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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don t have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn t recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a very big deal, in fact, if, a, he knew about this meeting and if he had been lying to the american people about it all along. the second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if you ve got a witness who or somebody who may have some cr ....
A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the day s news. it. but by then, it s already taken us back. that s what troubles me with how they re doing this. dana: juan, do you want to weigh in? juan: i would love to. first and foremost, there is no deal. cohen spoke in open court and said what he said. he has no deal with mueller. he has no deal with the southern district of new york s federal prosecutors. he made a plea deal because he understood and said he was guilty of having committed these crimes. and then named the president as someone who had directed him to make these payments. what we have learned today in terms of what american media, the national inquirer has done, that he was involved in an effort to cover up these things, jesse, in advance of the campaign, that these payments were made in cooperation with the media company to protect the president. interesting language in there. they said this was basically a tripwire so that they would learn of anybody who ....