giuliani is adding value to the president s legal team, but his numerous tv appearances may be causing anxiety for the administration. reports tonight that the white house is not happy with giuliani. tonight a cnn source saying that he is embarrassing the president. giuliani no doubt raised eyebrows in the west wing when he was asked this weekend if trump s long-time fixer michael cohen paid other women to stay silent. i have no knowledge of that. but i would think if it was necessary, yes. when asked today if other women have received money from the president, press secretary sarah sanders would only say that she is not aware. rudy giuliani was also asked if the president would ever take the fifth amendment in the russia investigation, and he did not rule it out. mr. trump, you recall has repeatedly said that only criminals take the fifth. and would the president comply with a subpoena from the special counsel robert mueller? here is what giuliani says. well, we don t have to.
violation of law by handing over the documents without a subpoena. but mueller says it acted properly securing the consent of the document holder, the gsa. how did the documents and materials they received. do we know how they factor into the investigation? reporter: tens of thousands of emails along with the laptop, cell phones and other materials belonging to 13 top transition team members. this material comes from between the election and inauguration. this was provided by the special counsel s office by the general service administration. that agency is tapped with supplying office supplies and email services to the trump transition team. instead of going through a subpoena, mueller s office went straight to the gsa to request
he s can be broken into. arthel: the gsa provided the server for the trump transition team email. is the claim enough to discredit mueller, his team and the russian investigation. we have to recognize the trump transition lawyers have a responsibility to protect their clients first and foremost. so it makes sense for them in what is clearly a political environment of the investigation to do battle in that regard. that helps their client and helps put them in a position that further down the road should something happen, they have the ability to try to shape some of the narrative. as much as i have some sympathy for what the special counsel has done in terms of the legal practice. the reality is the whole
pentagon s mysterious ufo program. new this morning, more controversy about the russia investigation. and a new push by the trump administration to discredit special counsel robert mueller. the issue is tens of thousands of e-mails sent and received by the trump transition team. e-mail investigators reportedly have used while questioning witnesses. president trump s transition lawyer is accusing mueller of obtaining the e-mail illegally, complaining in a letter to congress that the documents from a dozen different accounts are private, even though they were kept on a government server. the issue is so sensitive a spokesperson for the special counsel stepped forward to defend his boss telling politico, when we obtained the e-mails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation we have secured either the account owner s consent or appropriate criminal process. democrats say it s all part of a counterattack at mueller because the trump administration feels the pressure. the rumor o