breaking news. the new york times reporting deep concern over the criminal investigation of president trump s long time perm lawyer, confidant, friend, michael cohen. let s get some more from our reporters. what do you make of this other new york times report suggesting that the president potentially facing a greater threat from the cohen probe in new york than the robert mueller probe here in washington. yeah. listen, wolf, if you have a guy who is identified as your fixer and he is under criminal investigation and they ve seized all his records, that is cause for concern. donald trump has spent his career pushing the edges of norms and rules and laws and institutions and michael cohen holds the key to some of that for the last 12 years or so. this has to be a source of e nor
let me add it s different from the approach that president clinton took toward the special counsel in the 1990s. he was confrontational. he objected to witnesses. this president has been cooperating. i want to be precise. you re cooperating with the special counsel. you say that. are you also cooperating with the u.s. attorney in new york in this separate criminal probe. as i said, michael cohen and his attorney can is the white house cooperating with the u.s. attorney? i m not aware of the the u.s. attorney in new york asking the white house for anything. what i ll state is that matters pertained to michael choen it can be answered by him and his attorney. is the president concerned about this broadening of the investigation? you re asking the same question 30 different ways. michael choohen and his attorne
and watched them pee on one another. he wanted me to investigate and he said if there s a 1% chance my wife thinks that s true, that s terrible. i remember thinking how would your wife think there s a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow. i never thought these words would come out of my mouth but i don t know whether he was with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow in 2013. it s possible but i don t know. this is just the beginning of his publicity tour. get ready. it s going to be intense. thanks very much. joining us now a member of the house intelligence committee. i want to get to comey s book. do you believe the president is more vulnerable in the cohen investigation in new york than in the robert mueller russia probe? it s hard to tell.
clinton. the president about to begin a new week in washington when all of these headlines are surrounding his administration. let s break down all of these headlines. we have daniel wittmann from politico and danny cevallos. what s the bigger threat now to this white house? is it cohen or sit the russia probe or do they overlap? or are they both equally as threatening? i think the cohen probe is much more worrisome to the white house. you have this guy who was cleaning up trump s messes for years now under severe criminal threat. and when you re faced with a 30-year potential prison term, that makes it much easier for you to kind of give in tho the
classified notes about the president now are heading to the hands of president s allies in congress. what will republicans do with the potentially crucial piece of robert mueller s case. and rosenstein s reassurance, we re learning that the deputy attorney general told the president he s not a target of the criminal investigation of the long-time lawyer michael cohen. this as werth told trump has been consumed by the cohen probe and worried his fixer might flip. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re following major breaking stories in the russia investigation including an addition to the legal team. the former mayor rudy giuliani signing on to help defend mr. trump as he faces mounting legal