don junior lied to your newspaper. the original statement on this 3450e9ing from don junior was that the meeting was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and has since ended, ended by the russian government. it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. i guess when you see rudy giuliani out there calling cohen a liar, they re all liars. it complicates things, doesn t it, when you get statements like that? you know, look, it wasn t a campaign issue at the time and they reached out to the campaign and said, we want to support the russian government wants to support your campaign and we have information that will help. they met with that expectation. they didn t think the information was useful. i m not sure whether they didn t understand that what was being discussed here was russian sanctions and it is v
that tight? well, i m not surprised. i don t think manafort is surprised to see the president wanting to distance himself, but what is fairly egregious is 3450u8ler mueller is sweating a witness by 24r0eing h throwing him in the for an unknown period of time, he could be in there potentially for the rest of his life. but reportedly he went to great lengths to talk with witnesses. well, alan dershowitz said this is unfair because a judge made this decision unilaterally and did not bring it into the public for giving manafort an opportunity to have his case heard. this to me seems nothing more than a desperate mueller saying how can we turn up the heat on these people close to trump to get them to flip. i think manafort is although i guess i m sure it is terribly uncomfortable to be incarcerated. manafort also has the financial resources to endure a certain level of prosecution over something that donald trump was right happened 12 years ago.
your allies. any regrets, who are the biggest policy failures, and obviously the middle east comes to mind with the arab spring unfoldingd. when you look back, what are your regrets? what is are the mistakes? obviously you look at the 3450e69, again, a come i look at is egypt. that s where the arab spring looked hopeful. obama took a bold moving in breakingro mubarak, but i thought we never really followed through. we kind of went babb to form, the military ultimately overturned. we didn t even call it a coup. if you could have been a success story in egypt, you might have had more the a beachhead for democracy. right now you have a
office. and giuliani felt that this was prosecutors chasing rainbows. and so the president and his legal counsel deny that there is any knowledge the president had about payments being made to essential consulting about these fortune 500 companies making payments to michael cohen to try to influence the president. and we ll have to see what the record shows. all right. incredible conversations this morning. we ll be reading your reporting in the new york times. and your piece is in the new issue of time. ahead, one of the last people you would expect to see on our set. that is next.
and now our nda with her, seems to be irrelevant because she wa wants to break it up and get more than $130,000. i know it s going to sound funny for people at home, a $130,000 is just a nuisance payment. the president did make these payments into 3450imichael cohe through the course of 2017, why did the president deny any knowledge of the facts? i don t know when the president learned about it. he could have learned about it after or connected it after that time. what is said to the press never amount stos anything. are you confident that michael cohen never told president trump he made this payment? number one, why would i be concerned if it was not a