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that s it for me. i m gigi stone woods. the news continues right now with my colleague, david, who s been tweeting this whole hour constantly. thank you very much. great to see you. good afternoon, i m david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. we start this hour with president trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. the president ending his week touting friday s economic numbers. second-quarter gdp growth of 4.1%, that is the fastest pace since 2014. he s not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal attorney michael cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that president trump had prior knowledge of that now-infamous june, 2016, view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what we ve learned this week. cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that michael cohen is willing to testify that dona ....
that and whether he can help prove it, that s an open question. we also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. candidate trump did not make that monday speech. as trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. his own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. first they lied about what happened in the meeting. then they lied about the defense of the meeting. which he was choosing to offer, even though he also claimed he didn t know anything about the meeting. now the question is wheth ....
trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nation s elections. the president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. that kind of paper statement is a contrast to trump s actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own intelligence agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u.s. election. that was the press conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u.s./russian cyber security group to investigate russian election meddling. sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin disc ....
that s the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you see it in all the tweets. now it is roaring back because of the thursday night bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia trump tower meeting in advance. when that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around and began running with it again. it s hard to see the point of all of this hysteria. what would the crime be? it is not illegal to talk to foreigners. nobody is claiming that any information changed hands. even if did it, so what? i don t think it is bad if campaigns are turning to foreign governments for dirt. it s not collusion. it is not something that s impeachable. as they today? hacking. donald trump famously doesn t pay his own contractors and his own long time lawyers? even ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. came out and supplied south koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jong-un. the parallels go on and on. the secretary of state just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for president trump meeting with the president of iran. but this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. threatening to impose new sanctions. to criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. the president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. instead, he decried what he called united states illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. the stakes for the president couldn t be harder. because the president really railed a number of allies. lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. a lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to acc ....