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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. I appreciate you pointing that out. Jeremy diamond for us. Good to have all of you with us. Mark, lets start off here first with the relationship between the president and Michael Cohen. The president trying to downplay this relationship. It sounds lu s like he is goinga George Papadopoulos coffee boy relationship when it comes to Michael Cohen. Its absurd were having to have this discussion. What we have seen from President Trump is that he is very effective, as is his allies, in tryi...

Fully with the special counsels office, and the other big Breaking News this hour is that President Trump is announcing that he is not in fact going be meeting with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the g20 sideline and that is hours after the kremlin announcing that the meeting would in fact be happen i ing, and again, we will continue to closely follow the Breaking News stories. Andrea mitchell is picking up the News Coverage right now. And right now now on Andrea Mitchell reports Breaking News on all fronts. Michael cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress when he denied to try to do a t...

The people there. how do you say good man that the court has sent to prison for swampy crimes. yes, his kids will suffer. his kids will suffer not because of two federal judges and the special counsel. the kids will suffer because of the conduct of their father. >> this is something that the president has consistently said about paul manafort. he's distanced himself several times, saying he didn't work for me that long, but regardless, he is a good man and the question is it will come into such sharper perspective now with the second sentence and katherine's point, and what sara sanders said a...

Cohen. he once bragged he would take a bullet for his boss. >> contrast that with paul manafort. he spent months with him. for him, deep sympathy. we have the story. >> michael cohen lied about the pardon. >> reporter: president trump in a battle for the truth with his former attorney and fixer today. >> he lied about a lot of things. when he lied about the pardon, that was really a lie. he knew about it. his lawyers said and went to my lawyers and asked for pardons. >> reporter: trump saying michael cohen directly asked me for a pardon. i said no. he lied again. the president escalating attac...

To congress before. so, both of them have real credibility issues. the issue for cohen is he directly said to congress, no, i did not seek a pardon and i wouldn't have accepted it. then, his attorney recently stated they were sort of, inquiring about a pardon. so, there's questions about whether in the late spring of 2018 michael cohen's team might have been asking about a pardon. i think the way his legal team is going to spin this is, michael cohen will refute he directly asked trump for a pardon, what trump stated and will say that he was possibly inquiring about a pardon before he decided ...