The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal problems for the president may be twofold. One, the Trump Tower Meeting is under scrutiny in the Obstruction Of Justice track of the Mueller Probe, and on the Collusion Track Bob Mueller has charged russian officials for Election Meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to Connect The Dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. Cohens bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the Trump Tower Meeting, like this
the second thing is, it would obviously pose real legal problems for donald trump jr. who went to congress and said under penalty of perjury he never told his father about that meeting. if that turns out not to be true, it s punishable by up to five years in jail. you showed in the clips earlier, the people who work for the president, the president s lawyers all lied about this publicly. while lying publicly, lying to the press is not a crime, it can be powerful evidence of a cover up. if you are going to if bob mueller at the end of this is going to conclude that donald trump is trying to obstruct justice by ending the investigation, by covering up what happened, it will be both his actions privately in asking law enforcement officials to back off and his actions publicly in trying to cover up what happened that for the heart of that conspiracy allegation. congressman, let me ask you to pick up that thread and let me read you a footnote from the democratic house intel committee re
donald trump jr. and force him to answer, they never forced him to do that. they were able to essentially answer the questions they wanted to answer and just walk away from the ones that got too close. but, you know, frankly, nicole, when i hear michael cohen through these sources say that donald trump knew about the meeting, that s like telling us that the sun sets in the west. we always knew that donald trump knew about the meeting because all of the evidence suggested that. he was very close with the family that had asked donald trump, jr., to set up the meeting. he was one floor above where the meeting took place. donald trump, jr., and his father talked about donald trump, jr. s work on behalf of the campaign throughout the pendency of the campaign. and of course there were the actions donald trump took after the meeting was exposed in his efforts to try and cover up the meeting by trying to dictate the statement that donald trump, jr., gave to the press. it s not really a surpris
the president and mike cohen talking about hush money for mcdueling. there is speculation they put this information out, too. one of things he has over the president is he can place the president sort of in the circle of people who knew about the meeting with russia. sure. the way it s been described to me from these people is that that is exactly why they wouldn t have put out yesterday s news. this is something that is a big deal to them. this is something they wanted to deliver to prosecutors potentially down the line. that this is a card in their deck that they were going to play. so there was no reason for them to put this out. it does not serve them and this was not part of their strategy or their plan. and they acknowledge that it doesn t serve them. absolutely. they said to me this was not something that benefited them at all, which was their justification for saying we were not the ones behind this leak. matt apuzzo, regardless of who put it out, it is well documented
ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. in fact, he was very much hands on. if cohen s account proves true, donald trump s daily collusion denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isn t a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p.r. battle front. the legal problems for the president may be twofold. one, the trump tower meeting is under scrutiny in the obstruction of justice track of the mueller probe, and on the collusion track bob mueller has charged russian officials for election meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to connect the dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. cohen s bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the trump tower meeting, like this one from an interview with the new york times last summer. did you know at the time th