we re going to bring you results as they come in from west virginia. but breaking news in the mueller investigation and the investigation into michael cohen. cnn learned that mueller investigations have questioned a russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited into essential consultants llc, the company set up by michael cohen that was used to pay off stormy daniels. hundreds of thousands of dollars from the u.s. affiliate were made after the election. the purpose of the payments by the u.s. affiliate is unclear at this hour. cnn has reviewed documents that appear to show the payments but cnn has not authenticated the documents. their authenticity has already been bolstered by a statement issued by another company tonight, at&t, which is trying to acquire cnn and its parent company time warn per .the information that michael
the president, despite the is well aware of the danger. giuliani has created this condition where, you know, it s not clear whether mueller will exercise the subpoena power that he has to try to compel the president to talk. but he might almost feel like he has to based on what giuliani has been pushing him toward. you had reported that the president was feeling i can t remember if it was a month ago. or just an hour. it doesn t seem to exist for me any more. that the president was feeling more confident in his ability to be president. that was months ago. he s got this. yes. i m wondering these days, do you know is he still feeling that? he is still feeling that. it s funny you mentioned that. i had someone close to him bring up that piece to me in the last couple of days, saying that was correct. that is what is happening with him. he is more emboldened. he does feel as if he s got this. which as a colleague reminded me
we can get this done quickly. it s just dragged it out and gotten worse and giuliani is getting a lot of attention, which the president never likes somebody doing. giuliani started out when he was first named giving those interviews saying two weeks, the timeframe that we ll get this decided on and talking about his personal relationship with mueller, which i can t imagine would go down well with robert mueller, the idea he s influenced by a personal relationship. right. there have been a lot of saying the inside part out loud, right? we well aware ty cobb who has worked within the white house and who has now left the team, he was said by several people to have a good relationship with mueller. but you did not hear ty cobb talk openly about that or float it around. cobb gave a couple of interviews but nothing like what we ve seen giuliani do. what giuliani has done that has bothered a lot of people around the president is he s talked a lot about the conditions of an interview. this
i hope that the if the goes on fox and friends tomorrow and i hope that rudy giuliani makes the rounds on fox as well. and, you know, that will i m sure provide a lot of fodder for us in the coming weeks. i assume is it fair given our reporting that special counsel mueller talked to the russian oligarch in hundreds of thousands of payments to michael cohen that mr. mueller has all this information? or close to this information that you released earlier? we don t know what mr. mueller has and r or what he does have. . we have a lot of confidence in his ability and the ability of his team as well as the team that s been assembled from the southern district of new york, which are some of the finest prosecutors in the united states. do you expect expect michael
giuliani has made this a circus. he has many great qualities. he was an excellent mayor of new york. he is a great combat tant in so ways. and he is freelancing which is the worst thing you can do in a seriously complicated case. this is a game against a group of people led by mueller who are smart and serious and they do not create circuses. there is a point to be made here that the loquaciousness is actually helpful to the president. not hurtful because this is going to have a time limit. there is no question this interview will be three hours, four hours, five hours. it will be some time limit. and if the president is going to ramble for the whole time, that