don't assume that he hasn't met with mr robert mueller but don't assume that he has is a topic i can'tyou this — what he knows about mr trump's behaviour, including the issue of the hacking by a russian government agency called wikileaks, and the notification of that hacking ahead of time, which any ordinary citizen would immediately say a foreign government, doing what, well, iam calling in the police — there is a possibility that my client will help contribute to mr robert mueller‘s enquiry about that subject. look, a lot of people are going to say your client is a crook, definitely a crook, he's going to go to jail. your client has lied consistently about all the things that robert mueller or anyone wants to talk about. he lied about the stormy daniels payments in the pretty recent past. why on earth would anyone believe a word your client says? don't believe, michael cohen my client, simply look at what was written by the prosecutors, in which the prosecutor said, and my client repeated, "the candidate", referring to donald trump, "directed and co—ordinated the payment of this mone

mr. robert mueller? >> if his office calls again, anything they want, i'll share. >> reporter: she's already released two recordings to nbc news. a conversation she had with chief of staff john kelly as he fired her in the situation room. and another, she claims, is a phone call with the president himself. >> omarosa, what's going on? i just saw on the news that you're thinking about leaving, what happened? >> general kelly, general kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave. >> no, nobody even told me about it. >> reporter: the president is lashing out in very personal terms calling her wacky omarosa, adding people in the white house hated her, she was vicious but not smart. >> low life. >> reporter: in her new book "unhi "unhinged," she alleges trump was recorded using the "n" word in the taping of "the apprentice." the president is pushing back, tweeting he talked with the show's creator who told her where there are no tapes. of the apprentice where i used that terrible and disgusting

mr. robert mueller makes public his report, we will know more about what he has said, if anything, to mr.. kevin: thank you for coming on bloomberg television and radio. back to you. vonnie: kevin cirilli, thank you for that. we will be digging through that in the next hour. now to something completely different for a moment. we will bethe golf majors are de year, but the pga fedex cup playoffs just getting underway. it all starts tomorrow. joining us from ridgewood country club is pro golfer gary williams coming off a sixth place finish in the pga tickets at earlier this -- championship earlier this year. gary, i have to ask you because d.c.e all in washington, right now. d.c. right now. how much on the golf course is talk of washington, d.c. and politics or are you concentrated on the game? gary: obviously everybody here in the world, we talk a little bit about it. once we get geared up tomorrow, we are all about golf and trying to win the fedex cup playoffs. vonnie: you build momentum into this and i'm curious as to what you're giving now in terms of chances for a win. gary: obviously

mr. robert mueller coming through with an investigation that we support.et's get that investigation completed. >> i know you've been supportive of the mueller investigation. two very quick questions because i am running out of time. should the president pardon paul manafort? >> no, look, what we understand that the president has the constitutional authority to do so. but we think politically it would be a very serious mistake. >> second very quick question -- do you believe the president? >> share again now? you're saying do i believe the president? >> do you believe what the president says when he talks about what happened with michael cohen? do you believe him? >> i think the president has a way of expressing things to where there is doubt in what he is telling us and i think just as many people across the united states want to see this president succeed in what he's trying to get done, most of them are willing to look at this and saying look, a lot of the discussions he's having is a coffee klatch conversation and we're prepared to understand that somet

mr. robert mueller? >> if his office calls again, anything they want, i'll share. >> with the book out today, omarosa is not going away quietly. she has interviews scheduled for this morning. as you mentioned, john, more recordings that she's promised to release as soon as today. this really is the crux of the problem for the white house, what more does omarosa have recorded from her time here in this building, john. >> what more, indeed. abby phillip at the white house. we are listening to see what is on those new tapes. omarosa claims she will release this morning. in the meantime, new this morning, breaking news, new cnn poll shows that two thirds of americans want special counsel robert mueller to wrap up his russia investigation before the november midterms. and for the first time president trump's approval rating is actually higher than some of his predecessors at this point in their presidency. what does this all mean? one man knows. david chalian with the new numbers. >> good morning, john. we'll

and letting justice take its course lashes out at the man prosecuting manafort and that's robert mueller. >> mr. mueller is highly conflicted. in fact, comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly, mr. mueller is conflicted. but let him write his report. we did nothing. there's no collusion. >> here we go again. the old i know you are, but what am i strategy. robert mueller is a former director of the fbi who was nominated by president george w. bush. his appointment as special counsel has been upheld by four federal judges. most recently by a judge appointed to the bench by president trump himself. but that didn't stop trump from returning to the baseless charge he's thrown around again and again. >> look, i say it. i say it again. that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a totally rigged deal. they should be looking at the other side. >> so the fact is, mueller's investigation has already resulted in 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants and five guilty pleas so far. and in the face of all this, the white house is scrambling to spin the presi

that's president trump's message to robert mueller. >> mr. mueller is highly conflicted.ike his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly mr. mueller is conflicted. but let him write his report. we did nothing, there's no collusion. >> out front now former long time attorney for donald trump, jay goldberg. the president telling mueller to write the report, the sort of tone in his voice, does that mean he's made up his voice, there's no interview coming, we're done here? >> i think he'd be foolish to submit himself to an interview. his chief deputy is a person who's schooled in obstruction of justice. he's the prosecutor in the operand s in the case, angel weissman. we're not going to see an interview by him. >> was there a serious effort by team trump to negotiate one? rudy's has been out here saying june 4th or september 1st, was that all rudy yapping? >> it wasn't just rudy. it was the predecessors of rudy. i feel very strongly about this. i don't think there's any question that a competent lawyer would advise him not to submit to the pitching perj

he is taking aim at robert mueller himself. >> mr. mueller has a lot of conflict. he is highly conflict. in fact comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly mr. mueller is conflicted. but let him write his report. we did nothing. there is no collusion. >> for more on who the president is targeting. in the backlash, joined by natasha bertrand. and michael isikoff. it is always good when the president says something to go right out in front and call him out. this conflict after conflict and how conflicted robert mueller is, there is no evidence of that whatsoever. >> of course not. and of course the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has said there is no conflict of interest that would prevent mueller from carrying out this investigation. what we are seeing is the president is clearly panicking. and repeating fox news talking points. that is something that the right wing media has been hammering on for the better part of a year. the same thing goes for this idea that mueller has a conflict of interest. we see the lengths that

in january of this year, the president's lawyers told special counsel robert mueller in a letter that mr. trump dictated the statement himself. cnn reported on that letter to mr. mueller in june. >> last month, michael cohen is willing to tell the special counsel that the president did know about the trump tower meeting in advance. and now the tweet. admitting the meeting was designed to get information on the opponent and claiming he did not know about it. >> got that? >> got it. >> does it make sense? >>> the trial of paul manafort on bank and tax fraud charges resuming this morning with defense lawyering cross kpami examining witnesses. a witness told jurors in 2016 she sent a fake letter from a shell company to a bank to help paul manafort get a loan. she also implicated manafort deputy rick gates. she took the actions under his direction. now she was given immunity for exchange for the testimony. rick gates is expected to take the stand early this week. >>> three months to go before the midterms. administration officials are trying to convince voters that president trump doesn't bel

on wednesday morning, right on schedule, mr trump let rip against robert mueller, the special prosecutorthe russians tried to influence the election which elevated mr trump to the white house. with the trial of his former campaign manager under way, and charges laid against a dozen russians, donald trump used his twitter account to tell his attorney generaljeff sessions that the inquiry "should stop". john, given that robert mueller is already looking at whether president trump amounts to obstruction ofjustice, it was a bit of a risk? i think we can see how this is going to progress. avoiding impeachment seems to me less and less likely if indeed indictment of a sitting president proves to be ruled unconstitutional. and i think it may not be too soon to look beyond president trump. america has these deep, deep social divisions, social, racial and otherwise, and i don't think the end of trump, which to me is foreseeable, is going to by itself do much to alleviate those. there still will be major problems to address and we don't yet see, at least i don't see, anyone on the political horizo

leading toward not granting special counsel, robert mueller a sitdown interview with the president suggesting legal action if robert mueller tries to subpoena mr. trump to testify. ellison barber has more from washington. reporter: the president according to his lawyers want to do an interview with special counsel robert mueller but his lawyer says the legal team still has a number of concerns. >> we are concerned a number of reasons. go to the heart of his authority as the president. article 2 why did you fire james comey? article 2. there's a series of those. reporter: this morning the president tweeted about the meeting in trump tower with the russian lawyer and campaign officials. he denied any prior knowledge of the meeting and the report he is worried about his son, donald junior and his potential legal exposure when it comes to the russia probe. donald trump says the reports are a complete fabrication. he went on to say the meeting in trump tower was a meeting to get information on an opponent totally legal. and done all the time in politics. and it went nowhere. here's what the lawyer said about the tweet, the meeting and don junior. >

mr. trump as his client offers to tell all to robert mueller. the president is paining his former campaign chairman turned convicted felon. is he laying groundwork to give paul manafort a get out of jail free card? and russians attacking again. facebook shuts down hundreds of sites linked to moscow as the democratic national committee uncovers a sophisticated new attempt to hack into voter information. we're following the growing threat to the 2018 midterm election. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. president trump trying to confuse, downplay, and distract from the fact that his former lawyer implicated him in a federal crime. tonight, the president is changing his story again, claiming that he learned about michael cohen's hush money payments to women later on. his words, "later on." that contradicts the evidence and cohen's assertion under oath that he was acting on the directions

it's the first prosecution by special counsel robert mueller's team. >> mrs. manafort, any response? >> reporter: the verdict for paul manafort came after four y on eight counts including tax evasion, bank fraud and failing to report a foreign bank. they were unable to reach a verdict on ten other counts. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts, however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial. >> reporter: the government argued that before manafort ran president trump's campaign, he stashed $60 million in 31 offshore accounts. prosecutors saying manafort used the money to live a lavish lifestyle buying several homes, fancy suits, even an $18,000 python jacket. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. he's here someplace. where is paul? paul manafort. >> reporter: just two years ago he was running the trump campaign. >> they're going to see a leader. they're going to see a decisive person with a human side who cares about people. >> reporter: last summer a doz

mr. trump's lawyers believe that mr. mueller will not subpoena their client out of fear of losing a court fight that could undermine the investigation's legitimacy to the public. and so robert mueller is approaching a very difficult decision point, probably the most difficult decision point that he will face in his investigation of the president of the united states. and now to answer the question of what robert mueller will do, what robert mueller should do, we are now joined by jill wine-banks and glen kersner. thank you for being here 44 years after you heard the president say he was going to resign the next day because your investigation had closed in on president nixon. what is your reading of where robert mueller stands tonight on the issue of what to do with interviewing the president or subpoenaing the president or moving past any possibility of talking to the president and going ahead without that? >> first let me say, lawrence, that you gave such a good introduction that you have left very little for me to add to it. but -- and i do remember, by the way, the night of the resignation announcement like it was yesterday. >> jill, can we just stop you on that for a se

mr. trump will meet with special counsel robert mueller. >> speculation whether or not president trump will eventually sit down with robert mueller. jay sekulow discussed it this week. sekulow saying any subpoena for the president's testimony would face legal battles. >> you get a subpoena you file a motion to quash, that would be argued at the district court, then the court of appeals and the supreme court of the united states. >> stephanopoulos pressing him on statements about the president being involved in the statement for his son. >> i had bad information at that point. >> the president tweeting, a complete fabrication that i'm concerned about the meeting my son donald had in trump tower. that tweet contradicts the initial statement saying the meeting was to discuss a program of adoption of russian children. >>> a silicone valley city passed a new gun law. >>> a bird's eye view of the destruction after flames rush through a neighborhood. >>> i feel like i had a lot of luck along the way and a lot of help. >> a teacher breaks a rowing record across the atlantic. the less son he learned

. >>> as the president's lawyers work on a rebuttal to robert mueller, mr. trump continues to see the entire russian probe, threatening to get involved with the justice department after declaring that the attorney general, jeff sessions, only has job security until the midterm elections in november. let's go straight to our white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, the president is clearly leaving the door open to firing sessions after november 6th. >> reporter: wolf, he's leaving the door open. in fact he's hinting strongly that's a possibility. when he was asked directly in jeff sessions would be safe after the midterm elections, he said, i'm not going to get into it. but we do know that the president believes the justice department has been unfair in all of this. but, wolf, it's striking as we're nearing at least the unofficial end of the summer here, the friday going into labor day, there was a sense of apprehension here. would something happen? would there be a shoe to fall? nothing has happened, but that just means there's still more questions. this

worried his children will get called up in the russia investigation lead by special counsel robert mueller. mr. trump is said to be especially concerned about his son don jr. although the president's attorney denied that in a statement to cnn. mueller has been looking into the meeting at trump tower that don jr. held with a group of russians during the campaign. if don jr. was lying when he told con depress underoath that his father did not know about the meeting at the time, he could be charged with with a crime. the political clout of u.s. president trump is about to be tested. on tuesday, voters in ohio go to the polls for a special election. the president is using his star power to energize his supporters hoping it will be enough to send troy to congress. the district normally favors republicans but democratic challenger danny o'connor surged in the polls and is now statistically even. if he loses it could foreshadow aan electoral backlash in the midterm election which is are three months away. the president addressed that possibility with disdain and insults. >> they're talking about this

ultimately do you think the president should sit down with robert mueller? >> mr. es: i think it might be helpful politically for the president to at least respond to written questions. i don't know about sitting down and giving testimony to robert mueller, but i think perhaps it may ease in the minds of certain members of the american public the president's involvement. his knowledge about russia, russian involvement in the presidential election 2016 but we will have to wait and see. >> sandra: that's a big wait and see. we will see where it all goes. judge alberto gonzales, great to get your take on things this morning. thank you for joining us on "fox news sunday" ." >> mr. gonzales: thank you for having me. now to cory lewandowski, president trump's former campaign manager. welcome back to "fox news sunday." good to have you on the program. what a week this was. how would you describe this week for the president? >> corey: let me first echo what judge gonzalez said in that all of the viewers know our frats and prayers are with the mccain family and is in new ham

cohen's own attorney tellingal maddowen his c is more than happy to tell robert mueller all he >> mr. mueller is dedicated to telling the truth. now he h no shado hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he stepped up to the line and hd has admihat he did wrong. is he now liberated to tell the truth everythinging about donald trump that he knows. ere's a cover-up here by our now president of the united states that is undeniable. >> nbc'shi chief wte house correspondent halle jackson has morena cohen's deal. >> reporter: that bombshell plea deal means the man who used to fix donald trump's problems has now become one for the presidt. michael cohen implicating his former boss after pleading guilty to eighty fel charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations paying out hush ney, telling a judge he broke the law because a candidate told him to. he doesn't name the person buty he o worked for one, donald trump. >> worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believe would beth detrimental to 2016 campaign and the candidate and the campaign. >> th

clearly it was that russia link that peaked robert mueller's curiosity and led him to look at mr. nafort's activity which gave rise to this trial. what we know about manafort's cooperation with robert mueller on other matters, a side from what is being trial?d directly in this andrew: the fbi questioned him in 2014 regarding a civil money laundering investigation and point, action at that trial gatesgh manafort and rick did talk to the government then. gates did talk to the government then. gates has since flipped and pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. gates did talk to the government then. gates has since flipped and pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. it is unlikely at this juncture, but manafort is doing so in light of the jeopardy he is in. , but manafort is doing so in light of the jeopardy he is in. he is facing charges on related charges in federal court in washington dc. potentially he does flip if he is found guilty here. julie: a reporter outside the courthouse in alexandria. mark: still ahead, talks about talks. the u.s. and china preparing for the first exchang

he told investigators the president once asked him to fire the special counsel robert mueller. mr. mcgahn never released the statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked mr. mcgahn to see that mr. mueller was dismissed, the people said. >> look, this is a president who is incapable of keeping a story straight for more than a day. he changes his story and changes his motivations and actions all the time. i think more broadly, just look at the tool kit with which donald trump constructed success in business and politics. he used payoffs. he used fixers. he used ndas, secrecy, right? these are all the tools he used. they are all crumbling around him. he can't enforce the ndas. his lawyers and fixers are testifying or cooperating against him. and he can't buy his way into cooperation with some of the people who are against him. and his own inability to show loyalty to his own people is coming back to haunt him. they're all turning on him. that's a terrible place for him to be. i'm not surprised he's firing off a machine gun of tweets all the time on ten diffe

mr trump described the special counsel, robert mueller, and his team as a disgrace to the usa.as more from washington. we've known for some time that donald trump is absolutely exasperated by the mueller investigation into whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and moscow, and we've heard him vent his fury on many occasions before. he's always stopped short of saying the investigation ought to be ended. today that changed. "this is a terrible situation," he said on twitter, and "attorney generaljeff sessions should stop this rigged witchunt right now before it continues to stain our country." now, the timing of this is interesting. it's the first full day of the trial of his former campaign manager, paul manafort, who is charged with not revealing fully his links with pro—moscow ukrainian businessmen. so that's part one, but the other part of it is that we've also learned that the president received a letter in the past 2a hours from the robert mueller investigation. now, there's speculation that one of the things they've raised is that they'd like to talk to th

mr. trump's lawyers formally rejected special counsel robert mueller's latest proposal pushing for a narrower range of questions in the russia investigation. rudy giuliani telling nbc news there is room to negotiate while calling for the inquiry to end. >> we do not want to run into the november elections. so back up from that this should be over with by september 1st. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says his position remains questioning the president about possible obstruction of justice is off limits. among the questions now, is robert mueller open to more negotiations or will he subpoena president trump? lester? >> peter alexander with the president in new jersey. >>> we'll turn to the nbc news exclusive investigation into what critics have called president trump's biggest conflict of interest. last year alone the president took in $40 million in revenue from the trump international hotel in washington. according to his latest financial disclosure forms but a look at the guest list raises a question is it constitutional. our senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden takes us inside th

mr. trump. special counsel robert mueller removed strzok from his teahe after discovery of those messages, and an attorney for n strzok tellsbc news the termination goes against the disciplinary review that called for strzok to be demoted and suspended for 60 days. strzok's lawyer accused the deputy director of bowing to sspolitical pree. >>> there's calls for metro's chief to be let go over alcusations that the transit agency gave spereatments to participants in the white supremacist rally. some including the union representing its union said metro did exactly what i would not do. news 4's darcy spencer is live for us at the foggy station with a closer look at thiser contr. darcy? >> reporter: well, jim, you'll remember leading up to the unith right rally metro officials made it very clear they were not going to provide any special accommodations for white nationalists, white supreme court sifts coming here for this real, but critics are saying that is exactly what happened yesterday afternoon, andyhat's metro's union is calling for the gm to be fired. news 4 was there as metro transitolicescort

mr. manafort guilty of, will now play further into the robert mueller investigation. e question is will robert mueller seek to get mr. manafort to cooperate for a lighter sentence? he faces seven years to 10 years. jurors, that could be looked at again. >> that's right. there is a lot at stake for mr. manafort. rishaad: how has donald trump reacted to it? it seems he reacted the way bill clinton did with the ken starr investigation, i.e. witchhunt. >> there are echoes of that. to basically called as a witch on penn state this had nothing to do with him. he mentioned paul manafort and said it was a sad thing and he was a good man, but he himself had no involvement. he did not mention michael cohen in those charges. again, he was focusing on calling this a witchhunt and politically motivated. ,hat is the case he is making that this investigation by robert mueller sought to undermine him personally rather than looking at the collusion aspect. he continues to indicate there was no collusion. that is the case he is making. he has been playing into the public for some time,

mr. trump's lawyers formally rejected special counsel robert mueller's latest proposal for a presidential interview, pushing for a narrower range of questions in the russia investigation. rudy giuliani telling nbc news there is room to negotiate, while calling for the inquiry to end. >> we do not want to run into the november elections. so you back up from >> reporter: rudy giuliani tells nbc news his positiobstrtion of justice is off limits. among the questions now is be open to more negotiations or will he subpoena the president? frances? >> all right, peter alexander, thank you. >> all right. this you have got to see. it's called a grid iron burger and it's 7 pounds. there is a big pay out, too, for anyone who can eat it within an hour. we'll tell you more next. let's fix it. play "connection" by onerepublic. (beep) ♪these days, my waves get lost in the ocean♪ ♪seven billion swimmers man ♪i'm going through the motions ♪sent up a flare need love and devotion♪ ♪trade it for some faces that i'll never know notion♪ ♪can i get a connection? ♪can i get can i get a connection?♪ ♪can i get a c

worried his family will get called up in the russia investigation led by the special counsel robert mueller. mr. trump is said to be especially concerned about his son don jr. though the president's attorney rudy giuliani denied that in a statement to cnn. even so, the president may have reason to worry. mueller has been looking into the meeting at trump tower that don jr. held with a group of russians during the campaign. if don jr. was lying when he told congress under oath that his father did not know about the meeting at the time, he could be charged with a crime. >>> u.s. first lady melania trump is defending nba star lebron james after her husband insulted the nba player for giving an exclusive interview to cnn's don lemon. a spokeswoman for mrs. trump praised james for his charity work with children and said the first lady was open to visiting the new public school james has opened in ohio. in a statement to cnn, the spokeswoman said, as you know, mrs. trump has traveled to the country and world talking to children about their well-being, healthy living and the importance of responsible

conviction of paul manafort is another blow to president trump and a boost for special counsel robert mueller. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. >> its a bad day for the president and i'm sure he understands that. >> it looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, only may cooperate more. this could get worse. >> i don't think he can be indicted while sitting in office, but we'll just have to see where this all works out. >> the heart and soul of this is about collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice. >>> the president of the united states of america, donald trump is named a co-conspirator of a federal crime and now five of president trumps advise ares are victimed criminals. michael cohen, paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn and george papadopoulos. headlines around the world shouting trump hell hour, a dark day for trump, the darkest day for the presidency since watergate. cohen pleads guilty. trump's former lawyer happy to testify. the pr

robert mueller. it's the question of the moment for president trump. >> mr. president, are you going to sit down with robert mueller? >> reporter: but the president isn't signaling which way he's leaning, whether to tell what he knows about the russia probe to special counsel robert mueller. instead, he's letting the suspense build, tweeting this is an illegal witch hunt brought by people who are totally corrupt and/or conflicted. stay tuned. >> i think the tweets are ad nauseam at this point. we know what he thinks. i don't understand what he means by staytuned. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says an answer to the mueller question is coming soon, but he's dropping hints that mr. trump's legal team is worried a trap is being set. >> he knows the answers to every question he's going to ask. tell comey to go easy on flint?- the president is going to say, no, i didn't. why do you want to get him under oath? you want to trap him into perjury. we're not going to let you do that. >> reporter: giuliani said mueller shouldn't ask the question about whether the president o

mr. trump. >> michael avenatti, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, will president trump fight a subpoena from robert mueller if it comes to that. we'll talk about mr. trump's new remarks about the russia probe. >>> and we're also digging deeper now. new reporting that the trump administration is refusing to give passports to perhaps thousands of hispanic american citizens. stay with us. you're still here? we're voya! we stay with you to and through retirement. i get that voya is with me through retirement, i'm just surprised it means in my kitchen. so, that means no breakfast? voya. helping you to and through retirement. chicken! that's right, chicken?! candace-- new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let's say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com >>> following breaking news on a new interview with the president in which he is saying

robert mueller's team? he's been all over the board on that one. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it, actually. >> mr. president, would you like to testify to special counsel robert mueller, sir? >> thank you. >> you would like to -- >> i would like to. >> have you changed your mind at all about being willing to sit with robert mueller? is. >> i would love to speak. i would love to. nobody wants to speak more than me, in fact, against my lawyers. >> undermining the investigat n investigation, like lay that's part of a master plan, create lots of doubt so no one knows what to believe. that's probably why the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, said this on fox. no surprise there. >> i think if it isn't over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that you shouldn't be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. >> that is absolutely false. it's hard to believe giuliani ever worked for the justice department. there is no 60-day rule. it doesn't exist on the books. there's a longstanding custom at the department requiring caution around ele

robert mueller. in a new interview, mr. trump's attorney rudy giuliani says the team is prepared to rebut any conclusions from the investigation into russian election meddling, telling the paper, "a negative report gets it over with. we can answer it with, i think, a better report from us and then we get to wait and see what happens in congress." the legal team also sent a proposal to mueller about a possible sit-down with the president, but giuliani told the journal there won't be an interview until after september 1st to avoid interfering with the midterms. >>> the first trial in the special counsel's investigation will resume this afternoon, the prosecution is expected to rest their case against paul manafort today, who's facing tax and bank fraud charges that pre-date his time with the campaign. >>> explosive revelations about a former white house aide about her time in the administration. omarosa manigault union revealed she made a secret tape when she was fired by chief of staff john kelly. the tape was recorded in th

mr. trump should down with robert mueller have been going on for months. the president is aware of all the risks and the president has been advised that talking to the special prosecutor would be a good thing for the institution of the presidency. wolf, it is widely expected rudy giuliani will make the trip to bedminster to talk with the president about all of this. it is getting to be crunch time for making this critical decision. >> good point. jim acosta, thank you very much. >>> also breaking tonight, russia is responding to the extraordinary warning from u.s. national security intelligence chiefs about moscow's efforts to independent fear in the upcoming midterm elections here in the united states. our senior international correspondent matthew chance is working the story from moscow for us. so matthew, what are the russians saying? >> well, as you might expect, wolf, the russians are pouring scorn on this idea that they had anything to do with manipulating the political environment inside the united states, particularly through social media, saying t

robert mueller. >> it is my observation that mr.ohen has knowledge that would be of interest to this special counsel about the issue of whether donald trump ahead of time knew about the hacking of e-mails. >> reporter: the man who once insisted he'd take a bullet for trump refusing to take a pardon from him. >> his answer would be, no. i do not want a pardon from this man. >> reporter: but a pardon isn't off the table for paul manafort. found guilty on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. the president expressing sympathy today for his former campaign chair saying he had such respect for a brave man who refused to break. now, wolf, the president's allies tonight readily admitting he is in the most vulnerable point of the presidency an trying to figure out a way to boost him. what they'll say is that right now president trump is backed into a corner and it's hard to predict what he's going to do next. wolf? >> good point. kaitlan, thank you very much. while president trump lashes out and the white house dodges questions, we're now lea

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mr. trump may still be interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. he says the legal team advises against it. the president attacked the mueller investigation again on twitter calling it the most one-sided witch hunt in the history of our country. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> more than 80 dead in indonesian after a powerful earthquake. it rocked the islands of bali and lombach. bird cages were swinging from the ceiling, see it there, people panicking in the streets as the quake hit, 6. a magnitude 6.4 quake killing 14 people. >>> san jose airport trying to tackle a hassle for travelers, long lines, hoping a new facial recognition system makes lines move faster at the international terminal. here's more about the system that was launched quietly that could eliminate noisy complaints. >> i was there for, like, almost two hours. >> reporter: he's glad to be home after visiting relatives in beijing, but not happy about the experience at the san jose international airport waiting in lines, but wong is grateful this is one of several airport

mr. mueller to stop this witch hunt. lou: and let's turn to robert mueller. he's now holding in his hands a letter from the president's attorneys with an offer. the suggestion is -- i love rudy giuliani's language. he's taken a position, that is the president's attorneys have taken a position that's not entirely unreasonable. i know what he meant to say, i think. but perhaps there is also truth in what he says. it isn't entirely unreasonable and that's exactly the way mueller might respond. what do you think? >> well we are talking about the president of the united states here. i certainly would not advise him to sit down with mr. mueller under any circumstances because frankly, he's already done that. he did it within 48 hours of mueller being named special counsel when mueller interviewed as director of the fbi. i still haven't figured out how mueller goes from interviewing as director of the fbi to special counsel in less than 48 hours to investigate the person who just rejected him as director of the fbi. i want to see the e-mails and text messages betwee

robert mueller. listen to what he told nbc about not allowing the special counsel to rush mr. trump to testifying. >> when you tell me he should testify because he is going to tell the truth and not worry. that is funny. it is somebody's version of the truth. not the truth. >> truth is truth. >> truth isn't truth. the president of the united states says i didn't -- >> truth isn't truth? mr. mayor? this is going to become a bad meme. don't do truth isn't truth. >> he said i didn't talk about comey. he said he did. tell me what the truth is. >> later in the day, on sunday, the fired tredirector appeared respond. truth exists and truth matters. people who lie are held accountable. >>> federal prosecutors are preparing charges against michael cohen and could announce them by the end of the month. cohen investigated for possible bank and tax fraud and campaign finance violations related in part to a $130,000 hush payment to stormy daniels. according to "the new york times" investigators are reviewing more than $20 million in loans to cohen and his family's taxi companies. prosecuto

robert mueller. >> for for example mr. mena ford is found guilty, that makes it a real problem for the president of the united states. >> paul manafort. >> paul manafort. >> paul manafort. >> the campaign is accused of hiding at least $30 million. >> we will learn the nitty-gritty details about paul manafort's financial situation. >> did you see what color type paul manafort was wearing? he did not either because he sat with his back to us. >> there is your media obsessing over a 2005 tax case. we will bring you the truth tonight. everything you are watching on the news media is all political. this is the weaponization of our justice system. paul manafort, like lieutenant general flynn, michael cohen and others being targeted because of their one-time association with donald trump. let me be clear, i have no idea what paul manafort did in 2005, 200,642,007. but it wasn't with russia. and i know they are literally trying to throw the book at him. and the judge in this case, overseeing this case, and, i don't see what relati