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no, but for you, i mean, does being never-trump mean reflexively being against everything that trumptands for or is it possible to still separate and detach some of his policy achievements? for example, if he were to return to the tpp and renegotiate it and make it a better deal. how do you, as a never-trumper, navigate sort of the policy outcomes versus the need to reflexively stand against donald trump? >> well, i don't have any problem agreeing with donald trump on certain issues. no president is gonna get everything 100% wrong, and he certainly has not. he's done things that i've agreed with, like moving the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem, for example. he's done a few other things. pulling out of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, which i think was an antiquated accord. and, you know, i've said so. i'm willing to support him on individual stances, but that doesn't mean that he is, therefore, a good president, because my opposition to him goes beyond individual issues. it's about his lack of fitness for the office, the kind of moral tone he sets for the country, the kind

if donald trump jr.ared kushner took this meeting innocently, in ignorantly and sort of stepped into it -- it's possible. but mr. manafort? he would have clearly known what the russians were up to. >> two nights before the meeting on june 7th, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. >> we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> we just don't know if the speech that donald trump made is a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. >> for all the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time he hardly gave it a second thought. >> i didn't care about the meeting. it sounds bad, but it's true. i didn't care. i wanted my client to be happy. that's always my ultimate goal. >> coming up -- >> so tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? so a tree falls on your

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trump. he arrives just minutes from now in argentina for the g20 summit. michael smerconish, h michael cohen stood up in court and admitted about lying. as part of a plea agreement, he admitted the dealings continued far into the campaign up the and including when candidate trump was the presumptive republican nominee. the charging document lays out conversations mr. cohen had with russians, including a close adviser to vladamir putin about the potential trump tower project in moscow. they went on, according to the document, until mid june of 2016, "on or about june 14th," according to the charging document. why is that date important? that happens to be the date that "the washington post" broke a big story that russia had hacked the democratic national committee. the timeline is far longer than what cohen told congress last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of political and commercial ties between himself and ru

impeach president trump! backin ordeal? impeach president trump! nixon resigned rather than face the humiliation of impeachment. he became the only american president ever forced impeachment. he became the only american president everforced out of office midterm. he was brought down by the biggest political scandal in america's history, watergate. five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the democratic national committee in the middle of the night. we confiscated electronic eavesdropping dear. today's russia scandal appears to have echoes of the watergate break—in. have echoes of the watergate break-in. my sense that we must have the tapes themselves... elizabeth holtzman sat on the congressional committee that initiated the improvement of president nixon. the similarities between watergate and what's happening with mr trump are disturbingly similar. what you had with watergate is a break—in to the democratic national committee in order to get information that was going to affect the 1972 presidential electi

to know which official donald trump did it herself. yes big surprise for everyone probably even for himself. in the meantime fact checkers have exposed thousands of lies told by donald trump get that does not seem to bother his supporters indeed and apparently outrageous claim he once made on the campaign trail could actually be true i have the most loyal people did you ever see that where i could stand in the middle if if they have a new and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters ok it's like incredible the trump phenomenon to begin with. is the dissolved thing of any objective reality in our politics central to donald trump is the big lie. that's why you see the ethics. of history just two years after trump's election triumph i am back in the u.s. to investigate the apparently unshakeable alliance between trump and his supporters i drive through the midwest fly over country as the americans call it the journey takes us through small towns and agricultural regions with largely white populations. these constituencies once back t

>> president trump: what? >> would you consider any of the people who lost for a post in the future? >> president trump: i know a couple good ones. yes, i would. >> mr. president, i asked you on monday if there was anything that you regret in your first two years, and you said that at times you could have and should have used a "softer tone." your critics, your skeptics, they say that they are holding their breath on that happening. will you have to change your tone if you get things passed through congress after losing the house? and he also said that you might extend an olive branch. >> president trump: i would be very good at a low tone. but when things are done not correctly about you, written about you, said about you on television, or on wherever it is, you have to defend yourself. and i have something that is much easier than what i have to do. i have to go around. and going around is much easier than facing and being treated fairly. but you really have no choice. i would love to have a very even modest

the new trump wall, not one foot of trump wall, and that doesn't feel like winning for trump voters. and so there's not a word at trump rallies now about mexico paying for the wall. those people in the red hats are not tired of winning. and so donald trump has to keep them scared. and if that means we see the words and ideas of donald trump on another mass murderer's final social media posting before going in for the kill, then that's the price donald trump seems willing to pay for keeping his voters scared. have we now seen america's last mass murderer to use donald trump's language and ideas in his social media postings as he kill as the mass murderer in pittsburgh did? we don't know. but we do know tonight no matter how scared donald trump gets his sane supporters, most of his supporters, no matter how scared he gets them to feel tonight, none of them, not one of them are as scared as donald trump who is running scared. more scared than he has ever been in his life. joining our discussion now is stuart stevens, republican political consultant. he serve as a chief strategist for mi

>> i think you ever to understand that in the trump world, pleasing the boss, pleasing donald trump isry one in his orbit is all about. michael cohen maybe more than the rest. you can kind of understand why it was that michael cohen thought that bringing this deal home finally would be such a coupe for him if he had done this. he goes in 1997 and 1996. he signs a deal in 2005. he had wanted to be in moscow for 30 years. here is plimichael cohen workin with felix sater. using the presidential campaign to boost their ability to try to get this done. >> we know that cohen was contact i contacting putin's spokesperson. he's not sarah sanders. this is somebody who is closely involved, side by side with vladmir putin. talk more about that. >> there's a 20-minute phone call that took place between michael cohen and who we believe to be a representative. through our reporting and what we learned through the gifting of a penthouse there were additional conversations in which michael cohen discussed that. he denied he spoke to anyone about that. it appears that he was moving forward trying to ge

trump for president trump as i was when he was president of the trump organization. >> i assume in thatt being a government role, that you would have attorney/client privilege with president trump? >> yes, of course. >> michael cohen doesn't have that role any more, but the man that had that role and continues to advise the president from time to time is jay goldberg, joins me by phone. he has a new book coming out kboem t "the courtroom is my theater." thanks for making time tonight. >> happy to be with you. >> happy to have you. let me ask you point blank. if true, do michael cohen's allegations hurt trump and concern you? >> they don't concern me because i don't know as i said, and neither do you, whether they're true. people who testify for the government are in the criminal justice system. cases are replete with government quote cooperating witnesses embellishing, making up stories in an effort to lead the government to believe they should be entitled to leniency. >> you're not using the key two words i started with, i was curious whether you thought if true, the allegations are pr

he was picked by trump and the trump campaign. so anything that goes to his credibility and his truthfulness really is at the campaign's doorstep and not a problem that investigators have to own. >> dahlia lithwick, joyce vance, thank you both for joining our discussion tonight. >>> and when we come back, the candidate, the best candidate out there today who says she's not a candidate. wait until you see what oprah winfrey had to say on the campaign trail in georgia today. ♪ ♪ the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what's in your wallet? now when you go out, you cash in. howdoing great dad!r does this thing got? looking good babe! are you filming. at booking.com, we can't guarantee you'll be any good at that water jet thingy... but we can guarantee the best price on a hotel, like this one. or any home, boat, treehouse, yurt, whatever. get the best price on homes, hotels and so much more. booking.com, booking.yeah gavin newsom has lived the rich made hi

to donald trump. cohen admitted to making false statements to lawmakers on senate and house intel committees in 2017. the court filing refers to individual, one, who cohen confirmed in court was donald trump. it reveals cohen told lawmakers that the development effort, quote, ended in january 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company. meaning the trump organization. now cohen admits the project, quote, was discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in january 2016. he added, the discussions went on until june 2016, that he spoke with trump at least three times, and with trump's family members about the project. cohen told congress in 2017 that he, quote, never agreed to travel to russia for the project and never considered asking trump to travel. he now says he, quote, agreed to travel to russia and began planning trump's possible travel to russia. cohen also originally said he, quote, did not recall any russian government response or contact about the moscow d

trump: ready? then you are going to -- if that happens, then we will do the same thing, and government comes to a halt, and i would blame them, because they now are going to be coming up with policy. they are the majority in the house. i expect that they will come up with some fantastic ideas that i can support on the environment, on so many different things. including prescription drug prices, which we have made a big dent in already, including some of the things that we are working on for the vets. we have gotten choice approved, we have got a lot of things approved, but they have other elements we want. there are many things we can get along on without a lot of trouble, that we agree very much with them, and they agree with us. i would like to see bipartisanship. i would like to see unity, and i think we have a very good chance -- and maybe not on everything, but i think we have a very good chance of seeing that. go ahead. >> one question on the lame duck, sir, and one on your cabinet. you toyed

amy: president trump fires attorney general jeff sessions, replacing him with matthew whitaker, a trump loyalist who has been called -- has called special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation a witch hunt. will robert mueller be next? we speak with david cole, national legal director of the american civil liberties union and elizabeth holtzman, former -- the youngest member of the watergate committee that voted to impeach richard nixon, author of the new book "the case for impeaching trump." >> richard nixon did not care about the law. he wanted the special prosecutor out of the way. and while it i is not an exaxact similarity here because so far we don't know that there is a cover-up, but what we have is the same mentality of abusing power, of taking power into your own handnds and saying, "i'm first. not america first, i'm first." amy: then to new mexico, where deb haaland d has made history. >> you are sending one of the very first native american women to congress! today we all came together and we said we still believe in the american dream and american democracy and in ho

there was a lot of speculation about trying to bag trump. these are moves by mueller to get a clean shot at trump. patent succeed. does he have something more than these two individuals. >> listen to trump yesterday. >> making statements to the house and senate, he put out a statement talking about a project that was more or less an option we were looking at in moscow. a well-known project during the early part of 16 and even before that, i didn't do the project, decided not to do the project so i didn't do it. we are not talking about doing a project. we are talking about not doing a project. michael cohen was convicted i guess without putting it into legal terms. he was convicted of a very long-term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organization. a lot of different things, i don't know exactly. he was convicted of various things unrelated to us. and a week person, by being weak unlike other people you watch he is a week person and what he is trying to do is get a reduced sentence. he is lying about a project that everybody

trump: what? no, they are all finished. the written answers are finished. i don't know, the lawyers have them. i don't know. they will. they will. the written answers to the witchhunt that has been going on forever. no collusion, no nothing. they have been finished. finished them yesterday. the lawyers have them. i assume they will turn them in today or soon. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: no, i am going to a war zone, yeah. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: what? >> are you happy with the sanctions on iran? pres. trump: yeah, the sanctions on iran are very strong, very powerful. they are sanctions i think that have had a tremendous impact. more sanctions are going on. we have a lot of tremendous support, and iran is not the same country it was when i became president. it is a much different country. and hopefully at some point we will be able to make a fair deal and help iran and help the people of iran. >> when you talk about the markets today, do you really believe the dems are behind the market

to trump. the is there any indication, sara, that any one specifically asked him to lie. >> there's no smoking gun that has emerged, for example, dump saying this is our story and we're sticking to it. is it possible? sure. but we don't have proof of them but it's also that president trump didn't believe he had to have the conversation with michael cohen. this is a guy out there saying he'd be willing to take a bullet for donald trump, that he's more loyal to donald trump than anyone else, but obviously that has changed. >> what about the timing of this dramatic development? did he wait until trump send his answers? >> the timing, wolf, is very serious, and i can tell you i inside the trump day they were very worried about this, that the president and his team delayed when they responded to mueller. they waited a few days because they were concerned that robert mueller and his heam had up his sleeve and we known the know whether they specifically waiting until today and they have had the presid

trump. the court documents lay out cohen's multiple false statements which center around the proposed trump tower project in moscow. cohen saying discussions of the project did not end in january 2016 as he had testified to congress but continued at least through june 2016, the same month as that trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. june 2016, well after the time that trump was the presumptive republican nominee for president. cohen also says he briefed donald trump and members of the trump family on the project multiple times. president trump this morning told reporters cohen is lying in exchange for leniency, but the president stressed even if he did do the deal that he did not do that would be fine. >> it's very simple. he's got himself a big prison sentence, and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story. now here's the thing. even if he was right, it doesn't matter because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted durin

trump. >> i know mr. trump. i've stood by him shoulder to shoulder for the past decade. >> i understand michael cohen very well. turned out he wasn't a very good lawyer frankly. >> more breaking news. the president canceling his saturday summit with vladimir putin because of russia's new aggression against campaign. holy cow, when the best people become incredibly weak. that is the term the president of the united states took this morning on his former attorney general and fixer michael cohen who previously said this about his longtime boss. >> i know mr. trump. i've stood by him shoulder to shoulder for the past decade. i've seen him in action. i know when donald trump wants something, there's nothing that's going to stop him from achieving his goal. the words the media should be using to describe mr. trump are generous, compassionate, principled, empathetic, kind, humble, honest and genuine. >> i'll do anything to protect mr. trump, the family, now vice president elect pence, as well as the campaign. >> well,

he claimed he never agreed to go to moscow, yet, he did agree and asked trump if trump would go as well. cohen also claimed he didn't recall getting a response from the russian government, but in fact, he did remember dealing with the office of a top kremlin official. all of those statements were deliberate lies, and apparent effort to cover up to protect the president. as the charging documents state, cohen's intent was to minimize links between the moscow project and trump, in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations. the big question, why did he lie so much? why did he commit a felony so often? and why would cohen commit a felony to cover up his boss' dealings with russia during the election? now the president is accusing cohen of making up the whole story. here's how trump reacted to the news early today. >> what he's trying to do because he's a weak person and not a very smart person, what he's trying to do is end, and it's very simple, he's got himself a big prison sentence and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story. so very simply, michae

trump says he's a liar. there's text or emails quoted in here, black and white hard documents in may or june of '2016. its not that regard to resolve that dilemma and as prosecutors and agents, that's what we're looking for am i going to bank on this guy. >> asha, how does the president's attorneys deal with this because -- because -- >> i don't know. >> they have -- if this -- if these facts are there, if the corroboration is there, you have the statement that the president gave to the public and you assume he said the same thing in his sworn statement which is i knew nothing about it. >> uh-hum. >> you immediately go as a human being if there's nothing to be worried about, why aren't you telling the truth about it? >> what his lawyers are thinking about right now, we know that from some of his other answers, for example, they built in that legal wiggle room of to the best of my recollection, this is what i know. >> could that save him here? >> it depends on how he answered the question. he could use some k

part ever what that tells us is that donald trump is donald trump.ouse is going to be chaotic no matter how many structures or people you bring in to fix the situation. >> let me turn to our inhouse floridian to ask about pam bondi. endorsed the president of the united states. she's term limited. tell us a bit about her and why she might be so appealing to the president. chris christie is another president, and chris -- as well. >> yes. >> tell us about how she might fit into the administration. she's the perfect fit for the attorney general because she's a trump surrogate. i mean, she's been unabashedly supportive of him and cleared of any ethics violations for the $25,000 contribution that was made by her. >> in 2014. >> she ran the gamut and she would be the perfect fit for someone like donald trump, but the problem is all of the people who go into the white house administration and the current administration, they seem like they're the perfect fit until we are all now on the over under is someone like secretary nielsen will be out via tweet? will

america had become trump's america. my republican party had become trump's party. my conservative movement had become trump's movement. the first thing i did the next morning, was to go online to change any voter registration. i had been a republican since turning 18. just before the 1988 presidential election, now with age 47 i became an independent and politics is a team support. suddenly i was without a team. i was politically homeless. in an instangt i felt alienated from some of any oldest friends and fellow travelers conservatives with whom i had been in one fight after another over the past quarter century. how was it possible that 90% of republicans had supported a charlotte recently been a democrat with a few fix conviction racism, and sexism -- my sense of alienation has only deepened as i have watched trump presidency in action. no other president has been more hostile to values of conservatism i conceived it. conservatism american style means different things to different people. there is afterall an tension in advocating conservative vision in a libera

next we've got donald trump jr. his infamous meeting at trump tower that included others, including paul manafort and jared kushner, the senior most level of the trump campaign. they met with that russian lawyer who was corrected nnecte kremlin to try to get dirt on hillary clinton. cnn has learned that president trump responded to mueller's questions saying he knew nothing about that meeting finally todg news, michael cohen and the trump tower moscow project. so he was found -- he pleaded guilty today for lying to congress. we learned that cohen kept trump, who was then the presumptive republican nominee for president abreast, updated of the developments on the trump tower moscow deal well into the campaign, until around mid 2016. we know that cohen tried to e-mail the kremlin press secretary about permissions for that project that would be needed but he never heard back from him at that point. so to recap all these overlapping business and political events, let's take a look at this timeline. you've got the plans

remember candidate trump and former business developer trump was pursuing with great excitement a trumpmoscow. >> we should remind our audience, we later found out he was pursuing a trump tower in moscow but it was a long period where he said that wasn't the case. >> that's true. in july 2016, he insisted i have zero investments in russia but actually he wash business associate they had named felix sader. it's interesting because remember, there were amazing e-mails that came out between them that said can you believe two guys from brooklyn are going to get a guy elected president and putin's going to help us put it all together? it was a pretty striking boast which seemed crazy at the time. if michael cohen has some new insites for robert mueller about what they really meant back then, when they were promising trump a trump power in moscow and boechting they were going to get a guy elected president. if there's a connect there, that's going to be fascinating. >> it's not a stretch to call all of these guys a human pack of liars. >> it sounds like he was still of the mind-set i will tak

donald trump? no, the elites, the financial, the corporate, the permanent class that runs washington, d.c., that's who did it. what was their solution? to create money and bail themselves out. on the day that happened, the balance sheet of the federal reserve was 880 billion dollars. when donald trump took the oath of office, january 20, 2017, it was 4.5 trillion dollars. flooded with liquidity, like the bank of tokyo, the bank of england, the european central bank. the party at davos, the leads bailed themselves out, afraid of some sort of deflationary spiral. that's not a free bailout. there's a corollary to that. savings accounts are zero. pension funds have the biggest gap in history. you can't underwrite a bond in the united states because you only get for a public school or water works you get 2%. the little guy. the little guy would bear the burden of that. if you've owned assets, intellectual property, stocks, real estate, hedge fund, name it, in the last ten years, you had the greatest run

, he vouched for donald trump's character, and essentially went as far as to say that donald trump didot have a single racist bone in his body. here's a quick reminder. >> i've lost count as to how many times the disgusting liberal mainstream media have attempted to label mr. donald trump a racist, a zoxenophobe a bigot. >> this interview is one more data point and reminder of the complete 180 that michael cohen has done when it comes to donald trump. we know from our reporting over the last couple of weeks that michael cohen says he changed his party registration from republican back to democrat. when we bumped into him last month, michael cohen said that he wants every american to get out and vote against donald trump. otherwise we are going to see two to six years more of this craziness. that was michael cohen's words. and, you know, frankly, there are going to be a lot of people who are watching this and still having a pretty hard time believing what michael cohen says, because, frankly, it's true that michael cohen, for so many years, was donald trump's staunch defender. so this 1

and so the opposition to trump has become also opposition to putin putin becomes trump trump becomes putin we need to decide that. intertwine and i want to talk about that in detail but before we get to that i want to talk about the and after it because that's the other big story around here so trump wants to pull out of it. his biggest argument actually being that china. is outside of its scope wouldn't just be easier to bring china anan actually in large channa well there's also the argument that russia's been violating the terms of the i.n.f. treaty which is mean you don't withdraw from an arms control treaty you try to expand it you try to improve it but you know i come back to john bolton the neoconservative advisor who trump brought in he was the architect of withdrawal from i would argue the most important stabilizing arms control agreement in two thousand and two the a.b.m. the any ballistic missile treaty. the withdrawal from the i.m.f. is part of a larger problem sophie it's part of the unraveling of the stabilizing framework for arms control if this goes down and it was a

trump: well, look. we get along well. there are certain things i love what he does and there are certain things that i don't like that he does. do --ot that he doesn't he works so hard, he's doing an excellent job in many ways, there are a couple of things where it's just not his strength. it's not his fault, it's not his strength. >> such as? trump: i have not even thought about john in terms of this. john will move on. >> the 2020 is no longer -- trump: it could be. but let's see what happens. i have three or four or five positions on thinking about. maybe it's going to end up being two. but i need flexibility. host: what do you make of the president openly talking with the american people about what he likes and what he doesn't like? guest: you notice, he wasn't very specific about kelly. i suspect that one of the things he's referring to, one of the areas where he things that john kelly is weak as with his political ability. his ability to get things done on capitol hill. having said that, i really think that none of

>> president trump: no. >> chris: why not? >> president trump: it just won't happen. the eight year limit is a good thing, not a bad thing. >> chris: we talked a lot about the cemetery and the fact they didn't go because it was a security concern and you did go the next day. >> president trump: excuse me, not security concern. they wouldn't allow me to go. they said -- secret service said sir, you cannot go, we are not prepared. you cannot go because there was supposed to be a helicopter but the helicopter couldn't fly. they said you cannot go. >> chris: here's the question, you are back in washington on monday, veterans day, why don't you go across the river to arlington for that ceremony? barack obama went every year he was here in d.c. >> president trump: i should have done that. i was extremely busy on the calls for the country. we did a lot of calling, as you know. >> chris: but this is veterans day. >> president trump: in retrospect i should have, and i did last year and i will virtually every year but we had come in very late at night and i had just left litera

well what we're seeing is that the president trump is consistent in his trump in rhetoric and he promotes the america first agenda his rhetoric should be understood with and the context of the. american mode at the moment and the american mode whether it is in the media or in the foreign policy establishment or with india congress as that business as usual between the united states and saudi arabia cannot continue and and this path that we have been on the house for the past two years will not no longer be tolerated so president trump was essentially trying to provide rhetorical support for salvaging what is left of the u.s. saudi relationship because the congress is now moving forward with imposing sanctions on to saudi government including potentially on prince mohammed himself but do you think it strange that doesn't fully absolve mohammed bin solomon of involvement in this matter when he says it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event that he's still very much sitting on the fence isn't he. i think that he is the liberally seeking to be big u.s. abo

trump said, no, screw that.going to go straight out nonwhites,nst against muslims, against mexicans, etc., etc. his party had already recognized the holding was fake, but trump saw something true about the way there were elements within people, the worst most vile, most bistro elements exist in every person. every major religion has noticed and talked in leslie about this fact since the beginning of human civilization. everybody has bad, evil within them. and trump has a profound understanding of how to dried -- how to dried out, weaponize it, how to use it for political purposes. that is a core element of the rightist revolution that has taken power in this country and threatens to evolve from just an incipient fascism into a new unique american fascism. and by the way, on a mechanical level, you ain't seen nothing yet. if the republicans retain control of both houses, and also if they maintain many of the major governorships that are up across the country, which enable them to further rig house districts and t

to donald trump. it's a bombshell in mueller's russia investigation as trump arriving tonight in argentina calls off his weekend meeting with putin. and here at home, a huge reaction in the legal community. we have it all covered from the white house to trump tower, from the justice department to the fbi and c.i.a. as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 679 of this trump administration. the day the president was hit with a legal bombshell as robert mueller secures a guilty plea from the man who was once one of trump's most loyal lieutenants. today michael cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, admitted to lying to congress about his boss's involvement in a project to build a moscow version of trump tower as he was securing the republican nomination back in 2016. and perhaps worse than that, cohen admits to being in touch with the kremlin during a presidential campaign. cohen's plea came this m

to make sure that donald trump did win and dangle that trump tower in front of donald trump's head. the next day julian asasange is talk about how he has more e-mails. the day before don junior didn't get any dirt is tweeting about how he has a big announcement and a big speech about hillary clinton and her wrong doings coming a few days after that. that speech doesn't happen. a month later donald trump is standing on a podium. i was there. right after the convention after he's the official nominee of the republican party. dnc e-mails started leaking out. the questions of why did they -- who hacked them and who is doing the leaking are percolating. the idea is that maybe it's russia from some intelligence sources. donald trump is asked about it while standing on that stage. what does he know about it? he's been so friendly to russia for so long and nobody could quite understand why. he says i have no dealings with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. then a moment later says russia if you're listening, can you find those e-mails you put it all together and it's incredible. >> i

trump's business dealings with russia. we're assessing the potential db damage to the president from michael cohen's stunning plea agreement with robert mueller. >>> 70 hours. cnn has learned that cohen talked extensive with the pounds n multiple meetings on a variety of topics. and a well-placed source tells me that mueller knows everything. what else has cohen revealed? "weak person." president trump slams his former fixer for flipping saying cohen is telling lies now to reduce his prison time. but is the president's current lawyer, rudy giuliani, undermining his argument? >>> and passing on putin. as mr. trump heads to the g20 summit in argentina, he abruptly cancels his meeting with the russian president citing the crisis in ukraine. given the timing right after the cohen guilty plea, is that explanation believable? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following a major breaking story now.

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trump presiden presidency.on time. ken dilanian giving us the context, gene rossi, a doj veteran, saying this is literally indictable. >>> coming up, donald trump defending ivanka trump's personal e-mail use. the watchdog who sparked that investigation is here. >>> new developments in congress in a story that broke right here this hour last night. house democrats now say they will investigate ivanka trump for her misuse of private e-mail, sending hundreds of e-mails that were government-related business. a familiar scandal. today donald trump defending his daughter, who is of course also a white house official. >> ivanka's e-mails, why was it appropriate for your daughter's personal e-mails -- >> early on, for a little before the, ivanka did some e-mails. they weren't classified like hillary clinton. they weren't deleted like hillary clinton. there was no service in the basement like hillary clinton had. you're talking about a whole different -- you're talking about all fake news. so what ivanka did, it's all i

he talked to trump more times. they have not given us an exact number but he spoke with the president repeatedly about this. and they also say he briefed members of the president's family. and, of course, don jr., at least, has also testified on the hill. we were closely reviewing the one transcript that's been public from his appearances there to the judiciary committee today to see how they square. i would imagine that mueller's office is looking at his appearances that we don't have in front of senate and house intelligence as well to see whether or not he was truthful about these events. >> we should note that the wall street journal reporting that investigators have e-mails from late 2015-2016 in which cohen copies don jr. and ivanka on exactly this, that ivanka recommended an architect. we'll talk more about as the night goes on. thank you both for being with me. >>> i want to bring in daniel goldman. the first question i want to ask you, and tom made this point earlier when he was talking to some of us here

saying trump was a party to this. now, there are a about a gazillion things for the incoming house democrats to look at when they get oversight responsibilities in the house in january. the president being part of a criminal conspiracy, it's hard to look at that and not put it at least in the top 1,000 of things they should look at. i mean, this is serious stuff. it gets not as much attention as it should have. but i salute "the wall street journal" and reporters today for that piece putting it right back in the middle of the radar stream. >> let's listen to another moment of donald trump lying on fox news on the question of when he knew about these payments that michael cohen was arranging. >> later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a big thing. that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. >> barbara mccade, your reaction to that after what we learned from "the w

trump. i think redemption for america is to rid us of mr. trump. that's what i think. >> there you have it. tony schwartz, john flannery speaking clearly. >> i don't know how to upstage that. >> i don't know you can. we are watching these two stories, these two types of pressure crash on donald trump the electoral pressure of a blue wave we have been covering and will explain further in our hour tonight and then the legal pressure. what's going through his mind? what are we going to see? >> i think you saw what he was feeling in real time during his news conference earlier in the week. when you saw that he just feels overwhelmed by what's going on and he couldn't contain his anger. they wrote him a statement. he read a few sentences of it and blew up and what he said essentially was, come after me and i'm going to war. you know, he hasn't had to be in a war because he's controlled all the troops up until now. now the war is about to begin. and it's a civil war. it's a here we are 150 years later, we're back in a civil war the red against the blue t

and donald trump jr.'uing the trump tower deal in moscow. "outfront" now, hunter walker, white house correspondent for yahoo news. he broke the story. and by the way, he reported earlier this year that cohen's discussions, you know, lasted longer than he was claiming, right, this whole january, june thing, hunter, obviously, you had this a long time ago, and what have you learned tonight about ivanka and don junior? >> right, so, all the focus today has been on michael cohen's work with felix to build a trump skyscraper in moscow and what i've learned is that don junior and ivanka trump were separately pursuing efforts to make a trump branded skyscraper in moscow. they also both did have involvement with michael cohen's work. ivanka was recommending architects and as a source familiar with the trump organization put it to me, don junior was, quote, peripherally aware. >> so, let me ask you about this. i mean, how do you interpret this? they're working separately and my understanding from your reporting is

it's just 100% donald trump doing what donald trump wants. neera tanden, can anyone turn donald trump into someone who can appeal to voters who aren't already supporting him? >> i mean, the reality of this last two years is that donald trump has not built on his base. and i think that you pointed out the numbers amongst republicans, but i think what's an even more clear warning shot is how well democrats did across the country with independents. they won independents dicively even in places like texas. and david is right there are places democrats should focus on and try to shore up. but when you look at the breadth of the victory from one part of this country to basically every corner, democrats put together a winning coalition. a large scale coalition of suburban women, a lot of college educated white men, in fact it used to be the base of the republican party, as well as millennials who no one expected to turn out and luteenees because of the ret rrk around the caravan. donald trump is in a day's long fury because his strategy backfired. h

to trump. the president, though, responded with a harsh attack on cohen. >> what he's trying to do, because he's a weak person. and not a very smart person. what he's trying to do is end -- and it's very simple. he's got himself a big prison sentence. and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story. now here's the thing. even if he was right, it doesn't matter because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. i was running my business. a lot of different things during the campaign. so very simply, michael cohen is lying. and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me. >> get that? in a category of the world is watching all of this unfold, it's important to let you know that the president abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with vladimir putin almost immediately following michael cohen's court appearance today. here to take us through the day's dramatic developments, from "the new york times," mike schmidt, former

trump made them targets. trump never made them targets.be in speeches over time he has signals people out. but he has never sat there and said they are targets. you can't equate the two. [crowd booing] >> there are 300 30 million people in the united states and most of them, like all people, are wonderful, but some are disturbed. disturbed people like the unconscious mind, always seems to be taken seriously. to express itself in terms intelligible. presidents set tone and give permission. most of us will never behaved wrongly no matter who the president is and that is why american society is not dissolving at least the. because if people acted like the president, the place would be compensating -- gotham city. [laughter] [applause] >> but there are people who are at the cusp and when they ask, are my behaviors normal? we have seen that this is one of the reason that breitbart is so powerful, unfortunately not for good. you can see the radicalization of this happened even within the so-called legitimate conservative media. how much more rad