Suspected of involvement in the wikileaks 2016 release of hacked democratic emails, but stone remains defiant and unwavering in his support of the president. This just came out. Wikileaks, i love wikileaks. Crooked hillary clinton, shes crooked folks. Youre saying you never spoke to Julian Assange and never spoke about any of that to President Trump . That is absolutely correct. I had no contact with a sassang. Going back to the email, i think those have been mischaracterized saying these dumps are coming turns out to be incorrect. They dont come in early august as predicted. That testimony really needs to be provided to the special counsel for consideration of whether perjury charges are warranted. Theres no circumstance under which i would testify against the president because id have to bear false witness against him. Id have to make things up and im not going to do that. We want to break down several developments in this investigation. The stone situation, which hard evidence is theyre tying him, rather, to wikileaks and mueller facing two key deadlines. By tuesday prosecutors will need a file or at least need to file a sentencing memo related to Michael Flynn, the former National Security adviser. Factual filing is due on Paul Manaforts alleged crimes and lies to the special counsel and i have a great panel ready to break all of this down. Im going to talk to them in a moment. I want to go straight to argentina and keir simmons who has some new information concerning Michael Cohen and his admitted contacts with the kr kremlin and trump tower moscow deal. You interviewed the kremlins press secretary. What did he have to say about the contacts between the kremlin and Michael Cohen . Until this weekend there really have been two actors in this little piece of the puzzle. As you mentioned, one, mieg all Michael Cohen, who talked about these communications with the kremlin. The other, the president who suggested Michael Cohen is a liar as well as saying everybody knew about this plan for a real estate project in moscow. Enter a third actor. This is the man you speak of. Peskov, one of the right hand men to the president of russia, Vladimir Putin. I spoke to him. He showed me on his phone some emails he said were the emails that they had received from Michael Cohen. At the bottom of the email allegedly from Michael Cohen it says trump in capital letters. You have to decide for yourself whether you believe what he says next and what youre going to hear next. What he says is receiving those emails from the lawyer to the candidate mr. Trump, he just they just received them as another american businessman trying to do business in russia. Take a listen. You obviously realized this was coming from the office of the candidate of the american presidency. Every week dozens and dozens of foreign businesses approach us mentioning possible investments, searching for contacts. This is from the lawyer for us its no different. Its future President Trump. This is from the lawyer to the future President Trump. For you hes the future President Trump. For us its one of the applicants. You have to understand that. You have to understand that we have an open email address that is public and dozens and dozens of applications are coming every week from businessmen, from well, whatever. Lots of people from all over the world. I asked him, ayman, what happens as time went on . He says that, quote, they just disappeared. But these contacts are from the Trump Organization just disappeared. The question for many people, of course, is that a true reflection of what happened or there were other contact, were there other communications through 2016 . Is it really the case that the communication over the potential for a trump you toer in moscow just stopped . Keir simmons live for us in argentina. Its not that often we hear from russian officials. Good for you on getting that sound. Lets bring in my panel. Kevin, david corn, Washington Bureau chief. Also the coauthor of russian roulette. Ben is the editor in chief and senior fellow in government studies at the brookins institution. Great to have all three of you with us. David, let me begin with you. I want to pick up on that interview that he just played for us with peskov. Nadler actually weighed in on whether trump knew cohen was lying about the trump tower moscow project. Watch what he had to say about the president. Ill get your reactions after. The time when he can get away with lying to the American People all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end. The fact that he was lying to the American People about doing business in russia and that the kremlin knew he was lying gave the kremlin a hold over him. One question we have now is does the kremlin still have hold over him because of other lies that they know about . So based on your reporting, david, what leverage could the kremlin have on trump and how could russia use this against the president . This could seem at least to the naked eye or to someone who doesnt fall it closely as an n innocuous leverage. The question lied to the American Public. He said that he, quote, stayed away from russia, had no business deals with them. Well, we now know they didnt stay away. He signed a letter of intent with his name to do business with russia and he had his personal fixture, his lawyer, deal with not just russia, with putins own office. Peskov is the right hand to Vladimir Putin. You go to him, its like going to the white house chief of staff over here. They went to peskov and said can you help us with this project . So the russians know that trump is lying to the American People about his interactions with russia. Also, theres another dimension to this. At this point in time, the beginning of 2016, the russians are into their plan to hack the dnc and perhaps try to affect the election. You have trump coming to them asking for help. Its basically signaling to the russians who are about to and in the process of attacking the american electoral system that i want to do business with you. This is collusion. Hes talking secretly, privately, to the russians. It sends them a signal that im your guy as theyre getting ready to attack the election, particular three attack hillary clinton. So help me reconcile something. I know a lot of people have pointed this out. We learned from Michael Cohens plea that he had this communication with the russians. The president has called him a liar. Hes called him weak. His attorney goes out and says that the written answers that the president provide actually matched up with what Michael Cohen is saying. If the president is calling Michael Cohen a liar and the lawyer for the president is turning around saying actually our answers matchup with what Michael Cohen is saying, connect the dots for me here. What did he learn from Michael Cohens plea agreement . Actually, the dots dont connect and we shouldnt try to connect the dots here. We should point out as you just did that, in fact, those dots dont connect at all. If Michael Cohen is lying, then the president s answers shouldnt correspond with what hes admitted in this plea agreement. But in fact, the president s lawyers have to say that it corresponds, because they know that mueller is not simply relying on Michael Cohens word on this. Michael cohens statements correspond with a lot of other evidence that the Mueller Investigation developed. Thats why this plea materialized the way it did. And so i think this is another example of the president and his lawyers speaking at cross purposes, by the way, in such situations the client shouldnt be speaking at all. The lawyers should do the talking on behalf of them. Good luck with that. We know thats never worked for President Trump. Kevin, let me get your thoughts on congress here for a moment. A lot of people are asking what is it or how is it that congress can investigate whether trump knew that cohen was lying about the trump moscow tower project . Even if the testimony was behind closed doors, do you think cohen told the president he lied about it and thats what made the president make his comments or how do you see Congress Getting to the bottom of this . I think Michael Cohen might have to testify again before congress and i think democrats are going to use the power of subpoena. Weve heard this from verse likely Committee Chairs to call in and subpoena folks to come in to testify publicly. I think also whats interesting here is that it all goes back to that june, 2016, meeting in trump tower with the likes of paul manafort, donald trump jr. And a russian attorney and this is the specific time period that Michael Cohen now says, june of 2016, he now says in june of 2016 that he was communicating with the russians. That key meeting happens around the same time. He had previously said that his communications with the russians ended in january of 2016. So that summer meeting still very much a focus. Look, i can tell you that no one truly knows for certain when bob muellers investigation will wrap up and what exactly any element of it will be made public, but it would appear that he is nearing the end of that just given the developments that weve seen. The bottom line, though, for Michael Cohen to completely now flip and be cooperating fully with the Mueller Investigation. Meanwhile at a time when paul manafort, the president s Previous Campaign cochairman is not cooperating, thats pretty interesting sfuf. Let me switch gears from looking at the week that passed and look to the week ahead. Special counsel facing at least two deadlines. This week. Prosecutors have until tuesday to file a sentencing memo related to Michael Flynn and then on friday a factual filing is due on Paul Manaforts alleged crimes and lies to the special counsel. What are you looking to learn from these upcoming filings, ben . These are two really big filings or at least they could be. In the flynn case, flynn has basically vanished since his plea. His sentencing was delayed at least twice, maybe more, between then and now, which is consistent with his being active as a cooperating witness. And so this is a point at which mueller is going to dirs close at a minimum something about the nature of his cooperation. Has he been useful . Has he provided Important Information . Are there active cases that depend on his cooperation . In the case of george papadopoulos, this was an opportunity for mueller to say actually, this guy didnt really help us. This was a fizzle out from our point of view. So what they say about flynn will be really interesting to see. In the case of manafort, we know theres been fireworks behind the scenes because mueller came out and said the guy is in breach of his plea agreement, hes lying and he committed crimes. The New York Times turned around and reported his lawyer was back channeling stuff to the white house through a continued joint defense agreement. So i think were going to learn some degree of chapter and verse on what mueller thinks manafort has done in this filing. So this is these are two really significant filings that are coming up. Another busy week ahead indeed. David, let me get your thoughts on somebody else that is now increasingly or at least appears to be the cross hairs of the special counsel, roger stone. What is your take on roger stone s stone . Are you expecting him to flip . Roger stone is a longtime dirty trickster conspiracy theorist whose defense now is that he lied publicly. I have this quote in front of me from august. I actually have communicated with assange. He toll a bunch of republicans in august of 2016. Now he says i lied. I didnt communicate with assange. So i think anything he says to abc news or to any other reporters talking these days cannot be believed. Was he hyping back then his influence . His influence with donald trump who he says he was in regular contact with . He toll me that during the campaign as well, or was he not . Is he downplaying things at this point in time . So i do think its obvious that mueller finds him interesting and important and has been sort of circling around him and stone himself said he believes hes going to be indicted for something or another. So how to sort this out, i dont know. I am betting a guy with subpoena power like bob mueller can get to the truth here. It seems like that list of people gets shorter and shorter. Kevin, ben, appreciate it. David, stick around for us. Well talk to you again in a little bit. Coming up, trump on the world stage. Is a last minute trade truce with china off to offset uncomfortable moments at the g20. And memories continue to pour in from George Herbert walker bush including this. It was an improvised ha handshake. Im not bros with him. Hey, buddy. Wait. I thought i was your number one. Oh, youre not my side piece. Introducing fidelity stock and bond index funds with lower Expense Ratios than comparable vanguard funds. And were now offering zero Expense Ratio index funds. Thats value youll only find at fidelity. One thing leads another thats value youll only find at fidelity. Unstopand its strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. Which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. Well almost anything. Leave no room behind with xfi pods. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Click or visit a retail store today. We mentioned the live tribute from dana carvey to george w. Bush. We rolled the wrong clip from the show. Here now is how the weekend update team marked the former president s death. President bush was famously a warm and gracious man who always understood the power in being able to laugh at yourself. Thousand points of like still operating. Coming in from all those areas. Not going to do it. Not going do it. Dana, george bush here. Im watching do you your impression of me and ive got to say, its nothing like me. It bears no resemblance. Its bad. What a difference in the political reality of todays world. Todays politicians across the spectrum shared their thoughts on the late president george h. W. Bush. Well, i think that no doubt what he will be remembered as our most successful oneterm president and perhaps the most successful one of the most successful president s of all time. The naegz wtion was lucky to him. President bush was a patriot and a good person. Everyone got a smile. Everyone got a handshake. Everyone got respect. He never rested in his work and dedication to the American People. He was essentially fully prepared to be a Foreign Policy president and he was a successful one, a very successful one. In addition to these people, thousands more paid their respects to bush last night at his president at library at texas a m university with a candle light jig candlelight vigil. Tammy leitner is there. Reporter people have been coming all day to pay their respects. One of the reason system that former president george bush and barbara really spent a lot of time here. They actually had an apartment behind the library and this was also the site of where he landed for several of his sky dives. Its about 90 acres, the library and the museum. It really shows the different stages of his life. This is one of the most popular exhibits im told, the Oval Office People like to sit in the chair where he actually sat. One thing that people dont know, though, Collin Powell used to sit here on the side of the desk and in here theres a phone that goes directly to the pentagon. This is called a partner desk. It was meant for people to sit on both sides of it. Hes the only president that had one of these partner desks. If you come over here and take a look, inside the second drawer down he used to keep his baseball glove from his days playing at yale. Weve been speaking people the last two days coming through here. Claire, you actually live here. Youve been here before. Why did you come back . Well, i came with my husband and my motherinlaw. We just wanted to pay our respects to a man, to a former president that we truly admire and respect. And i really appreciate all that hes done for our country. Thank you so much, claire, for talking to us. Ayman, the library and museum will be open extended hours today. It will also be open tomorrow. Then it will be closed as they prepare for his burial which will happen here. Tammy leitner live for us in College Station texas. Still to come, President Trump goes away from the g20 with a deal on tariffs with china. Well go live to beijing with reaction. Carla is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptorpositive her2 metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression vers