so rudy's just trying to make noise.nd i will note, i continue to be fascinated by the fact that this is the friday before labor day. >> yeah. >> and we're sitting here. and you have the patten guilty plea, but you didn't have something major. >> it's only 9:15. >> i don't think the mueller team is working past 9:17, but do you think they're done until the midterms? >> this is what i think what rudy is talking about is really getting ahead of things. where he is with the mueller team is not, oh, the report's coming. it's is your client going to come in and talk to us or not, right? so they still have to close that loop. then they have to decide if they're going to subpoena the president or not. then there will be some back and forth over that and potential litigation. so this idea that mueller is about to release a report that giuliani has to be in d.c. to scramble and write a response to seems way ahead of where we are in the process. >> it's fantasy, and jennifer's right. it is an attempt at p.r. but i find it interest

first of all, what is rudy giuliani referring to?is something he may have learned during the joint -- because they have a joint defense agreement of some sort? >> the joint defense agreement has to be over at this point if he's cooperating. and congressman schiff correctly pointed out, you can't control what you have. manafort is on one side, he says one thing, on the other side he says something else. i didn't know how you can say the deal is limited. the deal as i understand it is that manafort will cooperate with anything that the special counsel asks about. there are no limits. this wasn't a deal that we're only going to talk about so-and-so, but we're not going to talk about trump or the trump tower meeting, obviously one of the first questions they're going to ask him, is did donald trump's son know about the subject of the meeting before it occurred in order to put pressure on donald trump jr. in order to put pressure on president trump. so, look, i understand why rudy giuliani, who's a good lawyer wants to put this in the mos

. >> president trump's lawyer, rudy giulia rudy giuliani, is at it again. >> not one or two but literallyhree different answers to questions about that potential interview between the president and special counsel bob mueller. >> and senator lindsey graham, the more president obama speaks about his good old year, the more president trump is to get reelected. the best explanation are the results o f the obama's presidency. that's no t the ont the only wa graham is defending the president today. if this was a real emergency, i'd be freaking out. but thanks to cigna, we can do more than just look heroic. we can help save lives by getting you to a real doctor for a check-up. nurse, this thing's defective. please don't touch that. we are the tv doctors of america. together with cigna reminding you... to go, know, and take control of your health. doctor poses! cigna. together, all the way. when mit rocked our world.ailed we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they took care of everything a to z. having insurance is something everyone needs, but havin

rudy, this is insane. we're glad you are safe. glad the switchblade was not operating or he didn't know how to operate it. congressman scalise, i thought about you, the first moment i heard about this, read about it, i thought about you. the everything you and your family have gone through over this past year, your reaction to this entire trajectory since last year to today given what's happened? >> well, laura, first, it's great to be back with and you there is no place for this in american politics. the foupdation of this country is about free and open debate, we encourage it, ultimately placed into the bill of rights, the first amendment to allow freedom of speech to even criticize th government, but not to resort to violence. we actually resolve political differences at the ballot box in america, that is what we've always been about. this violence, the insightfulness, the call to arms in essence, amongst liberals, has to stop. >> laura: the left is saying, congressman scalise, donald trump started this, his divisive rhetoric,

other people do the lawyering. >> rudy the clown. >> rudy is the fog machine, and that is the strategy. >> rudy is the public relations person. he's the person out there in front. >> but i think that we must -- >> can i make a quick point about -- >> hang on, harry, let me get to the rev and we'll finish with you. >> when you make the point about coverage, you have to deal with who is the judge of the competence, and that's the president. he's saying and doing as inconsistent as it is what the president wants. >> that's right. >> he is not looking for a legitimate, consistent, well versed lawyer. he's looking for a mouth piece that will go out there and say whatever i want said, exactly the way i want it said. and that's what giuliani does. and i think that if we're looking for somebody that would follow the letter of what a lawyer supposed to do, you don't have a client that is looking for that at all. he gives directions and runs and turns on the television and sees if you did it the way i told you. >> harry? >> yeah, pardon me, rev, for interrupting. don junior, we haven't heard fro

it seems clear that rudy giuliani and his team were duped too. they did not see it coming. here counsel mya wiley. what do you make of rudy giuliani touting a joint defense agreement this past week which we know was happening at the very time paul manafort was in the meetings, not jointly defending trump but cutting a deal with his nemesis, bob mueller. >> i have so many questions about how rudy giuliani has been approaching this from the beginning. he's made so many mistakes in his representation of trump in public. whether it's unfortunate statements about how he has described transactions. he's been a mess. i wonder if they have a written agreement because it's standard operating procedure to write the agreement down. normally you would include provisions about how the agreement could be dissolved and it would be common practice to dissolve the agreement if you're going to start. if one party was going to start cooperating. was it written? was he relying on an informal and verbal agreement which every one would say you don't do? i don't know. it's impossible know. he sho

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rudy, i want to start with you, then we will go to congressman scalise. tell us very briefly what happened on sunday that all americans must know, given the tenor of the debate and discourse today. >> thanks for having become a laura. sunday was just another day the fair, wonderful people in castro valley, great job by the chambe. i had another gentleman running for assembly district 20 in california with me, all of a sudden, we are sitting behind the table, late in the evening, and we hear somebody screaming, "f you, donald trump," we kind of look up from the table, he's got his middle finger extended. he is walking by our booth. we pretty much didn't say a word, just watched him walk by, kind of keep an eye on him. the next thing we know, he stops, turns around and says, "i'll show you," and he pretty much brought marshes the table. on our table, we had a coffee cup and flags were reregistering alameda county voters. as he picks up the coffee cup, i get away from the table, and start going around to the front of the table. he picks up the coffee clock,

does any of what rudy says matter? my question to you because mueller will not speak and should not speak. what should we know about how the feds view this. >> right. good question. i'll be polite, too. you used the phrase mixed message, brian. rudy giuliani has been consistently inconsistent. it's absolutely stunning but no longer surprising. as a former federal prosecutor i can tell you this, while the mueller team would like to speak with the president, in fact, they'd like to speak with everyone who involved in this investigation, they don't have to. often in federal investigations we don't get to talk to the target of the investigation. he's abroad or he won't speak with us or invokes his fifth amendment privilege not to speak with us. so you can finish an investigation without speaking to the president. if bob mueller decides he wants to push the issue, regardless of what mr. giuliani says, he simply issue ace grand jury subpoena and litigates that. i don't know what he's thinking because he won't talk. he's a pr

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other people do the lawyering. >> rudy the clown. >> rudy is the fog machine, and that is the strategy>> rudy is the public relations person. he's the person out there in front. >> but i think that we must -- >> can i make a quick point about -- >> hang on, harry, let me get to the rev and we'll finish with you. >> when you make the point about coverage, you have to deal with who is the judge of the competence, and that's the president. he's saying and doing as inconsistent as it is what the president wants. >> that's right. >> he is not looking for a legitimate, consistent, well versed lawyer. he's looking for a mouth piece that will go out there and say whatever i want said, exactly the way i want it said. and that's what giuliani does. and i think that if we're looking for somebody that would follow the letter of what a lawyer supposed to do, you don't have a client that is looking for that at all. he gives directions and runs and turns on the television and sees if you did it the way i told you. >> harry? >> yeah, pardon me, rev, for interrupting. don junior, we haven't heard from

you've got crazy uncle rudy.e got a guy from the meinek muffler shop with an important job in the administration. >> who's that? >> cabana boy at hud in the department of agriculture. and the idea is they're interchangeable. one will pop up for a while and fade away, oh, michael cohen's back. it's a reality show cast of characters that are ever interchangeable. >> these are the people that trump is of. >> right. >> he comes from that world. he's not just going to it. >> he brought this with him. it's clue. did they do it in trump tower with a candlestick and a russian mobster porn star -- this goes to omarosa. this goes to his whole administration. he's not careful with who he spends time with. this guy is like a michael buble mixed with jersey shore pop star maniac who's been running around the country spending money like crazy. who knows what he could be talking about. and when your friends make joke videos about kim jong un erasing your image from hanging around with prostitutes those aren't good friends to ha

earlier on the show you were talking about the back and forth, the rudy giuliani, that rudy giuliani be with robert mueller, but here's what matters. the president's team is basically daring mueller to issue them a subpoena. rudy, by ruling out some of these conversations from an interview with the president is gambling, we're told by sources close to the president's legal team, that mueller is not going to have the heart for a court fight. that he's not going to issue a subpoena and the result of that would be an incomplete report that would avoid some of the most troublesome issues for the president. >> let me ask you this. what does that admission, mike, by giuliani mean for trump's legal team strategy in negotiations for a trump/mueller sitdown? is it even a legal strategy or just a p.r. strategy? >> a great point and more a p.r. strategy. sources close to the team tell us that the strategy's very much focused on bullying mueller, trying to tear him down as much as they can, trying to weaken his public image. of course, we've seen polls right here on "morning joe" that show that,

become public, frankly, rudy is the president's personal lawyer. i don't believe it's up to him to decide what happens with the mueller report. and in a matter like this, which has to do with the russians' attack on our elections and ultimately the conclusions drawn by mueller after an exhaustive investigation into all of the parties involved, it's hard to believe that the american people would allow something like that to remain hidden in secrecy. the secrecy -- >> what would -- the american people may want to see it, but what will congress do? do you trust your republican colleagues to make sure the american people see that report? the fact is, you are a minority party. that could change in november, but it may not. >> well, i'm only a minority party. i am in the majority. in fact, i am with 100% of my colleagues in congress who swore to uphold the constitution. that's not a partisan issue. that's what we all did. sadly, jim, and i know we've talked about this before, sadly, for too many of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle, their so

rudy says this incident will change the way he campaigns. peters - republican running for the 15th congressional district of californiai'm not going to let my family or volunteers come to my public events i don't want anyone hurt because i'm running for officerudy peters does not want this attack to become political.. and further divide democrats and republicans he wants democrats to know he will reach across the isle. sound from - rudy peters - republican running for the 15th congressional district of californiai want to be everyone's congressman i represent everyonegabe slate kron 4 news. (grant) new tonight at nine.... president trump touted his administration's response to hurricane maria in puerto rico as "an incredible, unsung success." earlier this month, the island's governor raised the death toll from 64 to 2,975 following a study conducted by researchers at george washington university. in the oval office on earlier today...the president praised the job fema and law enforcement did in puerto rico. <"i think puerto rico was incredib

same time when rudy giuliani has also said that they're going to put out a competing report to try tog that comes out in the mueller attempt. the bottom line is that what we're seeing from rudy giuliani, president trump, what we're seeing from other supporters of the spth thpresident is they're to create white noise, doubt and sow doubt in the minds of everyone watching television right now and people across the country that no matter what comes out in this report president trump is innocent and transparent how they're doing it. >> no question. attack the evidence, the witnesses, the report. all right. thanks very much. stick around. sk coming up, president trump's new attack on attorney general jeff sessions. behr premium plus, 'behr' through it all with a top rated paint at a great price. right now, get incredible savings on behr, exclusively at the home depot. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on is boost®. delicious boost® high protein nuritional drink now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals boost® high protein. be up for life. boost

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i think we all agree with that. >> rudy -- rudy giuliani suggested to me that i will not be asking you guys these questions about whether or not there will be an interview after thanksgiving. do you still hold to that as a time line? >> let me tell you one thing i have not done, okay. i have not given a date. despite a couple people, i have never given a date. i don't give dates. that is not the business i'm in. i'm advising the client. rudy period -- >> it's just a period, phase, season. >> rudy has a lot more experience than i do in these kind of matters. i'm the constitutional lawyer here so i look at the article 2 issues which you and i had a great discussion about. rudy's job is different. he is the lead counsel in this and he's evaluating those with our team. that's the process we go through. and we all have, we all have a collaborative effort as does the special counsel's office. rudy may be right. maybe it is resolved by thanksgiving. i think for the good of the country it should be resolved really soon. >> if you want it wrapped up, you have to wrap this part up. >> you know w

so rudy giuliani is worried with good reason. i'm not sure that his executive privilege argument will be very availing. it doesn't seem that a criminal investigation falls within that sort of a deliberative white house sort of a process and can be excluded. so i suspect one way or another, we'll have the opportunity to read mueller's report if he writes and delivers one. >> john, i want to read another quote from phil's piece in the book. he writes -- learning of the appointment of mueller in may 2017, trump groused, everyone is trying to get me, part of a venting period that shell shocked aides compared to richard nixon's final days as president. we've made sothose comparisons. >> there's so many striking things about this book. i want to talk about bob woodward and the foreign policy stuff in here. but here's the thing, it's may of the president's first year in office when he has this freakout. and grant it, it's may when the special counsel is appointed. but he's having an outburst of n nixonan crazed paranoia, and he's been i

rudy giuliani talked about this plea deal today. take a listen to this. >> nothing to do with the president, nothing to do with collusion, everything to do with a lobbyist who acted improperly who the president doesn't know. so far every indictment is unrelated to the president. we went through an entire manafort trial, and there wasn't a single mention of the president. >> this is related directly to the inauguration. >> not is the president. >> giuliani here saying this has nothing to do with the president. when you're listening to the point that ken made earlier, which is that we don't know why these men pay $50,000 to attend the inauguration. were they just paying to party it up with d.c. politicians or were they coming to try to get access to incoming administration so they could ultimately shape policy and have some kind of influence. how is it possible rudy giuliani makes that kind of statement when we don't know the answer to why these two men paid $50,000. >> ayman, first of all, the mayor is a pretty good lawyer. he's goin

as for the president's team, rudy giuliani, weighed in on the latest conviction, what did he say? >> that's right. what rudy giuliani basically called attention to the fact that there is no mention of donald trump in this plea deal. take a listen to what he had to say. >> it turned out to be this irrelevant indictment where mueller has turned into the private prosecutor. what does it have to do with president trump? not a single thing. had nothing to do with collusion and some guy who donated to the inauguration? my goodness, 500,000 people donated to president trump. the prosecutor is going to do it. >> rudy giuliani can minimize this plea deal today but the fact is this is the first time we are seeing on paper that the prosecutors have been examining any foreign money that went into the trump's inauguration. we know from our previous reporting that there were witnesses who were asked of russian money, ukrainian money that made its way into the campaign and the inauguration. it is something we know and very much of the focus of mueller and his investigators. it is a matter of tim

in terms of what rudy giuliani is saying about this will have nothing to do with the campaign. this will have nothing to do with trump. i suppose he's suggesting none of this cooperation. is there any reason to think there's anything to what rudy giuliani is saying there? >> not really. maybe that's his point. the charges to which mr. manafort plead gld op their face have nothing to do with the president. that is a complete misreading of the situation that manafort is in and the plea agreement that he signed. the plea agreement requires him to testify truthfully against every one about anything. there are no limits. for mr. rudy giuliani to say he knows what that cooperation is going to look like and who it will implicate is just completely false. >> ken star said he doesn't think there would have been a deal unless there's strong assurance that manafort had something to offer them. let's listen to that. >> i would say this, it's very likely that paul manafort has indicated that he can provide very helpful information, useful information to get to the bottom of what bob mueller

you know, how much there is we don't know and, by the way, neither does rudy giuliani. what manafort is going to be in a position to tell the special counsel is something that they know because they've had proffers from him, but, you know, we are not in the position to know that and, you know, i do think -- i do think a bunch of people are kind of getting ahead of their skis and assuming that manafort holds the keys to all the kingdoms. i don't know that and i am not going to sit here and sort of pretend that. on the other hand if you are bob mueller and, you know, you have prosecuted paul manafort very aggressively for, you know, across two jurisdictions, two cases for more than a year now or almost a year now and you are presumably doing it because in addition to the egregious criminal conduct you actually want to talk to him and want him in a cooperative posture. now he has him in a cooperative posture and that's presumably because the special counsel has questions that he thinks paul manafort is in a position to shed light on so that the fact that we have reached th

again, that's a rudy giuliani, the president's attorney here. everything that mueller has been charged -- everything he's charged with deals with manafort's work as a non-registered lobbyist or a business operative. >> the trials last month in virginia.with more of the tax fraud issue, the charges he was facing before he reached a plea agreement this week.with the foreign lobbying activity. sarah sanders and rudy giuliani are right that it doesn't technically deal with the trump campaign and the activities of the president himself. you can't ignore the specter of the russia probe just moving elsewhere all of this as manafort went to trial last month announced developments happen this week. you know from our reporting at the post that particularly last month if there was cable to cable, wall-to-wall coverage on cable tv about this trial we know the president was very frustrated about what was happening. the reporting shows that the white house on friday the mood seemed a little oddly calm, a little quiet. perhaps people saw this development comin

seems to me rudy giuliani and the president's team is drawing a line. that happened in the campaign. stuff that didn't. >> exactly. robert mueller has signalled he wants to ask president trump about things after he was elected, which i think giuliani is holding on to. >> the firing of james comey, for example. >> exactly. it would lead to obstruction of justice charges, if that were to happen. what's interesting about this is the bets the white house is making and trump's legal team is making. according to sources close to them, they said, they don't have a strategy past the pr bullying tactic againstbetting he's not to go through a months long fight against president trump. i think all signs point, yeah. >> it feels they're saying the collusion charge, they're getting softer on that because it is not a criminal charge. obstruction truly is. >> frank, jump in here. then i have another question for you. >> i was going to say, there is another gift you get when you press the subpoena issue, which is, you may get a very strong glimpse of how the courts wil

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

what do you make of rudy giuliani's posture here? is it all from a public relations standpoint?o it? >> paul is 100% right, all it is is a defense lawyer posturing, trying to put pressure on the prosecutor. i'm sort of surprised about this, maybe he's doing it for the client and to make the client happy, that happens sometimes. but in terms of bob mueller, let me tell, we're dealing with a former vietnam vet who was wounded in action, who got the -- who was awarded the purple heart. he has been a united states attorney. he has been a chief of the criminal division. that guy's been through it. and he's not going to be influenced one way or the other by rudy giuliani saying i want this thing finished on this day or else. that's just -- it's frankly kind of silly. >> and paul, it occurs to me as well, this question of what will happen between now and november, one thing is already on the calendar, correct, the paul manafort trial. >> you know, steve, he's got a long -- mueller's got a long things-to-do list. one is to get paul manafort convicted in that d.c. jury trial that happens

trump's attorney rudy guiliani called the event irrelevant. >> what does this have to do with president trump? not a single thing. it has nothing to do with collusion. some guy who donated to the inauguration. my goodness, there are about 500,000 that donated to president trump. and there are still more contradictions. george papadopoulos contradi tickets and pushed back on the suggestion that mr. trump meet with vladimir putin during the 2016 campaign. but according to court filing, quote, while some in the room rebuff george's offer, mr. trump nodded with approval and deferred to mr. sessions who appeared to like the idea and stated the campaign should look into it. george's giddiness over mr. trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed. he requested probation instead of jail time for lying to investigators about his contacts with russians. this comes as the trump legal team is already preparing to rebut the mueller report, even though no one knows when the special counsel's office will wrap up that report or what will be in that report. we are also learning the ma

rudy nothenberg for his wonderful leadership. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for the participation. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner? >> i just want to thank the staff, i want to thank the chair, all the cochairs from land use and transportation to resiliency, as someone who is new and came to this process at the very end, i am astounded by the amount of community input. i think this is a model of how the city should work, so i just want to thank you all for your dedication and your recommendations. they really struck a chord in me, and diane, thank you so much, you guys, for your work. >> commissioner woo ho. >> well, i was to echo what -- i want to echo what has already been said, but i want to thank janice and rudy for their tremendous leadership on the working group, and diane for her leadership and all the team that she's mentioned. i think this has been a labor of love, and when we started out, i don't think that we knew it was going to take three ye

rudy giuliani is his lawyer.ping up rudy giuliani and the well-lauded moment of 9/11 certainly helps the president. >> those were the two graphs, the poetry graphs from the speech, they needed to be read as is off the teleprompter. he succeeded. there is so much to take in there. the fact we can hear every breath has to do with the microphones on a long gooseneck because his years as a performer have taught him vocal control. that's why his rallies sound different. that's why he sounds different. there's something i want to talk about and that's empathy. that comes into play certainly on a day like today, one day every year. and it also comes into play that it always strikes me what presidents have to do in hurricanes and natural disasters, it's more about empathy than fema. >> it is, really. there is that sort of -- it's performance but it has to be performance that's informed by real feeling, i think. and frankly, about donald trump, you have to wonder whether that feeling is there. he's not a very empathetic p

you're too good a friend. >> who says that, rudy? you would never say that. >> the reality is that what he's referring to are the protests at the hearing which if they ever happened in court people would be put in jail. and it is really an offense to do that because it's interfering with your first amendment right, my first amendment right, to hear this thing in a civil way. and i can't help but thinking we are now seeing the total, the total end of any kind of civil united states senate. it started with bork, and republicans did it to democrats and democrats did it to republicans, and now we have like a circus town hall meeting in place of an advise and consent hearing where generally the president has given his choice so long as the guy is qualified. >> the man is qualified. but i've got to tell you, they made it the circus because they allowed these men and women to sit up there and answer nothing. because when they have the numbers they want to get their people through. so you have this illusion of something called the canon of j

. >> 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

happy to be here to support rudy and the san francisco labor council and his leadership, and thank all of you for your leadership and to recognize the partnership by the san francisco airport, i see several staff members here, including emily from social responsibility and bill wong from the quality standards program. our members that our jurisdiction shares with rudy have been waiting patiently for quite some time and look to you now and thank you for the $17. it is a lovely round number and way more easy to math, so, nicely done. and look forward to seeing this legislation pass with a positive recommendation to your full board and hoping to see these members with the increased wages in their pockets as soon as possible for the betterment of ourselves and families and the shared community. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, ben sizemore, local 1021, field representative for them, represent mostly city workers and also have one non-profit community housing partnership. who is here to support the m.c.o., we think it's great to get these airport workers the m.c.o. up to where they need t

rudy is calling it a rebuttal.ting with the mueller report mass and rather than lock their client into an unfriendly den or one which the president perceives as being unfair they will put his position in their own report. they have the mueller report and the president's rebuttal. >> mueller does not want an impact on the senate house race this year, two months from election day what does he do? >> they go about their work. the manafort trial is starting in a week or two. nobody can control that. it is arguably could have some impact on the elections but that can't be controlled so he will go about his work. he won't make the same mistake jim comey made into anything dramatic between our the election that could affect the election. >> is someone who has worked for an attorney general what do you make of donald trump's relationship with his attorney general jeff sessions? >> it is a sign of the president's frustration and when he says he is safe until after the midterm election i don't think that is too much of an en