the president's lawyer rudy guiliani is adamant the special counsel will not subpoena president trump in the russia investigation. if he does, he says, the president will refuse to cooperate. >>> and 2020 vision, presidents begin jockeying to take on president trump. we got the inside scoop on who could be the biggest potential contenders. >> we have this chance to do something amazing for this count country we love so much. >> this time the president has a feud with chief justice john roberts, appointed by another president. the battle began tuesday on the south lawn with these comments in response to a court injunction on the administration's asylum policy. >> this was an obama judge. and i'll tell you why. it's not going to happen like this anymore. people should not be allowed to immediately run to this very friendly circuit and file their case and you people know better than anybody what's happening. it's a disgrace. in my opinion, it's a disgrace what happens with the 9th circuit. >> that happened not to sit well. john roberts telling the associated press in a statement, quote,

rudy guiliani also apparently, you know, in contact with manafort's folks. the dots are being connected here in a deeper way than ever before than we have seen. in sarah's reporting, among the tpheupbgz things we have seen, they have damaging information that will be released in two troves, one early and one in october for maximum damage, which is more or less what happened. we see corsi communicating with ted malyuck. these are all interesting dots and you get a sense of why the pressure is increasing on the president because you can't spin your way out of these problems. >> and also in that piece you note that stone says he spoke to the president in the middle of it all, and that jumped out to me, again, because we know the president's legal team was all of a sudden really hesitant to turn in the written questions they were asked by mueller when mueller wanted to know what the president knew and when? >> the really interesting thing about trump, trump was a candidate, and roger stone did say a day after he received this e-mail from corsi saying dirt is com

rudy guiliani says president trump and his lawyers have not decided whether or not to answer all of the questions, and guiliani said some create more legal issues. >>> meanwhile, a hand recount between bill nelson and governor rick scott. the new deadline is sunday at noon, so we have a lot to cover this morning. live in washington, laura, tell us what we learned overnight. >> good morning. this remarkable development on julian assange was covered overnight buried in court papers in a completely unrelated case that was only recently unsealed. in their attempt to keep the other case under wraps back in august, twice they referenced charges against assange. the complaint supporting affidavit and the arrest warrant as well as the motion and the proposed order would need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and can therefore no longer avoid or avoid arrest an extradition in this matter. when asked why assange's name is popping up in this court filing, the clerk said the court filing was made in error, so this was unrelated, and

and according to the president's lawyer, rudy guiliani, they may have followup questions.y get back to the president's team in a week or so. but we've seen these goalpost moves time after time. and at a certain point, i think mueller's team wants to do a little bit of saying, look, we asked you the questions, you wouldn't answer questions on obstruction, we're moving on and putting this to bed finally. >> and mark, i wanted to get to jamal khashoggi, because i mean, it just sort of -- we have three waves of major news yesterday, ivanka's e-mails and then khashoggi and the "new york times" story on the president wanting to go after comey and clinton. to me, jamal khashoggi was a jaw-dropping moment where people on both sides of the aisle sort of looked at the statement that came from the president saying, well, maybe he did and maybe he didn't, talking about the crown prince and his role in the killing of jamal khashoggi. he you wrote a pretty tough piece in the "new york times" about this. i want to show this to our viewers. it says mr. trump made clear he sees alliances a

rudy guiliani said there are 32 of these floweding out there. that's a lot of people frying to get their story straight. it becomes really curious. >> so i just want to take one second, because the president is clearly on a spree, both in interviews and also on twitter, about russia. one second, i hear, to acknowledge the insanity of a tweet the president retweeted and shared with his almost 60 million followers. this is a meme that depicts a president behind bars, presidents clinton and obama, the former fbi director, former national intelligence director, the special counsel, robert mueller and even president trump's own compute deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the question is, when will they be tried for treason, and the president retweeted it. that's an official white house statement. this isn't some crazy thing from your uncle at thanksgiving. this is from the president of the united states. >> the president is a conspiracy re theorist. i think we've known that for a long time and he reinforces on the regular in his twitter account.

and rudy guiliani said the president's answers aligned with what michael cohen is now saying.ie when they are clear, and i think it's important to call a lie a lie, but if you parse the president's statements and put them up in terms of timing, when he said i have no deals with rush wrau a russia and he said that in july, and the deal fell apart in june, and if you parse what the president said about i have no deals in june, is that a lie? >> if that's the exact timeline then no. i think it would be a misleading statement but it would be true that if in july that's when he first made that statement. >> it appears to be, and we have pulled these things and the president's statements were i have no business dealings or deals, and up until that point -- that candidate should have told us for six months while he was running for president he was also trying to secure a deal with russian government officials, and that's another story. do you believe that he crafted his russia policy? i am talking about from january of 2016 to june 2016, while he was a candidate for president because

. >> both manafort and assange deny this, and rudy guiliani tells us the trump legal team has been in contact with manafort's people, they have been exchanging notes on what the special counsel was asking manafort even after manafort agreed to cooperate with the investigation. what does that tell you about what is in manafort's head? does it tell you he might be angling for a possible pardon? we have a lot to discuss with laura coates, former white house secretary, joe holockhart and sarah marie. look, every day for over a year we have seen saying we don't know what robert mueller is doing and what is going on in the investigation, but now for the first time we know exactly what is going on as it pertains to roger stone and jerome corsi. >> who knows what they would have changed between now and when they actually wanted to release it, but it did not outline the way corsi lies, but shows you the lengths roger stone was trying to go to to get his hands on the documents from wikileaks. he went to this guy, corsi, and he said get to weak and assange and to ted malic, and roger still insis

the lawyers have them. >> reporter: among the questions, the president's lawyer, rudy guiliani, said about his son, don jr.'s 2016 meeting with the russians at trump tower. as well as the president's own comments calling on russia to dig up hillary clinton's missing e-mails. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: but guiliani is now warning that mueller may not be done yet, saying he could come back with more questions related to possible obstruction of justice. it's not on the table, guiliani told cnn, but could be put back on the table. guiliani signaled they are willing to answer followups within certain bounds. we'll consider them and answer them if necessary, relevant and legal, he said. if it was something that would be helpful, relevant. not a law school exam. questions about obstruction, however, would be outside those bounds, guiliani said, because that would deal with the presidency, and would violate executive privilege. raising the possibility that to get what he wants, mueller would have to subpoena th

rudy guiliani who attended the wednesday meeting tells the "washington post" that the president and his lawyers have decided not to answer some of the questions saying some create more legal issues than others. >>> and then a hotly contested senate race, and the new deadline for counties for the hand recount is sunday at noon. we want to begin with laura jarrett live in washington. laura, this wikileaks development, i woke up and saw that and it was an "oh, my" moment. >> this court filing raising new questions after several prosecutors inadvertently revealed wikileaks could be charged. i want to quote here, the complaint supporting affidavit and arrest warrant as well as the motion and proposed order would need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and can therefore no longer evade or avo avoid -- >> the court filing was made in error, but they declined to comment further about whether assange is facing charges. if this has happened it's an extraordinary development. in light of wikileak's role in releasing thousands of hack

>> in the court of donald trump rudy guiliani plays the role of the court gesture. i don't think mueller was done with this. he will try and make a move to get the president to talk in either written or direct testimony about things he did in the white house, and it's going to set up a very interesting legal battle over executive privilege. i think this one is different than all of the other ones in the past because the president, in a sense, waived his executive privilege through twitter. executive privilege is supposed to protect private things. >> thanks to awful you. it has to be minus 30 where you are. thank goodness you have a fire there going. nice to see you this morning. great to have you all here and appreciate it. >>> up next a scary moment for nearly 300 holiday travelers on an amtrak train, two cars detached from the train as it was moving. how did that happen? a moment of joy. a source of inspiration. an act of kindness. an old friend. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. ♪ what's inside? ♪ [laughter] possibilities. what

rudy guiliani once again called for the inquiry to end.that are making the headlines in the media across the world. to begin with the spanish newspaper covering brexit. it says the go to overthrow theresa may failed to take off but it points out the gibraltar could be a threat to her plans. the city am from london has a story about stock slide in the us saying apple is that the court. the guardian has carried out what it calls a groundbreaking study saying that one in four europeans vote for populist parties. and that online small retailers are allowed by google to list stock and prices. and another question about retiring at 30- another question about retiring at 30 — you could do it but you need to do or serious sacrifices. with me is fiona cincotta, senior market analyst at city index. welcome back. let's start with love and guardian and rex. ‘s first it has an analysis of what happened to theresa may, saying she could be on her way out at downing street although she is the cue for now. she has been brought back from the brink. looking

rudy guiliani put out a statement saying that this was, quote, unprecedented cooperation. this is what the president's lawyers wanted. they did not want him to sit down with robert mueller. remember the famous line that was reported from his private attorney that they said to the president, you will end up in an orange jumpsuit if you sit down in front of mueller. so the written questions control is what they wanted. the question now is, i'm guessing that robert mueller would still like to sit down with the president, and how that works out from here. >> the president says that's probably not going to happen. >> correct. >> and his lawyers, i'm sure, unanimously are telling him, don't even think about it. >> therefore, spin, spin, spin. we've already done everything unprecedented. >> yeah. go ahead. >> but what remains unknown is whether robert mueller will allow that decision to stand. robert mueller has the option of issuing a grand jury subpoena. both for testimony about what he's already filed written answers to, the collusion preelection issues, and the obstruction of

thursday, the rpresident's attorney, rudy guiliani saying there are some that create more issues forlly than others. and it turns out, this is what he's talking. about a list provided by the special counsel included inquiries about efforts during the establish a back channel line of communications to russia and the 2017 and founder of the private security company known as black water. the president and lawyers are finalizing answers and could return the responses as early as next week. i asked one of my sources to respond to what the president said today, that he has win all of the reasonses to these questions, and this source would only say he has been heavily involved in the process. jake? >> pamela brown, thanks so much. my legal team is with me. what is your response to the president being reluctant, especially during the transition. >> of course, he is. but, of course, the drekd directive and mandate mueller has is to focus on things that happened prior to the inauguration, the actual campaign. whether there was a collusion to russia. also, the issues happening of at inauguratio

. >> reporter: rudy guiliani didn't rule out the pardon.uldn't be come until after the investigation is over. we've been saying that it's close to over for over a year now. >> shannon: we're standing by. thank you. let's break this down. tonight's power panel. welcome to all of you. let's start with jerome corsi for a second. there's document online that supposed to be what they were working on drafting before this plea deal with the mueller team fell apart. it references people not by name but it would seem to suggest we're taking wikileaks and julian assange. corsi said he's not going to lie. >> first, i kind of doubt that. he's a fabulous from way back. it's more likely that mueller doubted his, corsi's statement. corsi saying he forgot about this until this new evidence came out. potentially he forces mueller to an indictment of both him and stone which will take longer and he hoped before to go from corsi to get him to cooperate as against stone. now there's a prospect of a trial. >> shannon: if these they end up getting indicted and t

to michael cohen last night that wanted to comment on some of the things from the president and rudy guiliani, and right now cohen is describing with the special counsel's office, and the suggestion being, john and alisyn, that there may be other steps in this process for cohen as he cooperates with the special counsel's office. all three leaders will come out to sign on to the new trade agreement. the question, of course, the big question of the day is how much the president wants to talk about the situation with michael cohen and the rapidly developing story with the russian investigation that seems to be changing hour-by-hour. >> we are going to bring in legal cnn analyst, michael tubin, and mr. lockhart and rick santorum, political commentators for cnn. jeffrey toobin, i want to start with you. this morning already the president weighed in on twitter and said yeah i was doing business during the campaign and i lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in russia. i call this a few good men defense, you are damn right i did, i was doing this. did he break a law? >> certainly not by condu

today his lawyer, rudy guiliani, confirmed, i can't tell you he's given up on obstruction. as for any potential subpoena, he said, quote, i think he would fought win a legal battle if he did. that and i think it would consume months. even made the president's position clear, if mueller issues a subpoena, the president would refuse to cooperate. the man standing between if potential subpoena is the man in cardinal the not senate confirmed choice to serve as acting attorney general matt whitaker. today in new york, he was asked about his are action that the president of the united states wanted to use the justice department to go after those he deemed his political enemies. james comey and hillary clinton. >> i mean i can't thank him enough. it's hamble to be a part of it. >> the k you answer a question about the president investigating hillary clinton or james comey? >> not a lot of answers there. though we continue to have new questions. the kind of details that come up in a senate corn firmation hearing, which instead come out through dogged reporting by the press and publ

judge what manafort lied about, revealing part of the investigation and the president's lawyer rudy guiliani telling cnn today he has been talking to manafort's defense team and knew they were running into problems with the special counsel. and mueller's team called off the cooperation deal with manafort just days after the president submitted his own answers to questions about possible collusion. of course the president has repeatedly slammed the russia probe and called those questions he answered for mueller's team a perjury trap. of course, now it's manafort being accused of lying. >> lots going on. thank you very much. also tonight the white house is trying to tamp down speculation the president might be considered a pardon for paul manafort now his plea deal has been scrapped. let's go to jim acosta. you were at that rare white house press briefing today. sarah sanders was there, among others, answering questions. >> reporter: yes, wolf, i was at the first briefing in a month. white house officials tried to carefully ask questions. sarah sanders appeared to indicate there weren't talks

trump, including the mueller investigation, which is very much ongoing and it was striking to here rudy guiliani say yesterday that, yes, the president turned in the answers to the written questions, and we think robert mueller might have more questions and might want to have an in-person interview, still, maybe, we don't know. nathan, it doesn't seem like this is going to end. everybody thought we might hear from mueller immediately after the election on thanksgiving, and it's thanksgiving and that's not going to happen so it's continuing to loom over this presidency? >> it's remarkable. like the 2018 elections didn't happen, we are already moved on, and we are still counting ballots in california and a run-off in mississippi next week, but we are back to mueller and the investigation. and things are about to get tougher for the president when it comes to investigations because we now have -- we will now have a democratic-controlled house of representatives, so it's not just going to be a single back and forthwith mueller and his team, the democrats will have subpoena power and the ability to l

. >> reporter: the president's personal attorney, rudy guiliani yesterday said some of the questions, in his words, create more issues for us legally than others. you have been looking, and your colleagues on the intelligence committee, very closely into the whole issue of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. you've been looking at that now for more than a year. when he talks about creating issues for the president, what do you think he's referring to? >> first of all, bob mueller has always done everything by the book. this whole idea that he is just looking for potential perjury traps -- i mean, this is a war veteran. >> he's worked for democrats, he's worked for republicans. he doesn't have press conferences. and i just think that if you look at his track record, he does it by the book. and i don't buy this idea that he spends his nights just looking for ways to find perjury traps. >> do you believe it significant that the trump campaign chairman, paul manafort, who has pleaded guilty, as you know, in his cooperation of the mueller team, has been going on -- it's

the president's lawyer, rudy guiliani, "the times" reports acknowledging the arrangement and defending it as a source of valuable insight into the special counsel's inquiry. according to "the times," those conversations inflamed tensions with mueller's prosecutors when they discovered them. the president seeming to hint on twitter at some knowledge of the investigation's inner workings. on tuesday, wait until it comes out how horribly and viciously they're treating people, refusing to lie. democrats pouncing. >> i suspected dangling in front of manafort, but the president should understand, dangling a pardon in front of a witness like manafort is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. >> reporter: president trump announcing he has no intention to ending the inquiry. mueller is still there, he says. he wouldn't have to be, but he's still there, so i have no intention of doing anything. it comes amid a report from "the guardian" alleging secret talks. manafort strongly denying the story, calling it totally false and deliberately libelous saying he's considering all legal options ag

the president's lawyer rudy guiliani is adamant the special counsel will not subpoena president trumpation. if he does, he says, the president will refuse to cooperate. >>> and 2020 vision, presidents begin jockeying to take on president trump. we got the inside scoop on who could be the biggest potential contenders. >> we have this chance to do something amazing for this count country we love so much. >> this time the president has a feud with chief justice john roberts, appointed by another president. the battle began tuesday

meanwhile, presidential attorney rudy guiliani confirmed thatrt mana lawyers have shared informationh the president's lawyers. and, the president reportedly denied knowing, in advance, of w 2016 trump meeting between wmpaign aides and russians. the denial came tten answers to the special counsel, robertueller. russia's military announced todait is sending more anti- aircraft missiles to occupied crimea, amid a new crisis withra e. russian vessels seized three ukrainian ships and 24 sailors in the kerch strait on sunday, claiming they illegally .tered the ar today, president vladimir putin charged that ukraine's president provoked the crisis, to help his re-election chances. all( translated ): now, a incident occurred and martial law was introduced in the country.ne this is being bviously in the run-up to the presidential poll. this is an absolutely obvious fact.a now this iovocation for sure. >> woodruff: also today, the kremlin sa it still expects putin to meet with president ump at the g-20 summit. mr. trump threatened yesterday to cancel thateeting, over the russian actions agains

we see it from rudy guiliani, from the president. and we don't know whether it will work or not. but it is a strategy. >> and he's also in this remarkable interview in the "new york post," threatening democrats who are about to be the majority in the house of representatives, warning them, if you go after me, if you investigate me, he's saying, i will declassify documents that will be devastating to the democrats. if they want to go and harass the president of the administration, i think that would be the best thing that could happen to me, because i'm a counter puncher, and i will hit them so hard, they have never been hit like that. that's what the president of the united states is threatening the new democratic incoming majority in the house of representatives. >> right. and it's in keeping with other sort of kinds of threats that we have heard from the president. to use levers of the united states government that are not supposed to be used for political retribution to do exactly that. and this all speaks to his mind-set. what he tweeted, and what he said in the interview, wh

rudy guiliani can go on every sunday show and talk about why this investigation has to end.ill continue, heidi pryzbilla, until bob mueller decides what he has to make a case or to present a case that nothing happened, that the president had nothing to do with interference and the country can move on from it. but everything we see on twitter from the president. everything we saw yesterday, once again, just noise and it's noise that bob mueller is not listening to. >> reporter: well the question, willie, is whether you can draw a direct line between the president's behavior and what he knows that the rest of us don't know. >> right. >> reporter: like mika said, they've had those questions for a while, why aren't they answering them? we also know there may be other sealed indictments. what does the president and his team know about potential indictments against people in his administration and maybe even in his inner circle? and you can definitely draw a direct line between his tweets and his meetings with his lawyers, which we know he had a 90-minute meeting on wednesday with

rudy guiliani pointing the blame at hillary clinton. >> oh my god. >> rudy wrote this.ing to steal florida election. they are still counting or creating ballots just in democratic broward and palm beach. >> can you believe where this guy has gone? >> where is he now? can you believe how much he has tarnished his reputation. america's mayor? the guy that guided this city after 9/11. he is humiliating himself every day. so, susan, you actually have republicans parco rubio in the feefrd swamp of conspiracy theories. you talked about trumpism. actually saying and rick scott and donald trump are all arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder saying it's a conspiracy for every vote to be counted? rick scott's freaking out. he doesn't want ballots to be counte counted. >> can he be less air force base? >> this is third world republican stuff who i would think they would be fighting every vote counted interest for 30 years i have been working with republicans. always when they're behind and it's this close they're always fighting for that recount. so this is just ludicrous they would cha

katty kay, rudy guiliani is right. there is a pattern here.ntentional on the part of the special down sell's office? >> reporter: i find it hard to see there is a conspiracy office in bob mueller's office where nay are deliberately trying to make things trouble as he travels abroad. at the moment, bob mueller has to wrap things up, he is moving fast. he has seen a slew of things wrapping up. because of matt whit caner to come out with what he has and to have some kind of report ready that at least the new house intelligence, the democrat-led house committee could subpoena that report. >> that seems more likely to me. i don't know bob mueller's thinking on this. he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would play international politics on this. people know two he is now, watching this investigation there, watching it closely. foreign leaders are watching it closely. he flies down there to argentina. they want to know what kind of mood he is in? will he arrive in a pad news? i can't tell you the number of conversations i had with diplomats who