donald trump accused jessica leeds of lying. oh, i was with donald trump in 1980.itting with him on a plane. and he went after me on the plane. yeah, i'm going to go after... believe me, she would not be my first choice that i can tell you! man! donald trump says you're a liar. what did you think of that? well... you know he... of course he is going to say that. he lives in a fantasy of his manly prowess. jessica leeds isn't the only woman with a story about the president. his hand touched the right inside... of my breast. donald trump would look up under their skirt and you know comment on whether they had underwear or didn't have underwear and what the view looked like. the person on my right who unbeknownst to me at that time was donald trump, put their hands up my skirt. he did touch my regina through my underwear. he pushed me up against the wall and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress. i had to say, what are you doing, stop it. it was a shocking thing to have him do this. some women have evidence to back up their stories. this is your e—mai

donald trump jr. michael cohen says that he and all the other people there then heard donald trump sr. assent to the meeting and say it should go forward. he approved it happening. if that's the case, this is -- this is very serious, not just in terms of what this means about michael cohen's case and who is leaking what. this could be a very serious criminal matter for the president. >> and immediate perjury case for the likes of congress for donald trump jr. because he told one of the congressional committees that he absolutely never ever told his father about this meeting. >> right. and, so, perjury claims, the question of who spoken to the special counsel, who has been interviewed. that will all become important here, as will the specific nature of what the then candidate now president was advised as to what those russians were bringing. if he was advised, they got her e-mails, this was hacked information. if he was advised this was stuff the russian government somehow obtained by criminal means, t

donald trump and everyone in the trump white house know that most americans know that donald trump is an uncontrollable liar. the president knew he had no hope of convincing most voters today that he didn't mean to say what he said yesterday. the president knows that most voters, most americans, most children are way too smart to fall for the lie that donald trump told today. but donald trump must not see his voters that way. former cia director john brennan yesterday said that president trump's comments yesterday why wr imbecilic. and today donald trump took imbecilic to a whole new level. he gave his voters an intelligence test that he seems to be very confident they will not pass, cannot pass. he said that he forgot to say one word yesterday that would completely reverse the meaning of one sentence that he said yesterday. the line that donald trump changed today came in the middle of his response to this question, which definitely was not an actual answer to the question. >> would you now, with the whole world watching, tell president putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016

donald trump? well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. one is that donald trump doesn't know what good lawyering looks like and sounds like. after all michael cohen was donald trump's lawyer for years. the same michael cohen who rudy giuliani now describes this way. >> the way is unethical. is a scum bag. he is a horrible person. >> will donald trump's next lawyer be describing rudy giuliani that way some day? another reason he has not been fired is that it is actually impossible to do a better job of defending donald trump. that might just be it. it is impossible to do any better than giuliani has done. he goes into tv interviews with no real ammunition and just follows the donald trump, kellyanne conway model of speaking as fast as he can. it doesn't matter what the words are because there is nothing honest to say that could be helpful. there is nothing you can say that is both honest and helpful to your defense. so one possible explanation for the public verb

donald trump, jr., and his father talked about donald trump, jr.'s work on behalf of the campaign throughout the pendency of the campaign. and of course there were the actions donald trump took after the meeting was exposed in his efforts to try and cover up the meeting by trying to dictate the statement that donald trump, jr., gave to the press. it's not really a surprise, but now is the time for michael cohen to cooperate with bob mueller. and if this was a real investigation on the house side, we would be bringing michael cohen and donald trump, jr., back in. but unfortunately the republicans prematurely and irresponsibly ended our investigation. so this is all on mueller now. >> matt miller, talk about the optics of this. if this really is evidence of collusion, why put it out this way? why put it out in the media instead of sharing it with people investigating collusion with russia? >> it's a great question. it's hard to answer for sure because we don't know who this came from. we don't know if it came from michael cohen where you would presume

where did donald trump get the money from? was he reimbursed by anybody as we were just discussing who has a connection to russia? and the fact that donald trump wanted to use cash, and i think it's very clear from listening to it, owes in the background, he says cash, and then very strongly you hear michael cohen say no, no, no, by check. donald trumping offer, or desire to pay by cash raises a host of other issues. have they been complying with bank requirements, which generally when you're withdrawing or depositing sums in excess of $10,000, those have to be reported. so are we talking about banking violations? are we talking about wire fraud? are we talking about criminal conspiracy to break campaign finance laws. there's a whole lot there. >> we're going to have to squeeze in a quick break here. when we come back, we'll replay the tape again. the audience can judge what they're hearing again. we have much more coming up. stay with us, please. >>> michael cohen's lawyer, lanny davis, released a recording tonight that micha

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that's the real donald trump. i don't give him a pass for what happened in the press conference. >> do you believe, tom, that that's exactly what many people throughout the uk and certain will i the people in that crowd will hear? they will hear code words and what the president had to say about immigration? >> how can we draw any other conclusion after what happened a year ago and what he's been saying consistently? >> tom? >> yeah, completely. i think a lot of people will be concern bed by the what the president said not just today but in the years he's been president and in the campaign for him to become president. that's why it was important that theresa may disagreed on him publicly on immigration, to reflect the british view. which is, we've had hundreds of years of welcoming people into this country. we've got much better at integrating people into the country. there are elements of immigration that people don't like. that is part of the reason that led to the brexit decision. donald trump is probably right

we are just waiting to see donald trump and donald trump step up the plane from there.e president goes to mara lago in florida, he likes to stay at his own property. his son eric described as his favourite property, his father's favourite property so donald trump would have had no persuading to add this to his itinerary, after nato and checkers before then. there is the door. it is very familiar. we have seen donald trump and melania trump step off that in an array of different places. this is in fact the 18th country that he has visited while theresa may was the first foreign leader to visit the white house after donald trump took office. the uk is the 18th which he has visited and initially, there was the offer ofa and initially, there was the offer of a state visit from theresa may. but in the end, it was turned into a working visit. there is the president, waving. entirely clear who will be welcoming the president, certainly we are not expecting the crowds of people to turn up for this. a little earlier, as we wandered around, there are checkpoints, all around this

going to donald trump supporters i'm asking about donald trump donald trump is trying to mitigate some of the things being done by countries like iran i mean but he's being belligerent in doing so we're going to go to the audience and take the lady at the front yes my question is do you think donald trump will get reelected in twenty twenty great question he very well may depends on when he runs against we need russian help in twenty twenty. global. i was going to. use because you said you said the kremlin helped him you said it not me it really was going on who runs against him because if a person is very well qualified can get the votes going to qualifications matter i mean there's a donald trump approved the color going is don't matter how do you define qualifications you can i mean if you can be on home alone to be president you can be president you're going to be in the glass. briefly as an american base in northeastern nigeria would partner on a daily basis with one hundred ninety million jerry and i think very simply i just have trouble squaring the forest for the tree argument

meetings with donald trump.nd then president trump threw in a last line today to end the press conference with a trumpian dash of incoherence. >> and if anybody watched peter strzok testify over the last couple of days -- and i was in brussels watching it -- it was a disgrace to the fbi. it was a disgrace to our country and you would say that was a total witch hunt. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> and so the final three words of the president's summit with vladimir putin were total witch hunt. joining us now is the former undersecretary of state in the obama administration. and former cia chief of staff and a former director of the obama white house situation room. he's currently director of the haden center. and these are challenging nights for programs like this because we really are tonight the first draft of history, and this was a historic day. with your experience, i simply want to give you an open opportunity to react to what you saw today. >> well, i think i felt, as most have today, includ

camp has donald trump's endorsement and mike pence on saturday.endorsed by nathan beale who is plagued by the release of secretly recorded tapes on one of them offering $300,000 in exchange for an endorsement. the winner will face democrat stacy adams in november. brian kemp will join us live in the next hour. >> donald trump meeting with veterans today. the commander-in-chief addressing vfw convention in kansas city for his first time as president, donald trump spoke during the 2016 campaign, the president made veterans issues a priority under his administration. >> the president celebrating in the usa, his made in america event fueled by american heart, sweat and pride. >> kevin court takes a closer look at the white house. >> america never waves the white flag, we only waive the red, white and blue flag. the era of economic surrender for the united states is over. >> even as donald trump welcomes to the white house a shining array of us manufacturers, business owners and ed produces for the annual made in america showcase, the economic storm cl

donald trump jr.'s lawyer, he told cnn that donald trump jr. has been professional and responsible through the the mueller investigation. we are confident of the accuracy and the information that was relied on mr. trump jr. and on his behalf. he declined to comment. you remember this on chris cuo o cuomo's show. he attacked cohen's credibility. >> right, that he's been lying all week and for years. >> jack, if this coalition is truth, was there a crime committee? >> well, if this can be demonstrated or come rated. the narrative that the trump campaign was not willing and eager to get the support of foreign powers including adversary like russia. it would provide a motive for obstruction case if this was proven to be true. i think there is a step back for a moment and put this into context of an investigation that is also focusing on the fact that the president invited rush that to come off with the 30,000 hillary clinton e-mails, subsequent attack on her personal servers. and subsequent on dnc and the clinton campaign and the release of those t

not just to donald trump but donald jr. who testified that to things that we i think we'll find out are not true. which puts him in the position of being prosecuted and convicted sent to prison also. one thing we don't know is what's going on exactly between cohen and prosecutors. the prosecutors can't be happy about what we're talking about in the news. when you turn state evidence they expect you to talk to them and only them. only on the witness stand. and keep your mouth shut. one thing we don't know is tuz this information leak from the trump side. which has been very smart and strategic in leaking material to get the damage out early. grand jury cases leaks always come from the defense. never from prosecutors. >> you think they maybe getting it out early before the midterm? so the damage is already been done. this is baked into the cake. >> well, the damage they're worried about is to themselves and interfering in whatever deal cohen is going to try to make. they may not need cohen to make cases. that's a thing we don

he became donald trump's cfo. and i've always felt that the michael cohen, the issues surrounding michael cohen could ultimately only accrue to cohen himself. i'm not clear yet how much any of the stuff he's being investigated for potentially bank and tax fraud will devolve to the president. >> part of it goes to the portfolio. michael cohen was solving problems as they arose. mr. weissleberg had, to use the parlance, the receipts, he has all the receipts. >> michael cohen didn't do any classic legal work for donald trump, he was a fixer, in the roy cohn mode. he only came into the organization in 2006. weissleberg and another person, jason greenblatt, were the two pivotal people in the company who knew about finances and dealmaking. the president wouldn't do anything unless the two of them were involved to some extent. this presents a real vulnerability. ultimately it goes to things in the probe that might touch on financial quid pro quos. >> it goes to whether there are crimes related to money, even pre-2016 is

donald trump was shown all that. he was shown what they were doing to help donald trump win.donald trump has known that, known that it was the russians following vladimir putin's orders who attacked our election. he has known that every single day of his presidency. so now let's listen again to president donald trump lying about that over and over again for the last year and a half beginning five days, five days after he was told in trump tower that the russians did it. >> as far as hacking, i think it was russia. but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people. >> you don't think it is phony that the russians tried to meddle in our election? >> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. >> there was meddling and probably there was meddling from other countries and maybe other individuals. >> joining our discussion now, national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. and former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and a former aid to president oba

>> it's actually a donald trump quote.ld trump said real power is -- i don't even want to use the word, fear. and that's where it comes from. >> that's often leaders, you know, do they want to be loved or feared? >> do they want to be respected? >> right. >> but in his case, real power, fear. >> wow. well, i look forward to that. and that's coming out in the fall? >> six weeks from almost today. september 11th, right before the midterms. >> wow. fascinating. thank you very much for the preview. a quick reminder, watch "full circle" on facebook weeknights at 6:25 p.m. eastern. the news continues. time to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts now. don? >>> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. we have a prime time exclusive with the one and only lebron james. one of this generation's greatest star athletes. three-time nba champion. he started out as a kid from akron, a kid who missed 83 days of school in the fourth grade but he had big dreams. he's a man on the mission opening the i promise school in his hometown. he

first of all, you remember there's two different donald trump, the donald trump of the 90s, the fightss there, don king promoting the fights. he's hanging out with hip hop cats. and this other one, the post dementia donald trump who loves picking fights. i think he's a lonely man. i think this man never really had a lot of friends. he wants to be popular. he wants to be a celebrity. and he loves being able to twitter slam people because you don't have to see them face to face. he's not good with that. >> are you suggesting that not unlike drake's observation, people with twitter fingers sometimes aren't as hard core when you meet them in person? >> they're keyboard meet them i >> they are king board gangster. >> do you think the yolk was on trump when you -- >> the win for him was to get a show, to go almost to the goal line, not win, pull a hamstring move and get a tv show, because he could have said, i could have won. i am too good. too truthful. too different. it takes the perfect trifecta. you can throw anything out there, you don't care. and you have to have a mental deficiency. >

just on the edge of donald trump's turnberry resort.tiful sunset is playing out. the cool air is hardly moving, it's incredibly still evening and the only noise apart from the purr of our tv chuck is the home of a scottish police helicopter, but in the next two minutes the president of america is going to be arriving —— tv truck. he will be staying here for a couple of days. really what we have seen today isa days. really what we have seen today is a shift from the focus on the uk and brexit slowly towards a broader, global issue which is the way that america interact with russia, because if the day began with a focus on what kind of trade deal can america and the uk cut after brexit, and theresa may talked about an ambitious deal, donald trump that contrary to what he said to the sun, he now thinks a deal can be done. so the mood music improved, and now we start looking ahead to that helsinki summitand start looking ahead to that helsinki summit and what donald trump will say to vladimir putin about their countries many differences. he

about donald trump. some of them are making comments about the president unlike anything they have ever said. consider the chairman of the senate finance committee orrin hatch. and remember that orrin hatch is the senator who said this about donald trump. >> we're going to keep fighting, and we're going to make this the greatest presidency that we've seen not only in generation bs t maybe ever. >> so the only member of congress and possibly the only american not named trump who has said that donald trump could be the best president fsh is now saying something that doesn't sound like orrin hatch at all. i actually don't recognize the current trump-supporting version of orrin hatch. the orrin hatch who i knew and saw virtually every day when i was working in the senate finance committee in the 1990s was one of the reasonable and sometimes cooperative and compromising republicans on the committee who helped get the committee's work done, especially on matters of international trade. and orrin hatch has alwa

donald trump jr. with russian agents after he was promised in effect incriminating evidence on hillary clinton taken from the russians. that meeting occurred. then donald trump, the president, tried to disguise it and deceive about it in his famous, now infamous air force one statement. so there are clearly links here to an ongoing criminal investigation that, unfortunately, colleagues in the house see as a threat to the presidency and rightly so. >> senator, we thank you. just interrupt right now. we're seeing images of the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states entering the presidential palace in helsinki, finland. he'll be meeting with the president of finland and then also meeting with vladimir putin. we believe -- we see the secretary of state there, mike pompeo as well. we thank senator richard blumenthal for being here. coming up at the top of the hour, and let's bring into our conversation peter baker. peter, as we see the president of the united states entering

and what we established was that donald trump jr. often relayed to his father the most minute information that was coming from the campaign. so, again, to suggest that he wouldn't bring to his father something as powerful as the russians seeking to help his campaign and hurt his opponent, it's just -- it doesn't add up. >> yeah. congressman swalwell, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> more now on the many legal implications for the president, his son, and michael cohen. joining us are carrie cordero and asha rangappa. carrie, the president has never been under oath about this. so i mean if michael cohen not only tells this to robert mueller but also has people who can corroborate it, legally speaking is there any risk for the president? >> well, there's risk in terms of the broader russia investigation. so a lot of times we talk about collusion. >> right. >> but what that really means if we want to translate it into the legal framework is conspiracy. and it's very clear that the mueller investigation is conducting a b

by donald trump jr., his son. by cohen's account, trump approved going ahead with that meeting with the russians. i should note, don, cohen does not have evidence such as audio recordings to corroborate this claim. i should also add that a source familiar with cohen's house testimony -- remember he testified on the hill -- said he did not testify at that time that trump had advance knowledge and the reports filed by republicans and democrats on that house intelligence committee did not mention these claims. >> okay. so then what about the president's side? what's the response? >> so we reached out to everyone involved here. let's start with the attorney for donald trump jr. he tells cnn, i'm quoting, donald trump jr. has been professional and responsible throughout the mueller and congressional investigations. we are very confident in the accuracy and reliability of the information that has been provided by mr. trump jr. and on his behalf. attorneys, that is lanny davis. we also contacted one of cohen's attorneys,

you think she should have taken the donald trump approach7 should have taken the donald trump approachhe trump approach? of course. the trump approach was, you give us what we wa nt we approach was, you give us what we want we leave. can you are much and if britain walks away from the eu? the eu would have collapsed. that was the point that he made to theresa may. but she should be strong. she decided to be weak. she decided to please everyone. that is why the mess which she created now. i fundamentally disagree because theresa may's mistake in british political terms was that she laid out a series of red lines that she could not deliver. she has been in retreat from these red lines ever since the florence speech and she goes on retweeting and she continues to retreat. that appears to be disastrous. the reality is she is in a very difficult position in a sense that she has an impossible party, she somehow is to reconcile her party. the idea of donald trump that she canjust party. the idea of donald trump that she can just lay down the ghost party. the idea of donald trump that she canj

and donald trump knows if his voice is on those audio recordings because donald trump's lawyers had the right to listen to those recordings when the court was deciding whether or not those recordings were protected by attorney-client privilege. donald trump obviously wanted to create a huge distraction for monday's news cycle and he knew witch hunt just wouldn't do it. the president knew he needed something bigger than witch hunt so, the president went nuclear with iran. thanks to our experience with president trump and north korea, we now know that when the president goes nuclear in his tweets, we are not on the brink of launching a nuclear attack. we did not know that when the president began his five months of threatening north korea with nuclear attack, but we do know that now. we know that the president is not a homicidal mass murderer willing to kill millions of people in north and south korea on a whim. we know that. we know the president is not going to launch a nuclear attack on iran. but we know the president believes he needs to launch a rhetorical attack on iran. we know the

they look back in history, as they mentioned, donald trump threatened north korea, then donald trump gave north korea everything they wanted. donald trump made his secretary of state fly half way around the world to try to resolve the dispute with kim jong-un. clean things up in the press, and kim jong-un basically spit in our general direction and went out picking potatoes with potato farmers. so the iranians must be, like, getting the brinks trucks ready to back them up and get money from donald trump, because whenever he starts talking like this, he's the sucker in the end. what should the rest of the world think of donald trump's opening round of bluster which always ends in weakness and groveling on his part? >> well, joe i don't think it's thought through, because we don't have much of an iran policy other than economic pressure. we're not willing to counter them around the region, be it syria or anywhere else. the short run, it's actually good for the regime. the currency is plummeting, didn't get the benefits they wanted from the nuclear agreement, but this strengthens them f

tex and as he said press making images really we heard donald trump say a few things there this will be an extraordinary friendship. yet we may also he also just said you know we're the only two powers you know the nuclear powers put them at the same level it's that elevation of russia that the putin and many of his people are looking for you know if you if you look at the image the body language wasn't super super warm putin a little bit stayed back but at the very end he gave a little bit of a smirk a little bit of a smile and i think he's quite happy with what was said we should also remind our viewers that we're watching the summit taking place in helsinki and the two leaders are expected to give a press conference a little bit later in the afternoon what did you make of the fact that he pointed to china said our mutual friend here well i mean rhetorical aid that's that's pretty problematic you know we're just one day away from him talking about all the photos on the international stage the first one he singled out of course was the european union he also mentioned china and russ

from donald trump. and i don't think it's simply going to be cashed for a congenial press conference. i think there must be some other shoe to drop, i don't news that image, there must be some other country to invade, there must be some other attempt here by russians to expand their influence at the expense of the western, the expense of the western alliance and we have seen over the last -- not just the last 24 hours but the last six, seven days that the president of the united states does not have the interests, historic interests, of the western alliance and of the united states front and center. >> and willie geist, my father grew up reading books, a series of books called "none dare call it treason." none -- may dare to call what donald trump did yesterday treason, but one thing we can say is this -- faced with overwhelming evidence that, again, any court in america would take judicial notice of that vladimir putin tried to undermine american democracy in 2016 and continues to act in abohorrent way

criticizing donald trump. even the "wall street journal" said that congress needed to pass a containment plan not only for putin but also for donald trump. you had the president of the united states doing vladimir putin's bidding, exactly what he wanted them to do. attacking nato. attacking theresa may. attacking germany. attacking angela merkel. attacking al of our closest -- our closest allies. as we're hearing just about every night on russian tv, commentators shocked saying we couldn't even succeed this well in the cold war. now donald trump is doing all of our work for us. but what is the long-term impact of a republican party now who not only is embracing vladimir putin and embracing vladimir putin's agenda, which is to destroy nato, and disrupt elections, but now they're also -- i think i saw somebody last night a quote that 73% of republicans now support tariffs and protectionism, which, again is a complete reversal that will have impact in the long run on this party. >> well, joe, i think that the cor

is donald trump keeping it real?ortant to him to tell people don't believe cnn, or whatever channel, and don't believe what you're seeing with your eyes? >> we've never seen nothing like this before. and it's so weird because you've got like half of america following the donald trump playbook. then you've got the other half, you know what i mean, who doesn't agree with nothing they're doing. i have the weirdest conversations at the airport, somebody who's for trump is just like they don't want to hear nothing we've got to say, and vice versa. you've really got people almost like zombies to donald trump, they believe whatever he has to say, even though we know it isn't true. >> well said. i'm just his echo, his second man. >> it's kucalled a hype man. >> you know this stuff better than i do. >> when you introduced us. he said, why are you the great fat joe. >> why aren't the rest of us? you know what i mean? >> i agree, actually, look, it is -- you have a very divided country, very polarized country. the president has

what did donald trump know? the president's story about the trump tower meeting has already shifted. his lawyers claimed he was in the involved in a statement falsely claiming the meeting was about adoptions. then they admitted in the memo that he dictated the statement. now the strategy for donald trump is to attack michael cohen to boost the president's credibility. trump allies are gaming on how to bury cohen, according to the daily beast. the first attempt did not go so well. rudy guiuliani tried to claim that he is a liar. >> he has been lying for years. there is nobody that i know that knows him that hasn't warned me if his back subpoena against the wall, he's lie like crazy because he's lied all his life. >> the same rudy giuliani said this about michael cohen just a few months ago. >> he doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> cohen's story may be just as dangerous for donald trump jr. as it is for the president. cohen reportedly

donald trump was addressing his voters, first of all. trump goes abroad, he addresses his voters first of all. i am just explaining why he said that. secondly, the reason why he went after germany was a very logical and cunning thing to do, because this absurdity which is spoken about trump being elected with the help of the russians, he turned the tables around and said excuse me, you are buying stuff from the russians, you depend on them, so why you two don't talk to me like that? that is the point he was making, and it was a very clever move. i agree with that. there was a lot of discussion about nato and its failures in afghanistan, for example, when nato collapsed completely and showed its total incompetence, its total corruption and so on. nato, when you say it has to change, it has to disappear, gradually, because nato should have disappeared when the cold war was over. that was the arrangement... it is the perfect example of why the cold war is not over and if characters like you were a little bit more dispassionate, maybe it wou

i don't actually see how donald trump can help him.ere is no way forward, it will alienate european partners. the means to agreement is very clear. it is on the table and russia has to accept it. it is useless. it is unfulfilled. president putin is very cunning when it comes to creating new opportunities or new ideas. the idea of some form of un peacekeeping force, some form of ceasefire that can be implemented is not rocket science. that could happen. the problem is that donald trump seems to have a very... because of the russian interference problem and other things. he wants to get out of syria. he can push anything through. we will find out on monday whether donald trump can play things as well as vladimir putin when the two men meet at that summit in helsinki. that's it for dateline london for this week — we're back next week at the same time. goodbye. saturday's tatachilla is the 30 in the london area, but parts of scotland and northern ireland reached 26. the lion's share of the sunshine and warmth will be in england and wales.

yes, there was quite a bromance between alex salmond and donald trump when donald trump was a realityhousands of jobs, invest billions in scotland. that never happened, and that relationship soured around about 2014 with donald trump tweeting that alex salmon was maybe the worst leader that the free world has seen, which is a nice bit of foreshadowing there. but as i say, nicola sturgeon is a very different case. her relationship with donald trump has always been different, so no, i don't think this is an embarrassment for the snp. i think the media response, the public response and the political response in scotland have been quite in tune. i'm curious though, that you think it would have been better for her to have met donald trump. of course that rests on the fact that the president would have extended the invitation, but do you think there is a risk here that she could have scored more political points and more effectively gotten her point across if she had sought that meeting rather more forcefully? yes, and as i say i do think that it would have been good for her to meet with hi

you've been covering donald trump for a long time. would donald trump jr. set up a meeting to get difrt on the opponent and not tell his father. >> it is inconceivable junior wouldn't tell his father. that's why we need to know what number those two blocked numbers were that he called and let's not lose site of something here. when a foreign government calls you and offerings to help in an election. you pick up the phone and call the fbi, i need to speak to someone in counter intelligence. period. full stop. >> yes. and that clearly was not done. let's take one step back. paul butler said cohen is shady. okay. that is a take that i think is legitimate for people to have based on whatever we know about him so far. what's interesting is that inside the trump camp, they're not clear of whether cohen is shady or not depending on whose side he seems to be on. the man is a honest honorable lawyer. i suspected something like this. he's been lying for years. there's nobody that i know that knows him that hadn't warned me that if his back is up against the wall, he'

he didn't go to court for donald trump. he went after donald trump's enemies. that's the kind of lawyer michael cohen was and when donald trump tweeted on friday or thursday what kind of lawyer goes out and tapes his own client, the kind of lawyer who does that is the lawyer who has donald trump as a client and knows donald trump is going around telling everyone i'm going to tape you. >> there is a classic story donald trump cultivated roy cohn, the famous vicious lawyer and then distanced himself in the end when roy cohn was dyiiy of aids he just dropped him. so is this the dynamic he's cultivated in his business life? >> absolutely. people will ask all the time why do people keep coming back to trump. i'll tell you why. trump in most instances attract what is he is. many of the people who are around trump are just like trump, seeking power and fame and that need for that power and fame outweighs anything else. >> it's why rudy giuliani was spurned, he wanted to be secretary of state, he thought he would be secretary of state. trump not only threw him under th

both donald trump and vp mike pence have endorsed robbie.ob: bryce harper blasting his way to a home run in front of the hometown crowd in washington. >> there it is, centerfield and bryce harper has thrown it in the air. >> reporter: smashing 19 homers when his dad pitched to him. the company in the final seconds. rob: you can catch the all-star game, the national and american league at 8:00 eastern, dog days of summer. jillian: i will be asleep for that, let me know how it is. rob: terrifying video showing the moment a lava bomb explodes on a boat packed with tourists, molten rock raining down on top of them. the sightseeing company may face charges. jillian: first kim jong un, vladimir putin, is bashar al-assad next were face-to-face with donald trump. our next guest says don't hold your breath. ♪ >> productive dialogue is not only good for the united states and good for russia but it is good for the world. our relationship has never been worse than it is now. however, that changed as of about four hours ago. rob: donald trump wrapping up