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Public mind to become a credible and sympathetic character? we certainly have seen a migration of the president's answers from this topic of i learned about it later to where we are now >> if anybody has lied, frankly, all along, it's really been the president. so much so that he's had to abandon one defense after the next defense. i think with respect to michael cohen, we don't have to like him, we don't have to make him sympathetic. but i do believe him, and what makes me believe him is the fact that corroborating evidence. there's other documentation. the fbi sees an awful lot of stuff from...

Mueller is just relying on what michael cohen says, but he's got all the backup material to make sure that cohen is telling the truth. i think the president is increasingly in a box and it's a smaller and smaller box. bob mueller is going to get to the truth. >> harry, as a matter of law, and we're dealing with kind of a known/unknown here. we know he's got stuff and he's handed over recordings. how helpful can he continue to be to the feds? i imagine first cold night in a federal slammer, the thought's going to occur to him i should go back again over everything i know. >> yeah. look, i seems...

Phrase. "in this indictment." do you think there is more to come? >> i think he is telling us there is -- this is not the final word. is the mueller investigation headed toward proving cause and effect or not? his mandate could cover that but his mandate certainly covers what we saw friday and i think it's a pretty good road map to the way the investigation is being conducted. how did russia, in a mechanical sense, actually carry this off? what does that mean? to answer your question earlier, what does it mean for the president, it isn't good news for him in the larger sense but it is in the s...

Nixon. i was a young lawyer during the saturday night massacre, so i lived this history. what's tragic here is the committee is broken, this is a political document. i don't know what the democratic version will say, but mike is right to call for a full classified investigation by the house intelligence committees, and all the relevant people should come up there and all the backup material should be reviewed, and my guess is it will show a very careful fisa application process. >> that may be possible in the senate committee where there is still bipartisan cooperation, but that has completely...

To tom don lynn. >> michael, your reporting is that there is some lack of urgency if not commitment. explain. >> right. well, there certainly has been. by the way, i am a bit surprised to hear the president's comments to john dickerson in that interview this morning because he had previously accepted that russia was behind the hacking. that was after that january 6th assessment unanimous of all the u.s. intelligence agencies stated with high confidence. he had an opportunity to examine that and go into depth and ask for any of the backup material if he had doubts. he had previously accepted it...