The investigation. Is that right . Thats correct. And you have a citation . Page seven, volume two. Thank you. One of these witnesses was michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer, who ultimately pled guilty to Campaign Violations based on secret hush money payments to two women the president knew and also to lying to congress about the hope for a 1 billion trump tower deal. After the fbi searched cohens home, the president called him up personally, he said to check in, and told him to, quote, hang in there and stay strong. Is that right . Do you remember finding that . If its in the report as stated, yes, it is right. Yes. Also in the report, actually, are a series of calls made by other friends of the president. One reached out to say he was with the boss in maralago, and the president said he loves you. His name is redacted. Another redacted friend called to say the boss loves you. And a third redacted friend called to say everyone knows the boss has your back. Do you remember
the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction and neither reimbursed him. trump s personal attorney at that point quickly texted cohen to say, quote, client says thank you for what you do. mr. mueller, who is the capital c client thanking cohen for what he does? i can t speak to that. okay. the assumption and the context suggests very strongly it s president trump. i can t speak to that. okay. cohen later broke and pled guilty to campaign finance offenses and admitted fully they were made, quote, at the direction of candidate trump. do you remember that? yes. after cohen s guilty plea, the president suddenly changed his tune towards mr. cohen, didn t he? i would say i d rely on what s in the report. well, he made the suggestion that cohen family members had committed crimes. he targeted, for example, cohen s father-in-law and repeatedly suggested he was
do you remember finding that sequence of calls? generally, yes. when the news and in fact, cohen said that following the receipt of these messages, i m quoting here, page 147, he believed he had the support of the white house if he continued to toe the party line. and he determined to stay on message and be part of the team. that s page 147. do you remember generally finding that? generally, yes. well and robert costello, a lawyer close to the president s legal team, emailed cohen to say, quote, you are loved, they are in our corner, sleep well tonight, and you have friends in high places. and that s up on the screen, page 147. you remember reporting that. i see that. okay. when the news first broke that cohen had arranged payoffs to stormy daniels, cohen faithfully stuck to this party line. he said that publicly, neither
president to come clean. we ve heard a lot from mr. avenatti about, i want an apology, or in essence, i want the truth to come out to the american people. michael cohen s calling her a liar. there may not only be money attached to this, there may be the ring of truth, and him wanting, mr. avenatti, her attorney, for him to come out and say, yes, i had the affair and mr. cohen to say, yes, i paid the money. but however it needs to settle, they need to be telling the president, let s get this settled. bianna, go ahead. i m not sure many people are holding their breath waiting for the president to apologize. but to put this into perspective, you ve seen a very disciplined president from reports that we ve heard not listen to his counsel by saying to the media that he would sit down with robert mueller ultimately. we have yet to hear the president say that with regards to stormy daniels and sitting down with her attorney. that gives you a sense of what he may be thinking and worried ab
north korea after kim jong-un secretive talks in china with president xi. president trump says he looks forward to meeting with kim jong-un himself. but some experts in the region say dictator surprise trip to beijing could throw a curveball. let s go to barbara star, what are you hearing at your sources from the pentagon. reporter: good evening, mattis is saying things are track for administration preparations for summit. they are talking to the japanese and south koreans, lining up what they want to present to kim jong-un and try and get him to agree to. but i have to tell you, that there is a lot of concern on a couple of points. sources are telling us that they believe kim has continued to build weapons and missiles since last november, which was last time he launched any missiles.