reporter: the revelation undercuts what press secretary sanders told the american people in march. i had conversations with the president about this. there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he s denied the allegations. reporter: giuliani back on fox this morning trying to clear things up claiming trump wasn t made aware of the payment until recently. he didn t know the details of this until we knew the details of it which is a couple of weeks ago, maybe ten days ago. didn t ask. cohen made it go away. he did his job. reporter: the president turning to twitter to try to make his case calling the reimbursement to cohen part of the monthly retainer and calling daniels claims of an affair extortionist accusations but just last month the original attorney who negotiated the $130,000 payment for daniels told cnn it was cohen who first reached out to him. michael cohen calls you up and said what about stormy
they believe the comedians have the right to say whatever they want to say. they intentionally didn t ask. they do see it. as reporters, and you guys knows this, we have to be right 100% of the time. when we re wrong, we get nailed a lot harder than the politicians we cover who spin and are wrong a lot more often than we are. that s fine. it is a legitimate discussion. if we lower the bar for the president of the united states. did i think everything she said was funny? no. but that s comedy. was some of it is a mean spirit? yes. let s play the kellyanne or part. the stuff about sarah is getting most of the controversy. but this was about kellyanne conway. take a listen. you have to stop putting kellyanne on your shows. all she does is lie. if you don t give her a platf m platform, she has nowhere to
during an interview with peter schweizer back in 2015. stephanopoulos had to apologize after being exposed. but there was not wall-to-wall coverage of that. and all that explains why stephanopoulos put on the kid gloves and didn t ask james comey the tough questions. now one thing is just the fact: i am honest about who i am and what my political beliefs are. i am an unapologetic conservative.at i am a trump supporter. i support reagan economic policies and peace through strength. for example, where is the r follow-up question when comey admitted he didn t tell donald trump that hillary clinton paid for the unverified dossier, which by the way was used to get a fisa warrant to spy on an american. watch this. did you tell him that the steele dossier had been financed by his political opponents? no. i didn t use the term steele dossier. i just talked about additional material. did he have a right to know that? that it had been financed by his political opponents?
authorities. of this this is different than the strikes we ve been taking on isis and al qaeda. this is a different type of strike against syrian targets. i negatilected to say you art an airport prior to hopping on a plane. that should explain some of the noise our viewers are hearing in the background. i m going to read you a quote from mr. comey s book, copies of which started circulating yesterday. it s called a higher loyalty. he speaks specifically in what i m going to read you about the meeting that you well remember, january 17, trump tower. the early transition meeting where our big three in your line of work and that would be brennan, clapper, and comey briefed the president and his small circle of advisers on the world they are inheriting, specifically russian meddling. here s what comey writes. what i found telling was that trump and his team didn t ask. they were about to lead a country that had been attacked
call it, new insight into president trump s state of mind on russia. as jonathan lemire mentioned earlier in our hour, comey writes of the meeting where he and the intelligence chiefs, including then director of national intelligence james clapper and then cia director john brennan, first briefed the president and his advisers on russian election interference. quote, what i found telling was what trump and his team didn t ask. they were about to lead a country that had been attacked by a foreign adversary, yet they had no questions about what the future russian threat might be. instead, with the four of us still in our seats, including two outgoing obama appointees, the president-elect and his team shifted immediately into a strategy session about messaging on russia and how they could spin what we d just told them. that description casts these comments by john brennan last month into a new light.