russia on donald trump s behalf until june of 2016. but now in this brand-new interview with the new york times, trump seemed to be corroborating most of cohen s version of that story. from the times asked when in 2016 the last conversation he had about the project was he said, quote, i would say it was early to middle of the year. now, i don t know that cohen didn t go a little bit longer than that. i don t think it would be much longer. he added, i was running for president. i was doing really well. the last thing i cared about was building a building. matt, joyce, ken and heidi are all back. joyce, this seems to be that sort of heartbeat of the mueller probe, was there a financial tie? was russia aware of things that we weren t aware of back here in terms of donald trump s pursuit of a real estate project there? and the president seemed in this interview to come a whole lot closer to corroborating michael cohen s timeline than his own original position, which the talks stopped
Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190202:23:19:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
inflounce t influence the proceeding. i want to go back to what matt was saying about the lies around trump tower. this is one of those things regardless of why they lied, why he lied, it s a huge deal. this was a fraud on the american public. this was donald trump we know from the cohen plea documents was in communication with michael cohen, knowing michael cohen was talking to the putin government about a project that needed vladimir putin s approval. while the russians were attacking our country, attacking our election. and he lied about it. he said it wasn t happening. would he have been elected president if the voters knew that information? regardless of why it hand, it s a huge deal on its face i think, nicolle. ken, i know you re freezing, hate asking you one more question but i m going to ask you one more question. you make the perfect point. we re having this narrow legal conversation. as someone who spent my career on the political side of this, it is a political scanda
in 2016 the last conversation he had about the project was he said, quote, i would sap it was early to middle of the year. now, i don t know that cohen didn t go a little bit longer than that. i don t think it would be much longer. he added, i was running for president. i was doing really well. the last thing i cared about was building a building. matt, joyce, ken and heidi are all back. joyce, this seems to be that sort of heartbeat of the mueller probe, was there a financial tie? was russia aware of things that we weren t aware of back here in terms of donald trump s pursuit of a real estate project there? and the president seemed in this interview to come a whole lot closer to corroborating michael cohen s timeline than his own original position, which the talks stopped in january of 2016. yeah, this is what you have to do as a defend or as a subject of an investigation, if
rudy giuliani s knowledge of just what you re talking about, the president s responses to mueller s question. so now you have the cohen testimony and former prosecutors described mueller s evidence to me as transcripts that would be in binders around a single event, such as talks about trump tower moscow. you have cohen s testimony. you now have the president saying it went on through the middle of the year and you have got rudy giuliani saying, and the answers cover all the way through election day. it seems like we have enough public spacing information to suggest they made the turn you just talked about, they have acknowledged that throughout election day, they were talking about negotiating, working on trump tower moscow. i think it s hard to deny that at this point, and the significance, of course, is what you talk about. the fact that russia is aware throughout the campaign that then candidate trump is lying to the american people, which makes him susceptible to blackmail. that