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Story, you can't talk about it with anybody else. you can have your 150, but that's it. we know from count seven that michael cohen pled glt uilty to that american media was involved in that. it is now a federal case. >> jeff, this is probably less about the legality of it than just the fascinating job of it. you investigated the story about the safe itself. was it kind of an open secret? was there just like a lot of rumors running around that just existed? did everybody who work there know there were these catch and kill stories? i presume -- you think about people putting jewelry in safes or...

Nasty and public battle between the president of the united states and his own attorney general. so let's lay it out for you in order. the president with the latest in a series of relentless attacks. >> i put in an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. never took control of the justice department. and it's sort of an incredible thing. >> so then in a very quick rebuttal, sessions defending himself, writing, i took control of department of justice the day i was sworn in. while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not b...

He said, come on, jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is following the story for us. the two were actually together in a room yesterday. everybody was waiting to see if fireworks exploded. the reports we got, no punches were thrown. >> that's right, chris. this is just remarkable. i was talking to some sources who say the feud between them really didn't come up yesterday during that meeting. it was a meeting focused on criminal justice reform and everyone stayed on topic. but i've been really pressing folks here about whether or not th...

Looking into the trump organization. this office is looking into paul manafort, et cetera. i think we haven't seen a lot of movement on that front. it's not because investigators aren't doing their job. it's not because they don't want to do their job. they're just at a point where they've had to sit on the brakes so to speak until they get to the point where they say the federal end is done, now we can approach from the state side. >> jeff, from purely legal but then public interest standpoint, how do you see this fitting into the big picture? >> sure. from a legal standpoint, potential crime...

Michael cohen, leading him to share what he knows about hush money payments that cohen made leading up to the election. for a person who loves to rail against fake news, the president had no problem praising the tabloid on the campaign trail. >> this was a magazine that, frankly, in many respects, should be very respected. they got o.j., they got edwards, they got this. i mean, if that was the "new york times," they would have gotten pulitzer prizes for their reporting. i've always said, why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these thing...