Harris john roberts now on the north lawn. Great to see you and healthy, sir. Lets start off with the last hour of television with rudy guliani and we can catch everybody up quickly. He said some things twice in interviews on this Network Today that seemed to show a shift. I want to get your terminology for what we first heard and now what we just heard. Good to be back, by the way, harris. Good to see you. Weve been talking to guliani and his outside team for weeks. I developed some information that while theres discussions going on between the president s outside attorneys and Robert Mueller, that those talks dont seem to be going anywhere and the greater likelihood is that very soon, because a decision is about to be made, im told maybe within the next week or two weeks that the president and his legal team will tell Robert Mueller no, were not going to
sit down for an interview. There seems to be a growing consensus among the president s legal team on that ultimately as rudy gulian
A look at the days news and headlines. At low containment. Bill its a big job. Probably something we deal with all week. Thank you live in redding, california. Sandra President Trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesnt get the funding he has been demanding. The President Firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security. Which includes the wall. Must get rid of lottery, Catch And Release, etc. And go to system of immigration based on merit. We need great people coming into our country. Doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. Doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a Government Shutdown. It sure is. History has shown that whenever there has been a Government Shutdown in the past it is the Republican Party that takes the blame for it and in the aftermat
obliterated. rudy giuliani over the weekend and again today suggesting that cohen has no ethics. that he is not operating above the law or above board at the very least by taping not only the president, but other clients. listen to what giuliani said this morning. the recording that we have, 183. other recordings of other people having nothing to do with trump, trump organization. which will give you an idea what a scoundrel he was. i didn t know this about him. up until two months ago i would have said pretty nice things about him. my opinion turned on a dime when i found out he was a lawyer recording his client. it s a disbarable offense. the fixer has become a scoundrel. giuliani insists the president did nothing wrong and the tape released proved he did nothing wrong. he has suggested that cohen may have broken the law simply by
trump, the trump organization. to give you an idea what a scoundrel he was. i didn t know this about him. up until a month ago, two months ago, i said nice things about him. my opinion turned on a dime when i found out he s a lawyer recording his client. that s a disbarable offense. harris, on the mueller interview, when the president s attorneys tell mueller no, there will not be an interview with the president, mueller could issue a subpoena to try to compel the president to sit down and testify. the president s outside attorneys are confident that mueller won t pull that rabbit out of his hat. harris: and what rudy guliani described on outnumbered more than once, michael cohen is a scoundrel, what he said is there s 183 unique recordings. of them, there s about 12 that are on point with certain issues and topics and legalities. he pointed out there s a
lying to their face, breaking faith with them, taping his client, which is disbarable offense. i don t see how he has credibility. people in your profession told me, this guy will flip because he is inherent, pathological liar. harris: daniel, what do you think actually happened? daniel: my assessment of the meeting in june 2016, there was nothing meant to be clandestine about it. you don t go to trump tower with the security and three loony tunes russians, a former soviet military lawyer and son of an oligarch, preceding by e-mail. it was trail of breadcrumbs leading back to the kremlin with the design to soil the campaign and our democratic process. harris: in other words, could putin have been trying to use our greatest strength, freedom and freedom of speech and our