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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. Whats he referring to . A dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasnt settled to this day. Thats up to the president and mueller to describe. Whats the conflict . I cant tell you. Are you saying the business Conflict Mueller and President Trump had, is that about his golf course. Im not going to go any further. Hes not going further on that. There were some specifics...

4 million. Filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of Campaign Finance violations. The reasons those were such a stunner, because Michael Cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those Campaign Finance violations were. One, 150,000 payment to the ceo of a Media Company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses President Trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. And then the second, 130,000 payment, which he facilitated, which we know again from previous reporting has to...

If you were the chief spokesman for this justice department, matt, how would you be responding or wanting to respond to someone like rudy giuliani? >> if i was in my old job, i wouldn't have much to say because you typically don't respond on what counsel for the people you're investigating say publicly. >> in your head. >> first of all, with respect to this question about tapes, i have no idea what he's talking about. he does tend to pull things out of his head that have no relation sometimes to the question that's asked, no faithfulness to the underlying facts. he seems to be unfamiliar with ...

>> eyewitness testimony from witnesses like allen weisselberg who placed trump in the room when the deal went down. as importantly, forensic evidence. aud audiotapes, those tapes cohen was making of trump. they've got text messages and e-mails. the only thing that giuliani says was correct is that no prosecutor is going to rely solely on the testimony of somebody like michael cohen who is a cooperating witness or as we say in the hood a snitch. so you don't rely only on a snitch, but they're not doing that. they've got plenty of evidence. >> here comes danny savales with snitches get stitches....

Prove to a judge there's probable cause that a crime was committed by michael cohen. so they are already getting to this sort of higher legal standard than we often think about when the police just stop and talk to someone, for example. so they had a fair amount of evidence going in to get that kind of search warrant on cohen. what we now know from a lot of reporting is that they got a considerable amount of evidence, including tapes cohen had made of conversations with trump and with others. and so they were already pretty far down the road when they got into those rooms and got that evidence...