it is really hard to decipher rudolph giuliani's comments. i think maybe what he is referring to is people like george papadopoulos who was offered dirt by the russians in the form of thousands of e-mails stolen from clinton's inbox. paul manafort was the campaign chairman for roughly four months at the most pivotal moment. he is directly at the center of it. he was the highest ranking member of that campaign with the closest ties to russia. and it is important to remember that he was heavily in debt by the time he came on as chairman and he offered to do it for free. he offered campaign access to a russian old garg in exchange for debt relief. these are all things that won't be addressed in the upcoming trial due to begin tomorrow with jury selection because it will focus mostly on his tax and bank fraud crimes. there will be a reckoning and will it be in his d.c. trial which will focus on his efforts as an unregistered foreign agent. >> it is especially notable in a campaign as thenally staffed as the trump campaign. we know that from the r

take a look at how rudolph giuliani characterized michael cohen just a couple of months ago and then contrast that to what he said this past week. >> no, i expect that he is going to cooperate with him. i don't think they'll be happy with it because he doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. i expected something like this from cohen -- he's been lying all week or two weeks -- lying all year. there isn't anybody that knows him that hasn't warned he if his back is up against the wall he'll lie like crazy because he's lied all his life. >> reporter: rudolph giuliani winning no points for subtleties there. if michael cohen as rudolph giuliani says has been lying all his life, at least for most of his career he was living at the request of donald trump since he was on the trump campaign or the trump organization payroll. the question, of course, is what changed. well, you now have michael cohen alleging that president trump, then-candidate trump, knew in advance of the now-infamous trump tower meeting where there was

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on monday president trump's lawyer rudolph giuliani consistently presented a third line of defense. even if mr. trump did collude with the russians, he committed no crime. my client didn't do it, and even if he did it, it's not a crime, he said on fox news. hacking is the crime. the president didn't hack. he didn't pay for the hacking, he said on cnn. the article goes on. it's just a word choice, said julio sullivan. i'm sure nobody in the justice department has ever investigated collusion but they've certainly investigated conspiracy, and rudy, she said, knows better. for the record, the president has said collusion on twitter 94 times. giuliani has been giving interviews throughout the day. here is what he actually said. >> i have been sitting here looking at the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. collusion is not a crime. i don't even know if that's a crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> giuliani also weighed in on the trump tower june 2016 meeting. you may recall our reporting. a source says michael cohen is

month when he thought the president no longer cared about his plight and became furious when rudolph giuliani contradicted some of his accounts according to his associates. in nis gravest hour trump was leaving him out in the wilderness. result is open warfare between attorney and former client." with that, let's bring in our leadoff panel for a wednesday night, matt oh pus zo, cynthia oxny, former federal prosecutor and veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department and the aforementioned phillip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning author for "the washington post." phil, you report that there are over 100 more ef recordings that cohen has made that have been seized by the feds but that this one we just heard was the longest and most substantive. what else can you add to the record tonight from your reporting? >> that's right, brian. many of the recordings that the feds have are actually of michael cohen taping secretly taping conversations that had he with reporters. with journalists during the trump campaign and after trump's election. there are a number of additional conversatio

rudolph giuliani told "the new york times" today that two conditions have to be met. the special counsel would have to prove mr. trump committed a crime,nd he must show trump's testimony is vital to finishing the russia probe. >>> president trump has accepted the rignation of embattled former epa chief scott uitt. pruitt has been under a cloud for months and under at investn. so why did he leave now? political director chuck todd alked about that with us on news4. >> we know this president, looks matter, optics matter. at some point the idea this guy was embarrassing him on a daily basis and was getting on to television more often. that's when this president seems to care. >> the president will announce his sprorlt nominee monday night and chuck preview the decision on "meet the press" at 10:30. >>> aerson facing rape charges for an alleged incident that happened after his time on th team. but his attorney tells the bureau xheef the current professional basketball player is innocent. >> whether an individual was targeted or not, it is not anak excuse toe advantage of

. >> reporter: tonight the attorney rudolph giuliani now questioning whether collusion is a crime at all. >> i've been looking in the federal code trying to finll ion as a crime. it's not. i don't know if that is a crime. cheweding about russians. >> back in april, james comey told cnn while collusionsn't a crime -- >> the question that we on look at as counter intelligence agency, are any americans conspiring, which is a crime defined by the u.s. code, with a foreign government. >> reporter: one chief focus of the investigation, a knowledgeable source telling nbc news, the former attorney michael cohen is going to tell eller the president knew in advance about the 2016 meeting with don jr.nd a russian lawyer. >>> meanwhile several states are suing the trump administration in anffort to block designs for 3d guns from going public. they gave permission toublish blue prints beginning wednesday. 21 attorney general sent a letter to saying that allowing these blueprints to be published would have an unprecedented impact on public tysa >> these guns are produced without a serial number. t

his lead attorney rudolph giuliani confirming to abc news that the president's team wants special counsel robert mueller to prove he has evidence before the president would agreed to be interviewed in that investigation. david wright is with the president in new jersey tonight. >> reporter: before president trump ever agrees to sit down for an interview with special counsel robert mueller, mueller will have to show credible evidence that trump may have committed a crime. that's the new condition, first reported by "the new york times," as laid out by the president's lawyer rudy giuliani. >> i would love to speak. i would love to go. nothing i want to do more, because we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: this new tweet today. he has long insisted that he has nothing to fear by sitting down with the special counsel. >> we've done nothing wrong. there was no collusion with the russians, there was nothing, there was no obstruction. >> reporter: his current team of lawyers clearly thinks it's a bad idea. >> we're not going to sit him down if this is trap for perjury. >> reporter: the special cou

and campaigning for violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election comes current lawyer rudolph giuliani has confirmed that mr trump discussed the payments with cohen but says the payments were never made. the white. correspondent kimberly health has more now from washington this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of money in the form of check fully one hundred fifty thousand dollars this is problematic for the president given that he has denied he ever had an affair with karen mcdougal the playboy model the white house saying this was fake news and that the president never had such a relationship the recording seems to contradict that statement of course the president at the time of this alleged affair also married with an infant son certainly problematic on a personal level so this really brings up the question of what the president knew and when he knew it it's also a concern given the fact that there is a separate investigation that is ongoing in all of this and that is the one being conducted by robert muller the s

he is like more ethical and skilled version of rudolph giuliani.d, he can go into full attack dog mode for his client. he is also known as a deal maker. so if he is looking to make a deal with mueller, then lanny davis is the perfect guy to do that. and do you expect it helps in the case with michael avenatti who has been pretty aggressive against cohen in the public media? >> they both have very good media skills. but at the end of the day, what will impress him, michael cohen ran trump's businesses along with ivanka and don jr. almost certainly the will be a question of the improprieties. >> does it make it in your view more likely? there has been this question of why michael cohen has resisted, turning on trump and helping out the mueller investigation. does it make to you more likely that he will now do it? >> we're hearing, i think, different interpretations of michael cohen. he's indicated that now his loyalty isn't to trump but rather in opposition to the united states and to his family. that could be a way of saying to mueller, you have a p

fraud and campaign law violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election drums current lawyer rudolph giuliani confirmed the discussions but says payments were never made. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo says economic sanctions need to be fully enforced against north korea to keep the pressure on for denuclearization pompei are made the comments after meeting south korea's foreign minister can walk and u.n. officials to brief them on going talks with pyongyang the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley called on the security council to remain strict with pyongyang those are your headlines so far today back to snow of the andes i'm back with the news hour a little later by. and . with around three hundred tons smuggled every year. the u.n. claims peru is the world's top cocaine producer. this has broad levels of corruption and violence rarely seen in the country before. drugs prosecutor sonia medina faces organizations seeking to launder billions of dollars. today she is leading in a parade in the city of the north of lima. but only in the life of a compelling man i know that. she's ai

. >> michael, what do you think is behind the re-emergence of one rudolph giuliani on tv over the weekend and serious question, how much law do you think he is practicing these days or is he mostly practicing what we see television? >> he was traveling in france over the past week or so. so that's why things were quiet. he's back obviously now. what rudy has done for the president has been the public advocate that trump has wanted all along. trump has wanted someone on the front lines who is going to fire as much as he was at mueller. he was going to be a fighter for him. that's why he went out and got him. he didn't go out to get him for his legal mind. he didn't go out to get him to use in litigation. he got him to be a fighter for him. and the president thinks he is successful at this. giuliani can make things very confusing. he says many different things. he pushes many different theories about what is going on, some of them unfounded. and what he has done is he has helped erode public opinion about the investigation. a poll that came out at the end of last week showed many more ameri

one of those nights where you wonder who rudolph giuliani is really trying to help.with the absurd camera work that blessed the internet this weekend when this dog got ahold of a go pro camera. the video fits a little of how giuliani is an unreliable narrator. twists and turns have definitely benefited from his telling. so our thanks tonight to the dog who grabbed that camera in his

. >> more than 48 cases of insider trading brought by new york's attorney rudolph giuliani. >> he had. >> if you do get caught, you are going to lose your liberty and go to prison. >> today as the prospect of a much wider scandal seems certain, the market was off more than 40 points. this after it was learned that ivan boesky was talking, and then some. >> this is like arresting the madame of a brothel and finding her private book of clients. >> this guy boesky takes a fall and all over wall street, they're practically jumping out windows. it comes out he's been taping his phone calls and maybe private talks for three months. and wall street big shots begin wetting their -- well, you get the idea. >> of course, boesky was guilty. there was going to be no defense. all he had was bargaining power. >> levine was a fish, boesky was a shark. who is the whale they're going to catch? >> i don't know. >> drexel burnham? >> well, that's possible. >> in the middle of all this is drexel burnham lambert. it specialized in so-called junk bonds. high interest but also high risk. >> drexel and the h

so rudolph giuliani or someone on behalf of the president waives privilege, saying it's okay that the contents of this conversation is out there. the narrative goes that this was leaked by forces unfriendly to mr. cohen to diminish mr. cohen's value to the home team as a potential flip to the u.s. attorney. your reaction to that narrative, barbara mcquade? >> yeah, i don't know that it diminishes his value in any way, brian. it sounds like from what's been reported, he is engaging in this transaction with president trump to serve as his lawyer. it may be that this is also not part of the attorney-client privilege because they're committing some sort of crime together. but i don't know that it in any way diminishes michael cohen. i think one big mystery here is who is the person who has released this. the only people who knew about this are the judge, the fbi, the trump team and the cohen team. so one of them is the one who released this. i suppose matt knows the answer to this. but was it the cohen team or was it the trump team? and was it to get us to be talking about it instead of w

last night watching rudolph giuliani on cnn, it was straight up character assassination. calling a person who was up until recently the personal trusted lawyer of the man who became president a pathological liar. if you believe the theory that the leaks have come from the trump camp, that would hold this is some of the worst, most damaging stuff cohen has to tell the feds. but your reporting tonight is that cohen is sitting on top of a, quote, treasure trove. is that a promise or a threat or did they not characterize that? >> i think it's both. i think there's a combination of things that's happening now. cohen had been preparing since early july for the onslaught that we are now seeing. he had heard word from people in the president's orbit that this kind of character assassination was coming. he wanted to be ready to combat it. because he, as he has said, he has a family to protect. he has a duty that he feels he wants to serve to his country. and he wants to smack back, if he's smacked. he feels right now he's the most under siege from someone who he was incredibly loy

and to this point, this remains -- >> that's rudolph giuliani's spin on it. >> there are other sourcese that made that pretty clear, as well. again, going back to what i think is the bigger picture, i think people at home should keep in mind, if this fundamentally were problematic for the president, i believe that this would have, again, my opinion, but i think it's also the opinion shared by trump supporters and legal experts, this would be under the purview of the mueller investigation and not the southern district of new york. i think that's a critical detail, victor. >> okay, jason miller, thank you very much. >>> the state department is hosting dozens of world, civic, and political leaders at a meeting this coming week to talk about religious liberty, something that people are very passionate about. we're going to talk about why secretary of state mike pompeo says the president's praise for russian president putin fits right into this agendas. until her laptop crashed this morning. her salon was booked for weeks, having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech

campaign war violations had gone from twenty sixteen to tourist election trump's current war rudolph giuliani has confirmed that trump discussed the payments with cohen on the tape but says the payments were never made. donald trump says he's ready to put tariffs on five hundred five billion dollars of chinese imports washington has so far impose tariffs on thirty four billion dollars of chinese products which breaching immediately countered the international monetary fund is warning the tip for tat tariffs could damage the global economy i raised fifty we're down five hundred now some people would say three hundred seventy five billion i'm not talking about a million i'm not talking about pennies i'm talking about we're down three hundred seventy five billion but other estimates could say five hundred seven it doesn't matter so it's in between there or it's there we're down a tremendous amount i raised fifty and they matched us as you know matt just u.s. secretary of state mike pompei it says economic sanctions need to be fully and force against north korea in order to get it eliminate its n

what happened was trump paid him back, at least according to rudolph giuliani.really happened here. the story has, shall we say, evolved. >> harry? >> there is a trail of money that needs to be followed. it is about a trail of money. period. >> there are a lot of unanswered questions but it does seem like he's pivoted towards cooperation. perhaps he's also hoping that the president is listening and considering a possible pardon one day. we know the president gets excited by using his pardon power but it definitely seems as if he wants to go in and talk to the government. now he has to not only tell the reporters that, he has to tell the prosecutors that, too. >> all right. thank you all. >>> next, president trump speeding towards a prime time supreme court announcement. of course. but why won't the white house answer a very simple question about roe v. wade? >>> and democrats demanding an end to i.c.e. are they playing completely into trump's hands on this one? ♪ you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlo

and just because micha, just be rudolph giuliani said they didn't leak it doesn't mean it. it is hard to get to the truth but if you look at this from a logical standpoint, it doesn't seem it benefited michael cohen. and i reported on monday that he is privy to information. and three people over the weekend told me that part of that is related to what he knew about the trump tower meeting. we're getting more details about it. this is something that people who know what michael cohen knows have been telling me for days now. >> and let me ask but the clear logic of this. and that is, obviously, this claim that the president knew in advance about that trump tower meeting, obviously, on its face, it is bad for the president. he has told an opposite story of that in public. he said he didn't know anything about it before the meeting happened. he didn't know anything until it was disclosed in the press until a year later. it is also bad for the president, both politically and potentially legally if he as a candidate for federal office, knowingly semied this offer of help from a f

tax fraud and campaign lore violations ahead of trump's twenty sixteen election current lawyer rudolph giuliani has confirmed mr trump did discuss the payments with cohen on the tape but says the payments were never made it is a white house correspondent kimberly hulk it. this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of house money in the form of check fully one hundred fifty thousand dollars this is problematic for the president given that he has denied he ever had an affair with karen mcdougal the playboy model the white house saying this was fake news and that the president never had such a relationship the recording seems to contradict that statement of course the president at the time of this alleged affair also married with an infant son certainly problematic on a personal level so this really brings up the question of what the president knew and when he knew it it's also a concern given the fact that there is a separate investigation that is ongoing in all of this and that is the one being conducted by robert muller the speci

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