Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside
freedom of expression around the world. well today after two weeks of leaks there was an official statement from turkey about the show the murder investigation turkey s president aired one had promised to deliver the naked truth about the killing instead he offered something more like a strip tease of facts most of which we already knew and being careful not to further damage relations with riyadh heir to one called on saudi arabia to hand over the men suspected of carrying out the murder inside saudi arabia s stamboul consulate there were more high level cancellations today and saudi arabia s future investment conference the conference has been thrown into disarray with c.e.o. s keeping their distance in the wake of the can show murder but at the conference today the sell the crown prince made an appearance a short one and he received a standing ovation. satisfied was the word crown prince mohammed bin solomon
consulate there were more high level cancellations today and told the arabia s future investment conference the conference has been thrown into disarray with c.e.o. s keeping their distance in the wake of the can show murder but at the conference today the saudi crown prince made an appearance a short one and he received a standing ovation. satisfied was the word crown prince mohammed bin solomon used to describe how he felt at the high profile future investment initiative conference in riyadh. despite the prince s smile there was tension in the air. some forty companies and investors boycott of the forum over the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi at the event the saudi energy minister admitted that these had been difficult days for the kingdom. through.
with stormy daniels. in other words, other amounts of money. this was not uncommon for him to do that. you said he this was a regular arrangement he had with michael cohen. did michael cohen make other arrangements for the president? i have no knowledge of that. but i would think if it was necessary, yes. he made payments for president. or he conducted business for the president. interviewed right after giuliani, stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti called the appearance a, quote, absolute unmitigated disaster for the president. giuliani after meeting with trump later on his golf club in virginia told the washington post he still has his client s confidence, quote. we all feel pretty good. we ve got everything kind of straightened out and we re setting the agenda. everybody is reacting to us, and i feel good about that right now because that s what i came in now. laurence tribe, an expert on campaign finance law among other things. let me start with that one assertion ru
you said he this was a regular arrangement he had with michael cohen. did michael cohen make other arrangements for the president? i have no knowledge of that. but i would think if it was necessary, yes. he made payments for president. or he conducted business for the president. interviewed right after giuliani, stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti called the appearance a, quote, absolute unmitigated disaster for the president. giuliani after meeting with trump later on his golf club in virginia told the washington post he still has his client s confidence, quote. we all feel pretty good. we ve got everything kind of straightened out and we re setting the agenda. everybody is reacting to us, and i feel good about that right now because that s what i came in now. laurence tribe, an expert on campaign finance law among other things. let me start with that one assertion rudy giuliani made about asserting presidential privilege in response to a subpoena. what do you make of