i think guiliani will say there is nothing to do with him. you never know where this will lead. patton was pedaling influence. you go out and use a straw donor to buy ticket for this oligarch. that's a lot of money, $107 million raised by the trump campaign for the inaugural. that's really dollar democracy in my view the time of my book is dollar democracy with liberty and justice for some. it's exactly what they're doing at that inaugural. i think pattop was a part of that. >> it seems to play right into your book. i want to talk about this name na seems out of the blue for many people, bruce orr. what do you continue to make from the president within the justice delaware though, he's not a part of the investigative team on the mueller probe, steame allegedly telling orr russian intelligence claim to have mr. trump over a barrel. >> look at the explosive nature of that claim. if it's true, this is dangerous for trump and/orrer is an attack target for him because of. that trump will try to stamp anyone out anyway he can that he thinks might have credible, charging him with very

rudy guiliani when he was the u.s. attorney used those cooperators all the time.ies have to always take that into consideration, but the fact that somebody switched sides hardly makes them a guaranteed liar, and it could make them somebody that decided to tell the truth and make a better deal. >> and jeffrey knows this better than i because he has been involved in cases like this, but cohens, let's just say he goes and talks to the mueller team and says x, y and z. the mueller team will take x, y and z and corroborate it and try to get somebody else to confirm it whatever it is and not take his word as gospel. >> think about what has gone on with the mueller team in the past couple of weeks. they have gotten access to two incredibly important witnesses who are now cooperating with them. michael cohen and paul manafort, both of whom were intimately involved with the trump campaign and the president himself, and those debriefings just began in the last couple of weeks. anybody that thinks this investigation is wrapping up i think is under a misimpression. >> if you

. >> let's listen to some of the spin that rudy guiliani offered on fox news tonight and then we will analyze what he had to say after we listen to this. >> the plea is to crimes that have to do with manafort's past, no involvement with president trump, no involvement with the campaign, no involvement with russia and, by the way, there is also no evidence of obstruction. there have been four gym pleas now, they're completely irrelevant. glen, your reaction to. that. >> you know, lawrence i heard this over and over again from either the president himself, or sarah huckaby sanders or mr. guiliani, they keep complaining and protesting with each guilty plea that's obtained, with each conviction that's obtained. they complain that that conviction, that guilty plea doesn't prove russian crucian and you know i can envision the three of them sitting if a movie theater and every trial i tiime watch a preview of coming attraction, they complain, this is not the movie. we all know this is not the movie. we all know these cases that have been brought thus far by mr. mueller are not the russian co

the president and his lawyer, rudy guiliani, pushing a september 7th deadline for mueller. that's exactly 60 days before the mid terms. now, that unwritten 60-day standard is a general practice by the justice department to ensure prosecutors don't take action that could influence a federal election. however, to be clear, there is no indication that mueller is close to wrapping things up. and the president is taking to twitter and as you can imagine, unleashing a barrage of attacks on mueller, his prosecutors, the fbi and, of course, hillary clinton. joining me now, evan mcmullin, former cia operative and 2016 independent presidential candidate. and benjamin wittis is back with me. let's talk about bob mueller. we're approaching this unspoken 60-day threshold. should bob mueller abide by that unspoken rule and go quiet or go dark for the next 60 days? >> if you fefirst of all, let's what that rule is. it's actually a rule that unspoken or unwritten, that says that you shouldn't engage or announce investigative activities related to a candidate, someone who is actually standi

do you remember this from rudy guiliani? >> if it isn't over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules. >> all right. so just looking down at your watch or your phone right now, today is september 1st and the russia probe is not over yet. in fact, it's ratcheting up each more gentleman pleas, it appears with xormer campaign adviser george papadopoulos admitting to lying to the feds as his attorneys pleaded for leniency left at his sentencing next week. we wrote. next week we wrote the master they're referring to, although not specifically said, most likely the president of the united states and as if that's not enough, there is now new reporting from the ap on a conversation between trump dossier you a tore chris steele and trump's favorite target as of now, doj bruce orr representative. orr reportedly told congress this week in 2016 steame told him russian intelligence believe they, rather that donald trump quote had donald trump over a barrel. let's bring in our guest, editor

and poses danger sign for donald trump and rudy guiliani, who have said, this is not going to be foughtcourtroom. this is going to be fought in the court of public opinion. well, if it is going to be a mueller report versus a guiliani report, there's a 20-point disparity right now in trump versus mueller. but what is so interesting, wolf, underneath these numbers is the move of independent voters. democrats and republicans have remained pretty consistent on bob mueller. independents have moved six points to his favor in just the last month. this is coming from -- this is sort of the backlash, if you will, to the base strategy that rudy guiliani and donald trump have been employing here, going on fox news, talking about this, appealing to the base. you see independents fleeing from the president in everything in our poll, including in the russia investigation. >> very significant. and gloria borger, the president nonstop in recent weeks and months, going after mueller, but his arguments seem to be falling flat. >> well, his arguments are following flat -- number one, maybe people are get

that comes from the top attorney, rudy guiliani.pecial counsel robert mueller has attempted to interview the president in the past. guiliani said doing so is a no go. >>> the supreme court hearings for brett kavanaugh continued with more tough question from senator harris. she grilled him on justice juste rehnquist. kavanaugh thanked rehnquist for the rights not written in the constitution, the right to abortion and the right to vote and the right to marry. >> when you praise a just who attempted to end those rights, which rights in particular do you believe are praiseworthy on ending. >> the supreme court is relied on for forward-looking future of rights. >> i'm familiar with that. i think you will not address the specific enumerated rights. >> the kavanaugh hearing is expected to continue tomorrow. >>> a system called shots fodder is about crime detection as well as prevention. >> for the first time ever it's being used on freeways. next, see how it works to keep drivers safer in the east bay. >>> a family gets a bill for $13,000

. >> rudy guiliani is saying the same thing.nch of people affiliated with the sort of trump side of this, all saying the same thing, and they don't know. how do they know? when you look at this agreement and it specifically says your client shall testify fully, completely and truthfully about anything we want, they own him, okay, they own him, he can't plead the fifth. he has to tell the truth. he is going to go in and talk without lawyers. and of course it will be malpractice not to ask about everything he knows about the trump campaign during the time he was there, and that of course when you think about it preinauguration is the collusion part of the equation. so it's not surprising that sarah sanders and rudy guiliani are coming out on the record and saying this, and by the way, trump's attorneys said this all along, they weren't worried about manafort, but manafort had not cut a deal yet. and he has cut a deal as shimon points out to save his life basically, to try to get out of jail free. and he's got to tell the truth in

one day, guiliani is saying he said a thing and the next day, i don't know what's harder for guilianiody is definitely becoming more slimy and dirtier because they're hanging out and trying to contort things that don't make sense. either we're a nation that believes in-laws or we don't. to laud north korean dictators and russian dictators, and then to denigrate american football players is -- they're tough guys and these other guys are just sons of b -- it's ridiculous and says more about us as a country than it does about him. >> you're going back to the core point, what is the audience, what is the nation? what do we want to do about everything? we're in this together. a perfect guest on this topic, d.l. huguely. >> thank you. >> if you liked hillary clinton, would you date a trump supporter? your kids do that? the political divide is growing. >>> and blurring the lines between politics and comedy when we come back. en we c ome back with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually

as if we can get real information from rudy guiliani. thank you, we'll call back later. but he is supposedly the outside counsel on the russia investigation and it should be noted that mr. giuliani is on the record saying, the entire special counsel investigation will be wrapped up, done and dusted, definitely by tomorrow. well, your honor, since the special counsel's office just today arraigned and accepted a guilty plea and a cooperation agreement from a brand new defendant, i think it is fair to say that mr. giuliani may have been a little off in that prediction about this thing ending by dawn. so again, i don't mean to seem catty about that, but that's amazing that that is who the outside counsel is for the president on a matter this serious. given the special counsel's investigation ending tomorrow, it sort of tells you what kind of position the president is in in terms of his representation. so there's that. more substantively, it is clear this latest cooperating witness has very strong links to the president's campaign chairman and to the ongoing legal travails of

here's how the president's current attorney, though, rudy guiliani responded to the news.nal deceiveer. if anyone believes him, it's only because they want to get president trump so badly that they have lost any cianci of fairness or objectivity. talking to mueller's team multimillion tiles and fmes and hours. does this seem like a fishing expedition or they're getting to something specific? >> to me it's a large alt of questioning. don't forget there is a new york state as well as a federal investigation of trump organization activities that itself ongoing. then on mueller's side, there would be questions about, for example, cohen's activities, that dossier that's been cited by both side going back and forth features mr. cohen very prominently and his supposed trip to prague. i'm sure mr. mueller would want to ask about. that also there are questions about what the president said whether it's a potential obstruction of justice or his activities throughout the campaign or the trump tower meeting and so an. a lot of subjects to cover. what it suggests to me is they're beari

. >> president trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani, says a plea deal would not stop the president from pardoning manafort. >> there's no rational reason for pardoning somebody if they are admitting guilt. >> in the pastaf his former business parter gates for striking a deal with mueller's team that had him testify against manafort. >>> developing now, the anticipation letter by feinstein who turned the letter over to the fbi saying she received information from one individual about cavanagh. it contains allegations of sexual misconduct, and the allegations are vague and the individual would have to be more specific. the confirmation vote is set for next week. >>> and now a suspect accused of killing a concord man turned himself over. concord police say dixon has been charged with the murder of downy, a 64-year-old resident. dixon has been on the run since officers discovered downy's body inside his apartment in july. downy was beaten to death with a fire poker. he turned himself over in oregon and now is in jail. >ni now i warriors top brass gathering to celebrate a major milestone for the warri

rudy guiliani appeared on sean hannity's program earlier this evening. >> the plea agreement has and the cooperate agreement has nothing to do with the trump campaign the reality is no evidence of collusion. all you had to do is look at the plea. the plea is to crimes that have to do with manafort's past. no involvement with president trump, no involve him with the campaign. no involvement with russia. >> there is also this report in the "new york times" about trump's former lead counsel, quote, john dowd, mr. trump's former lawyer, e-mailed lawyers representing other clients who have been drawn into mr. mueller's inquiry that mr. manafort, quote, has no info on president or campaign. we should be crystal clear here, no one has any idea what john dowd is basing that on. earlier on this new yorker, harvard law professor alan dershowitz, who while not working for trump has been accused of being a cable news water carrier for the president of late says the white house should be alarmed and adds that any possibility of a pardon now seems remote. >> he'd have been much better off pardonin

am glad to help him, but just days after taking that high road, davis attacked the president and guilianimomoron. >> there's a number of surrogates for president trump who were trying to shape a narrative about cohen that was damaging to his reputation, and, perhaps, his credibility. >> cohen tried to reset his public image by meeting twice with a dedicated opponent of president trump, the reverend al sharpton. >> he said to me, reverend al, would you pray with me, and we took hands and prayed right there at the table, and i said, you going to be all right? he said, yeah, we'll be all right. i think his state of mind is somewhere between very committed to trying to find a way to repent something for his family, and very much wanting to salvage some kind of reputation to the country, and very much wants donald trump to understand he's not going to be getting away with just humiliating him and belittling him. >> while seeking redemption in the public eye, lanny davis was ready for a fight turning to cnn for a stunning revelation. >> welcome to prime time. we have one of the michael cohen ta

trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani, saying once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing with president trump or the trump campaign. the reason, the president did nothing wrong. still, the newest is a blow for the president. he decried mueller's probe as a witch hunt, that even as mueller got guilty please from manafort, trump's former campaign chairman, campaign deputy rick gates and former national security adviser michael flynn, as for michael cohen, he pled guilty to charges in new york. sara murray, cnn, washington. >> thank you. >>> a decades old assault accusation against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. he denies the allegation. it comes at a critical juncture. here is ari and devideoing with more. >> reporter: a woman alleges brett kavanaugh assaulted her in high school in the '80s. the woman hasn't gone public with the allegations but sent a letter to dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee. feinstein said friday the individual requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further. feinstein redacted t

today rudy guiliani said it. i have spoken to some people on the trump legal side as has my colleague, evan perez, they're all saying this is totally about paul manafort, has nothing to do with us. however, however i think we're being spun. i think that when bob mueller gets in there without lawyers and i would also say that the cooperation agreement maintains that the client has to testify fully, completely and truthfully before any and all grand juries in the district of columbia and elsewhere. it is so broad. can't have his lawyers. he has no -- can't plead the fifth here. he has to tell the truth. don't you think they're going to ask him about the trump tower meeting? >> of course, he was in it. roger stone, too. >> don't you think they're going to ask him why did you join the trump campaign. we know roger stone was one of the people that actually recommended him as a participant in the trump campaign. why did you come on as a dollar a year guy when you're completely broke and join the trump campaign. i think

. >> rudy guiliani told fox news the only way he'd allow the president to sit down is if robert mueller made a significant concession, such as agreeing to bring the russia investigation to a close just days after a face-to-face meeting with the president. brett? >> bret: john roberts, thank you. this is another fox news alert, syria on the brink. urgent concerns that u.s. forces and russian forces could get entangled in a shooting war possibly on the ground in syria. syrian government troops backed by troops from russia and iran may be about to launch a final offensive designed to crush the remaining opposition in the country seven years civil war. the u.s. is warning of dire consequences if that assault happens. it has mobilized. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the latest from the pentagon. >> a dangerous armed standoff in southern syria with u.s. and russian forces warning each other to stand aside n a rare show of force a company of u.s. marines carried out an air assault backed by artillery in the southern syrian desert in what u.s. offense officials call a ster

alternative facts ala miss conway, rudy guiliani, saying the truth is not the truth. statements by the president, let's be clear, are delusional and outrageous. to your initial point. initially, he said, by his own measure, it was way better than bush. there's only 16 deaths here. by his own standards. then we come to find that there's almost 3,000 deaths that are here. and so what are you doing and saying that this was an incredible success? moreover, jim, briefly. the point of the matter is we look at those horrific numbers is that the president just doesn't own up to the realities. tell to the people -- right, look at the government accounting office, what came out with a report, indicating all of the shortcomings as it relates to supplies and relates to not having bilingual people who are available to communicate. as it relates to no generators and support. as it relates to everything. tell to those people who live through it and are still living through it that it was an incredible success. it's not. it's a lie. it's an alternative fact, it's a misrepresentation.

rudy guiliani said paul manafort was part of the agreement.that the lawyers have been speaking together in recent months. how that might affect negotiations over a pardon, the dangling of a pardon and how that might affect strategy. it could go any number of directions. we'll be back. stay with us. of directions we'll be back. stay with us which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i'm highly likable. see, they know it's confusing. i literally have no idea what i'm getting, dennis quaid. that's why they're making it simple, man in cafe. and more affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you're welcome. that's a prop apple. i'd tell you more, but i only have 30 seconds. so here's a dramatic shot of their tagline so you'll remember it. esurance. it's surprisingly painless. so you'll remember it. your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health.

next, praise of new york mayor rudy guiliani, who is his attorney and represents him on cable tv. 8:30resident tweeted a photo of himself and the white house staff. if you look closely, you can see omarosa, a picture from a year ago. finally, at around 9:00 a.m., president trump tweeted, 17 years since september 11th. that's it? that's all it said. 17 years since september 11th. there's a certain consoler-in-chief that politicians, especially presidents are called upon to do. i thought he did a fairly nice job in shanksville, pennsylvania, but left to his own devices, doesn't seem to get what people are looking for. >> yeah, he does other things, obviously, better than he does the consoler-in-chief role. what donald trump jr. was talking about was taking on joe scarborough for an op-ed that basically said what donald trump is doing to this country is worse than terrorism. to have that hit on 9/11 -- i don't care if you're a republican or democrat or what have you. i don't care if you share every single view that he espoused in that op-ed. it's totally inappropriate. and you know, wheth

according to woodward, the president once told guiliani, rudy, you're a baby. i've never seen a worse defense in my life. they took your diaper off there. you're like a baby that needed to be changed. woodward revisits the president's handling of the deadly riots in charlottesville, saying mr. trump regretted a speech he gave when he condemned the white supremacists in charlottesville. but mr. trump said that was the worst speech i made and the next day went back to blaming both sides for the violence. >> excuse me. you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people that were very fine people. on both sides. >> reporter: woodward says the president complained he wasn't add for an interview but woodward reminds the president, he made multiple requests. >> nobody told me about it. and i would have loved to have spoken to you. >> senator graham said he had talked to you about talking to me. now, is that not true? >> senator graham actually mentioned it quickly on one meeting. you know -- that is true. >> reporter: president trump sat down with a c

. >> rudy guiliani told the daily beast he agrees with jay sekulow. they're seizing on the news, if rosenstein goes, there should be a time-out on the russia probe. >> pretty convenient for them to say this, of course. and jay sekulow isn't trustworthy because he's been contradicted multiple times. president trump wasn't involved in this, and then we only find out that he did. but, of course, they're seizing on this, because this is what they want. they want the russia investigation to come to an end. they said it was going to come to an end on september 1st. clearly, that didn't happen. and so that is really just something they're using this to their political gain to message something about the russia investigation. but, of course, we know actually that president trump and rod rosenstein's relationship had improved in recent months. it was really bad at some points. he was telling people he's no ally of mine, weak, not on my team. all of those things. and lately, they have started to get along better. there haven't been as many tweets negative about

i know who has been looking at this for a long time, bring it back to the mueller probe, is guilianisfending the president who look at the senate and know if it flips, they could look at impeepment proceedings, it explains why they do such a pr push, they know the court of public opinion matters so much when you are talking about this flip you are describing. >> also, they're spending more money in a state like texas where they shouldn't have to spend money, which means they don't have the reserves to fight in the real battle. >> i had a conversation, there is a rescue mission to save ted in texas. there is no rescue mission to save tammy in wisconsin the point being, democrats aren't going to wisconsin. >> they're not. >> they're sort of feeling with environment is on their side, maybe it's a close race, but texas, suddenly, that tells you everything you need to know. >> texas, you know, it's one of those things that if folks had paid attention ten years ago, you'd understand why o'rourke is where he is today the democratic party as much as it's maligned, it has focused on texas, to

and rudy guiliani has been trashing. maybe what rudy has been doing is working.'re going to believe rudy lying every day, changing the story. robert mueller today has a higher percentage of approval from the american people than he ever has, highest approval ratings ever, 20 points higher in donald trump. he keeps going up, trump keeps going down. well, just think, somebody at the special you know counsel's office, maybe they should send rudy some flowers and thank him, because he's been doing nothing but help robert mueller. >> joe the contrast is quite vivid between the two people involved the two principles, donald trump and robert mueller. i think the public picks up on the contrast, one person, mr. mueller is doing the job. one person is clearly not doing his job. one person's goal is to find out who did damage to the country. that's mr. robert mueller trying to find that out the other person is denying constantly denying that russia did damage to the country. so i think people have picked up on that. >> well, 61% of votersty the investigation is a serious m

rudy guiliani offering this, once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with president trump or the trump campaign. and the white house telling the press pool yesterday, this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign. it's totally unrelated. at the end of august, president trump tweeted his sympathy for his one-time right-hand aide. i feel very badly for paul manafort and his family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case among other things and applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike michael cohen, he refused to break, such respect for a brave man. and another is in cross-hairs, former obama white house council craig. they're' expected to bring charges again them and there's nothing required by federal law. >> perhaps new charges not necessarily related to the trurp campaign, but there could be other avenues that the justice department could have in their minds. thank you for that report. mike:. paul manafort's plea deal shows that he's no longer banking on a pardon and that is leading to talks abou

the president's attorney rudy guiliani responded. >> of course, he did. >> saying cohen has a his ofer. >> he said cohen was a wonderful man. >> did he lie for the president, that's why he knows deep inside he is a serial liar because he lied so much he must? >> rudy said. >> oh. >> rudy said cohen was a good man. >> right. >> and rudy the a good man. still, i'm curious, let's confirm quickly if cohen is talking to robert mueller? donny deutsche, you talk to cohen all the time. what are you all talking about these days? >> who is interesting as of a few weeks ago, we spoke almost every day. >> tell me ability mueller. what is the room like? does he drink a diet coke? >> in the last couple weeks, he all of a sudden. >> gone dark. >> responses are, yeah, we'll speak next week. he never said he was talking to mueller, but everything changed and my interpretation was clearly -- >> donny, doesn't that happen to you all time? >> i feel mueller said to him, son, we are in the adult dining room right now. you may have best friends and relatives, but you will be speaking. >> and never talk to