Earlier saying he didnt have the facts straight. Rudy is a great guy and just started a day ago and he is going to issue a statement. He knows it is a witch hunt. He started yesterday and hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. He says it had nothing to do with the president s knowledge or understanding of the matters. Trying to clean up this mess. Imagine if that came out on october 15, 2016 in the middle of the last debate. Cohen made it go away. He did its job. Imagine if it came out at that time. Thats one of the issues under investigation. What was the motivation and did the timing of the campaign have something to do it. Now it looks like proof that it was about the campaign. The correction does not correct giulianis biggest revelation what is important about this. That donald trump despite many statements and denials now looks to be lies was behind the hush money payment to this adult film actress. Look at this headline wednesday night. Trump acknowledges porn actress payo
Matter. Robert mueller might think it does. What Andrew Mccabe remembers about the crazy days last may and why it throws new questions on Rod Rosenstein. Plus, weve got a look at a really disturbing trend in the midterm elections. Antihate groups identifying a rise in candidates with ties to white supremacy. Were talking with some of them later in the show. But we are following several new developments on north korea. And moves to try to save the singapore summit, part of a number of headlines coming out in just the last what minutes or so. We just heard from President Trump before he boarded air force one say, hey, things are going well with north korea. Right now youve got secretary of state mike pompeo in high stakes talks with kim jongun in new york city. Hes the highest ranking north korean official to visit the u. S. In 18 years. Then in pyongyang, another wrinkle. Russia reasserting itself as a force to be reckoned with. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov facetoface with kim jongun.
Some russian collusion. So can i just ask, houw long were you there . I was there three hours. I would compare it to a proctology appointment with a very largehanded doctor. Okay. It was an awful experience. And you had an attorney present. Does your attorney is your attorney able to jump in at times . Yes, he is. And hes a former new York Attorney general, dennis baco. He prepared me for this over the weekend. Weve been working on it for a little while. Weve known for about a week or so. You know, im a witness. Thats what the asusa who interviewed me today told me, im a witness, not a subject or a target. But it really doesnt matter. Once you get in that room, its fraught with peril. So when you say they focused almost entirely on collusion, were there specific things they were questioning you about . Specific days, memos, meetings . I dont really want to get into the specifics. I think that theyd be upset about that and it might be considered interference in the investigation. But i
This duty of congressional oversight. Supposed to be bipartisan. But all that said, in a move that republicans are calling odd at the very least the white house also chose today to send to those briefings chief of staff john kelly as well as this man emmit flooded. Kelly and flood. Flood as you may real a member of the team defending President Trump in the russia information. In fact, on may 2nd joining the White House Counsels Office Sarah Sanders said flood, quote, joining the white house staff to represent the president and the administration against the russia witch hunt, unquote. Sources tell me that kelly and flood attended the very tops of both meetings and left before classified matters were discussed. The White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders just issued a statement saying, quote, nearly kelly or flood attended the meetings and did make brief remarks before the meeting started to relay the president s desire for as much openness as possible but on capitol hill people are s
Were 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 Avenatti revealed earl yer said that at t had paid several hundred thousands of dollars to Michael Cohens essential con l consultants llc. At