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Expressed complete confidence and michael cohen or guiliani or whoever they're on their way out. the only thing that might save rudy guiliani is the fact that he and trump have this like insane relationship. they're both playing this weird four dimensional chess. i think there is a personal affinity there. this goes back for decades. but if rudy guiliani, you know, i do not think donald trump would hesitate to cut him loose if that is the politically expedient thing to do and it looks like it might be. >> gene, what about the legal side? we saw rudy guiliani saying this is a political attack. ...

>> that's accurate. >> and the party line was that cohen never received a response from the kremlin to his inquireinquire ryes about the trump tower moscow deal. but the truth is, he had a lengthy conversation with a kremlin representative who had a detailed understanding of the project, is that right? >> if it's in the report, that is accurate, recitation of that piece of the report. >> so you have candidate trump at the time saying he had no business dealings with russia, his lawyer who was lying about it, and then the kremlin who during that time was talking to president trump's lawyer abou...

>> i'm not aware of that. >> he met with dmitriev during the transition period to discuss business opportunities among other things. but it wasn't just trump and his associates that were trying to make money off this deal nor hide it or lie about it, russia was too. that was the whole point to gain relief from sanctions which would hugely benefit their incredibly wealthy oligarch's. sanctions relief was discussed at that june 9th meeting, in the trump tower, was it not, sir? >> yes, so it's not a main subject for discussion. >> trump administration national security adviser michael flynn also ...

Exculpatory evidence. are you concerned about -- >> i'm not certain i would agree with that characterization. i think i said that before. >> yes. an american citizen from the republic of georgia who your report misidentifies as a russian claims that your report omitted parts of a text message he had with michael cohen about stopping the flow of compromising tapes of donald trump. and the omitted portions, he says he did not know what the tapes actually showed. was that portion of the exchange left out of the report for a reason? >> no. we have an awful lot in the report, we did not get every i...

Outset, it was in the report and i do believe it to be true. >> thank you. the party line in this case is that the deal ended in january 2016. in other words, they were saying the deal ended in january 2016, before the republican primaries, in truth, the deal extended to june of 2016, when donald trump was already the presumptive republican nominee, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> the party line was also that cohen discussed the deal with trump only three times, when in truth they discussed it multiple times, is that right? >> also true and part of the basis for that plea that he entere...