goldstone saying if it s true that is that the russian government has the information it wants to provide, if it s true i love it. doesn t donald trump jr. want to please his father? doesn t he tell his father this meeting is coming? as you have pointed out, this speech is planned about precisely the subject that was going to be discussed at this meeting at trump tower. the idea that donald trump has never been told about this? i mean, it just has always seemed implausible to me. yeah. and if anybody knew, cohen was the one who was going to know that this information was passed to donald trump. the time line events has always been suspicious. where this gets worse if there are people within the trump circle that can explain and add context, to the events which we have already seen. the big question number one, did the trump campaign knowingly solicit the use of stolen information? step two, worse, was there a
jr., his son-in-law jared kushner and former chair paul manafort in which a russian government lawyer with ties to the kremlin expected to offer dirt on hillary clinton. the president s former fixer prepared to share the details with robert mueller we re told if the statement of cohen and given the past this is a considerable if, if the statement is credible. but when debating when s telling the truth about this, it is also worth pointing out that the american people have been lied to time and time again about this meeting. and about the greater question of russian election interference. let s start with donald trump jr. s contradictory statements of the meeting and said he never met with russians and then, quote, it was a short introdukt ri meeting, discussed the program of russian children adoption and now we know that statement is false and it was courtesy of president trump. and we know that the reason for the meeting was donald trump jr. had been, in fact, promised
damaging information on hillary clinton. as for whether or not he told his father about the meeting do you tell your father anything about this? no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. michael cohen is now saying, of course, according to sources that that s not true. we should point that cohen is not the first to raise doubts. former trump campaign executive steve bannon told michael wolff, quote, the chance that don jr. did not walk them up to the father s office on the 26th floor is zero. those investigating what the president knew and when he knew it have been intrigued when the meeting with the russian lawyer was in the works, members of the trump team under the impression to get dirt from the russians on hillary clinton. and at that time out of the blue then candidate trump said this. i am going to give a major
endimted that t indictments that the russians targets e-mails of that day. and then candidate trump invited the russians to hack a political opponent. now, it s all for food for thought when you in the public trying to decide who to trust in this current state of affairs which resembles the final scene in reservoir dogs. cnn s manu raju joins me now. people interpret this as michael cohen trying to make it clear, raising his hand to the special prosecutor, to the u.s. attorney for the southern district, he wants to make a deal. reporter: no question about it, jake. it s a fallout of the president and a close confidant facing a criminal investigation and now willingness to testify to the special counsel and contradict the president about a meeting so central to the russia investigation could have major
record heat. a fire so big it s creating its own weather, destroying homes, killing a firefighter in its path. good afternoon, everyone. i m jake tapper. politics lead, a biggest bombshell to date in the russia investigation, reportedly coming from the man who once said he would take a bullet for president trump. this bombshell goes right to the heart of this question which i cannot say any better than the late republican senator howard baker said in 1973 as watergate was excuse ming the nation. what did the president know and when did he know? what did the president know and when did he know it? what did president trump know in this case of russian offers to help him win his election in 2016? sources now telling cnn former fixer michael cohen claims then candidate trump despite the many denials since knew in advance about that june 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump