The oval office, President Trump declined to weigh in on the Russia Investigation. At a News Conference with the italian Prime Minister do you feel betray ed by Michael Cohen, sir . A question about cohen and no response. Instead, the president unloaded in his usual safe space where there are no questions, on twitter, tweeting there is no collusion and slamming the Russia Investigation with a personal attack taz Robert Mueller rigged witch hunt and just after the president was tweeting there was no collusion, his outside lawyer was claiming on cnn that collusion isnt a crime. Which i dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. You tart analyzing the crime. The hacking is crime. Add about that, the president relied on his aides. If theres no collusion theres no crime in collusion. Giuliani suggested the Special Counsel may have a conflict and couldnt say what it is. You have to hear the conflict. Not the president. I cant tell you. Not sure. The former mayor railed against cohen for secretly recording the president. Hes a scum bag, a horrible person. Never heard of a lawyer taping his client. Zpl giuliani is blasting a trial thats about to begin for paul manafort, argue iing the case i being used as leverage to take down the president. Just a big fish, the reason they got manafort in Solitary Confinement so hell give up donald trump or a russia p. Instead of Answering Questions, mr. Trump returned to a pet issue for his base, immigration. Again threatening a Government Shutdown if he country get what he wants. I would have no problem doing a shutdown. The its time we had proper border security. Prz were the laughing stock of
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Its important because of a new allegation from Michael Cohen, the president s former lawyer and fixer. Sources tell cnn that cohen is is ready to testify to the Special Counsel that mr. Trump did know in advance that his son and Campaign Officials planned to meet with russians. Who said they had dirt on Hillary Clinton and that they knew it bf they stepped in. Trump has repeatedly denied knowing about meeting until a year later s. Wasnt at the meeting. Howdown the president wasnt . Didnt know . Because ill you why. Because cohen you know, he goes too r far. When youre lying, tlas trap for you. He said there was a oneonone meeting that donald jr. Came in and told him about it was about to take place. Didnt happen. His bewildering media blitz today followed a series today. Hes a scum bag. Tcohens lawyer Release Add Secret recording made before the 2016 election, between cohen and then candidate trump in which the two discussed payment concern iing affair with karen mcdoogal. Ami was doing a catch and kill. The president and his aides have denied both the affair and any payment. When it comes time for the financing b sxwl well have to pay. Rudy giuliani is now asserting that the recording was cut off and may have been doctored. He also confirmed the existence of more tapes but claims theres just one with the president on it. I see thhim plying, deceivin everybody he talked to. Trying to explain a possible meeting that reporters asked him about and whats confusing it Wasnt Clear Whether he was knocking down that possibility. Or clarifying what that meeting was about. Now if you look at this most cent statement from donald trump jr. s lawyer, it appears theyre trying to be the final word, saying they stick by donald trump jr. s public statements which have been that he never let his father know in advance about this meeting in trump tower. Of course t question do other witnesses to that gree. Its significant because he did answer questions before congressal committees Behind Closed Doors and if you lie, thats crime. Well see what happens on that front. Thank you very much. Joining us now, democratic congressman of california. Hes a member of the Armed Services committee. Congressman thank so much for joining us. I dont know if its good to be with you, wolf. With giuliani. He parses words and often misses the main point. The main point is if youre working with russia to influence an election, that can be collusion. But if youre doing that, youre also involved in a conspiracy and the crime is Foreign Government involvement in an american election. Giuliani seems to be b trying to move the move the goal post. Do you think the president s team is laying the ground work for new revelations which might point toward some sort of involvement . Apparently, he was very, very clear. Hes trying to get ahead of the stories out there. The Breaking News if you would. And yeah, theres probably going to be a lot of Breaking News, a lot of stories, so hes like vietnam scrambling to get ahead of it and in doing so, he creates more news. Its really a strange, strange way to protect your client. Lets turn to another top story. The president reiterating his l wlingness to shut down the federal government. He may need support from democrats in order to get that done. Should your party engage with the white house on this in order to avoid a shutdown . Well, we have and we will. Absolutely. We dont want a shutdown. We never have. Weve not been responsible. The responsibility lies within the republican caucus, which was deeply divided and the solution getting the government up and run ining has always relied on more democrats than republicans to do that. So yes, we absolutely will negotiate exactly where the negotiations go remains to be seen. 25 billion for a big, beautiful wall doesnt make any sense to anybody, whoever we know there needs to be border security. There are fences that need to be
maintained, repaired. Some needed to be b added. We have a wall. Not sure if its beautiful, but we have one in the san diegoty wa na area. It can be improou nd certain areas. Yes and the rest of the equipment. How about drones, surveillance. Men and women that are protect ing the borders. Necessary. And we need to have a comprehensive immigration reform. All of the pieces of it. At todays News Conference with the italian Prime Minister, the president said hed be willing to immediate with the iranian leadership without any preconditions. Ready to meet anymore, anywhere. Is that a good idea . No. It certainly isnt. We saw what happens he was willing to meet with putin. Without any preconditions. And in just a open press conference, we still dont know what those two hours of private discussions were. We do know that the president
has really created a crisis with iran. We had the Iran Nuclear Deal that was preventi ining iran fr getting a Nuclear Weapon anytime soon like within the next 20 years. And. Reporter very, very tight controls on what iran was doing. Thats all been disripted. I dont know what the president hopes to achieve with that meeting. Iran is a very, very bad actor. Its causing problems in syria. In yemen. And probably quite certainly in africa, the horn of africa. All of those are iraq, so if the president is going to sit down with them without preconditions, he must think hes a genius because if he thinks he can pull off a meeting with Supreme Leader of iran without any prore discussions, good luck. Not sure he wants to meet with the sprum leader, but president rohuhani seems to be open to have that meeting. Kept saying at the joint event
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document. To secure wit a fence. In many case, its recognized you cant put the wall from california to theo rio grande river. Democrats have supported that before. Unfortunately politics. I understand his goal, what hes been doing in the campaign. Since the campaign, he believes in all of this, but is he really prepared to shut down the federal government and what that means for tens of millions if not 100 Million People out there for all sorts of services. . I think there are hurricanes of millions. Theres two different timetables here. One is september 30th, which i fully expect youll have a continuing resolution. It gets us to december. Not before the midterms or in december. There are a lot f things im unhappy about in this bill. We were in a sense forced if we want to build our military we were forced to have. There are some things we want in the bill. I say to congress i will never have another big like this. He may have no choice. What youre suggesting, they wait until the end of the year and have to sign an omnibus. No president should have to sign a bill like that. It is a broken process and i think hes expressing his frustration with that. Ideally, congress will pass multiple smaller bills. Its a smaller bill that will focus on Homeland Security and
the president can make his case clearly to the American People. This is what a campaigned on, what you elected me for. Its a smaller bill thats focused really on Homeland Security. Thats a possibility, but what if its not. What if he need to sign another Omnibus Spending Bill like he did the last time and he has no choice. If you can get individual bills passed, youre not going to have a giant omnibus. So we should take the threat seriously. We should, but its more so toward towards december. Youre a Budget Deficit Hawk and take a look at this. The Federal Budget Deficit was 584. Were talking about next year, a 1 trillion dll budget deficit. Because of all the huge spending thats going on during the Trump Administration and the reduced revenue coming in. Is this what the republicans ran on to have a new deficit . No, but one, revenues have increased despite of the tax code. Why is this Republican Leadership of the house and the senate and republican Investment Spending a lot more raising the national debt. The president s budget he put forward balanced the budget in ten years. The problem has been we cannot to do the same this congress. We need nine democrats to walk over. In order to rewild build the military. Nobody want these deficits, but what was necessary at the time. We are anxious to make sure the Spending Continues to go down. You understand Whats Going On in the west wing of the white house. Giuliani today said this whole Robert MuellerRussia Investigation has become for the preside president , a major distraction. How much time and effort . You worked with the president chosicale closely on legislative affairs. How much of a distraction has this been for President Trump . I think i would say rather than a distraction, its been a frustration. I think the feels this has been ongoing. Does this consume a lot of his time . Sure. A frustration because he feels the investigation has been politically motivated. The fbi agents using the investigation and i think hes frustrated. Whey doesnt he let it continue and instead of tweeting abt and making personal attacks against Robert Mueller, continuing this line of attack, this story almost on a daily basis. I dont think he feels like hes getting a fair shake in the mainstream media. So hes going to look to make sure his points. Hes president of the United States has to say these awful things by name of robert mealer. If i could come on your show all day long, it would never get as much as the president weighing in. He knows that. Hes going to weigh in himself. He feels this is very personal. Thanks coming in. Coming up, President Trump prufr wont say if he feels betrayed his biMichael Cohen. But hes stepping up his personal attack on the Special Counsel. And hes lashing out frantically against the Russia Investigation. Is he worried . And the president lawyer goes
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