be helpful in this project. and then it goes on for six more months, all during the primaries while donald trump is running for president and saying kind things about vladimir putin. we now learn that his business was in contact with putin trying to secure this business deal. there s talks about trump flying to moscow to meet with putin as late as june 2016. but there is also this, michael. he s saying that the deal he didn t know about it, right? that trump didn t know about it? but he signed a letter of intent. he knew the type of deal could hurt him politically. why would he lie? well, i think it s obvious why he would. but it s more than that if you read the plea deal. michael cohen says he briefed trump on this multiple times, you know, more than three times. and members of the trump family. and we have reporting tonight from my colleague hunter walker
hurt him politically. why would he lie? well, i think it s obvious why he would, but it s more than that if you read the plea deal. michael cohen says he briefed trump on this multiple times. you know, more than three times. and members of the trump family, and we have reporting from my colleague tonight, hunter walker, about how ivanka and donald trump jr. were very much involved in the plans for this project. but the really stunning thing is that, you know, all of this was known to the trump organization. mmm-hmm. the whole time the russia story was blowing up, and, you know, the e-mails, the texts, they all had access to it and they never said a word while michael cohen went to the senate and brazenly lied about it and, you know, which he has now pled guilty to. and so, you know, just from a pure political damage control 101, the idea that you knew that all this damaging information
proposed moscow tower was well known during the campaign. it s simply not true. we only learned about the deal after he was elected. we ve seen the song and dance before. what does it say that trump is getting caught in another lie? well, this lie in particular is unique because, again, a lot of the lies we re talking about in misstatements or alternative facts, if they d like to call it that at some point in time, have been made to the media, have been made to the american people. have been made with the twitter thumbs. have been made through people who were his mouth pieces. but this time we re talking about he actually has written these answers down. and one of the questions he was asked by mueller, according to our cnn reporter, has been about that trump tower moscow. and so as before, he had opportunities to back pedal, opportunities to clean up and sanitize his answers. well, now that era of back pedaling is over because it s written in the pavement in front of mueller s offi
there obviously is another level of the story that basically will reveal, why was it so important to trump and cohen who was then lock add the hip with him to keep it quiet and under wraps? laura, there is no other way to put it, the president lied today. the president claimed that his proposed moscow tower was well-known during the campaign. that s simply not true. we only learned about the deal after he was elected. we ve seen, you know, this song and dance before. what does it say that trump is getting caught in another lie? well, this lie in particular is unique because, again, a lot of the lies you re talking about and misstatements or alternative facts, if they d like to call it that, at some point in time have been made to the media, to the american people, have been made with his twitter thumbs, have been made through people who are his mouthpieces. this time we re actually talking about he has written these questions down. one of the questions he was asked by mueller accor
endorse trump back before anyone knew his campaign would go anywhere. trump was loyal to jeff sessions. where is jeff sessions now? interesting. michael, listen, cohen was one of trump s inner circle, right? he was in a core group that included the family. it was suppose to be bound by loyalty. was today the ultimate betrayal in donald trump s eyes? well, i think it was. but i think this has been obviously unraveling very slowly. the president s been aware that michael cohen is sort of a lost soldier. he s the coppo who has gone over to the side of the investigators and prosecutors, and this is obviously very disturbing to the president. but we all in our lives, you know, we get this choice. are we going to be loyal to an individual and do what wants us to do and take a bullet for him or loyal and true to ourselves