>> rudy guiliani has absolutely zero credibility, wolf.ust the other day he said truth doesn't mean truth, which is one of the most bizarre and ridiculous statements i've seen on television in a long time. that statement that you just read has absolutely no credibility. it's clear as day, if you read the charging documents from the southern district this afternoon who they're referring to. donald trump's fingerprints are all over the crime scene in connection with this, wolf. we're going to prove it. it's clear as day. and i'm going to say it again. the president is in trouble. >> do you think this is an impeachable offense? will you call on congress to begin impeachment proceedings? >> i think congress needs to seriously consider it. but i'll say this. you know, the gop and the republican party has shown absolutely zero backbone. they have been spineless as it relates to keeping this president in check. they have placed party over country, which i think is a disgrace. so i don't have a lot of confidence in their ability to get the job don

president says something crazy and borderline insane and mean and menacing and macho and then rudy guiliani forward and does something even more outrageous and silly. i think mostly the statements of guiliani that are made outside of court before there's any kind of proceeding not occurring in the conference rooms of the special counsel's office should be ignored. is it a threat? i guess so. i don't know what it means. sounds like a lot of bluster and i think an outrageous statement by a lawyer that wunls uponce u time had a good reputation. foaming at the mouth i don't think helps him and his client and doesn't help with negotiations the special counsel. >> you see it as bluster, you don't see it as substantial one, indicating the president's intentions, or two, intimidating? >> it can become such, depending what future things happen. if someone says, these are hypotheticals, don't write angry letters. if you say i am coming down on you like a ton of bricks and six weeks from now somebody does something outrageous like breaks into mueller's office or commits some further act or fires bob m

and geoff, let's start with what these two lawyers, jay sekulow and rudy guiliani, face. they intended to spend this weekend as nbc news reported, focused on whether or not the president should sit down with an interview with robert mueller and his team. suffice it to say, the circumstances have changed, as a result of this one tweet. >> they have changed significantly, david. we know president trump often uses twitter to communicate directly with his base of supporters as a way of shifting the public debate, crafting public opinion. that clearly was his intention this morning. in doing so, in putting out that tweet, he potentially opened himself and his son up to further legal scrutiny. so here's the tweet in question. the first part of which isn't particularly edifying and isn't worth reading. the second part is. this was a meeting, talking about the trump tower meeting, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all of the time in politics, and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. and as you mentioned, the first misleading statement the president di

what is rudy talking about, he could be running the investigation, himself, this is the newest as rudy guiliani denied such a thing as objective truth. rudy went i believe to the manhattan college, one thing you learn in catholic school is a lot of philosophy. lot of time trying to figure out the meaning of truth and the objective truth and a total commitment to the idea there is such a thing as truth. i'm sure owl religions believe this. certainly his did. how can rudy walk out and say there is no such thing as objective truth f. my guy says something it's just as good as anybody else. that's what he asserted with chuck todd yesterday. your thoughts. >> it's true rudy guiliani went from a world class tleerd a second rate apalestinian tis in following donald trump that's what he is doing that will make donald trump happy. he is trying to muddy the waters. this was a career prosecutor, his career was launched being a prosecutor, rudy guiliani's to hear him say that and twist himself up and not get the facts out either because he didn't know or didn't remember, or because he chose to lie, is so d

we'll have live coverage. >>> and also tonight rudy guiliani said mr.'s legal team has responded to the special counsel robert mueller about a possible interview with the president for the russia investigation. let's dig deeper with our correspondents and analysts. dana, you have been doing recording on this, is it realistic that the president will do this sitdown interview without a subpoena and court decision saying he must do so? >> well, if you give truth serum to anybody around the president both in his legal team and maybe more importantly his friends and family and political advisers, they're answer is we sure hope not. but the man himself, the president, continues to say he wants to testify. and that is why they're going through this very lengthy dance, frankly, with robert mueller and his team back and forth, proposals and counter proposals and that is why they responded today. we don't know the details. but we do know that this is the latest attempt to narrow the scope of the subject matter of the kinds of questions that the president could or

he said look, rudy guiliani has to be better prepared for this. this is not a good look for the white house. he has to be in jim's words precise with his answers, get his facts straight. is he right? >> i agree, we can always choose. there's not probably a single interview i go back -- >> i am saying he has to get the facts right. he is the mouthpiece for the president. >> i understand it. could he have answered that better, i think he is trying to address that today a couple of times in other interviews and twitter. i will take what he is saying in the broader context, not zero in on every specific word, i would agree we have to be careful answering the questions, especially when you're speaking on behalf of the president or on behalf of the white house. >> simone, this other headline out of the reuters interview that they wrapped up moments ago, they're reporting as we heard from jeff mason that the president did say he would consider lifting u.s. sanctions on russia should they see action to the u.s.'s liking in syria and ukraine. the president

. >> welcome, jay sekulow and mayor rudy guiliani. >> isn't that nice. >> i'm here with one of the council to the president and former u.s. attorney department of justice official. for purposes of right now my colleague and co-council in a case involving a russia inquiry you may have read about. we're also going to tabe taking your calls. >> if this looks and sounds bizarre to you as a human being living in 2018 that's because it is bizarre and legally and historically is unprecedenteded in the american archives for a sitting president. critics of trump may like what they said. for the same reason they want him to keep tweeting, more talking and freelancing can provide more evidence and incriminating information in plain sight on the public record in fact some of the largest scoops involve trump and his aides and lawyers talking, we know they lied about the meeting with russians because they told so many stories in the media about it. today the trump lawyers, slash guest hosts, say they are not going to leak and more -- -- >> the other weird part of the bind these lawyers have put themselv

rudy guiliani, the outside lawyer, he was asked about this the president he said was just exercising his right to defend himself. here's what guiliani lad hoo ha. >> he is a person with a first amendment right to express himself and express his penalties and as a president it's even more he expresses his penalties. because these kind of allegations can do damage to the country. not just to the particular president. if he believes she innocent and he is innocent, she should speak out. >>. >> reporter: now, of course, wolf, we should point out jeff sessions the attorney general has recuse. in the russia investigation. obviously, this is not the first time the pvt. of the united states has put the full weight of the presidency into trying to push jeff sessions into doing some of. this of course, the million dollar question is whether he takes action tries to shut it down by pulth pressure whether or not republicans control congress. affect, that is something we don't know it would have to happen for the entire nation and the world to watch to see whether republicans in control of congre

attorney, rudy guiliani, seems to be glossing over that in a very big way. regardless, if the investigation continues past september, guiliani also says that works in their favor. so in summary, it should end, but if it doesn't, it's good for them. got it? so abby, we hear what rudy guiliani is saying and rudy guiliani is talking quite a lot about it. are we likely to hear the president on any of this today? >> reporter: well, kate, it is not clear whether the president is ever going to tweet or, you know -- no one knows, whether it's his lawyers or his aides. but i think what we're seeing here with guiliani is an attempt to keep this story going. i mean, the -- guiliani just a few days ago was saying wrap this thing up. and now he's saying, even if it doesn't wrap-up, maybe it will be good for us. perhaps an acknowledgment that what's happening here is that the ball really is in mueller's court. that they don't have control over the timing of this. but in their response to mueller, sent back this week, it didn't really bring us much closer to a resolution. b

we are coming to a showdown. >> rudy guiliani, u.s.orney for the southern district of new york before he became mayor of new york, is he helping or hurting, susan, the president of the united states? >> he doesn't seem to be operating as the president's attorney. he is operating something like the president's pr machine, and he appears to be disconnected from the legal team. that said, every time rudy guiliani opens his mouth, it appears to generate lots and lots of negative headlines and damaging questions for the president. the most recent comment about the don jr. meeting which is contradicted by e-mails that have already become public, so i don't think he is helping the president's case in any legal sense, i'm not sure he is helping the case as a publicity sense which appears to be the role he is playing. >> he is not helping in a legal sense, but he is chumming the waters so it is hard for the average person and journalists that follow it all day every day to get the ins and outs of what's going on, whose story is what at any part

and that's -- rudy guiliani's become the master of that. he's not really there to represent the president in courts of law. he's there to represent the president on television. he speaks to the base. and he tries to throw smoke out there to somehow shroud the reality of what's going on. the one person who i don't think is clouded by all of this is probably bob mueller, whom i guess is not much interest in rudy guiliani's commentary, and is going about his business. and he'll either have a case to make or he won't. and i think he'll deliver it in due course, based on the work that he's doing and not based on some schedule that the president and his television lawyers throw out. >> david axelrod, fungible facts and collusion confusion. bumper stickers, perhaps. thank you so much. and just a quick note, as always, on david. thank you on the action files, guests include editors from the "washington post." saturday, 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. as we wait for sarah sanders, closing arguments are under way in the paul manafort trial. what

that's what rudy guiliani says, his one account of this. it's clear here's what the president is saying during an interview on the white house grounds today. that comes after sarah sanders said today there had been no discussion that she was aware of as a potential pardon for paul manafort here. the president himself, all you have to do is look at his twitter feed. he's signalling that he could potentially pardon him essentially saying that he wasn't treated fairly by the justice system even though paul manafort got a trial by a jury of his peers and even his own attorneys said he felt it was a fair trial he received over the last few weeks. the president is doubting the justice system today and signalling to paul manafort saying that he didn't break, calling him a brave man. obviously a stark con threat r travis to what he thinks michael cohen has done. what he's saying to his legal team, his lead attorney, rudy guiliani and what he is saying to a cable news host about potentially pardoning his former campaign chairman. >> oh, boy. >> may

but this is what rudy guiliani obviously thinks is working. >> it is true. tape. guiliani said nowadays facts are in the eye of the beholder, and i think that's true, but the key thing to understand is that rudy guiliani is not a lawyer in the traditional sense of the term protecting his client from criminal charges. guiliani knows that ultimately he will have to protect trump from impeachment, which is a political matter that plays out in congress. his audience is the broader american public. i think in setting deadlines, he is trying to build in the eyes of the american public the sense that the probe is dragging on far too long. he sets these deadlines, then the mueller probe ex-tenltends that, 45% of the public now thinks the probe is illegitimate. >> thank you very much. for those that just want the facts, this probe has been shorter than any other probe in u.s. history. on that matter, mueller has been quicker than others in the past. obviously that's not what team trump would have you think. thanks very much to all. >>> next, despite trying to change

. >> i don't know what robert mueller's voice sounds like, this is a familiar retrain from rudy guiliani who keeps saying this he says the investigation is coming to an instance, the white house offered no evidence. we are seeing rudy trying to downplay the president's tweet from this morning. he repeated it's not a directive. that's not going to happen. the president isn't going to direct jeff sessions in the investigation, something he can't do. it's not entirely that the president realizes he can't end the investigation the president made it quite clear he can end the investigation, which raises the question, if that's the case, why is he calling on jeff session on twitter? the white house also saying that was an penalties, that was the first line of defense this morning and we saw sarah sanders echo it. so far they really tried to separate if t two of them. now the defense is convenient. they are using it from the white house podium. even though they said the president's tweets are official statements. >> i am sure you don't buy this is the president expression his opinions an not a

work, and then pick it up in a public way after the election. >> i mean, it's pretty clear that rudy guilianis capitalizing on mueller's silence here. mueller hasn't said nor will he say anything publicly about this. he's not giving any interviews, et cetera. and when you heard guiliani at the end of that sound bite say there is a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, do you know what he's talking about? >> no. no. i mean, i -- assume it's just the same trying to paint the mueller investigation, the mueller team, as partisan, as the witch hunt, is the term they like to use. beyond that, i don't know that we have any specifics. but it is noteworthy that guiliani continues to really throw as much out there as he can. and he's pretty obvious about it. it's not like a big mystery what their strategy is to try to stir things up. use as bold language as they possibly can. in a very donald trump way. because for donald trump, in various venues, it's been successful. >> it works. dana, stay with me. and manu is with us, as well. let's all talk about what i mentioned with devin nunes,

oath has been taken by witnesses in the court of justice and now president trump and his lawyer rudy guilianion that human justice is the pursuit of that objective, of finding the truth, challenging, if there is, subt such a thing as objective truth. what matters for guiliani is

rudy guiliani in trying to defend donald trump jr.n to conflicting accounts of the meeting, accounts that are drawing attention to a potential violation of the law. >> are you bored of winning? >> reporter: tonight, public scrutiny over the president's eldest son is intensifying. questions whether he could face legal trouble for the fateful trump tower meeting, gaining more attention. issuing a passionate defense of donald trump jr., the president's attorney, rudy guiliani, in denying any collusion says trump jr. didn't know before the june, 2016 trump tower meeting that natalia veselnitskaya would represent the kremlin in the meeting. >> they didn't know she was a representative of the russian government and indeed she is not. this is much ado about nothing. >> reporter: cnn reported that veselnitskaya did have ties to the kremlin at the time of the meeting. part of rudy guiliani's defense is that he didn't get dirt on hillary clinton. >> i don't know if they knew she was russian at the time. all they had was her name. >> reporter: a

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a time during which his own attorney, rudy guiliani, referenced the tape repeatedly as fact. >> so he fired him and he said i'm free of this guy. he went on lester holt. lester holt's interview was as good as anybody could do, better than any of the people around mueller could have done. >> so why lie now? the answer is almost certainly special counsel robert mueller. trump's firing of comey is central to the question of whether the president obstruct justice. advisers to the president are worried what a democratic controlled house would mean for trump. one aide saying it would be, quote, like a perfect storm, with hearings, investigations, and possible impeachment proceedings. that may explain why this president expanded his campaign to undermine the russia probe, now going to the extreme of claiming what we can see and hear with our own eyes and ears somehow does not exist. >> stick with us. don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> novels have been written about this kind of thing. jim aco

also getting new reporting on rudy guiliani, the president's personal lawyer. i take it they're getting ready to respond to mueller, and mueller's latest proposal for a sit down interview with the president. >> i lost track of the number of proposals and counter proposals there are now, but right, the ball is in the trump team's court now. robert mueller sent them a counter proposal last week of what parameters could be in a potential interview with the president. and guiliani told me that as soon as today, maybe tomorrow, they are going to give another proposal. now, the back and forth has been going on for months and the question really is, big open question, whether there's going to be any resolution. whether at the end of the negotiations the president is really going to sit down with robert mueller in any way, shape or form because as we have been hearing and saying repeatedly, his legal team, pretty much everyone around him thinks it is a terrible idea. it is a perjury trap. it is a nightmare situation. but he feels he wants to clear his name. we'll see.

rudy guiliani tells nbc news he is spending the weekend drafting a response to the latest request from robert mueller's team for an interview with the president. guiliani said he expects to make a decision in days, but we have heard this tale before. >> you said now july 4th is when you expect to have a decision on whether the president will sit for an interview with the special counsel. why are you dragging it out? don't you want to know what you want to do now? >> sure, i do. i don't want to do it. >> seems like you're moving more and more away from the president sitting down with mueller. >> that could be true. >> when are you going to nail this down? >> i think a couple, maybe this week, maybe next week. >> there are signs investigators are circling around president trump's long time friend roger stone. nbc news reporting robert mueller's team interviewed roger stone's long time friend kristin davis, known as the manhattan madam for running a prostitution ring. they we >> you can talk all you want about russia, which is all fake news fabricated deal to try to make up for the loss o

now, we have confirmed authenticity from rudy guiliani, the president's lead attorney outside of the white house who said yes, that is the president in that audio. when asked about the discrepancy, sarah sanders said the president had done nothing wrong, that he was not charged in the government filings yesterday, which is true to an extent, the president is not named in that, but they neglected to address the fact that the president's former attorney implicated him yesterday in court saying he is the one that directed him and participated in that event of paying those women those payments. now, that is what the white house had to offer today, not a lot of substance here. a lot of repeated statements we heard in the past, either referring to the president's outside counsel, rudy guiliani, who doesn't come to the briefing room to address reporters, that is sarah sanders' job, but also saying the president had done nothing wrong. and one more maintaining there had been no collusion. now, in regards to paul manafort, sarah sanders was asked if there had been discussion about a pardon fo

and we saw rudy guiliani. we saw the president's legal team and the white house communications team this week talking about the president's tweets. what they signify to them. they talked about them as opinions versus orders when we got that extraordinary tweet earlier this week. it seemed to address the attorney general, jeff sessions, directly. let's take that and apply it to this. i am sure that we will hear from the president's legal team. this is the president spouting off. it's him offering an opinion. over the course of these last many weeks, we have seen a lot of reporting about how bob mueller, special counsel and his team, are looking at the president's tweets. so i guess what i'm saying here, kelly, the president and his team may see it one way. the special counsel and others may see it another. >> reporter: yes. if you put it in a different form, if someone does an interview on television, like the president did with the lester holt interview, where he talked about the firing of james comey, for exa

them in just the last several weeks, rudy guiliani guiliani had had to ta president out of pardoning paul manafort until it is over. the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was not under discussion, has not been under discussion. this evening, she put out a statement saying this pardon is not something being discussed in the white house. the president has not made a decision on pardoning paul manafort or anyone else. just because the discussion is not happening at the white house doesn't mean it isn't happening at other places, at bedminster or anywhere else. interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. this is something under discussion, something been on the president's mind and appears it's been on the president's mind lately as well. >> to hear the president yet again go after attorney general jeff sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. where do things stand on that. >> you heard him earlier on fox, wh

rudy guiliani telling bloomberg news, if mueller doesn't finish the russia investigation, quote, in the on him like a ton of bricks. those comments coming as guiliani candidly admitted to cnn, part of his strategy is sowing confusion. >> he didn't know. i know it beyond being his lawyer. >> if he knew it, is it a problem? >> no. >> no? >> he didn't know. >> i hear you. >> i'm not going to get into the hypothetical. >> okay. because you get into the hypothetical about mueller and comey. >> that confuses the hell out of people. >> if fact-counting, we have never had anybody with the level of mendacity he has. >> it's in the eye of the beholder. >> no, facts are not in the eye of the beholder. >> jeffrey toobin is back with me. also joining us, josh campbell. jeff toobin, we've seen a lot of rudy guiliani on tv. >> yes, ma'am. >> now he's talking about throwing bricks at mueller if they don't wrap this up in a couple of weeks. you say? >> he's already been throwing bricks at mueller. he's been calling mueller's staff thugs. he's been critical. the mueller staff -- >> you see it as an empty

an essential verdict for the special counsel. >> rudy guiliani continues to have deadlines for robert mueller and talk about what they're going to do and fight it to the supreme court. do you think any of this has any influence on robert mueller at all? >> not at all. i think he has a checklist every time guiliani gives him a threat, like we will come down on you unless you listen to us. you can't tell a prosecutor how to handle a case. you can't tell a prosecutor to cut short is investigation. we don't know what mueller is looking at. maybe he has another 32 russians to indict. guiliani wants him to cut that investigation short. mueller has a little list of these things and they could be all obstruction of justice. >> frank, what's the decision tree for mueller as of tomorrow. obviously, they don't have any information anybody isn't going to have. we will hear the jury and their verdict all at once. what's he thinking? if there is a conviction tomorrow, what's the next step? >> i think he becomes emboldened and makes a move on this potential interview with the president. i think we w

. >> reporter: the president's lawyer, rudy guiliani says they'll decide whether he'll do the interview in the next ten days. and that decision will include whether or not the president answers any questions in person, in writing, some combination, some in person, some in writing or maybe even not at all. >> all right. we'll see. >> thanks. >>> as the president continues to make news today, watch nbc "nightly news" with lester holt at 5:30 tonight. he'll cover all the day's national headlines. >>> at 6:10 this morning, we're seeing a contrast to your morning temperatures. close to 60 inland. a clash between the fog we're seeing around san francisco. 54 degrees. smoke is moving into the east bay from those north bay fires. you can see 59 in concord at the moment. as we get into the afternoon we'll see high temperatures approaching the low 90s. a sign of things to come starting today and into the start of the weekend. notice areas south of san jose, still some 70s in oakland. a closer look at your weekend forecast in five minutes once we get a check of your friday commute. >>> 6:10 right

rudy guiliani does epistomology 1010. take a listen. >> when you tell me he should testify because he's going to tell the truth. he shouldn't worry. that's so silly because it's somebody's version of the truth. not the truth. he didn't have a conversation -- >> the truth is truth. >> no, it isn't truth. truth isn't truth. >> truth isn't truth. >> here's my fear about rudy guiliani. he's not making arguments. he's not trying to persuade someone what is he doing? >> i think he's trying to rally the base and rally the 40 or 45% of the people who are in the president's corner. this can't be meant to be aimed at a prosecutor or a law enforce. . it's nonsensic am in that sense. so you go out with these orwellian line, tomorrow he will say war is peace and ignorance is truth and other orwellian lines, but it can't persuade anybody already in the president's corner and to make them angry about the investigation. >> the other part is the perjury trap. they are loving this line, perjury traps only exist if you don't tell the truth

the presidents lawyer, rudy guiliani, told foxnews he doesn't want to subject the president to what he calls perjury traps. one example giuliani pointed to has to do with former national security advisor michael flynn and former fbi director james comey. >> the president would testify, if asked, that the conversation about flint did not take place. if he were to testify to that, even though comey has a prior statement under oath similar to the presidents, that there was no obstruction or statement of obstruction, they could charge him with perjury. >> rudy guiliani is also demanding robert mueller wrap up his investigation by september 1 so it won't interfere with the congressional elections. >>> former presidential advisor omarosa could be in trouble because of some secret recordings she made and describes in her tell-all book. >> i was complicit with his white house deceiving this nation. they continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is how difficult it is for him to process complex information. >> omarosa recorded chief of staff john kelly who fired her while sitt

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rudy guiliani tweeting that if mueller wants to prove he is nonpartisan, he should finish his report ahead of the midterm elections. cnn's ryan nobles is at the white house. ryan, the president is clearly stewing and tweeting. >> good way to put it, fred. spending a lot of time on twitter reacting to the latest developments in the investigation into his campaign's possible ties to russia and the impact it has had on some of his closest associates. while the president hasn't mentioned the name allen weisselberg who now cut a deal for immunity with prosecutors or the name david pecker, head of ami, which runs the national enquirer, also has an immunity deal. he's instead directing anger at jeff sessions, the attorney general that he appointed to run the justice department. the president frustrated with the focus of the justice department, saying instead of looking into his campaign fetie to russia, instead they should be looking into hillary clinton's e-mails. this is a common theme where when he seems to be embattled. pressure is ramped up, he finds a way to distract. that's clearly w

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you used the term, "good lawyer," john, that's a term you have reserved and refuse to apply to rudy guiliani, like you, is a former federal prosecutor. "the beat" team here went through his new claim sunday, which can be fact checked not through the archive or other facts but by playing rudy guiliani's prior statements. >> i want to be clear exactly what happened in that conversation with comey about michael flynn. what exactly did president trump say? >> there was no conversation about michael flynn. >> you told abc news michael comey said quote, can you give him a break?" >> i never said that. that's crazy. that's what comey is saying. >> he's saying the president is asking him in his words to let the michael flynn investigation do. >> he didn't do that. he said, can you give him a break. >> comey said he took it as direction. >> that's okay. >> the thing that's distressing, not only can ruddy not possibly find a straight line and maybe trump junior's dad should have said, don't lie, in that same prescription and ruddy the same thing. if trump ever does testify and tells a story rudy is te

. >> the president's lawyer rudy guiliani spoonding tonight by saying there is no allation of wrongdoing against the president.rn in the goment's charge against cohen. and he says cohen's areions ect a pattern of lies and dishonestityid with both s digging in,re he's nbc news political director chuck todd on what changed today. slus. >> i think there's one big thing that changed. the president of the united states was accused of committing a felony by his long-time former personal la'ser. thhe big thing. and yes, the oth stuff matts, too.al his personawyers an admitted felon, campaign manager a xwiked felon all happened on the same day. if you're to say of all this mess courthouse to ,courthou what is the mark left? it is the fact that the president of the united states was acced of committing a crime. yes, it's a campaign finance cr'se. but that that could be the beginningf what i think is a long nightmare for the president involving all things michael cohen. the paul manafort stuff is serious. it shows it you mueller's got plenty to g on here and it isn't a witch hunt. if you're the pr

the president's attorney, rudy guiliani, tells nbc news late tonight there is no allegation of wrongdoing against the president and the government's charges against mr. cohen. it is clear, as the prosecutor noted, mr. cohen's actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a period of time. the president himself suggested he's not concerned with what cohen might say. >> just wonder if you're worried if he will cooperate. >> no, because i did nothing wrong. >> reporter: got it. >> nothing wrong. >> reporter: cohen will not have to go to trial but faces 3 1/2 to 5 years in prison and will be sentenced in december. >> he can go to jail for a jail, the years. more information, more truthful information he provides the better off he will be. >> reporter: it's a stunning development for two men whose relationship dates back a decade. cohen once memorably said he'd take a bullet for the president but this summer signs of a split when he indicated his family and country come first. now, a flip for a former loyalist and perhaps to the president a betrayal. >> is he still your friend? >> i al

rudy guiliani says there's no allegation of wrong doing that would lead to any charges in mr. cohen's words. white house is concerned about impeachment. some experts say if democrats retake the house, they'll have that at the top of their agenda. some are worried this could give more fuel to the mueller probe. >> things already heating up now. >>> an update in the serlg for student mollie tibbets. after she went for an evening jog. according to authorities, undocumented immigrant cristhian rivera was charged with first degrees murder hours after officials pound what they believed to be her body in a farm field. dan sheneman tells us more. >> reporter: more than a month after student mollie tibbets disappeared, the search for her came to an end. >> a body was discovered early this morning in a farm field southeast of brooklyn, iowa. the identity has not been confirmed. we believe it to be the body of mollie tibbets. >> authorities have a suspect in custody, 24-year-old cristhian bahena riviera who may have been in the country for seven years. video showing tibbets the day she d

. >> reporter: rudy guiliani says the presidents legal team has responded to mueller's latest interview request with what sounds like a counteroffer. perhaps limited questions on certain topics part of a contracted negotiation. giuliani says mueller already has much of the information he needs . >> so stop the nonsense. you are trying to trap him into perjury because you don't have a case >> reporter: the trump team may be looking for a timeline from euler as part of the deal. a commitment to wrap up the investigation soon. there is a very real danger for the president if he testifies. that's why this could lead to a subpoena battle that has wagedis reached expect the president has had a hard time keeping his story straight on some of the issues. he has had different points of view at times in the process. if that happens president. >> reporter: as far as the potential timeline, the presidents team would like to see this wrapped up by september. that is next month. it seems unlikely right now. in washington with ktvu fox2 news. >>> the victims of last year's wildfires in the north bay r

>>ut let me ask you, because michael cohen -- it is hisord d rudy guiliani seems to back that up with some prior statements saying that, yes, fact, the president knew these payments to the porn star, the hush money were being made -- by is there any document to -- >> yes. the fog of rudy guiliani who i said truth't truth is creating -- it contradicted by the president's own lawyers, who wrote a letter -- to the special counsel and that's evidence your own lawyers are testifying against the client, that is called definitive evidence. they said to the special counsel president trump directed -- the word they used in court yesterday so,here is no dispute on that. >> i get that. is there anything else? documents or recording or anything else. answer.'t know the we'll see whether there is other evidence but i'm saying that right nowichael cohen need help from the american people to ll the truth and we've set up a habsite, m cohentruthfund.com to the ge fund me s and he is telling the truth but president trump's own lawrs are corroborating what michael cohen has said. >> let's talk about mi

decided that there are other ways to approach this now, with his new legal team, in the shape of rudy guilianiayor of new york. but mr mcgahn‘s departure has been trailled for some time. we think he will stay on for another couple of months because, at the moment, of course, there's the process going on of appointing a new supreme courtjustice. he has been intimately involved in drawing up the list for the people and the new nominee, brett kavanaugh, and i think he would want to see that through. certainly that is what the president implied in his tweet this morning. also making news today: the south korean international football star, son heung—min, is just one win away from being excused from military service. if south korea win the final of the asian games on saturday, it is likely the 26 year—old won't have to serve the obligatory two years. that's because south korea offers exemptions for a few prestigious sporting achievements and winning gold at the asian games is one. argentina has asked for the early release of a $50 billion international bailout as it faces a growing economic crisis.

mr trump's lawyer — and the former mayor of new york city — rudy guiliani, defended the president's decisione. brennan made the extraordinary charge that the president was treasonous, and then just said to you, and i commend you for your questioning, that he has no information that the president is guilty of conspiracy. well, i mean that is just conjecture, that this man accuses people of a crime that could carry death as the result. totally. . . highly charged words... an unhinged character who shouldn't have a security clearance. let's speak to chris buckler, who is following developments from washington. chris, with this move byjohn brennan, is there any legal grounds oi’ brennan, is there any legal grounds or mechanism where he can get the security clearance back? it is a good question, he says he has been contacted good question, he says he has been co nta cted by good question, he says he has been contacted by law —— lawyers and he will stop this process to defend others who currently have security clea ra nce to others who currently have security clearance to donald trump wants to rem

decided that there are other ways to approach this now, with his new legal team, in the shape of rudy guilianinew york. but mr mcgahn's departure has been trailled for some time. we think he will stay on for another couple of months because, at the moment, of course, there's the process going on of appointing a new supreme courtjustice. he has been intimately involved in drawing up the list for the people and the new nominee, brett kavanaugh, and i think he would want to see that through. certainly that is what the president implied in his tweet this morning. air canada's app has suffered a data breach that has resulted in the suspected loss of thousands of its customers personal details. the cove na nt — — customers personal details. the covenant —— the company said it detected unusual behaviour between august 22 to 24th. users to enter their passport details may have had that data stolen. to speak to a cyber security specialist in toronto right now. what happened here? they have had reaches before, but not with the app. of course, air canada like any other airline in the world is a direct ta

the president's lawyer rudy guiliani has been on television saying this, and the president has seemednd has been saying it as well, saying collusion isn't a crime. it does seem to be, as you imply, a shifting of strategy, perhaps suggesting well, if that line sticks, that there was collusion, then the defence can be that it isn't a crime anyway. it's an interesting response to these tweets over the last 2a hours. one democratic congressmen has called the president's words "an attempt to obstructjustice, hiding in plain sight." there's an immense amount of debate over the strength of those tweets that have been sent out, and whether in a court of law they would stand up and perhaps could be proven to be trying and obstruct justice. does this indicate there is something quite serious coming down the pipe quite soon from the mueller investigation? that is what a lot of people are speculating. we are almost three months to the day to the mid—term elections, a cruical time. and public opinion at that time — there's speculation that the mueller investigation could publish its reportjust bef