Mcgan said because the president s attorneys didnt ask for a complete deprebriefing. Sources say federal prosecutors would file bank and tax fraud charges against michael cohen. That could come by the end of this month. What could this mean in terms of cohen running to mueller to cooperate . Well see. And while President Trump rants on twitter against mueller, the russia investigation and critics, were minutes from the first lady once again taken to the podium to speak out against Cyber Bullying. Youll hear her here live. Lets start with the stunning move that the white House Counsel has been cooperating with bob muellers investigators. Joe johns joins me now from the white house. And i think the white house the president and if you listen to them over the weekend, this is not stunning, of course we want full transparency and him to talk. The important nugget in the New York Times story they broke is that don mcgahn felt he was being used as a trap and flipped his strategy with his lawyer. Absolutely. I think theres another inference if you can take from the reporting over the past few hours, that is that you have to ask the question whether the president and his legal team simply dont know what they dont know. I mean, our reporting is that among other things don mcgahn didnt give any incriminating information to the special counsel as far as we know. On the other hand, they dont know everything he said because he didnt give them a full download on what it was that he said to the special counsel. So a lot of questions there and some of them quite frankly in conflict. The president did tweet this morning that he gave his approval for don mcgahn to sit down for 30 hours and also indicating that he did so in the interest of transparency and as you said at the top there, poppy, he did also include quite a bit of vitreal as weve heard many many times before for the special counsels office. What about Rudy Giuliani . I mean, he again all over the air waves this weekend. Again, very clear that he does not want the president to sit down for an interview with mueller. Especially after something he said yesterday about the truth. Right, hes really been on a roll as you know in his interviews with the media and the latest quote has been compared to something you might have taken away from George Orwells book, 1984, all of this in an attempt to explain why he has concerns about the president sitting down with the special counsel. So listen. Im not going to be rushed into having him testify so he gets trapped into perjury. When you tell me that you know, he should testify because hes going to tell the truth and shouldnt worry, thats so silly because its somebodys version of the truth, not the truth. He didnt have a conversation truth is truth. No it isnt truth. Truth isnt truth. Right, so truth isnt truth. That is the kind of thing that leaves an interviewer speechless. Giuliani trying to clean that up this morning just a bit in two tweets, one tweet says my statement was not meant as a pontiff fiction but where people make precisely contradictory statement, the classic he said she said puzzle and sometimes further inquiry can lead to truth and others times does not. Rudy giuliani trying to clean up that statement. Which obviously is one of the classics so far in the russia investigation. As you point out joe johns, is it 2018 or is it 1984 . Exactly. Thank you. Lets talk about all of this with our legal analyst. John dowd insists this is a good strategy, he said he being mcgahn was a strong witness for the president s case and the strategy is working. His thinking behind this is that if muellers team gets all of these answers from all of the people around the president and 1. 4 million documents, then he has no need to question the president , right . And he would have no legal basis on which to argue it up through the Supreme Court to question the president. Do you agree with john dowd that this was the right strategy to just let mcgahn go and assert no attorneyclient privilege . No, i dont agree with it. Ill come back to sort of the pros and cons of that, but i think its very dangerous not to assert the privilege and its important for us all to remember, there are two kinds of privilege at stake here. Theres the socalled executive privilege, which got litigated in water gatd and then theres the more traditional attorneyclient privilege with a twist, which is mcgahn is the white House Counsel not trumps person lawyer. Hes really a government lawyer. And out of the three courts of appeals that looked at that, only one has upheld attorneyclient privilege for a government lawyer. So they may have been thinking that well, whats the point of fighting this, were probably going to lose. But whenever you waive the privilege its a dangerous thing. I would not have so cavalierly waived it. I do think its interesting on the attorneyclient privilege, it talks about how their followup report which was that the president s lawyers never fully asked mcgahn to detail all of the things he testified about and those 30 hours to mueller. They actually still believe according to the times reporting that they would have some legal ground to stand on to sort of retroactively assert attorneyclient privilege and stop muellers team from handing over at least the mcgahn testimony part of it in his report to congress. Good luck with that. Once its waived, its waived and first of all, i dont even know how they would figure out what parts to assert that privilege over. 30 hours is an enormous amount of time for him to have interviewed and they dont have any idea what he said. The idea that dowd could have been quote debriefed from a 30 hour interview is preposterous, they dont know what he said. They could try to assert something and maybe theres some control over exactly how much detail is given in the report that thats possible. They are on shaky ground now after the fact trying to reassert the privilege they already waived. What does it tell you and let me redo the reporting from the times, mr. Mcgahn and mr. Burt fear mr. Trump was setting up mcgahn to take blame for any wrong doing. They embrace the opening to fully cooperate with mueller in an order to demonstrate am medical g mcgahn has not done anything wrong. Egs not the president s Attorney Lawyer but the office of the presidency, for the white house, paid for by the taxpayers. The fact that he thought that the president may try be trying to use him as a scapegoat and that that changed his own legal strategy, concerning to the white house . Reporter i think its very worry some to the white house. And actually, thats very hard situation for mcgahn to be in but as an ethical matter, seems to me he has some conflicting loyalties there. And not necessarily a true conflict of interest in that his loyalty lies to the white house not President Trump. But certainly if hes concerned that hes being set up, im not sure how he can zealously advocate for his client meaning the white house. So that raises a question whether he should have stepped aside at that point. But he didnt and well get into that more of that later. Michael cohen, the president s former lawyer and selfpro claimed fixer, our reporting is that federal prosecutors are preparing to bring charges against him possibly by the end of this month. Possibly on two different issues, one Campaign Finance potential violations for the payoff to Stormy Daniels and the second thing would be possible Bank Fraud Charges related to 20 million in loans tied to his business. If youre sitting in the white house and youre the president and looking at this, what are you thinking . Im thinking thats going to be a big problem because he has signaled loud and clear he wants to cooperate. And it looks very much like they are moving towards a quick indictment for him. Thats a lot of exposure with that amount of money and hes almost guaranteed to be looking to do a deal. He said his loyalties to the country and family, what will that actually mean if push comes to shove. Well see. Shan, thank you. Lets talk about the politics of this, our political analyst and congressional reporter at politico and perry bacon, writer for 538. Com. Rachel, it was politicos reporting that so fascinating that lanny davis has been talking to nixons former white house lawyer, john dean. Tell us more. Thats exactly right. That should worry the president. Right now hes getting squeezed by two of his former lawyers, not just one. In the case of the former white house chief counsel, this is the guy that the president said point blank, i want you to fire robert mueller. This is a guy who witnessed firsthand anything that might be considered an obstruction case. So the obviously the federal Law Enforcement officials will want to talk to mcgahn and talking to him, hes being clear. His lawyer said hes telling them everything because hes worried the president is trying to basically screw him. Thats a problem for the president. Michael cohen, this is a whole other issue, they are squeezing right now, investigating him for potentially tax and bank fraud saying he potentially took out 20 million in loans that he wasnt supposed to get. And thats a problem for him. Its really a liability. And thats why they are trying to flip him and get him to talk about what he knows about what the president might have done during the election regarding trying to keep things secret, regarding former playboy models as you know. And his lawyer has reached out to former watergate counsel who flipped on nixon. He says theres parallels to their stories and again thats troubling for the president. Back to the times big scoop over the weekend that mcgahn has spoken for 30 hours with muellers team. Heres some pushback on that coming from former spokes dszman for the president s legal team. Heres what he says, i cant imagine that mcgahn would still be white House Counsel if he had produced any damaging information. Hed have resigned. And that is our reporting, that the information the times reports he questioned investigators area never saw the president go beyond the authority. Do you think mcgahn wouldnt be working there anymore . I do think he has a good point. It was good for mcgahn. Hes saying to everybody else, we now know hes cooperating. I wonder if people close to him leaked the story even. I do think in terms of what this means for trump, we dont know because we dont know what mcgahn actually said. If he said that trump asked him 27 times each hour to fire mueller, thats one thing but it is not i think it really we dont know how damaging this is to the president and dont know how much mcgahn how much he said things that are actually illegal or could lure the president did or whether the president did anything illegal. I think we should be cautious about the story itself. We do know a few things from the reporting in terms of topics. None of us were flies on the wall and dont know what was said, the transcript. But we do know that mcgahn told mueller and his team about really intense moments. And potentially obstruction, moments of a potential obstruction. One the comment and actions during the firing, what was the intent behind that. The obsession that the president had with putting a loyalist in term of the probe and his attempt desire to fire special counsel bob mueller at one point. The fact all this came forth and the white house strat by was freely testify, were not asserting any privilege, tell your story, put it out there. Does that reflect well on the white house . Well, they can say look, we tried to be transparent. We told mcgahn to go talk to special counsel. But according to a lot of reports from various newspapers, they are regretting that strategy. They are concerned and they dont know as perry just said, dont snknow exactly what mcgah told the special counsel. I do think its interesting that giuliani has gone out there and accused the special counsel of leaking this story, saying they are trying to trap the president with some sort of perjury charge. That doesnt make sense because obviously if the special counsel was trying to trap the president in some sort of perjury charge, they wont put out there don mcgahn had met with him for 30 hours. They would interview the president and compare what he said to what don mcgahn said. If anything this news helps them because it allows them to prepare the president if he is going to sit down with mueller, what toe say to say and not to say. Perry, is the truth the truth or the truth not the truth this monday morning . I hope the truth is the truth but i think the reality is, giuliani is trying to build a case for trump to not testify. And weve been talking since december its clear trump does not want to testify. All of this is a pred katd side to the president refusing some sort of testimony because this is what giuliani trying to say, no legitimate investigation here therefore the president should not talk to mueller. All right, thank you both. Nice to have you. Ahead for us, back in the spotlights, Melania Trump will speak out against Cyber Bullying as her own husband tears into critics on twitter, again and again. Will she address that elfaephan in the room . Jurors in the trial of paul n manafort kick off day three. Well take you live to the courthouse and shared no care for the little ones, words from the pope, breaking his silence on the sex abuse scandal in pennsylvania, rocking the catholic church. Much more on that ahead. Fidelity is redefining value for investors. Introducing zero account fees for brokerage accounts. And zero minimums to open an account. 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All of this of course as her husband uses the very tactics own social media that she is trying to tackle, berating and be be littling critics on twitter. Lets listen to the first lady. Thank you very much. Secretary czar and doctor. Good morning. It is great to be here with all of you today. Im honored to open this important summit on Cyber Bullying prevention. And want to start by thanking each of you for your commitment to the topic. I know many of you are here representing social media companies, federal agencies and educational organizations, Youth Programs and Law Enforcement. I also know we share one goal, to pave a smooth way forward for our children, our next generation. I launched my be best campaign in may with a focus on the many issues facing children today. One of them being the safe and responsible use of social media. In todays global society, social media is an invent ablg part of our childrens daily lives and can be used in many positive ways but can also be distractive and harmful when used incorrectly. This is why be best chooses to focus on the importance of teaching our next generation how to conduct themselves safely and in positive manner in an online setting. I have been so inspired by the children i have met in my time as first lady and believe our next generation has unlimited potential to impact our world in positive ways. As an example, i recently had a privilege of meeting several bright students who are part of microsoft, council for digital good. In addition to sharing their 15 beliefs of how to be healthy and safe online, they each showed me individual projects representing their thoughts and ideas on what responsible behavior means to them. I was impressed by their deep understanding of how important it is to be safe and was inspired by their sincere commitment to reducing peer to peer bullying through kindness and open communication. I encourage technology and social media companies, schools and Community Groups to establish more opportunities for children such as microsofts council for digital good. By listening to childrens ideas and concerns, i believe adults will be better able to help them navigate these often difficult topics. Lets face it, most children are more aware of the benefits and pit falls of social media than some adults. But we still need to do all we can to provide them with information and tools for successful and safe online habits. Thank you all again our children deserve all of the opportunities we can give them to grow up happy and healthy and socially responsible adults. And your commitment to this topic is an example of one of those opportunities. I look forward to todays discussion and working with all of you in the future. God bless you and your families and god bless the United States of america. Urging to fight against bullying, the author of first woman of grace and power of american first ladies. Thank you for being here. The elephant in the room of course is the Cyber Bullying that her husband engages in on a daily basis. She has said before, you know in march when she said look, i know people are skeptical of me talking about this issue, but thats not going to stop me and it clearly hasnt. Listen to this line, lets face it, most children are more aware of the benefits and pit falls of social media than some adults. What do you make of that . I mean, you could think it was a veiled message to her husband, right . She has asked him to and talked about this, to tone down tweeting and maybe consider stopping tweeting so often. But its been clear that President Trump will do what he wants no matter what his wife may suggest. She has said, publicly, i know im going to be criticized for this campaign but im going to do it anyway. What struck me was when she said social media can be destructive and harmful when used incorrectly in a speech. Obviously last over the weekend we saw kind of an unprecedented number of tweets, i think, at least a large number of tweets about the russia investigation and you just have to wonder what shes thinking through all of this because its obviously a message that she is committed to delivering even though she knows there are charges of hypocrisy surrounding it. Her spokeswoman stephanie grisha. M. , saw a New York Times profile on her over the weekend. Let me read part of it. Mrs. Trump is staying true to the independent woman that she is by doing things her own way. This should be celebrated not criticized. Priorities remain her family and health and role as first lady. Their point is you should applaud her not point out people should applaud her not point out the hypocrisy in this. She has done things in a really unusual way, not only not moving to the white house right away but came out and the whole lebron james message, her spokeswoman where she basically disagreed with her husband, which is something she said she would be willing to go to the school that lebron james had started in akron, ohio, that hes doing good work while her husband attacked him on social media. So theres an understanding between first ladies and their husbands that they will not publicly criticize them. I think Melania Trump is the only first lady weve seen in modern history to really come very close to that line. Shes walking up to that line where shes publicly criticizing her husband. That is unique and some people might praise her for doing that. 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Were just a few minutes away from the jury returning to the third day of deliberations in the Paul Manafort bank and tax fraud trial after the judge refused to release jury saying he received personal threats and hes afraid the same jury will same will happen to the jury if their identity becomes public. Lets go to jessica schneider. What are you looking at right now . Reporter it does begin, poppy, after two days of deliberations totally 14 hours in all and it is interesting that the judge does fear for safety of these jurors, that was the comment he made when denied the motion by Media Outlets including cnn to release their names. It was quite an interesting moment and happened as those jurors were still deliberating and the judge held this hearing inside his courtroom and the judge said he was really surprised in this case about the emotions that this case against Paul Manafort elicited and said he too as a federal judge, he had even received threats. He said his safety wasnt an issue, he has the protection of the u. S. Marshall service but the jurors dont. This judge deciding to keep names of those jurors secret. They are hard at work and deliberating pretty painstakingly without much of a peep from them. They had two notes last week, one asking the judge for clarification on four Different Companies and one saying on friday as of 5 00 p. M. , they were ready to call it quits. Theyll be back here this morning at 9 30. One thing the defense team has reiterated over and over, poppy, they think the longer this jury takes the better it is for them. They say that these long the longer the deliberations go the better chance Paul Manafort has. Kevin downing just walked into court. As he did he put it this way, i feel pretty good. My client feels pretty good as well. Well see what this day brings as day three of jury deliberations begins any minute now. Poppy . Right, they were trying to figure out last week what does reasonable doubt actually mean and thats the crux of all of it, right . Thanks for the reporting. Exactly. Shan wu is back with me. I should note you formerly represented rick gates, manaforts long time associate until he decided to plea. Lets talk about the jury working quietly right now, we havent heard a lot from them, just the two notes. What does that signal to you . As a former prosecutor in my prosecutor days, i was always pleased if the jury has been working quietly for a while. Initially i thought the first question about reasonable doubt might imply they were having disagreements very quickly. Ive changed my mind because they were quiet on friday and are working pain stayingly as we just heard. I think thats probably a good sign for the prosecution. I understand the defense teams point. I agree about two things with them, first, if it goes really long, thats probably a good sign for them, particularly if we get notes saying the jury is having trouble reaching a unanimous decision. And then secondly, i think the defense team has a right to feel good. A lot of us thought this was going to be a slam dunk case and theyve kept the jury out and that first question from the jury, four questions indicated that the defense team succeeded in focusing the jury on some of the weaker parts of the governments case. They she feel good about what theyve done. Shan wu, thanks for the expertise. Well keep you close by in case we get a verdict any time soon. Ahead for us, pope francis finally speaking out. A scathing letter addressing the latest ram pant allegations of sexual abuse within the church more than 1,000 children falling victim. What the pope said next. 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The report also suggests how Church Officials actively work to hide the abuse and silence the victims and alleges that this coverup went all the way up to the vatican. There you see the Pennsylvania Attorney general who detailed all of this last week. And now just now were hearing from the pope in detail. Lets go to barb who joins me from rome. A lot of people were saying, why havent we heard sooner . Why arent we hearing immediately from the pope but now he has written this letter. Thats right. And he calls for the greater Catholic Community to embrace the victims and clergy to listen to the victims. But he doesnt call for any resignations and thats something that the victims themselves have been calling for. They want to see greater accountability and heads roll in this scandal. He did not call for that. Let me read a little bit more of this letter from him. Its important the words he says are important, words we havent heard before, looking back to the past. No effort to beg pardon and seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening. But also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated. The pain of the victims and families is also our pain. Those are important words but the time and time again when weve talked to this victim, these victims, they want action, words arent enough, poppy. Youre talking about children raped in the hospital after she got her ton sills out and young boy tied up and whipped. This is what these priests did to these children, according to the attorney general. And you look at more of what the pope wrote and he said that the church is now implementing this zero tolerance policy. I mean, aside from the fact that it should have implemented a zero tolerance policy from the beginning, what do we know specifically about what will change . The law does not hold these people to account. The statute of limitations has run out on almost all of them. What will the Church Actually do . Thats right. The church needs to open their secret archives, they have records on a lot of complaints by family members when Young Children expressed what was happening to them. You also have to i think question, this is going to be a big question coming up. You have to question whether the Secular Society is in this . Why didnt the police act more . Were they kplis it in this on some level or protect the church. The catholic communities in so many states across the United States and across the world are so strong and so important and so influ enshal. And the next question and a lot of abuse cases will be why, where were the cops . Why wasnt anyone arrested . Why arent the prisons filled with predator priests at this point. Exactly. Thank you for that reporting. I appreciate it. 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For them the risk of opioid addiction has quadrupled over the last 15 years. What do you think when you hear that . I believe it. I did it. Reporter rachel grew up here in eastern tennessee. A part of the country hard hit by the opioid epidemic. Two years ago, she had a miscarriage. Her doctors say due to her opioid addiction. When rachel found out she was pregnant again, she was terrified. How worried were you about the baby . I was very worried. I just thought that my body was not going to be able to carry it. Reporter its hard to overstate the risks of being pregnant while addicted to opioids. Miscarriage, stillbirth and the possibility a baby would be born in a crisis of withdrawal. This is tough to watch. The uncontrollable crying, unstoppable tremors and this distinctive scream. They are coming off of opioids like an adult except these are babies that have just been born . Thats correct. Reporter for this doctor, this was not acceptable. He decided to challenge the staff status quo. Conventional wisdom has been, if someone has a use disorder during pregnancy, dont try and detox. Wait until after they have delivered the baby. The thought was that would be safest. Is that right . Thats correct. But our two systematic reviews have shown that thats not the case. Reporter the doctor says he has detoxed more than 600 people from opioids while they were pregnant. Not a single baby has died. What was it that made you convinced could you get through this time . He asked me to trust him. Nobody has ever done that with me. You know . They have never cared like that. Reporter its the same compassion this woman felt when she detoxed during pregnancy. It wasnt easy. But look at how it turned out. How is jc doing . Shes good. Shes a happy baby. Reporter this is her beautiful baby girl, who is now 3 months old. She was born with no withdrawal symptoms. She didnt go to the nicu. Reporter you are proud that shes doing so well . Im very happy about that. Were doing good. Reporter weeks away from he the same miracle. You have named picked out . Brantley. Reporter whats it like to look at brantley . Its amazing. Im so glad you did this story. Its such a problem that is ballooning clearly as you laid out. Can you walk us through how this detox actually works . That doctor that has delivered, i think you said 600 of the babies, not one death. Thats right. The detox works essentially by getting gradually lower doses of what they call an agonist, an opioid. They use different dose, lower power. They give something that basically blocks all the opioid receptors in the body so if you take an opioid you get really sick. Its a big deterrent for them. The biggest risk you may know this. We are hearing about it all over the country. When someone is detoxing, they start to their body gets acclimated to lower doses. If they go back and take a higher dose or a street dose, that is when a real risk of death occurs. Theres a risk to the mother if they dont stick with the system and abide by the sort of plan that the doctor lays out. Seeing those babies in your piece, that video of that one babys leg shaking uncontrollable. For anyone, parent or not, its so hard to watch. Longterm, how are these babies doing . Do they have longterm affects . Its a great question. I think what were seeing right now, poppy, is something thats unfolding real time. What you have just seen, this is happening right now. Theres not a lot of longterm data on this. What this medical program is is a reflection of our society, frankly. The doctors are going to be studying these babies longterm. 600 babies have now been born after the mothers have been detoxed. All of them survived. That was a question mark before they began the study. Would the babies be able to come to term and survive . They have gotten through that. Now the next question is, how do they do longterm . Indications are pretty good so far. 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A few weeks ago, 44 people were killed in chicago were shot in chicago, rather, in a single weekend. Top of the hour. Good morning. President trump lashing out again this morning at bob mueller, accusing him of ruining lives and trying to impact the election. These accusations in a flurry of tweets from the president. We have learned the president s lawyers were never fully debriefed on what exactly mcgahn told muellers investigators. Lets go to the white house with jeremy diamond. Good morning to you. Whats the read from the white house this morning after we heard from the president about this over the weekend . Reporter as you mentioned, a remarkable revelation just this weekend that the white House Counsel, mcgahn, sat for over 30 hours of interviews with the special counsels team. The white house and the president s personal legal team never got a full debriefing. That has rattled the white house this weekend. We have seen the president tweet a number of types aboimes okay