trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that's part of the overall structure, is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> reporter: michael cohen, a version of his long time mentor roy kohn, aggressive defender of all things trump no questions asked. after dantonio finished his book on trump, he got the cohen treatment in what turned out to be an empty threat. >> then he got mad and it was, you just bought yourself an f'ing lawsuit, buddy, i'll see you in court. >> reporter: in 2011 michael cohen described his job this way. >> my job is i protect mr. trump. that's what it is. if there's an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it's, of course, of concern to me, and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. >> reporter: cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trump's attention after buying apartments in trump developments, then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and won. >> trump loved him for it. that was the begi

it just seems like trump is -- only two people who knew what trump did, trump, i think he's got a good memory of what's done. he doesn't know the illegality of what he's done probably. mueller knows pretty much what trump has done an knows all about the illegalities involved. so how does a lawyer represent trump when they don't have that information that both shared -- shared basically now just by mueller and his team, the oppositi opposition, the enemy, and trump? you think trump levels with these lawyers? >> well, i think he has to if he's smart. i mean, it's unclear, of course, what he's telling them, all of it will be protected by attorney/client privilege. i'm sure they're emphasizing to him that he has to come clean with them or they can't help him. you know, i think they also will be speaking to other people within the attorney/client privilege vail, trying to figure out what happened that way, too. it's always been clear how candid he is with his lawyers, always been unclear what that relationship is like, we know some things but not that much. i think this is a critical junctu

president trump: okay. senator feinstein: so senator murphy -- president trump: so we'll take a look at it. senator feinstein: -- and 26 of us have co-sponsored a new bill. i would be most honored if you would take a look at it. president trump: i will. i will. senator feinstein: and we will get it to you, and let us know what you think of it. president trump: i will. thank you. senator feinstein: thank you. president trump: thank you very much. chris? go ahead. senator murphy: mr. president, mr. vice president, thank you very much. thank you for taking this seriously. our hearts go out to parkland. we know, having gone through this in sandy hook, that that community will never, ever be the same. and i want to bring us back to this issue of background checks, if i could, because i think there's real opportunity. president trump: i agree. senator murphy: there is no other issue out there in the american public today like background checks. 97% americans want universal background checks. in states that have u

what's trump's option? he could cave or he more likely will say no, i'm not going to seed to the subpoena. we'll take it to court. he doesn't have to fire mueller. but what he is doing is laying the ground work to delegitimize mueller and resist a mueller subpoena. and that puts this into the realm of the courts to slug it out. does, you know, mueller have the adequate criminal predicate to prevail. ultimately it goes to the supreme court where trump figures he has the upper hand. so he doesn't have to fire mueller to adopt a strategy that basically says, forget it mueller, i'm not cooperating, let's let this playout, drags it out for a long time. >> barbara, on the delay mueller instead of fire mueller strategy michael just laid out, which sounds convincing, how long would the delay mueller strategy work. >> it's answer interesting theory and may explain what's going on. i don't think it would work for a long period of time. ordinarily when a case works up to the supreme court, it can take a year or more t

will trump go it solo? >> and here on outfront could it turn the legal battle between trump and stormy daniels on head. stormy daniels attorney is my guest tonight. let's go outfront. and good evening i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight breaking news, collusion is on the table. make remember development in the russia investigation tonight. cnn

i think trump remembered that. today nbc reported the president could never get past that naming of him as a moron. he talked about comparing iq scores. the white house and state department seem to offer count ker narratives when tillerson found out he was finished. according to nbc chief of staff john kelly spoke with tillerson by phone on friday and told him trump intended to ask him to step aside. kelly did not specify when the change might come. kelly called tillerson again on saturday expressing once again the president's imminent intention to replace him as secretary of state. a senior state department official told nbc tillerson officially learned of his firing when the president tweeted the news this morning. steve goldstein, undersecretary of state for public affairs said today the secretary had every intention of remaining and the stkt didn't speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason. hours later, goldstein was fired. josh letterman, the a.p. reporter who was on the plane with tille

trump. >> when donald trump jr. is told the russian government is trying to elect your father president, he doesn't say what do you mean? how can that be? he says, "i want to hear this." >> the actual response? >> "if it's what you say, i love it." >> the trump camp's explanations were confusing. >> strange and conflicting responses. >> trump jr. told the the "new york times" it was, quote, a short introductory meeting primarily about russian adoption. cnn reported that president trump helped write the statement while he was flying home from the g-20 summit. >> he weighed in and offered suggestion like any father would do. >> if a misleading statement was put out, the core question is the classic question of intent. were trump administration officials starting with the president himself lying to the public about the nature of his campaign dealings with russia? when the story of the meeting first broke, trump defenders downplayed it. >> i don't know much about it other than it seems to be a big nothing burger. >> thi

the second piece of this is trump. reason i say that is, kim jong-un designed this strategy during the obama administration. he believed the obama administration would accept them and acquiesce, i think his calculation was absolutely right. trish: the south koreans are about to make that statement. >> today i had the privilege of briefing president trump on my recent visit to north korea. i would like to thank president trump and his national security team including my close friend general mcmasters. i say to president trump that his leadership and policies together with international solidarity brought us to this expwrungture. i expressed the president's personal gratitude for president trump's leadership. i told president trump that now meeting north korean leader kim jong-un said he's committed to achieve denuclearization. kim pledged north korea will refrain from any further nuclear tests. he understands that the join exercises in korea and the united states must continue. and he expressed willingness to meet presi

trump or his attorney mr. cohen eel's statements. >> this is not just tv interviews, avaneatti says he expects donald trump and his fixer to go under oath. past depositions do show this that trump knows his way around this process and he gives lit effect to factual details. i'm going to show you video of trump being deposed in 2013, this 2013 case was because of trump's alleged ties to the m maf mafia, but you will see that trump denies any suggest than that he personally knew him. >> about how many times have you conversed with mr. sadder? >> over the years? >> over the years. >> not many. if he were sitting in the room right now, i really wouldn't know what he looked like. >> wouldn't know what he looked like, now mr. sader now caught up in the mueller probe. and now to 2016 where mr. trump uses his personally to deflect. >> in the time period between when you first announced your candidacy in june, middle of june 2016. >> june '16. >> june '16, a year ago. >> exactly today. they just did a big story today i

a trump tower in moscow. never happened. but from our own reporting, something mueller's team is interested in. shows the investigation is picking up steam as the president continues to call it a witch-hunt. >> mueller used a subpoena, didn't simply ask for the information, but use of subpoena says what? >> it says that they're very serious about cleaning up what they feel they haven't gotten or starting a new round of inquiry into information that they want to get. i think it is quite clear that this information, trump financial relationship with russia, if it can be found, is at the heart of mueller's investigation. it goes to the issue of motive. why did donald trump, why would he solicitous of russia during the campaign. why did russia support him during the campaign. whether there was relationship as his sons said several times there was, that question is at the heart of mueller's investigation. and it is certain he was looking into it previously, now with subpoenas, looking at it more zealously. >> the

donald trump's lawyers. and today he has no doubt created sheer panic in donald trump's very fragile mind and in the week and fragile mind of michael cohen because of what michael avenatti said on msnbc tonight. you will hear that in a moment but here's what he tweeted late last night. it was a photograph of a dvd if a picture is worth a thousand words, what's this worth? i was one of many a bit confused by that tweet. and then they said it must have prove a relationship with stormy daniels and donald trump. and then tonight he clarified what his tweet meant in the most painful, possible terms for donald trump. >> let me tell you this, chris, that dvd contains evidence of this relationship. let me tell you why i sent the tweet. i sent the tweet as a warning shot to michael cohen and any other supporter to the president and the president himself to the extent they plan on disparaging my client, lying about what happened or spinning facts that have no basis in reality after this "60 minute" interview, let that

ill fated trump soho. last year we learned he wrote an e-mail to michael cohen nen 2015 vowing to engineer a deal to build a trump tower in moscow writing our boy can become president of the u.s. il get all of putin's team to buy in. he added i will get putin on there program and we will get donald elected. what we're just learning hanks to great reporting at buzzfeed, it turns out he was also amazingly an intelligence operative for the u.s. government with a resume out of a spy thriller. confirming this week sater obtained five of osama bin laden's personal phone numbers before september 11th, helped flip a taliban source to get information about al qaeda training camps, revealed plans for an attempted assassination of bush and powell and went undercover to catch russian and ukrainian cyber criminals. loretta lymph was asked about sater's fraud case specifically which she had overseen. he had been convicted of a $40 million scheme but only ended up paying a $25,000 fine. lynch explained why. for more than

or from donald trump? >> we believe that ultimately we're going to be able to trace this back in one form or another to a payment from the trump organization or from the surrogate for mr. trump. >> danny, does this e-mail bring -- bring it closer to president trump? >> yes, it's a piece of the puzzle but it's not dispositive, because an e-mail address from a particular company does not give somebody the authority to broker deals. it makes sense. the night watchman might have the company's e-mail address. he can't bind the company with contracts or otherwise, unless he has apparent or actual authority. but it is a piece of the puzzle. it is a factor that tends to show with the other circumstances and keep in mind michael cohen was hardly the night watchman at the trump organization. there are many other factors that indicate he would have authority to act on behalf of the trump organization. if i was arguing this point, i would make the point that it's up to michael cohen to disprove that he was acting on b

policy trump is impulsive and trump is temperamental trump wants. once a neighbor's and validators more than he wants advisors tillerson didn't have many fans at state because of his plans to cut staffing by nearly thirty percent some senior diplomats quit in protest but the firings of state didn't end there at lunchtime the white house dismissed under secretary of state steve goldstein after he released this statement suggesting tillerson thought his job was safe the secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason for his dismissal in any case tollers and said he had no regrets rex tillerson didn't lose his job because he didn't agree with the president analysts say he lost his job because he refused to pretend that he agreed if confirmed my palm pale will face a very high standard of agreeing with the president all the time especially because the president believes he already does rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the state department. on the white house and to listen have had a series of public spats things one of quit

trump on a tear. last night's rally in pennsylvania just the beginning for the president. >> remember how easy it is to be presidential, but you would all be out of here, you would be so board. i was joking and i said, ah, president for life, that sounds good. maybe we're going to have to try that. >> including what he said about women that was not so accurate, but then here's what he didn't say. no mention of russia in that 75-minute speech. >>> today a different tune. the president laying into the "new york times" for new reporting on the russia investigation. inside hour we'll o talk to americans who voted for trump. what they're saying about the tweets, the direction of the country, and the special election on tuesday. let's begin where president trump spoke last night. they are ostensibly promoting saccone. >> pennsylvania is the state that gave us the 45th president of the united states. i tell you, we did a great job on the olympics. president moon of south korea said without donald trump the o

they include the trump tower meeting between the russians and donald trump jr. and the firing of the fbi director, james comey. how close is the president to actually sitting down with mueller? >>> my pal putin. president trump takes to twitter, defending his congratulatory phone call to vladimir putin and praising russia as a potential partner in peace. why is mr. trump also taking a dig at previous presidents? >>> infuriating. cnn has learned that president trump is fuming over the leak about his call to putin and he's said to be seeking the source of the information. but why did he ignore his national security team and congratulate putin in the first place? >>> and tweet stormy. porn star stormy daniels launches a tweet storm, firing back at critics questioning her motives and insulting her career. daniels says she never claimed to be a victim. what about the other women whose cases against president trump have working their way through the courts? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the s

about trump because donald trump this is the truth off it. donald trump has -- shown us that no matter what you think about the guy, strength and vulnerables of the american political process his presidency is different than any before it. and the big question is, does it the gipping of something else or is it a no, anomaly and piepgd t today because we have the smartest trump watchers in the country with us. at this point when you're not checking your phones and stuff likeea that, you're focused so m going to ask them the core question upfront and start with katy. and by the way, not to insult guys on panel but everyone i talked to outside said is this the katy tur panel? [laughter] [applause] thank you. katy is written an incredible unbelievable. i have -- i read the book, and i've taught a little bit of journalism in my life and i'll tell you flat out it is interesting as it regards donald trump it is a textbook for young people coming into journal i. todays. it really tells you the reality because she katy opens up in and is very, very ho

he said he was trump before trump. there is not an issue difference that you can find between the two. here is the difference. rick saccone has run a traditional campaign going to this event and going to that event. not exactly showing a lot of energy. and conor lamb has been knocking on doors with scores of volunteers, turning the campaign into a grassroots oriented movement. and if he wins, it's not just about his candidacy. it's also about the kind of campaign that he has run. >> so good. i don't think lamb the sham is going to work. i think it's going to be conor lamb. i think he is going to win. and terry, you're right. i lived and grew up in city of philadelphia, not the suburbs. 100 yards inside the city in summerton which they all like hearing right now, summerton as we say in philadelphia. thank you. we're going to have you on a lot this year. we're going to have a lot of pennsylvania focus. it looks like the democrats are going win back that state this fall. still ahead, much more on our breaking news tonight

donald trump jr. was helping him, there was no decision made without donald trump's approval. >> i was just kidding. i think don junior, come on. >> can we make another point? >> please. >> ivanka trump has the same problem jared kushner has. she had a meeting in april with the president of china. the exact same day she had that meeting, her company got three trademark approvals from china. >> right. >> maya wiley and natasha, thank you, both. this is interesting. >>> up next, this nbc report with vladimir putin talking about the 13 russians indicted in the mueller probe. how does putin respond? we'll show you. >>> and is he in it, or is he out of it? we'll try to figure out where donald trump actually landed after all the flip-flops on the important issue of gun control. mine's way better. this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare price, features and value. when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he

a new one for the trump white house. "new york times" reporting the trump organization and jared kushner's family company, well, they're now in talks to go into business with one another. according to "the times," the kushners are in private discussions to have president trump's company manage at least one hotel at the center of the jersey shore development known as pier village. the kushner companies and the trump organization have signed an official letter of intent, though no deal is final. so let's focus on it. i want to bring in one of the reporters who broke this stunning story for the nos"the k time times", steve eder. walk us through the details. >> sure. happy to be here. the -- i guess what's happening here is that, you know, you already have the family ties, the white house positions that everyone's already got, right. so what we're looking at are the business ties. this is a whole separate layer of potential financial entanglements. last year, quietly, the trumps began managing a hotel in livingston, new jers

trump was to sign. and has a number of references to mr. trump within the document? >> right. >> makes no sense. >>> so kimberly. in this case should cohen release the documents related to this transaction to say, okay, here it is. take look in black and white when it comes to these documents? >> i'm not sure even if he does. and i don't have a reason to believe he will. i don't know how it helps his cases a at all. no attorney would take action to put their own, even using their own credit to finance some sort of deal without telling their client. clearly this had to do with donald trump. it involved an alleged relationship with donald trump. michael cohen is donald trump's lawyer. the idea that donald trump had no idea that michael cohen was making some sort of payment in furtherance of this deal is just ludicrous. you would have to tell your client if you are doing something that effects his interest or standing legally. not to do so would be malpractice. i don't understand how logically there is a case to be made here the that this has nothing to do with the pres

trump. with trump's genius in crippling economic sanctions that brought this dictator to his knees. while the mainstream media is worried, in truth, the only people who need to be worried are the north koreans. donald trump is more than the man kim thinks he is. he's already outsmarted him, and that can get us a peace deal that will certainly last a long, long time. [♪] ♪ i'm the rocketman ♪ rocketman judge jeanine: joining me now with reaction to president trump's speech. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski. you heard the president's speech i assume. >> i did. judge jeanine: he was in typical formi would say rare form, but that's typical for him in front of a group of thousands. >> i love donald trump when he's in front of a group of thousands of people talking directly to the american people. he reminded the american people of all the accomplishments of this administration. he still gets no credit for judge neil gorsuch, for all the justices he put on the supreme court. t

it is what trump wants to hear, what trump will recite, but the intelligence committee in the house has so little credibility to begin with. remember, chair nunez was part of the one year ago, the bogus deep throat episode where he went to the white house with information, came back over to congress, said i've got this outsider gave me information, isn't that great. goes back to the white house, present the information to the very people he got it from as if it was an outside party. he has been a partisan player from the beginning. we have had absolutely no productive engagement in the issue of getting to the bottom of the issues the committee should be addressing. >> based on all of the evidence you've seen, senator, do you think any of the contacts between russians and trump campaign officials were inadvertent or ill advised as the house republican majority on the committee conclude? >> i think as james clapper said on your program, it depends how you define collaboration or collusion but certainly there was a lot of contact, and contact in the context of trying to get information and

trump team. apparently was not and was contradicted you know often which for trump is something difficult to deal with and i guess he sees these niggas see asians as something important maybe a something even where he can leave an imprint on on world history if if north korea were to do you do you are not and so i guess that he thinks it's important he can do it better with somebody else from his own perspective it it makes us either had of course that creates a lot of volatility and it creates a lot of wild cards and difficult situations carved in mr trump said today that he will soon have the team in place that he wants now what was he telling his dad does this mean that everything's since day one of his administration has been trying to testing the political waters i mean casting calls by the president is that what we've been watching. i believe this statement is an attempt to gloss over the fact that donald trump came into the white house completely unprepared for the job this has been a year

trump's -- the agreement that trump or trump's agents had stormy daniels sign is not even spelled right. they didn't even spell disparagement right in the title. >> why did they put a place for him to sign on this and then not have him sign? it seems to be either you don't put his name on it. >> it's sloppy. >> and then say you're not going to silent. so you have an incomplete document that the other side can use at will to get out of it. what's this about? >> it's a terribly sloppy agreement, frankly. and stormy daniels' attorney is right to be excited about this case. and i think what the trump team must know is likely to happen here is the band-aid is going to get ripped off. >> let's talk about that, myia. when you put down a bill, even a contract that is signed, delivered and bind everybody, fine. but when it says you mention one aspect of this on some television show that nobody watched. there is something on a website, if you do it once, it's a million dollars. if you do it in the second sense, it's another million. the third. isn't that so big a penalty box that it won't be enfo

but what i f f f f fof this repe trump organization and the trump organization and the trump family is actually very, very involved in these deals and one of the things that legal experts are looking at is how much do they know? even if it is a licensing deal or just a ququestion of puttinga name on a different project that you are not involved in building, if they are very, very involved and if they did not know or had reason to know and in a very corrupt environment like india, they're not completely in the clear. if there is of bribes having been paid, you know, it would have reason to know? what do they do to ravenna? which is where due comes in. how carefully today that their partners? one of the most interesting things i've found is there mimiddlemen, their fixer on the ground who is supposed to scope out new deals, is also responsible for doing due diligence on the partners. he is getting paid, getting a cut for finding newew deals andd part of his s responsibility is also making sure these partners are good enough for the trump organizatition. amy:y: a clear conflict of interes

>> rick saccone describes himself as trump before trump was trump. this is someone who has been very bombastic, attacked immigrants. he has a very right-wing agenda. he is a interesting history as well. inviously before he served the pennsylvania state legislature, he was a consultant for interrogations in iraq, actually serving in abu ghraib. he wrote an entire book defending torture. this is a very unusual candidate in certain respects, but this is a huge election in terms of being a bellwether for the midterm elections. saccone had a lot of money and super pac support, i think over $10 million spent on his behalf. really every advantage in this district. this was a prorepublican district. it looks like conor lamb pulled it out. thatnk this is a signal democrats will do very well in the elections poster amy: a marine corps captain, conor lamb. i want to switch gears a bit and play an excerpt of the latest episode of your podcast "intercepted" worry interview jan schakowsky about eric prince, the founder of blackwater, sister of betsy devos, -- >> b

trump and the lawsuit says that mr. trump signed the agreement. now, we don't know if he signed the agreement with his name or the alias name dennison, but i want to read you something that is quite interesting. it seems like every single page of this, by the way, john, is -- has news in it. literally every page. this one says that there was an agreement that was drafted, that the money was paid to ms. stormy daniels to a trust account, but that she did not actually sign this account. and then later on in this lawsuit, it says that while this agreement was written and the money had been paid, that in january of 2008, there were details of this draft that were emerging in the news immediate yampt you remember "the wall street journal" broke that story. and it says that there was some sort of truth in this. but then she says she was coerced into filing a false statement wherein she stated that reports of her relationship with donald trump were false. now, i want you to remember this because this is where michael cohen sent us all, and all of us got

they didn't need trump's permission because that's just how trump works. he is a platform for people -- i mean sam nunberg is not atypical of the kind of people you see in trump's orbit. >> and that seems to me a huge part of why the squeak -- it feels like the mueller investigation is squeezing. because there are so -- here is what i would say. it seems plausible to me that donald trump himself didn't do a thing, but thinks that someone around him probably did that seems a plausible thing that has happened. >> we have the president's son-in-law, completely unqualified for his position. in any other white house, democratic or republican, cannot clear his security clearance. would have been walked to the gates, never to return. is sitting with the ceo of the apollo group and the ceo of citi outside of their normal loan processes. $500 million in american money of loans outside the process? this is the type of stuff that goes on 30 years ago in zaire, not in the united states of america. the magnitude of the corruption is just unfathomable. >> and that's the

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said trump! [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have -- we truly have a fantastic show for you tonight. she's starring in the new film "a wrinkle in time." reese witherspoon is here, everyone! [ cheers and applause ] he is the editor of the "new yorker," david remnick. we are always so happy to have him back because that means -- [ cheers and applause ] we're going to have a brand-new edition of live "new yorker" cartoons. but before we get to all of that, even as he tries to refocus on trade policy, donald trump's presidency has been rocked this week by escalating scandals related to everything from russian meddling to porn stars. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: on top of everything else going on right now, president trump, of course, is being sued by porn star stormy daniels over a reported hush payment trump's lawyer made to her just weeks before the election to hide an alleged affair. the trump white house has insisted t

behalf of president trump without informing president trump? >> well, let's get to the agreement itself. the agreement is between tomorrow my and ec llc. it says and/or. he was representing the llc. it was perfectly legal for michael cohen to represents that llc. and entering the agreement. it was a valid agreement and donald trump -- >> why have david dennison name in there. >> it could be a third party beneficiary to every single contract. that's what happens here. michael cohen is acting in the best interests of his client and his client is a third party beneficia beneficiary. >> does he have to tell his that third party, his bieneficiary that he's entering into an agreement. >> no, he does not have to because he's in-house council. he was general council to that organization. >> right, you are saying he's general council for the trump organization so he's there for representing donald trump. >> well, he was representing ec llc., that was created to entering into this dpreeagreeme. there was a quick probe and considerations on both sides and

trump? manafort under a court imposed gag order declined to comment. the news keeps getting worse. >> well, it does. and jonathan turley, let's go back to you. here we have an example of a high ranking official in the trump campaign telling bob mueller supposedly from what we can gather that he had contact with a russian intel officer in the heat of the presidential campaign. what's the impact? >> well, it obviously doesn't look good and it's something that mueller is rightfully pursuing. it's bothersome when every time we find a new character, like they're a walk on for the pirates. it's like all of these characters are not exactly redeeming and you wonder where they find all these. now, the only defense that the trump team i think would likely raise is that this dealt with a criminal charge in the ukraine, it's not clear they were discussing the campaign. but this russian saturated circle of friends is rather disturbing and obviously mueller has a great deal to work with here. >> and you k

because it's anti-trump. there's a political component using this guy incoherent making contradictory remarks because it hurts trump. your reaction? >> yeah, sean, you know if we were to come on the air intoxicated or on some kind of mood altering drug and would have said anything remotely pro trump or had not aligned himself with the trump russian narrative in any way, they would have scrapped it, this is a bottom of the barrel effort here to attack the trump team by any means news. it was one of the more disgusting things -- i'm no fan of the left wing media. it was one of the more disgusting episodes on the planet. it was grotesque. they should be horrified at what happened. >> sean: sarah, in all of your reporting because you broke a fisa warrant in trump tower had in fact taken place, you broke that story in march of last year. we've been following the story ever since. can you see any connection to dumpster diving in st. petersberg russia? do you see any role that perhaps the sex coach/prostitute in jai

trump. robert mueller wants it, but today talking to cnn's gloria borger, nunberg told mueller in so many words what he could do with his subpoena. >> they wanted it by 3:00 p.m. today. they want me over -- they want me over at the grand jury. screw that. why do i have to go? why? for what? >> that was sam nunberg speaking to gloria borger. he's been speaking here and on other networks since mid afternoon. he said tonight on msnbc that he had been granted immunity to testify, raising the question of why he suddenly decided to snub the grand jury instead. and sam nunberg said this to the lead's jake tapper about the case that he thinks robert mueller is building. quote, they know something on him, nunberg said. and, jake, i don't know what it is. perhaps i'm wrong, but he did something. he also said that candidate trump might have known about the trump tower meeting before the fact. he also said he knows that donald trump would not collude with russia. in fact, he was far from consistent on m

trump jr. held even though he wasn't working for the campaign at the time. sam nunberg was pretty much all over the map today. earlier this evening, cnn's erin burnett sitting next to him on the anchor desk said she smelled alcohol on his breath and asked if he had been drinking. he denied it multiple times. he, of course, said plenty more to erin, to jake tapper, to gloria borger. here's a small sample. >> whatever they want, i can tell you, i'm not going in. it's ridiculous. the idea that we were the manchurian candidate -- gloria, we were a joke. everybody was laughing at us. the idea that we were colluding with the russians, give me a break. >> is that what you're saying the special counsel is getting at, or it sounds to me from some of your other answers you think he's looking into the more financial side of donald trump's life. >> he may. i don't know what he's looking into. >> well, what -- >> he may. he may. and you know what? trump may have very well done something during the election

campaign or the trump organization. in her "60 minutes" interview, daniels went on to say she was threatened to keep her silence about the alleged relationship with trump. the threat came back in 2011. >> i was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter, the seat facing backwards in the back seat, diaper bag, getting all the stuff out and a guy walked up on me and said to me leave trump alone, forget the story. he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said a beautiful little girl, it would be ashamed if something happened to his mom. and he was gone. >> you took it as a direct threat? >> absolutely. my hands were shaking. >> can you ever see that person again? >> no. >> did you go to police? >> no. >> why? >> because i was scared. >> a lawyer representing michael cohen sent a cease and desist letter to michael avenatti. it reads in part "mr. cohen had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the incident and he never threatened her. earlier today the white house spokeperson addressed this al

trump. mr. cohen in this document that he drafted listed the subject as pp versus dd, meaning my client versus donald trump nda. i'm confused. i thought what mr. cohen has told the american people and what mr. schwartz has told the american people for weeks now is that donald trump was never a party to the agreement. donald trump didn't know anything about the agreement. >> so, mark, is he right? does this prove that donald trump knew about the hush agreement? >> there is something in the law called an adoptive admission where if your lawyer goes out and says something you can arguably say that that is inferred to the client or that's adopted literally to the client. i don't know that this rises to that level, but i can see the argument. i frankly was more intrigued by the argument back and forth between michael cohen's lawyer and michael avenatti earlier today which i was hoping you were going to play a clip of. i've been sending that to anybody who wants some entertainment value tonight. >> re

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out for trump's interests and yet expecting us to believe trump didn't know anything about it? and took money out of his home equity line to pay stormy daniels without telling trump, it doesn't fly? >> it does seem absurd. we learned michael cohen used the trump communication email to communicate with stormy daniels lawyer to pay off. he says i use that for other things. does that matter? or was this an illegal campaign contribution? that's why the story matters whether it was a violation of the law, a crime. >> correct. and the question about whether it's an illegal campaign contribution, i think it is, really revolves around one point. why did they do this? did they do this because it was right before the election and afraid this would hurt the election campaign, and therefore they paid the money to stop her from hurting the election campaign? now, the idea at this point that about the email account, at its worst for them, what it means is the trump organization may have been involved in this, was he doing this on trump organization time, then they may have made an illegal co

it's really the obstruction piece where trump's words and trump's state of mind matter. and so that's where he would want to hear from him. so it makes sense for him to focus in on that. >> jennifer, as our other former fed, i'm curious, if mccabe gets fired short of his pension, how will that go over at the larger department of justice, do you think? >> well, it's hard to tell. i mean, he's very popular there. when he was kind of shoved out, and certainly all of the insulting comments he got from the president, misstatements, did not go over well at fbi or i think at doj, some people who had worked with him. you know, it's a little troubling -- mimi and i were talking earlier about how an office of professional responsibility recommendation gets out, actually. they're supposed to be confidential. if it's true that the doj inspector general did find mccabe lied to investigators and opr recommended his firing, those officers are career people, they are nonpartisan, the doj inspector general was appointed by obama, so these are nonpartisan people. so that would give, i thi

trump. trump did something pretty bad, if i had to assume. >> what do they have? >> i don't know. >> folks, nunberg was fired by the president and he says he's not a fan of mr. trump. he was not threatening to defy the special counsel out of allegiance to the white house, he was considering risking jail time to protect roger stone. >> this is so ridiculous. i'm not going to give them every e-mail i had with steve bannon and roger stone. i communicated with them every day. i'm not going to testify against roger. roger did not do anything. roger was treated terribly by donald trump. >> and he's one of donald trump's oldest advisers. >> yeah, but trump is the most disloyal person you're ever going to meet. they definitely had -- they definitely had roger stone's. mails. they asked me questions about roger stone's e-mail -- they asked you questions about roger and me that they would only have had roger's e-mails. i'm worried that they're trying to make a case against roger, that they're maneuver

fear of sharks tell us about donald trump? >> i ask you. >> well, i find it interesting that he watches a documentary about something that he's afraid of, right? wouldn't you not watch the -- >> he'd be so terrified and he's watching it like riveted. >> so he's taking pleasure in something that he's very afraid of. that's, if i was hayis therapis. >> which you're not. >> which i'm not, for the record, i'm thankful. that would be a big, big piece of work. >> what is it, something he can't control? >> lawyers? >> lawyers are sharks. you had the whole answer. great. liz plank, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for being you. >>> up ahead, white house lawyers reviewing some loans to jared kushner's own family companies. and later, they called him a low-level coffee boy. new reporting on a guilty trump aide who had contact all the way to steve bannon and new collusion questions. the wife of that cop fessnfessep aide. >>> and the senate committee demanding mark zuckerberg come and speak. that ahead. where are we taking him? i ha

trump? was it unprotected? and i forgot even the -- >> did he promise you to be on "the apprentice" and that answer was ambiguous. >> anderson, let me tell you how ridiculous this is. just last week we had a call with mr. harder, who is representing mr. trump, and mr. blakeley, who is representing mr. -- actually ec, llc, in the federal case, okay? during this call, i asked point blank, mr. harder, was donald trump a party to the agreement? and let me tell what he told me. you ready? that's what he told me. and i said, i thought the phone had disconnected. i said, are you still there? and i asked him again. he didn't have an answer for me. he said, we haven't figured it out yet, to which i responded, why do you ask donald trump? they haven't figured out the next fabrication. >> how difficult -- >> i guess they're required to tell michael, you know, any legal strategy here. >> legal strategy? it's a fact. >> i don't even believe that conversation even existed. so i mean everything -- you make up your own law. yo

trump. but tonight john dowd is on his way of earning his own editorial in the "new york times" as one of the president's thugs and possibly something much worse. john dowd has shifted categories from criminal lawyer to possible criminal suspect. the "new york times" reports, trump's lawyer raised prospect of pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort. that's according to three people with knowledge of the discussions it came as the special prosecutor was raise building cases against both men, and they race questions about whether the lawyer, john dowd, who resigned last week, was offering pardons to influence their decisions. they said it occurred last summer, quote, at a time when the grand jury was hearing evidence against mr. flynn on a range of crimes. if john dowd was acting as a coconspirator with the president of the united states with the possibility of dangling pardons then he could be charged in an obstruction of justice case along with the president and his conversations with th

>> look, they're going to. >> let trump be trump. >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> if you let trump be trump you better make sure the house is fire proofed. once the advisers are out of there, who knows what he is going to do. >> steven? >> well, austin, look, you know, you and i can talk about the virtues of free trade and compare testify advantage and go back to adam smith. but i believe it was the trade position, an unorthodox position for sure. it plays with these areas in process, michigan, ohio. they think that the factories are gone because of trade with mexico and china and other countries. so we better figure out, austin a better way to persuade the american people that the trade deals are good for us. >> let's say it plays there. is it worth playing there and losing the rest of the country. >> i'm not defending the policy. i'm not defending the policy i'm just saying the politics. imprisoning the policy is wrong. i'm trying to tamper it back. if i advised trump, i would he will him mr. trump you can aim the tariffs against countries that are enemies of the united states like china

day 434 of the trump administration. the president is at the 137th day of his presidency spent at a trump branded property. he will spend the long easter weekends there levering behind a less than rock solid situation. today he said good go-bye to ho hicks. jonathan puts it this way. hicks was more accurate described by white house officials as trump's white house woman and providing after firm mags and able to provide bad news with few repercussions. john kelly wasn't at president donald trump's side for crucial decisions on policy moves. kelly wasn't on the call. even as the president appears to be running the white house without kelly's input trump has made a point of pun likely praising his chief of staff which, as you know, can also be the kiss of death. >> we have general kelly here, four star, he is doing a great job in washington. i think he likes what you do better than what he does but he is doing a great job. >> something that's been discussed on this broadcast and that is mattis remains on the job. the origin