this was a big fat hand in mike cohen's deck and that it's out there is something that i can't imagine michael cohen is particularly happy about right now. but again, i don't know that that's true. just standing to logic right now. >> emily jane fox, senior reporter at "vanity fair." thank you for your work on the story and joining us on zero notice. i appreciate it. >> absolutely. >> i'm going to take a quick break but i'm going to tell you that there are three legal questions that off the top of my head arise from this stunning revelation. the first one is if this is true, if michael cohen can convincingly testify to this fact or if he can provide supporting evidence, if he could prove there, what kind of liability does this represent for the president of the united states? if in fact, as michael cohen reportedly claims, he has evidence that the president then as a candidate knew in advance that the russian government was sending people to trump tower to meet with his campaign to offer the campaign negative information on his opponent as part of the russian government's effort to hel

and any such knowledge of a payment to her, that might be seen by prosecutors as a vital thing mike cohen could testify about. he could talk to them about. remember, if this recovereding was in fact marked privileged, that means prosecutors didn't have it. michael cohen had it. michael cohen was in a position to tensionally make that available to them. but instead, the president's lawyers leaked the existence of this tape and made it public anyway. in doing so, trump's lawyers have essentially taken this away as something michael cohen might have otherwise been exclusively able to offer prosecutors for their pursuit of any other charges and people they might be interested in. michael cohen would need to be able to give prosecutors something valuable that only he could give them in order to get a already good deal from prosecutors. this presumably reduces his chances of getting any at the sort of great deal to the extent it hinged on this piece of evidence that he could give them about the president. now, obviously, the president right before the election talking about a secret payout to a

i don't think there's any doubt that donald trump is not taking mike cohen's advice and counsel anymore. how do you view the significance of this rupturen at types of leaking and back biting that we're seeing tonight? >> this is potentially very significant, ari. you know, prosecutors are hardwired to be cautious. so it's important to say that we haven't heard this story in cohen's own words yet. that will matter. it will also matter if he has any evidence, text pessages or e-mails that were sent contemporarily ha back him up. so far the reporting we've heard is there is no evidence of that nature. but this really is a bombshell. this idea that the president knew about this meeting before it happened and signed off on it, places him squarely inside of collusion with russia. >> when this kind of information goes public, obviously, prosecutors would rather they held it and no one else knew. how do you interpret that? >> it's interesting. we don't know the source of these leaks. and frankly, they don't make sense for mueller, certainly the leaks don't come from there. they don't make an aw

has learned that the feds have 12 recordings seized from the president's former lawyer and fixer, mike cohen. last week we found out that the fbi has a tape of cohen talking to trump about a pay-off. now we're finding out there's more. let's bring in jeffery cramer a former federal prosecutor and u.s. assistant attorney. jeffery, the fact that there's 12 recordings, sounds ominous but we don't know what is in them. until we do, it's meaningless, isn't it? >> you're right. does sounds ominous. but 12 is a lot. if even a small portion are what it could be with respect to payments to women, it could prove to be a problem for mr. cohen if he violated campaign election finances as well as possibly some of the people in the trump campaign at that point. >> jon: this is something that cohen was doing to try to ensure -- for an insurance policy for the future? >> seems like that's exactly what it was. it's highly unusual for any attorney to tape their client, certainly donald trump. but it's an insurance policy. now he has something that the government may want, that he can add some color to. it's i

based on an interview mike cohen gave this past week, he's planning to cooperate with prosecutors in the southern district of new york and the special counsel. giuliani says if he does, it's fine. >> michael cohen should cooperate with the government. we have no reason to believe she did anything wrong. the president did nothing wrong with him. >> have you no concerns at all about anything that michael cohen might tell prosecutors? >> as long as he tells the truth, we're home free. reporter: the fbi raided michael cohen's office in april. seized a number of documents including some related to the $130,000 payment to adult film star stormy daniels. some said she had an affair with trump and threatened into silence. giuliani is not worried about the guy once known as the president's fix-it man but some say he really should be. >> i think that they have a lot to fear. michael cohen is probably the closest person in trump's inner circle and has been for many years. he was basically the fixer. so, you know, he's going to know a lot about what was happening, not just in the campaign but in

mike. >> cohen's response came in the form of a retweeted post which said i did not say i was a war vet. united parcel. >> a proven liar. nobody can believe a word he is saying now. >> abc news has made multiple attempts to get an official response from cohen and showtime, but so far no comment. dick cheney, joe arpaio, ted koppel, and former senate candidate roy moore from alabama all believe they were also duped. moore is threatening legal action as result. >>> the dmv is apologizing for its long lines and it's doing somebody it. starting monday, the claremont office in oakland will open one hour earlier at 7:00 a.m. four days a week. and starting august 4th, 14 bay area field offices will open every saturday. >>> new legislation being introduced in sacramento would force uber and lyft to use more electric vehicles. it would require a certain amount of clean miles driven by zero emission vehicles. if it passes, they would set targets for ride share companies. >>> the families of the 1 thai boys trapped in a cave with their soccer coach are beginnng to tell their stories now. one of the

explain that and put it in broader context, what we know about mike cohen's recording habits. >> it does vary state by state. new york is a wop party consent state. as long as one party is aware and has given consent to the recording, it's legal. in this case it would be michael cohen giving his consent to the conversation. it is unusual and suspect to have a lawyer secretly recording conversations unbeknownst to a client. all legal experts seem to agree that is unusual to say the least, perhaps unethical. it's not going to matter in the end if this tape presents important evidence in any of these various cases and investigations either by the southern district or by robert mueller, david. >> last question, put this in broader perspective here. as mentioned, we're talking about the tape and narrow focus here. explain why the karen mcdougal case is so important and how it fits into the larger investigation? >> it fits into the larger investigation because remember around the time karen mcdougal said she had an affair with the president, stormy daniels said she had an encounter with the pr

. >> bret: has the mike cohen tapes turned it around. >> that will turn it around. >> new scandal to scandal. as far as coats is concerned i don't think his job is in jeopardy but can you imagine that they are quite irritated with him. like if you want to hang out with andrea mitchell and her friends in aspen, go ahead. but don't expect us to be happy about it. >> bret: the establishment. next up, the friday lightning round. tariffs, trump derangement syndrome here in d.c., maybe. plus, winners and losers. ♪ ♪ are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app

and more broadly in trump's orbit about these recordings and i think more importantly, about what mike cohen may now feel compelled to share with prosecutors if he chooses. he's clearly decided to break with president trump by releasing this audio with the combative statements that his attorney lanny davis has been making and there's a lot of concern that he may want to share what he knows with federal prosecutors. >> phil, further a lot of the recorded conversations are said to be with members of the news media and its further said about cohen he just would roll on his phone during conversations kind of in lieu of note taking and as a matter, of course? >> that's right. that's what lanny davis told us that is cohen had a practice of recording conversations instead of taking notes. it sounds odd for a lawyer to do that but he did. and he did it on his iphone, he would keep hold of the audio files and lanny davis said he didn't intend to do anything with those audio recordings other than to keep them as his own personal record. that was the way he chose to keep records working at donald trump

. >> my preface is totally honest, i don't care about the personal dynamics between mike cohen and president trump and i don't feel edified by the tape. but this issue about potential legal jeopardy for people associated with the president in this case, do i get that right? is there anything wrong there with the ways those things might shake out? >> i think what our reporting revealed today and what federal prosecutors are paying attention to is this question whether the dynamic between michael cohen and donald trump and ami, this publishing company, at times shifted away from being just a strictly media -- whether ami wasn't a straightforward media organization all the time and whether at times it acted as an appendage of sorts of donald trump and his campaign. >> there would be legal consequences of that. obviously, if you're acting as a publisher, you can hire and fire editors and contributors and make decisions who's on covers and who gets columns. all of that stuff. all of those decisions are absolutely protected by the first amendment and the government has no say there. there would be

he said he heard from three reporters that miking cohen is alleging that top-level campaign staff met to discuss russian help before the infamous meeting at trump tower, before. two meetings. yet at the same time giuliani revealed the news of an alleged second meeting. he simultaneously denied that it ever took place. >> there was another meeting that has been leaked but hasn't been public yet. >> okay. >> that was a meeting, an alleged meeting, three days before. according to cohen, he says there was a meeting with donald jr., with jared kushner, with paul manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed a meeting with the russians. we checked with their lawyers, the ones we could check with, for four of the six. that meeting never, ever took place. it didn't happen. it's a figment of his imagination or he's lying. >> joining me right now is democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. yammish alcindor is correspondent for pbs news-hour. robert costa national political reporter for the "washington post." and brett ste

damaging to us is being created and let's stop that -- >> cohen put out that tape of the president and mike cohen talking about hush money for mcdueling. there is speculation they put this information out, too. one of things he has over the president is he can place the president sort of in the circle of people who knew about the meeting with russia. >> sure. the way it's been described to me from these people is that that is exactly why they wouldn't have put out yesterday's news. this is something that is a big deal to them. this is something they wanted to deliver to prosecutors potentially down the line. that this is a card in their deck that they were going to play. so there was no reason for them to put this out. it does not serve them and this was not part of their strategy or their plan. >> and they acknowledge that it doesn't serve them. >> absolutely. they said to me this was not something that benefited them at all, which was their justification for saying we were not the ones behind this leak. >> matt apuzzo, regardless of who put it out, it is well documented by you and your colleagu

was not bad, but as you point out, it was something that the president clearly knew about. >> mike cohen'sis trying to reset his life as not being a bullet taker or punching bag for trump's strategy. this is a turn for him, a new resolve to tell the truth, no matter what, even if it endangers him. the white house deferred questions to rudy giuliani. >> major point is outrageous that someone would tape his client surreptitiously, also foolhardy for them to try to yell and scream and make believe what's on the tape. i agree with you, the tape is a bit hard to hear, but i assure you we listened to it numerous, numerous times. the transcript makes it quite clear at the end that president trump says, quote -- don't pay with cash. >> jonathan, you also spoke to rudy giuliani, what did he tell you, and is it clear that the president is saying don't pay with cash? >> what rudy giuliani says is they have a recording, and they have enhanced it. he said when i would go after the mafia, we would have the same thing. >> and then they release a transcript that seems to back it up. they have not released

>> well, the motivation for mike co cohen, jeffrey is exactly right.tion of value does michael cohen have? in the public, we don't know what that is. the motivation for somebody to cooperate is what jeopardy they're facing and whether or not he is facing serious legal jeopardy in terms of time in jail, which would affect his family, affect the rest of his life, obviously, and so we don't even -- michael cohen hasn't been charged with anything. so we don't know what potential whether he really will face face federal charges and if so whether those have anything at all to do with his involvement with the trump organization and donald trump or whether if that's his own financial business issues. >> if you are going to get yourself out of legal jeopardy when you are facing charges, you have to offer something of value, right? you can't nicely say well, i am going to tell the truth now. >> i am continuing to question of this public drawing out of information how he may have. if you really have information of value and you really want to corroborate with pro

. >> what do you think that lanny davis acting tonight as mike many cohen's lawyer and releasing this audio, what do you think lanny davis is trying to accomplish? >> i think he's trying to push the reset button relating to his client's reputation. among the american people. i think he's trying to paint his client as a victim and as a guy that's adverse to president trump and who really was just along for the ride and wasn't at the center of this. and lawrence, that's laughable. did you hear the comments from michael cohen telling the president what a great poll he had? and if you look at -- look at all the comments that michael cohen made about donald trump after this telephone call in 2016. look at all the comments that michael cohen made through his other lawyers at the very beginning of our case where he was a staunch defender of the president month after month, week after week. i mean, the only reason michael cohen supposedly found religion, if you will, at this point is because he realizes that he's about to be indicted for some very serious offenses and he's trying to push the

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. >> you have a quote in here from one of his friends that says they believe that mike cohen, quote, i'm not sure what week they're referring to, but i can't remember a week i felt like michael cohen really won it. what feedback mechanisms are they using to determine where michael's pr battle is at any given moment? >> i think last week was the george stephanopoulos week. so there was a sense in the coverage around that that this is starting to turn and perhaps this is a guy who may down the road cooperate with the president, and that is something more positive for him than this guy's going to jail, this guy's a criminal, this guy's a crook. so it may be a small distinction, but when you are living your life basically under siege in your hotel room and watching unyielding negative headlines to see headlines that are slightly more positive. >> talking about his cooperating with investigators. >> yeah. i think it is a small distinction for everybody else, but for someone who has felt, like he is, under siege for a long time, that distivnction dos matter. >> "vanity fair's" emily jane f

mike: since michael cohen was his mr.nd those close to him are not particularly comfortable with him at this point. >> is a fascinating question. because in this toxic climate it is funny because a figure can be embraced one day and then hated the next day. that is what happened here. michael cohen was a confidant, the fixer, the cohn of the earliest part of donald trump career. he was embraced as a inner-circle member. now he is hated, terrible, lying etc. it is a bit of a roller coaster. it's funny how they show giuliani saying he is not credible then there's a soundbite a month ago saying he was credible. all jokes aside you go into court listen to the person, we evaluate credibility taking it from the jury, the matter in which a person testifies their intelligence, the delivery, whether they are calm and the absolute standard, the extent to what they're saying backed up or corroborated by other evidence. and to use what he is saying, they'll have to back it up and corroborate it. mike: from experience, there are recor

is it your sense that this white house is nervous about what mike come h cohen knows about the president's activities? >> in this case, they might need to be nervous. if, in fact, cohen can prove trump had foreknowledge of this meeting, then it's significant in the narrative. the mantra in the white house has been there's no collusion. the reason for twhy the trump t meeting is important is because it shows the top tier of the trump campaign wanted to collude. they knew there was a russian government attempt to give dirt on hillary clinton, and they were disappointed that it didn't deliver. so it's significant, and if the president knew about it, it would be significant. >> it's a great point, is it not -- and we were saying this a little earlier. trump himself has said this. any campaign would want this kind of dirt. they're kind of defending what they wanted the meeting to be and then saying at the same time, well, it didn't turn out to give us what we wanted, and therefore, there's no crime here. there's no collusion here. >> it's almost a philosophical legal question. if you had the in

cohen you go take him. start ferreting out any of the problems that he sees there. mike coal cohen teams with lanny davis.ichael cohen do that he also went out on the record and says he does not -- president would pardon him. i don't know what's happening there. abby: you peter strzok. trey gowdy one of the folks leading on this in the house. he says peter strzok never should have been on any of these three investigations from the very beginning. take a listen to him. >> july of 2016, we just got through jim comey with that unprecedented press conference and three weeks later he is working on donald trump's campaign and the russia probe. i think that group was then transposed over onto the russia probe and then they, many of them, were transposed over onto the mueller probe. i will give mueller credit for this. the moment he found out about these texts, he got rid of peter strzok. if it was bad enough for bob mueller to get rid of him the moment he found out about the texts, he never should have been on any of these three probes if the animus was enough to kick him off when you found it, the animus should

cohen, the discussion is how does this serve us? for this to be out here, there is absolutely no benefit for mike equal cohen.on. that is not something he's interested in, not something he's looking for. this could potentially hinder his ability to deal with prosecutors. the trump motivation, michael cohen was very vocal a few weeks ago. there were two things that stuck out to me. one, the fact that stephanopoulos knew to ask about payments which now came out in the recording and stephanopoulos knew to ask about the trump tower meeting. and at the time i had said it's interesting those two things were were asked about. i don't think that was an accident. so ruledy giuliani and the legal team had sort of a preview of two cards in michael cohen's deck. so it's possible that because they knew those were two things on michael cohen's mind, because there was maybe this meeting that happened and people in trump's orbit mayber were in that meeting in trump tower, they were trying to get ahead of two things michael cohen signaled he was having to talk about. >> if michael cohen's reported claims were true, that donal

so the president's former attorney, former -called fixer, mike colin, is ported -- michael cohen is saying the president knew ahead of time that this meeting thatb took place ween donald trump, jr. and a russian lawyer in the month leading up to the election in 2016, the president knew about it, the resident is saying today it didn't happen, he didn't know. so, if it's true, what's the significance of it? >> this goeso the heart of whether the president knew or did not know that russia wanted to get him elected and his actually meddling in the election, and that is something he specifically said he did not. know at all ab so this meeting took place, as you said, in july 2016, between the president's son, donald trump, jr., the preident' an-in-law jared kushner, the campaign managthe time, paul manafort, and a russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, and we know veselnitskaya hadon connec to senior russian government officials and russian intelligence anwas offering "dirt" on hillary clinton. fast forward to last sum when were this meeting was revealed and donald trump, jr. spvifically said th

cohen 234. >> i'm sure we can ask mike schmidt about it, but we don't want to give anything away. if the source is michael cohen and his lawyers it says one thing. if it's rudy giuliani or the president and his attorneys it says another. i think you could see it as a warning shot or a cry for help or a signal he's willing to cooperate. and some people have suggested if it's the president's attorneys or rudy giuliani then they see it as potentially good news for the president or they're trying to get out ahead of a bad news story. at this point there are a lot of lawyers who have their hands on the material that was seized on the fbi raid on cohen's office and hotel room. there's a lot of potential sources. >> michael, i know i -- i wasn't going to ask you to reveal a source or anything. but is your sense -- do you have any sense of the motive of who was leaking this? >> no. you know, i think sometimes that's stuff is looked at too black and whitely in the media, that things are sort of doled out and handed out. look, this is an important part of the current trump story. trump faces

bill is right in that michael cohen and mike and other people have found the idea there was one recordingg he was recorded is probably a way bigger headache in their mind than only some part of what paul manafort was doing in the campaign. the trump administration has a lot of worries and this trial might not be at the top of their list. >> how big of a piece of the russia investigation, if it's a pie, what segment of it does paul manafort represent? >> we don't know. that's the thing. we don't know. mueller may not know. that's why they're trying so hard to get him to cooperate. they would love to have him cooperate. i think we sometimes lose perspective here. you had the campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, former national security advisor and another member of the campaign all get charged or plead guilty. that's an enormous amount of folks that were crucial to this. as the story goes along, sometimes we lose sight of that significance. >> the magnitude. >> that's a really great point. michael schmidt, thank you for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >>> when we condition

mike emanuel. >> president william blasting michael cohen and the fbi on twitter this morning calling out the agency for rating:'s office and that is when agents seized the reporting of the two where they possibly discuss the payment to a former playboy model claims she had an affair with president trump. special counsel robert mueller steam is reaching out to a new possible witness as the russian investigation continues. laura ingle is live from berkeley heights from new jersey not far from where the president is spending the weekend at his bedminster golf club. hello, laura. reporter: the president firing off just one tweet about this morning and is safe to say that the president is not happy about this recorded conversation. ... >> michael cohen because he was in that conversation could be that one party. sources tell fox news the conversation involved a possible payment to a former play boy model who claims she had a nearly yearlong affair with trump in 06. karen mcdougal sold her story to the parent company that owns the national enquirer in august of 2016 for $150,000, but that story never ran

mike? >> reporter: trump and his former attorney and fixer michael cohen apparently discussing a plan to buy the rights to her story themselves from "the enquirer's" publisher, american media incorporated, which is owned by trump's close friend, david pecker. cohen proposes using a shell company to do the deal. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you know, so that -- >> yeah. >> i'm going to do that right away. >> reporter: cohen says he's already set the wheels in motion with a top trump organization official. and trump apparently mentions a price tag. $150,000, the same amount a.i.m. paid the former playmeat. >> i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> so, what do we have to pay, 150? >> yes. >> reporter: the next portion of the tape is in dispute, as the men discuss how to pay. president trump's current attorney rudy giuliani says the president wants to pay by check, so there's a record. >> we listened to it numerous, numerous times, and the transcript makes it quite clear at the end t

cohen's plans to cooperate with federal investigators. for the nonlawyers among us, national security advisor mike flynn broke his agreement with the president and became a witness in the mueller probe. there are more signs cohen is willing to stand up to trump. he tells abc news, quote, i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i am not a villain in this story, and i will not allow others to try to depict me that way. but if cohen will not be a punching bag, that's going to represent a change in the dynamic between cohen and trump. "the new york times" reported back in april, for years mr. trump treated mr. cohen poorly, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and at least twice threats of being hired. here to help us understand the significance of the latest news from cohen and what it means for the man he once served, some of our favorite reporters and friends. joining us from the washington post, senior political reporter aaron blake. and with us at the table mara gay, journalist and member of the "the new york times" editorial board. mimi, assistant attorney for the southern district of new york. and char

mike said netflix's amazing run was done then it was. this was how it's how we make instant hits, risk less to make more that's what cohen carter did with h bet on netflix. he thought the stock looked extended headed into earnings. >> downside risk >> huh, mike thought, chart master could be right, but it could be risky >> you get it wrong, that's very, very bad >> he's right. shorting netflix or any short for that matter could lead to infinite losses, so instead mike bought the august 395 putt for $22. now he needs netflix to fall below the strike for more than the cost of the trade or below $373 by august expiration, but spending $22 to bet against netflix? don't freak out. mike's got a better way to do it cut costs, mike sold not one, you two august 370 puts for $12 so for $24 total for the $22 he spent on buying that 395 put and selling the 370 puts, mike takes a toe call credit of $2, so there's immediate profits below the 395 put he bought. there is a tradeoff. because mike sold more puts than he bought, he could be forced to buy netflix at the strike of the puts he sold, or in this case, $370, even if the stock goes way lower, put

trump is heard on the tape asking what financing and cohen says we'll have to pay. ends. >>> mike pompeo and defense secretary james mattis just wrapped up two days of meetings with australian a fishers at stanford -- officials at stanford as part of an annual summit to discuss global security between the two nations. secretary of mike -- state mike pompeo calling australia one of america's strongest friends and allies alongside -- speaking alongside james madison -- james mattis. >> we have already established a very close working relationship with the trump administration right from the outset. >> reporter: the secretary's administers said they focused on peace ability in the endo pacific, and the dealing -- denuclearization of north korea. the summit wrapped up just as pompeo is expected to testify before congress wednesday at about the trump meeting with latimer putin. >> i think one of the things that gets lost is --n maligned behavior is unequaled in the history of the united states. >> reporter: outside the building roughly 2 dozen protesters gathered to speak out against t

trump the president calling" -- welcome to "america's news headquarters" i'm mike emanuel. >> president william blasting michael cohenout the agency for rating:'s office and that is when agents seized the reporting of the two where they possibly discuss the payment to a former playboy model claims she had an affair with president trump. special counsel robert mueller steam is reaching out to a new possible witness

cohen: just a minute. give me a second. supervisor yee? your mike. >> supervisor yee: maybe the controller can clarify, but my recollection of the $1 million and so is quite different and i am pretty clear on what happened. >> supervisor cohen: okay. we'll turn back to you. >> supervisor yee: if controller can clarify, then i don't need to. >> through the chair, supervisor safai, the board has been pretty consistent in year one about having a district allocation pot of a consistent dollar value across the districts. practice in year two have not been as uniform as what you are suggesting. i think it's been a little more ad hoc. and so it's clearly just a choice, though, but you definitely see that pressure in the year one allocations that we've seen in years past. >> supervisor sheehy: around $1 million? >> cleanly $1 million in year one. it's been a mix of ongoing programs and one-time capital investments. and sometimes the board has chosen to fund the ongoing cost of those in year two and other times they have not, which sets you up for the dynami

cohen? >> it is a debate over who the source was. i am sure we could ask mike schmidt about it. but if it is trump and his lawyers t says one thing. and if it is michael cohen leaking it, then you can see it as a warning shot or a cry for help or a signal that he is intending to cooperate. and some people suggests that if it is the president's attorney or rudy giuliani, then they see it as potentially good news for the or they are trying get out of a bad news story. there is a lot of potential sources. >> well, you know, michael, look, i know, futile, i was going to ask you to reveal a source or anything. but is your sense, do you have any sense of the motive of who is leaking this? >> no. and i think sometimes is looked at too black and white in the media that things are dolled out and handed out. this is an important part of the current trump story. in new york, there is an investigation that is focused on cohen. but trump's lawyers don't know what the authorities are looking at. still fighting over what the u.s. attorney's office can have and can look at and whether anything i

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cohen's plans to cooperate with federal investigators. for the nonlawyers among us, national security advisor mike flynn broke his agreement with the presidenta witness in the mueller probe. there are more signs cohen is willing to stand up to trump. he tells abc news, quote, i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i am not a villain in this story, and i will not allow others to try to depict me that way. but if cohen will not be a punching bag, that's going to represent a change in the dynamic between cohen and trump. "the new york times" reported back in april, for years mr. trump treated mr. cohen poorly, with gratuitous insults, dive

one of the reasons why cohen is doing stuff like this is that he hasn't gotten a lot of love from trump. with mike flynn, trump was openly saying what a great guy flynn was even as he pled guilty to charges of lying to the fbi. michael cohen hasn't gotten any similar treatment. i think he's waking up for the fact that trump is going to watch out for trump, and he isn't going to do anything to throw michael co-not a bone. cohen has been giving interviews with stephanopoulos and that sort of thing, changing his twitter bioto send the signal to trump that i'm worry and distancing myself from you, and the ball is in trump's court if he wants to try and bring cohen into the fold to make some expression of support which so far trump hasn't done. >> josh, amy, thanks for hanging outy wi out with me on the fourth of july. happy independence day. >>> coming up, as president trump plans to meet one on one with vladimir putin and right now a group of house republicans are in moscow laying the groundwork, a number of critics are wondering is russia getting a warmer treatment than some of our key allies. >>> a

it's just another example of mike -- i think it's another example of michael cohen showing willingness to cooperate and no longer being willing to take that bullet for the president. blake: we can get into the minutia in exact case, big picture, is it indication that michael cohen might flip and end up giving robert mueller whatever they might need if there's something hypothetically? >> it's possible if there is something. we don't know what michael cohen knows or how much he would be willing to tell prosecutors who he knows about the president. it's one of those situations, i think, where a little bit of time will tell us how he knows and how far he's willing to go but that's certainly option that's out there and an option that i believe b is unnerving the president and lawyers to a degree. blake bake one of the options that we continue to follow is whether or not president trump might sit down with interview with robert mueller. earlier this week the president said the following of the possibility, watch here. >> my lawyers are working on that. i've always wanted to do an interview

mike my son. pete: steve cohen walking back shocking comment to anti-trump peter strzok. >> i never literally thoughtng to tell everyone. pete: in classic "fox & friends" style we bring you about a minute and a half of hard core politics and then we break out into a water slide. with kids gratuitously sliding down, enjoying the summered toed to the not just kids, pete. my sources tell me that pete hegseth. todd piro and maybe, maybe r.c.d. over here going to hop down that thing over here. rachel: looks fun. pete: we once had charles payne go down it in his full suit. i think rick reichmuth is going to be bullied in going down. it's not national water slide day it's just saturday? july and "fox & friends" and hot outside. rachel: in new york city and being a kid and have this to do on the square. pete: or have it in your backyard. i once rented one of those in my backyard. todd: did you hurt yourself. pete: no but a friend did. i didn't have liability insurance. i told them to drive themselves to the hospital. that's the way it works. president trump waking up in scott land this morning, gearing up fo

cohen tapes? this is a very carefully considered, because we see from mike pompeo giving the speech talking about hypocritical holy men in iran. they ratchet up the pressure and twitter is one weapon that the president uses. >> elizabeth: that's a good point because with the iranian leader just said as he is making like the american people are against the nation of iran. it's against certain members of the iranian regime that publicly flog teenagers, that execute people for all sorts of crimes that many nations would not do. human rights abuses, the problem here about oil because iran has now threatened to shut down a big chunk of the oil supply. the watch of the scum of the middle east to get around that problem, three countries. they have built pipelines to get around iran. where a lot of oil is transported. >> harris: real quickly, the next step in all of this when you look at it, experts are saying it might be more sanctions so i get the money move because they know it's coming. there's no way to separate them out from syria. >> elizabeth: that's an important point. iran's economy is in a sta

president trump and michael cohen, does this mean he has officially flipped on the president? secretary of state mikempeo is about to appear in the next 90 minutes or so before the senate foreign relations committee where he is expected to face serious questions on north korea, russia, and iran. talking about it with senators on the foreign relations committee, both side of the political aisle and now the power panel. stay close. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get up to $2500 customer cash on select 2018 nx 300 models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here. your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. improving efficiency is what we do best. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident.

leland: attorneys trading insults and accusations over cohen's new media offensive. elizabeth: vice president mikeout on the remains of fallen service men finally returning home. president trump said he'll show his support by republicans in vulnerable districts hoping to shore up the votes ahead of the midterm elections. allison barber has the latest, near bedminister new jersey. >> reporter: president trump is set to be in tampa on tuesday. it seems like he's going to talk a lot about the economy because that's what he's been doing for the past couple of days. he's also saying even though historically the president or whoever the president's party is when they're in the owe l val o, their party tends to lose seats during the midterm elections, president trump says he doesn't think that will happen because of the success they're seeing with the economy. take a listen. >> i'm going to work very hard. i'll go six or seven day days ak when we're 60 days out and i'll campaign for all of these great people that do have a difficult race and we think we're going to bring them over the line. i really beli

>> you talk about mike flynn's lawyer saying we have a story to tell. it's very clear that michael cohen, now his attorney on twitter, are sending a message that michael cohen also has a story to tell. one of the things rudy giuliani said in response to this tweet or this message from cohen's team is the truth shall set you free. that may be true for michael cohen. if he comes in and cooperates with the president. but if rudy giuliani really believes the truth will set you free, then why isn't his client, why isn't donald trump agreeing to an interview with the special prosecutor? his actions in this case, when he won't go in and talk to the prosecutor and tell the truth about what happened i think belies the message his attorney is trying to send. >> "washington post" reporting about giuliani, saying in a dition to working for the president, he's also representing foreign clients. in places like brazil and columbia among other countries. why is this an issue? and a suming it is, what does it mean for giuliani? >> it's an issue for a couple reasons. for giuliani what it means is, you kno

mike, there appears to be. this is a surprising tweet from the president he suggests his former lawyer, michael cohen, committed crime. >> you teach rules of evidence to law students. so take me into the classroom. explain to me the attorney-client privilege and the significance of this news about trump being taped by michael conabout karen mcdougal? >> well, the significance ability this tape is that it may indicate there was criminal conduct by either president trump or michael cohen or both of them and the way we get there is the following. we start with the attorney/client privilege and the attorney/cleept privilege says a communication between an attorney and a client for the purpose of receiving legal services is privileged from disclosure to others. but there is a narrow exception to the attorney/client privilege and that is where the communication is in furtherance of a crime or of a fraud and that brings us to this tape that has been described in the "new york times" and the washington post today, including by the president's tomorrow rudy guiliani as concerning a discussion between president trump and

going to try to get a better insight into michael cohen's relationship with the president, talking to sam nunberg and portman whoas part the grilling of mike pompeo. and we'll do a deep dive w of is this maria betina, the american grad student. the nra may have o a l problems coming ahead thanks to thismae ne n.wo to tune in on s rning. chuck todd, thank you. 10:3 sunday morning, "meet the press" on nbc4. >>> a missing man in virginia found far away from home. how he wound up soaking wet on one of the busiest airport runways in america. >>> tracking thehreat of t >>> we are weather alert right storms thatwe have are moving across the area, but the strongest storms are really north of the district. right odging a bullet now. >> we really are. up around the baltimore metro area, heavy rainfall, flash flood warning in effect for the cityntil 6:45. what i'm showing you right now is the district, parts of alexandria, only light rain moving throu. this is ior us. we just saw the energy transfer to the north and that's where we saw the stronger thunderstorms set up.s this good news because we have the zac brown concert at nats a park the a jay-zn

mike pompeo doing a great job. >> good to see you. thank you. for more on the legal implications of michael cohen's reported claims let's bring in tom depres former deputy attorney general under president george w. bush. why doesn't the bother the special counsel? >> reporter: we'll find out what the special counsel does with it. these reports are saying that cohen is prepared to tell the special counsel that president trump knew in advance of the russian meeting. if he did it would undercut the president' past denials of it. it's a signal that cohen no longer loyal to the president and i think of the president and the white house have to be concerned about what else could be forthcoming. >> in your long history as an attorney, different levels and the highest of them, what do you make of a person who secretly records his client, has a history of not being faithful to the facts and then now turns and flips in his ready to give evidence? how do you treat what he might say? >> reporter: a number of things. when i heard that he had been recording these calls with his client, i was stunned. i can't ima

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