Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Thats what Rudy Giuliani said today. He wasnt arguing about that statement from Michael Cohen, who is alleging that President Trump did know about that meeting before it occurred. Rudy giuliani only said that he could state for the record that President Trump did not attend that meeting with those russian officials, which is not something that was in question in the first place. It was whether or not President Trump knew about it, which is something that his aides and President Trump himself have denied for months now, including that President Trump said he just found out about it in july of 2017, a year after it happened. And donald trump jr. Testified in front of lawmakers that his father did not know about it before. So it would be increasingly problematic. That is the question now, anderson. It is essentially the president s word versus Michael Cohens. But the white house does not seem to
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
he s not that unself-conscious. he knows the distinction between a con and what happened. do you think on air force one, he didn t know he was not telling the truth? does anyone believe that? is he that much in his own head. i don t believe that. there s a certain infantalizing of trump okay, i m going to interrupt you for just a second because we actually have breaking news on that meeting. i want to go to ken dilanian. with more on who he wants to speak to, meaning robert mueller, and why. what can you tell us? hey, chris, well, the russian american pop star, russian pop star, sorry who helped set up this trump tower meeting, and his lawyer s telling our colleague that he is in talks to be interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. that s fairly significant because the agalarov family, his father is a russian oligarch with close ties to vladimir
telling the truth against now michael cohen, i believe donald trump and don jr. and let me also say for one quick reason, and you ll understand this once we get into the weeds. remember, goldstone, who works for the agalarov family, he sent that e-mail directly to don jr. if you look at the e-mails, it was never forwarded to rhona graff, then donald trump s executive assistant, but essentially like his chief of staff. right. there was, however, a blocked number call made by donald trump jr., both, i think, before and after the meeting, the candidate, mr. trump at the tell graphed that there s going to be some big revelation coming out about hillary clinton regarding russia that he never followed through on after the meeting took place. it just seems to me that if you re donald trump jr. and you get this e-mail informing you
not candidate trump knew about this meeting. he was in the building. he was just one floor above where the meeting took place. he was very close with the agalarov family, who asked to set up the meeting. so the fact that he wouldn t have been a part of it or had any idea, it just does not make much sense. he was exchanging gifts at the time with the agalarov family, who were sending him a birthday painting just a couple of days after. and then, of course, there s the timing of what he was telling the world would be coming. and just a couple days later after the meeting, julian assange tells the world that there s hacked materials that will soon be released. we could have found out this information. i don t think the republicans wanted to know the answer. i just want to make sure i m tracking this. because it seems important. and it seems important in sort of fairness to the president here, to make sure we know what s going on. don junior talks to agalarov, there s a call with a block