The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. A voluntary interview suggests theres more to the interview. When you want that you want it written down so you can use it in the future maybe for perjury. In terms of that, if you are roger stone and youre watching how this is playing out, you and your attorneys as youre huddling, whats the thinking there. Well trks ha, its hard to k. Hes under scrutiny. If you were going to make a list three years ago of the Trump Associates who were most likely to be in trouble, it would be Paul Manafort, roger stone beneath him. So i think that the major jeopardy were seeing in this case, you have one shady lobbying case. Paul manafort. Russians indicted who will never see the inside of a u. S. Courtroom and then you have perjury. You have people not telling the truth. So any lawyer working for any of these people under scrutiny has to be emphasize, do not think you are more clever than these professionals who will nail you to the wall if you make the slightest fib. Roger stone released this statement about kristen davis,
quote, she knows nothing about russian collusion. Wikileaks collaboration or any other impropriety related to 2016 elections which, thought was the subject of this probe. Rich just laid out what we know so far. Weve got manafort on trial. Russians who have been indicted. Questions of personal jury. How is this coming together . There are people who look at this and go wait a minute, everything thats going on, thats not collusion. Hold on. Never say that. Mueller is methodical. The man doesnt make a move without a reason. So its the methodical mueller meeting the manhattan madam. I worked with him for four and a half years. Does not do fishing expeditions. I can think of two reasons. One is people and the second is money. If roger stone is in the middle of this investigation, one of the basic sort of questions or lines of questions you would have for her is what do you know about him, but what else do you know about people he introduced you to, people he talked about. You know and if there is a relationship, either out of intimacy or friendship, theres still the idea of pillow talk. So what has he said to you, a trusted person that nobody else knows . I want that and i want it in front of my grand jury. There was a lot of focus on a potential interview, once again, talk iing about potential interview for for some time. So this report ng the New York Times this week that the president realwanting the sit d because he believes he can convince. This is really a witch hunt. On the one hand, its not surprising as we know that the president may want, may very well have said that. That he thinks hes the guy. At some point. But theyd also based the question, is that whats going on or is it being filtered out again by the legal team to see how it plays in the court of public opinion. Thats thats what i think. I believe that donald trump is occasionally delusional enough to think i can convince robert mueller. But he has a broad team who have
to be sit doung with him saying no, you really cant do this. You cannot make things better for yourself. I felt like it was a pr strategy to say yeah, the president was always said so. Hes got nothing to hide. He wants to. He wont. Phil . You think he will . I think thats dead on. Let me give you a simple explanation. People keep saying theres a lie between the legal team and president. That may be true. The president s pretending to play along. To be on a different side than his legal team and Behind Closed Doors hes saying im going make it look like mueller made the conditions so difficult that i couldnt speak. I think this is a game and i think the game is to get the president off the hook because if he walks in that room, let me tell you whos going to win. Not the president. Drirector mueller is going to wn that game, i guarantee you. Laura quickly, just weigh in. On the one hand, you could see why youd prefer if youre the president of the United States to testify voluntary will and not wait until muellers team gives you a subpoena. You get to have the lawyers
present when youre there. You get to have them sittinging next to you nudging you saying you didnt say that. Remember, we talked about this in a different area. But i think its will the of smoke and mirrors so aim willing, but they dont want to hear from me. Not a farfetched conclusion given you heard him how he hid behind the curtains because he was i had forgotten about that. The other former fbi director would maybe suck come to his intamation. But maybe hes em boldened why what hes heard. So many maybes. To be a fly on the wall. The next time were all back, stay was. After all the Nation Security chiefs warn that our democracy is in the cross hairs, President Trump makes big joke of confronting putin. Will the white house and the president be on the same page when it comes to rug but new information on a Cnn Exclusive. Slashing security at the
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democracy and it has become clear they are the target of our adversaries. All saying what the president has refused to say in public. This is a threat, we need to take extremely seriously. To tackle and respond to with fierce determination. And focus. The president dwelling on his warm relationship with putin. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. We discussed everything. I had a great meeting. We got along really well. By the way, thats a good thing. Not a bad thing. Three weeks after trump and putins summit, a meeting that elevated the russian president on the world stage, a Central Question remains. What did the two men talk about during their twohour private meeting . When asked in the White House Briefing room, dan coates said he still didnt know to what degree Election Meddling was
discu discussed. Not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. Ill turn it over to the National Security director to address that question. The issue was discussed and in fact, president putin said the first issue President Trump raised was Election Meddling. So as we end this week here, we do still have so many questions about that helsinki summit, but there has been a major change at least from the xwovt. There was the unified show of force about Election Meddling, but it was missing one critical voice. The president s voice who of course has the loudest megaphone of all. He will be here on a working vacation. Hell be going to ohio for a brief campaign tomorrow. Erica, well see if he mentions it there. We will be watching thank you. We heard today from a Russian ForeignMinistry Spokesperson who said this twoyear hysteria around the alleged russian interference which did not
happen not only undermines bilateral relations, but mocks the whole political system of the u. S. Representing democracy there is the house of cards. So obviously, not surprising that would come from russia. It played right into though what were hearing of the President Sa Playing right into the hands there and against his own officials. Its not the first time, but it is become iing more ab more obvs and getting louder. Is it becoming more damaging . Well, you had the split effect because on the survey stan substance, theyre doing everything they should. He thinks for political purposes, its important to be an 110 against the Mueller Investigation and say the whole thing is a hoax as possible for his political purposes to discredit that investigation. And the split goes deeper because he has this fixation about getting along with putin. Tat the same time, his policy,
whether its given lethal arms toukrainians, embrace iing the Energy Revolution here at home which is not good for the russians depending on high energy costs or opposing very vociferously the pipe liline, t single most important Russian Initiative in europe. President trump has consistently blasted the germans for embracing that project. This weird disconnect and its not going away. Is It Em Boldening the russians . Is there a sense from people youre speaking with and this is giving them a little bit more power . Yes. Obviously. And you know, rich is right about all those policy points. But i guess i would quarrel as to whether we know that the government is doing all that it can it can do to prevent future russian meddling. And when the president goes up again and again, hes in his bizarre world with his
supporters and he rebukes or contradicts his top people. This is the kind of gaslighting and its creating, continuing to fracture america. So you have this minority of, the trump supporters, who believe in a totally alternative universe. Weve got the russians didnt meddle. Nothing went on in the russia hoax. Dangerous for the president to play it up that way. When we look at this, we dont know whats really happening. Phil, number one, can this administration effectively combat this threat when it doesnt have the full public support of this president and number two, on the heels of that, can the American People trust that this system will in fact be secure . Can i challenge this for a moment . We do know whats not happening. If not a question, number one, is there a white house spokesman for the American People in advance of the midterm elections who says to Everybody Voter in america when youre on facebook, this is what to look out for. The cia director doesnt do
that. The president should, hes not. Number two, whos leading the congress to have a conversation about how do we tell the russians this is going to hurt. Wee going to sanction you further. Were not doing that. Number three. Whos leading the europeans to say were not the only country being attacked. Can we talk the italians, the germa germans, the french and british about how we isolate putin . The president shows up for the g7 and says why dont we make it the dwrks8. We know whats happening here and its the white house that says we dont want to bring it to putin. Its not very kocomplicated. Put in quotes there. Rich, tat end of the day, this all comes back to the president not wanting to acknowledge this. The president s own concerns that if in some way, he acknowledges it, his win is illegitimate . Yeah, so look, i think he should just frankly acknowledge it. No reason he shouldnt. He should have been denouncing it during the campaign. But lets be honest. The opposition has dug into the idea that russian somehow illegitimately gave him the presidency and is looking for the Mueller Investigation to leverage him out of the office. He knows that. Hes resisted. He never wants to make a concession against interest and doesnt want to give any ground to that whatsoever and its how he politics, i dont like it, its the way hes done everything for 40 years and he was elected president of the United States. Being this kind of guy. If he had nothing to fear from the Mueller Investigation, if there was no collusion there. You know there was interference, but if there was no collusion, i dont know why hes so hostile to mueller. If theres an investigation, they can get to the bottom of it. Sometimes people, innocent people welcome that. A year long obsession in the press and every time he turns on the tv or lifts a newspaper, he sees this story. And theres been few president who is just accept the Special Counsel investigation and say,
oh, this is just fine. Bill clinton didnt do it. Were going to have to leave it there. But it is important to point out, too, thises a president who brings it up at every opportunity. So he doesnt want it to be t k talkeded about, perhaps he should. Maybe not bring it up every time. We are going to have to leave it there for now. There is new information coming out in court about what Paul Manafort might have been doing with his property in trump tower. So you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop with 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes start them off right. With the School Supplies they need at low prices all summer long. Save 200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. Prosecutors in the trial of Paul Manafort making their case. The 69yearold is a tax cheat who engineered an elaborate scheme the hide millions in income. The governments star witness, manaforts long time business partner, rick gates, could take the stand any moment. Evan perez is in the courtroom for us today. We heard from manaforts accountants today. What more did they reveal b about his financials . Two accountants that testified today both said that they did not know about these Foreign Bank Accounts that Paul Manafort had in cyprus and other countries. They said they knew that they were these foreign entities, but they thought they were clients and thats where the money was flow iing in from. Not that these were Bank Accounts the government saysPaul Manafort controlled. We also heard from the first witness, the first witness thats been given i