question is will he come clean? my sense is he wants to redeem himself and come clean. i think the american people will give him a fair hearing. i read his statement, i ll get to it in a moment and the president is negotiate ong negotiating on high-level things and the criticism is it stops at the water s edge. that s not the case. i led an effort in the house to support the president in north korea and rooting for him to succeed. i think the dialogue is a terrific step. we can separate the cohen testimony but ever american should be rooting for the president s success in north korea. bill: that s one thing. it s another thing when you have a split screen and 45 minutes. you could do this any other time. why did you pick today, sir? well, the president picked
even if they re his own cabinet member. the other day. he s constantly undercutting what people say. so whatever cohen says, he s going to point to him as a liar. we know of course trump s track record for lying is remarkably long. but he ll do that. and he ll do his best to talk about what he s doing in north korea to get that to get the headline, to have that to be what people are paying attention to. that to be the big news. and to have cohen come across as a has-been reject, doesn t have his law license anymore. those things will all come up too. the cohen testimony starts tomorrow morning. we ll take it live here at cnn and we ll talk about it through the day. gwenda blair, thank you very much. appreciate having your voice through all of this. thank you. coming up next president trump, as we mentioned, arrives in vietnam for this critical second summit with kim jong un. we will take you live to hanoi with new details we have learned about the relationship between these two l
indicted, that is the double standard that they were referring to there, that it then puts him in a bind. we can t put this information out publicly in the report, yet we can t indict the president. why have a mueller investigation if you can t say what they found? correct. i want to read something from the daily beast today and get your take on it. this is about the white house legal team. the president made clear to his outside legal team, which includes rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, that he didn t want his lawyers going anywhere even after the mueller probe ends, the conversations served as a private admission that investigations will be haunting him for possibly years to come. let s avoid passing judgment on competing journalists, but let me ask you if you re, in fact, hearing same thing. absolutely. and i think that that is why the cohen testimony is going to be so key this week because it basically will chart out other avenues that house democrats
nancy cook, i want to read something from the daily beast today and get your take on it. this is about the white house legal team. the president made clear to his outside legal team, which includes rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, that he didn t want his lawyers going anywhere even after the mueller probe ends, the conversations served as a private admission that investigations will be haunting him for possibly years to come. let s avoid passing judgment on competing journalists, but let me ask you if you re, in fact, hearing same thing. absolutely. and i think that that is why the cohen testimony is going to be so key this week because it basically will chart out other avenues that house democrats could take to investigate trump, but also federal investigators and prosecutors in new york could take. there are very few trump organization executives who are willing to speak publicly about
your take on it. this is about the white house legal team. the president made clear to his outside legal team, which includes rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, that he didn t want his lawyers going anywhere even after the mueller probe ends, the conversations served as a private admission that investigations will be haunting him for possibly years to come. let s avoid passing judgment on competing journalists, but let me ask you if you re, in fact, hearing same thing. absolutely. and i think that that is why the cohen testimony is going to be so key this week because it basically will chart out other avenues that house democrats could take to investigate trump, but also federal investigators and prosecutors in new york could take. there are very few trump organization executives who are willing to speak publicly about what happened there the way they did insurance payments, paid taxes, potential other money that was paid to women.