through the discovery process, he has to answer questions, has to be deposed, and ultimately would expose the president as well. so there s no longer any benefit for him. maybe he could use the extra 130 k. he is an attorney. wouldn t he know all of that? at the same time, it adds to confusion over was the agreement one made strictly between michael cohen and stormy daniels, was it at the wishes, request of the president because he is his attorney. it just makes it far more complicated and one would think michael cohen would anticipate that before suggesting this. i think he did know all of that. i think at the time they thought it was a way to keep all of the secrets hidden, and it kind of back fired backfired on him now. that s not what he wants to come out now. good to see you. still ahead, a convicted
doodled. and it gave me that little purpose. i just need someone to squeeze the paint up for me. the passiand we just started more and more shows and now it is just what we do. i realized that i could live outdoors through my painting. the freedom of thought is of the same as the freedom of flight. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. incredible. convicted trump campaign aid owing george papadopoulous is speaking for the first time exclusive to jake tapper. papadopoulous maintained he does not remember telling anyone on the trump campaign that he was told the russians had hillary clinton s e-mails, but he also left open the possibility that it happened. there are going to be people out there who think there is no way george papadopoulous didn t
explain why this is in the news cycle again. the guardian reported on documents that it received in response to a freedom of information request it had filed. those documents were prepared by the u.s. inspector general revealed that president trump and other white house officials have reached out to the then head of the national park service wherequesting more of t pictures of that inauguration event. that eventually trickled down to other staffers at the park service. and according to one official who was cited in that report, that they were under the impression that the white house perhaps wanted some of these photographs cropped. so that is what they did. so it seems that there was an assumption there. however the official does acknowledge that at no point did they receive a directive from president trump or the white house to crop those pictures so as to focus more on the crowds. also something that we re still trying to find out that the article doesn t really go into
them. so barack obama even though when he was president he lost a significant amount of seats in both midterms, he always he remained personally popular. it is just that his policies weren t always popular. and those impacts were felt down ballot. president trump has the opposite sort of impact. he is not personally popular. even the people that voted for him will be honest and say to you, look, i wish you wouldn t do this or that. but what remains popular are his policies among these voters. and so i think that clash going forward between now and the midterm election day are really going to be a test in particular of those sort of 9% of the trump voters who voted for president obama twice but then went and voted for donald trump.
tell anyone on the campaign. did you tell anyone on the campaign? as far as i remember, i absolutely did not. you didn t tell cory lewandowski? as far as i remember, i did not share this information with anyone on the campaign. not sam clovis? anyone. dear born? anyone. mashburn? anyone. wally farris, none of them? i might have, but i have no recollection of doing so. i can t guarantee it. all i can say is my memory is that i never shared it with anyone on the campaign. papadopoulous also contradicted sworn testimony by u.s. attorney general jeff sessions. the former trump campaign adviser claims that sessions and then candidate trump both supported his idea of setting up a meeting between trump and russian vladimir putin. listen. when did you first meet donald trump? march 31st at the national security meeting. there is a photo of you at the table. candidate trump was there, senator jeff sessions is there.