. >> my pleasure. >> im not going to guess how you obtained these emails from tom barrick which made up the spine of your story today. but can you tell us...

Its honestly a little hard to get a bead on how serious the risk is here for the president and how much of the anticipation around this issue and the reporting around this issue may actually be spin that is advantageous to someone, and we dont know who yet. joining us to help sort this out is someone who is very, very well sourced on this issue. emily jane fox is senior reporter at "vanity fair." she has been covering michael cohen from the very beginning as well as jared kushner and ivanka trum...

Of that business relationship, and yet theyre choosing not to when his potential cooperation poses such a risk to the president. >> you are speaking like a rational actor here, but the president has done n in order to make michael cohen feel like he has michael cohens back, and that has been a problem. you forget that the president went on fox news and basically barely know the guy. hes like a coffee boy. he did a very, very small percentage of my legal work. >> right. >> and then his attorney, ...

Craziness that you can sense in the air, and that is the anticipation paired with a lot of sort of woolly reporting about that anticipation that the presidents personal attorney, michael cohen, is in the midst of dropping his legal representation because he is about to start negotiating with federal prosecutors to potentially cooperate with them in their inquiries. that anticipation, and again, the woolliness of the reporting around that issue is making everybody in national politics a little cr...

Telling strangers in hotel lobbies that he was mr. jenson of detroit to see who he was supposed to give surreptitious cash for, thats when tom barrick was working for herb kalmbach. so once again, the scandals of this presidency prove that the past is never dead. it is not even really past. but right now, this week, over these next couple days and this incredible news week that were having, we are about to find out the fate of the guy who was playing the role of herb kalmbach this time around in...

You obtained these e-mails from tom barrick, but can you tell us about the process of putting these pieces together, figuring out that the mueller investigation is looking to other countries to see if there was potential cooperation with the russian interference effort? >> well, the reporting about muellers interest in the uae and saudi arabia was prior to the tom barrick reporting. thats reporting centered on george nader, as you said. and it all comes together in the seychelles meeting which y...

Legal liability is about, or what he could potentially tell prosecutors about if, like herb kalmbach he decides to go states evidence and cooperate with psecutors in exchange for lenience in his own case. the single most worrying possibility for the white house is probably what was reported by buzzfeed several weeks ago concerning cohens involvement in the secret pursuit of a trump tower moscow real estate project during the presidential campaign. during the campaign, youll recall that candidate...

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