watching for now? >> i want to see the next round of indictments and if people get indicted on wikileaks. stone and corsi and others. >> i appreciate it. much more on all this breaking news right now on john king and inside politics. >> thank you, kate and welcome to inside politics. a blockbuster breaking news day. thank you for sharing it with us. the president's long time lawyer and fixer pleas guilty to a single charge, lying to congress. he now said trump organization negotiations with russia about a giant real estate deal extended deep into the 2016 campaign. cohen told congress the talks ended in january, 2016 in this new plea. cohen acknowledges the

discussions continue through june, 2016, well after candidate donald trump was the president trumpive republican nominee. what's known as criminal information referred to the president of the united states as individual one. cohen said he lied to be loyal to the president and stay consistent with the president's political messaging. the court documents said he was deliberately lying to congress to give the false impression that the project ended before the iowa caucuses and the primary in hopes of limning the ongoing russia investigations. cop hen was close to trump when he gave that testimony. his former boss said the new version is a lie. >> he's a weak person and by being weak, unlike other people you watch, he's a weak person. what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. >> tracking all of this outside

the courthouse in new york, take us through the significance of what michael cohen is admitting and how it fits into the broader context. >> i think the bottom line is yet again, we have michael cohen coming in and admitting that he basically was trying to protect the president, someone he was extremely loyal to, someone he worked for, and really was to protect him from the russia investigation. you can't be any more clear from what we heard from michael cohen's mouth today at the courthouse and the documents. this was being done to limit the investigation and try to protect the president right before the height of the political season and campaign and the iowa caucus and first primary. all of this obviously was a concern for michael cohen and not only michael cohen, but other people around the president who were concerned about the impact of this investigation, perhaps the

optics and other things. we are seeing people lie, this cover up. michael cohen is little by little unraveling this cover up that we have seen in this investigation. the other thing i think that is notable is what we heard from michael cohen's lawyer is he is cooperating and that he is going to continue to cooperate with the special counsel and with the u.s. attorney here in new york. whether or not the special counsel's investigation ends and this is likely to go on in new york from the u.s. attorney's office and fbi who are overseeing parts was investigation. >> a very important day. straight from the courthouse. come back to us if you get new information. live in buenos aires where the president is on the way. the timing is interesting to say the least. big news from the president. not just calling michael cohen a

liar, but more news. >> no question about it. the president just shortly after saying he thinks it's a very good time to have a meeting with russian president vladimir putin tweets out from aboard air force one that he is going to cancel the meeting because of ukraine. this is something we have not seen the president do. take a harder line position and say he is not going to meet with the russian president because of the ukraine president. so much else is affecting this. the optics of the president meeting with vladimir putin here in argentina at the g-20 summit while all of this is swirling back in the u.s. is optically not good for the president, but it allows him to change the subject with the headline being he is cancelling the meeting as he is flying here. this is all linked together and has been since the very beginning. every one of the foreign trips the president has taken since he has been in office is marred in some degree by work of the

special counsel. the president was flying here and suggested they tried to damage the president on the world stage. this is still hanging over the president as he flies here and scheduled to have so many meetings here. it looks as if he will not have a formal meeting with the president. that doesn't mean they will not meet on the sidelines. we will see what the substance of all that is. as of now the president is saying it's too risky to meet with vladimir putin because of ukraine. john? >> interesting couple of days ahead to say the least. with me in studio on this important day, cnn legal analyst. we had a couple of hours to digest this, which is a big deal. let's go through the

significance. michael cohen said these conversations did not end in january. they went deep into the election year. he admitted he lied to congress and it matters to the president why and how? >> it matters because the president said and talked about how he had no business interest in russia and told the american public there was no relationship with russia that really mattered to him and it turns out according to michael cohen, this is a version of events we know the special counsel, robert mueller believes this version. michael cohen said deep into the campaign, after the time that the president is a president trumpive nominee of the party, they are discussing this project. that's a big deal. what it tells us is beyond what this affects the president, but it also may cross the red line that the president set forth. he said if prosecutors start

delving into his business that that would be a red line he did not want crossed and they could fire robert mueller. the red line has been crossed. >> the second time michael cohen said the president of the united states is lying. not just michael cohen, but he spoke for the president. he was speaking for the trump organization and the president of the united states. he said full stop early 2016, now he said no, i was lying. this went on into the campaign. we got caught up in this. this is about the president of the united states. he discussed the status and progress of the project with individual one on more than three occasions. cohen claimed to the committee he briefed them about the project. cohen lied to congress and it was the president and family members. not just about the president.

>> we're have to remember this information, this court document is really limited to cohen's lies. they are laying out to contradict cohen's lies. he did talk to the president more than three times and he briefed the family members and michael cohen likely told the special counsel's office a lot more about that. >> that's the key point. sometimes it's a crumb, and sometimes it's a loaf. they knew the president's team were going to say michael cohen is a liar. you even admit he is a liar. they did this in the rick gates trial and the e-mails.

may 4th, 2016, individual two who is felix sader who did business with the trump organization. i had a chat with moscow. assuming the trip does happen, obviously the premeeting trip, that can happen any time you want, but the two big guys were the question i said would be confirmed when he becomes the nominee. not so much the particulars, but it talks about travel to russia and the big guys. it's about the fact that mueller's team has been meticulous and you are going to call him a liar? here's the other witness. what did you learn? >> the timing is threatening for the president. he already submitted the answers. it's interesting too if you look at paragraph seven, the reference is a senior campaign official knew about the business trip for the moscow project.

we know manafort's plea blew up. it may have blown up because they knew he was lying. now the president may have submitted false statements because his source was manafort's. >> it calls into question anybody who has been testifying to congress. he was lying in information he provided to congress. now anybody else involved in these conversations regarding the moscow project who provided either testimony or written letters to congress throughout this investigation, if they said snag is inconsistent with michael cohen's truthful statement, they are now facing trouble themselves. michael cohen in this document, he lied to congress in writing. it's different than if he had

been testifying and he could say i made a mistake and i was truthful, but i forgot something. there is no wiggle room here. he lied in written documents. it was a deliberate lie. >> what are he lied about were the people and people who speak for the president said were over and long over. i don't know what you are talking about. it was over. i did the miss universe. that was the hoax of this. here's what he lied about. misled congress. continued discussions through june 2016. admits they did not end. cohen agreed to travel to russia is admits traveling to russia. he had contacts with russian officials. it blows up this whole once i became a candidate for president, i stop anything that would be improper or possibly coordination of collusion.

>> one of the things these documents do is give us a window into what has been going on behind the scenes. you have wondered why does the president tweet up a storm about this? he was preparing to respond to mueller with written answers. they were spooked. there was paranoia in the trump team because they thought mueller had something up his sleeve. we know this was up his sleeve. sometimes you are paranoid. it doesn't mean they are not out to get you. what's at work is that the president has been he had been told and that's what got the president so worried. >> you watch the president's

reaction. he said cohen is lying because he wants a reduced sentence. sometimes that happens. they offer information just enough to say we can back this up. he is not lying now. help me with this one. he said believe what he told congress. the president's lawyer issued a statement saying michael cohen is a liar. it's no surprise he lied to congress. he is contradicting his client. he said believe what he told congress. rudy giuliani said it's no surprise that he lied to congress. >> they are completely at odds with each other. even trump contradicted himself. he said i did have that business deal going. he is contradicting his treeft

statement statements@oughts. pay are all over the map. >> what this adds to is russia was all over this campaign. even before this plea document, there are so many documented instances of members of this campaign interacting, communicating, talking, coordinating with russian government officials or surrogates in some way, whether it was supposedly on a diplomatic issue or potentially finding out information about hacking activities to assist the campaign and now it was with respect to the private business organizations. they were all over this campaign. >> let's take a quick time out. how this move by michael cohen fits into the larger scope of the russia investigation. we'll be right back. month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion.

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fits into the legal jeopardy for the president of the united states. we know he responded to questions about possible contacts with russia or conversations with russia in the 2016 election year. what we don't know if anything they told mueller in writing contradicts the statements made by michael cohen to back up the new account. that is the big question. rudy giuliani said this was held at the g-20 meetings. if he has been working on this for a while and you are reporting that he meet with cohen september 12th and october 8th and november 12th and november 20th. seven times all together. that will continue. the question here is, was mueller waiting with this? >> there was a deadline last night for cohen to file on his

sentencing. he would be sentenced for the crimes he pled guilty to for the crimes in new york for two weeks. it's interesting timing that used this deadline as a way to make this new appearance to plead guilty to this charge. it stands to reason that special counsel's office could have done this on any day, but they waited until after the president's answers were in. so they didn't let it influence his answers. >> he said michael cohen is lying. he said there is no there there because they didn't get financing from russia. listen to the president. >> i decided not to do it. the primary reason and there could have been other reasons, but the primary reason, i was focused on running for president. there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. i was running my business while

i was campaigning. there was a good chance i wouldn't have won, in which case i would have gone back into the business. why should i lose lots of opportunities. >> there is a question and you have heard this come up from time to time, when people say why would michael flynn not only talk to russians, but turks and others as well. why would jared kushner have conversations while in the campaign. they all thought they were going to lose, maybe even the candidate himself. >> they absolutely did. that was the theory. if you go back to the beginnings of this investigation that begins in 2016, one of the things we heard is that the theory that investigators had was that donald trump and his family and some of the others, the hangers on, they didn't expect him to win. they thought that hillary clinton was a sure thing. what they wanted to do was use the campaign to enrich themselves and set up projects for after the election and use the visibility of the republican

nomination of running for president to do business deals that were going to set them up very well in russia and turkey after they lost. by the way, the president said the opposite. i always knew i was going to win. that's not true, i don't think. >> we can't connect dots because we are waiting to see if they have things to connect the dots. we can look at the timeline. march 2016, paul manafort joins the campaign. the guardian said he met with julian assange. michael cohen in may said he is willing to travel to russia. june is the trump tower meeting with russians coming in and don, jr. arranges the meeting and they said they have dirt on hillary clinton. cohen said he can no longer travel to russia. in july the first batch of e-mails and the republican convention where they water down the platform and in october, the podesta e-mails come out. there is a lot of russia around this campaign.

is it a whole lot of coincidence or can you connect the dots? >> a lot of russia involved in part to enrich themselves, which they did throughout the campaign and have continued to make money off of a variety, including foreign entities while he is the president. there is that piece. there is a question as to whether there was a part of the investigation. more violations in terms of foreign money or assistance. the dealings or the side deals. that affected the election and to help the campaign. >> there were two ways of looking at the notion that they were setting themselves up for future business. it's a failure of lawyering. as soon as you hire a lawyer, this is what you folks are doing. nothing wrong with that.

let's say consistent. when your client is not telling you what's going on, lawyers can't formulate a strategy. we see that all the time. maybe the reason they can't be clean with their lawyers is because of that. they can't come clean. >> the question for me and he builds things like a pyramid. when do we get there? the charge against michael cohen is that he lieded to congress. how is this playing on capitol hill?

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. back to the big breaking news, michael cohen, the president's long time attorney and fixer pleading guilty to a single charge, admitting he misled congress. his goal was to obstruct or at least limit the russia meddling investigations. mark warner joins us now live from capitol hill. senator, if michael warner is telling the truth and they have e-mails to back up the latest account, if michael cohen lied to the committee, did anyone else? >> that's an open question. we have a good working relationship with the special counsel and as appropriate, share information with them.

we shouldn't be surprised. this is another example of a close affiliate of donald trump lying about conversations with russia or russians. this is a pattern and remember, this is about a then candidate for the president of the united states basically with his personal fixer trying to cut a deal that would require significant approval from senior russian leadership about a business deal while you are a candidate for president of the united states. it's pretty remarkable. >> if cohen is now telling the truth, then the president lied. candidate trump lied repeatedly and president trump lied when he said the deal was done earlier. are there ramifications for that? >> let's see how it plays out. also, let's see what else mr. cohen has shared with the

special prosecutor. this was an individual affiliated with donald trump for many, many years. not only his lawyer, but his fixer. he may have other stories to tell, but i think the sooner the stories get out, the sooner the special prosecutor can lay out his case and the better for the american public. the white house said attack the mueller investigation and constantly said there is no there there. they have nothing to hide. now that trump has actually produced some of the answers to mueller, every day comes out with a new indication of these close affiliates either lying or dissembling and often times with direct connections to russians or agents like julian assange. >> the documents, michael cohen admits he kept mr. trump, individual as he is referred to

in conversations that didn't end in january and actually went through june of 2016. he said he kept family members involved. the president's son, donald trump, jr. told the senate judiciary committee he knew very little about that project. any reason to believe that donald trump, jr. perhaps not telling the truth? do you have evidence of that? >> i'm not going to speculate on that. mr. cohen was one of the individuals and we need to see in our investigation, but we have individuals we want to have back. we can finish our counter int intelligence into collusion. i think there may be not coincidence in timing that mr. mueller waited for this plea to be announced and the circumstance to be announced until after donald trump submitted answers to his questions. >> you don't think that was a

coincidence? you mentioned at the top your committee has a working relationship with the special counsel. you can help me understand that better? does the committee have investigation and he sent this and referred this to robert mueller or did he say i need everything you have on the trump tower because i'm looking into that? how did it work? >> all i'm going to tell you is where appropriate, we have shared testimony that we thought would be of value to the special prosecutor. i will not go beyond that and i will say we have a working relationship. we hear very little back. that has been the tightest ship i have seen run in washington. i'm anxious like many on both sides for the special prosecutor to continue to lay out his case and bring forward some of the plea agreements and all of the f facts from the host of people.

the president's campaign manager and rick gates. michael cohen the lawyer, and fixer. they are all working with the government and i hope that mr. mueller has a lot of product from all of them. >> the ranking democrat on the sena senate judiciary committee. with me to share the reporting and insights, julie is with the associated press. bloomberg and daily beast. we started with the legal minds and now we have reporting minds. when you watched the president's reaction, michael cohen is a liar, but to be clear the special counsel has the testimony and backs it up with documents and e-mails here. the president is nervous about where it's going. it's getting closer. it's getting to trump's business relationship with russia and moscow. there has been a lot of uncertainty about that. he denied repeatedly that he was

still having conversations through his business with russian officials during this campaign late into the campaign. he denied that during the campaign since he has been inors. michael cohen stretches the timeline into a problematic area for the president. again, it reminds us often that we don't know what mueller knows. he has so much more information. he was clearly waiting until trump put his own accounting of the timeline on paper and gave it to the special counsel and we're starting to see what mueller has that could potentially contradict what the president put. >> the president's even increased rage at the special counsel behind bars. the treason and the tweets that have taken constant rage. new information about business dealings, michael cohen lays out and possible collusion in the focus on roger stone and jerome

corsi. >> why the white house spent so much time putting out a false narrative said he never had conversations with russians and tweeting about the types of relationships the president had with the russians and the business deals he had. he said i have no deals and no business with russia. if that was not the case, why the misleading statements and the long trail of statements that now have come back to bite the president and the white house? it leaves us wondering, what are they trying to cover up? >> not only the president and the white house and you were getting to this with senator warner, his son, don, jr. we don't know what he said behind closed doors. we don't know what mueller could possibly have on him. that gets to the president's family, arguably the most important thing to him. >> there was no mystery about who individual one is and what individual one's organization

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welcome back. moments ago we received the court transcript where michael

cohen, the long time lawyer and fixer of president trump lied about conversations about a trump tower moscow extended well into the 2016 campaign. what jumps out? >> just to give folks context on exactly what went on in court when michael cohen stood up and admitted he made the lies to congressional investigators, one of the things i find interesting is some of what was going through michael cohen's mind when he chose to make the lies. by 2017, though he was no longer employed as special counsel to the trump organization, he had served and he was still engaged on matters involving the organization and matter involving the president. what he said is as he had in years before the election, i continued to follow the day to day political messaging that

both the president and his staff and advisers repeatedly broadcast and i stayed in close contact with these advisers to the president. as such, i was aware of individual one, which is the president and repeated disavows of political ties between himself and russia. his repeated statement that is the investigation of such ties were politically motivated and without evidence. that just tells you why michael cohen there in his own words explaining to the court and the fbi and the special counsel why he chose to lie about his meetings with the russians certainly about this moscow deal. that gives us color and michael cohen's frame of mind. other individuals, people associated with the campaign and people close to the president at the time during the campaign. >> outside the courtroom,

appreciate the reporting. we heard the president react and he said michael cohen is a liar. moments ago, the kremlin responded to the court filings. in the criminal investigation submitted, he said michael cohen e-mailed asking for help on the trump tower moscow project. let's bring in matthew live from moscow. what does the spokesman say? >> he changed his story a little bit. part of the problem he's got is it is trying to be carefully tiptoeing around the statements made on the u.s. side, making sure it doesn't contradict the position of president trump or his surrogates. the problem with that is as that side of the story starts to crumble as it appears to be doing now with michael cohen,

the president's personal lawyer, he is being tagged on previous statements made. this is the reaction sent to me and others at cnn about this revelation that there was a response to michael cohen by the kremlin when he was talking to them about business dealings late or and during the presidential campaign. they said this. they sent an e-mail to our office saying they wanted to develop a project of a trump building in moscow. asking for a meeting with myself and the chief of the administration. later we called and asked why they wanted to have meetings with the presidential administration and explained that we have nothing to do with the construction issues in the city of moscow. that's one of dozens of e-mails of the kind that they get. just last year, the kremlin gave a different statement. i want to repeat again.

we do not react to such business topics. we left it unanswered. they previously said they didn't answer these approaches by michael cohen and now they said they got back to him and asked him what he wanted to discuss. >> seems like everyone's story is changing a little bit. live from moscow, appreciate the reporting there as well. when we come back, remember when michael cohen said he would take a bullet for mr. trump? that wasn't that long ago. if you're turning 65, you're probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. that's where medicare supplement insurance comes in:

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♪ the president on his way to a big international summit on this day when he learned michael cohen changed his story and admitted he lied about when conversations about building a trump tower moscow ended. he previously said it was early

in the year and now he said it was through june. he called cohen a liar before getting on air force one on the way to argentina. the president said he will not meet with putin, but previously said it was a good time. other meetings will be scaled back. a planned meeting with the south korean president will bring it into the room. they will be close to the press. is the president scaling back his schedule and availability? >> i think there is two things happening. he is scaling back availability and fewer opportunities for reporters to ask questions about what michael cohen pled to today. the putin meeting could be different. there was a lot of criticism about the first meeting and not just from the usual cast of characters. a lot of republicans who were

uncomfortable with his posture towards putin and how trump would handle the second meeting and the concerns heightened in light of what we are learning about the president's business relationship. >> and business just rebuked the president on saudi arabia and the same republicans think what they see happening is more evidence of putin aggression and they didn't want the president in the room with him at the moment. >>. >> there is nothing on the schedule as of wheels up, but things are changing quickly for the president's schedule. interesting meetings including the leader of china which i would have argued was the most important meeting because of the trade war and because of the ultimatums imposing a new round of terrorists. let's see what sticks to the schedule. he has a couple of other ones. japanese and indian prime minister. merkel as she heads for the exits. >> any president travels with

his or her domestic baggage or triumphs. it was striking listening to the president talking about how michael cohen was weak. watching other people who have been brave, in an interview with the new york post, he talked about the brave paul manafort and brave roger stone and brave jerome corsi. those who are standing up to the special counsel you are brave and if you give damaging information, you are weak. >> the leader said people who cooperate with federal investigators are weak and people who defy federal investigators and members of human own government are brave and standing up for what they believe in. it's remarkable to see the president do that now that he is going to south america for the summit. he is carrying a lot of internal domestic baggage and they are worried his business interests

are conflicting with the leader of the federal government. essentially working on the business deals at the same time the president was opening up his campaign to the russians, saying this is -- we want to do deals with putin as president during the campaign. we know at the same time he was doing business deals or thinking about doing business deals with russia. they are worried about his conflicting role as commander in chief with his own business interests. >> how does it play out? his mood, look at twitter with the important business. the meeting and the trade and the tariffs and the economics, never mind the strategic interest and most would argue it's the biggest in the world. we have a potential deal on the table, but i'm not sure i want to do it. >> it could affect what comes

out of it. there will be a lot of frantic staff in these meetings. this is a president who is very emotional and lets that emotion play into every facet of the presidency. it will be an interesting couple of days. >> he announced the transgender ban and they are not unconnected. >> he has a history of doing things to change the subject. >> doesn't mean they won't try. >> inside politics for the breaking news. brianna keilar starts after a quick break. have a great day. i'm alex trebek here to tell you

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i'm brianna keilar live from washington headquarters. we begin with the breaking news and the bombshell investigation. president trump's former right hand man pleads guilty to lying to congress about discussions with a potentially lucrative business deal. he left the federal courthouse in new york today and cohen admitted making false statements about plans for trump tower moscow, a proposed project. according to court documents, cohen said the moscow project ended in january 2016 and was not discussed with others in the company. that