two individuals? what makes this so striking is sean hannity has really ascended within the american right as the republican party has gone through convulsions during the trump era. it is hannity, his platform, and others at fox news who have often had the president s ear, who are, in their own way, shaping the way different things play out with the trump administration, urging the president to stick to its hard-line positions on immigration, to move forward in a conservative way on health care. and as the president really just turns to his family and more and more, hannity is seen as a trusted friend. and i can t emphasize enough in my reporting how that trust for hannity, that confidence in him as an associate really underscores everything that s happening. and one more before we change topics, and that is your reporting that it was hannity who knew sekulow first and may have handed off jay sekulow, the idea, the lawyer, to president trump who was in need of counsel. because
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important meeting because i never even heard that. as far as you know, this is all of it. this is everything. this is everything. all right. so who do you believe? joining me now to break this down, former state department senior adviser. paul butler, professor of law at georgetown law school. former fbi agent. clint watts author of messing with the enemy. david k johnson and former watergate prosecutor. wow, we just have an embarrassment of riches. i m going to go around the horn and talk about. i m going to start with you paul. just on how this changes the legal case. trump tower meeting. june 3. donald trump jr. gets e-mail from rob goldstone saying moscow supports his father s candidacy. he responded if it s what you say it is, i love it. trump junior and goldstone finalize a date. same day trump teases this major speech. june 8 russian intelligence
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change the narrative around this meeting. i want to step back and give us an understanding of how michael cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. yes. i m most interested in how this plies with voters. i m seeing a parallel to what rudy giuliani said this summer. michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. i would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. they say, you know what, michael cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees vis-a-vis the don junior
meeting until the senate committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. i don t see the political implications of this at this moment. we have seen this play out with fl
its conclusion. i m david gura. i ll be back at 2:00 3:00 saturday and sunday of next week. you can find me on instagram and twitter at david gura between now and then for the promised conversation about collusion. i turn things over to my colleague, yasmin vossoughian. hello, i m yasmin vossoughian. family matters. a new tweet from president trump raising serious questions about his son s 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer. the changing story and how it could impact the mueller probe. will he or won t he? the trump team s cliffhanger on whether the president will speak to the special counsel. a decision think come this week, although we ve been saying that for weeks. how that historic meeting could play out. and a red wave. president trump suggesting republicans will win big league if they make the mid terms a referendum on him. do democrats have a clear enough message to counter the president s rhetoric?
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elections euro skeptic parties are expected to make significant gains and in the u.k. that is music to nigel for raja s ears where his new and anti establishment new brags that party is running away with the polls i m sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. we need to see bricks through. this prime of the stuff all of those banned as being sued by a club being stomped. on it s. just moments on all the lawyers. and i don t nothing but a farce on the treasonable people. we have to stop to for all take this country s he s taking the country out of the golden calf and there is
a cliff. and i think the president of rwanda actually wrote about the sort of the genie coming out of a book and it s not going but i am. a risk creating hurdles official as a time when we need to be acting together in the national interest. and also coming up on the day one of germany s top industrialists is stepping down david sacha is giving up the reins at auto maker. pretty good only if it s a shame they re a