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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, and bob mueller is going get to the truth. >> harry, as a matter of law -- and we are dealing with a kind of 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 thoughts going to occur to him, i should go back again over everything i know. >> yeah, look, he seems to me, rea...

Donna, do you think cohen is able of migrating in the public mind to become a credible and sympathetic character? we certainly have seen a migration of the president's answers on this topic from i didn't know about no payments to i learned later and where we are now. >> if anybody lied all along it's been the president and so much so 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 there is corroborating evidence an...

Stories there could be things that differ from time to time. a prosecutor wants to be able to limit the occasions on which one of his witnesses is putting information out on the record. cohen has shown he's not controllable in that way. >> brian, you get to be the closer. is it us for did this week pick up speed and become one of the more consequential weeks? the second has to do with color. tell us about the moment flynn and trump and the fbi guys pass in the hallway of the west wing. >> this week did pick up speed. we know a lot more about what mueller knows and particularly it's interesting...

>> nelson, i have to ask you, i guess this takes into account your opinion as a tv viewer and lawyer. how did you think cohen came off in this tv interview? >> you listen to him and he sounds credible. he looked right at the questioner. he was direct. i thought he sounded clear. he made sense to me. and then i thought to myself, you know, this is a guy who, at the same time, pleaded guilty to sheltering $4 million of income through a complex scheme of hiding taxi medallions and false statements to a variety of institutions. this is a guy who, at the same time, pleaded guilty to filing multiple...

And there was egg on the government's face. generally speaking people believed that edwards had a pretty good defense that it wasn't about trying to hide anything from the american public. it was to try to cushion the blow to his wife of the affair he had undertaken. very different with trump who first find finds out about the allegations in 2011 and it's not until two weeks before the election that he pays the hush money. and to the accounts of both giuliani and cohen and common sense, there's a direct link between the payment and trying to keep the truth from coming out in order to affect th...