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It's disgusting, so phony. >> why would there be any contacts with the campaign? >> i can't think of bigger lies. >> if it's nothing, if it's peanut stuff, why are they all lying about it? >> we have the default over and over again of folks around the president claiming -- not all folks, but many folks claiming something, the default setting, this isn't true. and then when it becomes clear in a court document, the president says, it's not that big a deal. we don't know what it means in terms of the scope, but at minimum, that's a lot of contacts. a lot of efforts to try to interface with the t...

He should do prison time for. it's that simple. >> garrett one of the crimes he pleaded guilty to was lying to congress about contacts that went well into the 2016 presidential campaign and were with people connected to the kremlin. the president was interviewed by reuters overnight and had interesting quotes. there are 16 people close to the president that we count that did have contact with russia, 16 people. the president told reuters this is peanut stuff. does it looks like peanut stuff to you? >> well, let's remember where we stand this morning. of the leadership of donald trump's preside...

Here to discuss is charlie dent. frank bruni, and ryan lizza. good evening to all of you. frank, let's start with you because tonight michael flynn is asking a federal judge to keep him out of prison. mueller did say that he provided substantial assistance. how do you see this all playing out? >> i don't know. i mean he could get his request because as you said, the prosecution -- mueller has said he was enormous help. but there's no promise there. we don't know how a lot of these -- what's going to happen with a lot of these people when it comes to cooperation versus reward for that. but he c...

Peanut stuff. and that's simply not true. i mean what the documents laid out on friday in the cohen sentencing was a very detailed, advanced conspiracy to cover up and shield these payments from transparency and scrutiny. truthfully, yes, many campaigns get hit by campaign finance violations. it is also settled with civil fines. those are bookkeeping errors. those are sort of problems that accountants have of misfiling something or misunderstanding something or miscounting something. this was something where they went out of their way to create shell companies, then went out of their way to cr...

Definitely wrong. he says, number one, it wasn't a campaign contribution. if it were, it's only civil. and even if it's only civil, there was no violation based on what he did, okay? no, not okay. he doesn't understand what he's saying. he just saying a lot of things. by the way, michael cohen, if you hear a bus coming, it's because the president also said this. "michael cohen is a lawyer. i assume he would know what he's doing." the president didn't seem like some absent-minded client or some patsy in that take that we broke here on "cuomo primetime." cohen was his lawyer, clearly advising hi...