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Provided useful information, quote, concerning certain matter s core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign as well as, quote, relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. that brings it up to this year. and describe the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it. you may recall cohen has admitted to lyin...

Communications with people within the trump administration and trying to convey these messages to them. what was it about? that certainly raises a lot of questions. >> now in all of these documents we have multiple times in which cohen describes contacts with administration officials in 2017/2018. the special counsel is saying paul manafort, you lied about your contacts with administration officials. so what this does, despite donald trump's tweet and he's cleared, and of course he's not, but is it takes it inside, not just the campaign but inside the administration. i think that, you know, th...

Continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it. so that -- there seem to be making clear that cohen didn't just do this unilaterally, lying to congress. he did it in conjunction with others. and also, there are also other clues sprinkled throughout these documents about the president and how it might relate to him talking about how mueller's team is interested in the contact cohen had with the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. and so that would suggest they're looking into perhaps witness tampering. as you'll recall, we reported last friday that co...

Cohen described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to set responsibility for those false statements contained. we know the obstruction of justice charge is being pursued and pursued it looks like rather aggressively. and there's a lot more russia contact. >> it also makes that don junior trump tower meeting and statements to create some sort of false narrative there to seem a little small ball because this is actually very serious. we don't know who, but they circulated this to who was involved in that, but clearly, there...

Quite frustrate would the situation and now taking extreme measures to try to reassure the american people that there are people within the administration who are trying to counter what donald trump is doing. >> admiral, there have been reports that military leaders have been ignoring some of the president's more outrageous orders and while i celebrate that in 2017/2018 that we didn't make an effort. civilians controlling the military. what dangerous precedents set here? >> dysfunction ality in a chain of command. that should worry all of us. regardless of who sits at the top you want a functi...