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We saw yesterday, and one of the things thats interesting about it is this could have been treated in the trump team and in the giuliani approach to tv this weekend as a kind of triumphant turn of, look, the special prosecutor has said buzzfeeds wrong, and just stomp on that and leave it at that, but within that, rudy giuliani decided, and the team must have decided, actually this is a good time to also throw out there whats going to eventually emerge, which is donald trump has answered in writi...

I dont deal there. i have no businesses there. i have nothing to do with russia, folks. okay? >> special prosecutor robert mueller seems to maybe have some doubts about that. seems to think the truth is probably something different from what donald trump said during the campaign. and so according to "the new york times," one of the questions that the special prosecutor asked president trump to answer in writing is, "what communication did you have with michael d. cohen, felix sater, and others i...

Prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. and john, it does seem if you stare at the rudy giuliani performances long enough, if you rewind tape and if you try to think it through, you can sometimes find, not only sometimes, what that was all about, like, what the mission was. and it seems to me the more i stared at it, yesterdays mission was perfectly normal. normalized the idea that donald trump was talking to michael cohen and others, possibly, during the presidential campaign, throughout the pre...

Call draw the sting. every prosecutor knows that when you stand up and give an opening statement, you want to certainly highlight all the incriminating evidence that makes it seem beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime, but even more importantly, you want to draw the sting of any really bad evidence that cuts against your theory of the prosecution. it looks like maybe giuliani is trying to draw the sting with what is some pretty blockbuster and really damaging informati...

Im all over the world, but were not involved in russia. i have no relationship to russia whatsoever. i dont deal there. i have no businesses there. i have nothing to do with russia, folks. okay? >> special prosecutor robert mueller seems to maybe have some doubts about that. seems to think the truth is probably something different from what donald trump said during the campaign. and so according to "the new york times," one of the questions that the special prosecutor asked president trump to an...

Stare at the rudy giuliani performances long enough, if you rewind tape and if you try to think it through, you can sometimes find, not only sometimes, what that was all about, like, what the mission was. and it seems to me the more i stared at it, yesterdays mission was perfectly normal. normaliz normalized the idea that donald trump was talking to michael cohen and others, possibly, during the presidential campaign, throughout the presidential campaign, about trying to build a trump tower in m...

About donald trumps personal attorney, michael cohen, about what he will say when he testifies next month in a congressional hearing. buzzfeed reported that michael cohen will testify that he was actively engaged in discussions with russians about a trump tower project through much of the presidential campaign. and yesterday, rudy giuliani not only confirmed that aspect of the buzzfeed story, but he took it a step further and included the possibility of discussions of a trump tower in moscow rig...

What he will say when he testifies next month in a congressional hearing. buzzfeed reported that michael cohen will testify that he was actively engaged in discussions with russians about a trump tower project through much of the presidential campaign. and yesterday, rudy giuliani not only confirmed that aspect of the buzzfeed story, but he took it a step further and included the possibility of discussions of a trump tower in moscow right up until the returns were coming in on election night and...

Buzzfeed. so its really tough to figure out the tactical wisdom behind giulianis choices, but, perhaps, it is to try to draw the sting from some really damaging information that would be coming to all of our attention fairly soon. >> i need a second here. im just making the same note that every hollywood scriptwriter of courtroom drama is doing right now. >> draw the sting. >> draw the sting. were going to hear that in dialogue pretty soon. and, john heilemann, the way that giuliani chooses to d...

Now back -- giuliani wants us to forget we ever heard that, forget we ever heard from donald trumps mouth "from the day i announced to the day i won." and so the method that giuliani is employing here risks -- apparently risks madness at every moment. >> yeah, so i did my best, lawrence, to try to come up with some kind of a theory that was reasonable and rational for why giuliani was trying to draw the sting, but then as you note, he takes that stinger and reinserts it into his own arm. so its ...