for illegal campaign contributions. giuliani told me last night the disclosure of the reimbursement takes off the table the notion that there was any fec federal election commission violation. one big thing hanging out there, though, back on february 13th michael cohen insisted he paid the money out of his own pocket and did not get reimbursed. in a statement he said neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with ms. clifford and neither reimbursed me for the payment either directly or indirectly. well now we know that s not exactly true. with all of this going on negotiations for an interview of the president with the special counsel robert mueller continue. rudy giuliani told me on the phone laying down some conditions saying the scope of the questions has to be whittled down to the central issues, russia and the comey firing. everything else is he would only give mueller a brief opportunity to question the president likely two to three ho
the president pretty strictly. well, at this point it s michael cohen who is involved in that case. the president hasn t directly been involved in that case yet. of course you also have stormy daniels lawyer saying at this point that there is no way the president can t get sucked into that and that president trump s former lawyer, current lawyer michael cohen will have no choice at this point but to tell them everything that he knows and how the president was or what potentially was involved. jon: by leaning hard on michael cohen who knows many of the secrets to businessman trump s kingdom, they are obviously trying to squeeze the lawyer to ultimately squeeze the president, aren t they? then, of course, within the mueller case they can also squeeze the president which is why rudy giuliani doesn t want him to sit down potentially with robert mueller and the special counsel and would want to cap that at two hours he is saying or not talk to him at all. jon: giuliani made the poin
giuliani on the mueller investigation, ousted f.b.i. director james comey and stormy daniels case. giuliani saying while president trump did reimburse his personal attorney michael cohen for the $130,000 payment to the adult film actress, he didn t know about the specifics until very recently. he didn t know the details of this until we knew the details of it, a couple weeks ago. maybe not even a couple weeks ago. maybe 10 days ago. remember when this came up? october 2016. i was with him day in and day out then. i can t remember the details of what happened. john roberts is live for us with more. hi, john. good morning to you. beautiful day here at the white house. not a cloud in the sky for a rose garden ceremony. stormy still taking center stage here and that stunning revelation from rudy giuliani last night on sean hannity s program the president reimbursed michael cohen for
relocating them to a hotel. that happened last month about a year after two were first detained. the other was arrested in october of 2015 ahead of president trump s upcoming meeting with north korea s leader kim jong-un and mike pompeo s meeting with him where they discussed the american prisoner. president trump tweeting this about the development. stay tuned. heather: the president s new attorney rudy giuliani blasting the russia investigation and former f.b.i. director james comey. giuliani telling sean hannity last night that comey shouldn t be trusted. i know james comey. i know the president. sorry, jim, you re a liar. a disgraceful liar. every f.b.i. agent in america has his head down because of you. it would have been good for god if god had kept you out of being head of the f.b.i. heather: joining me now is michael hopkins, a democratic
look, cards have been dealt. if you do it for clinton, i m sorry, maybe they would like to give us all the things clinton got. memo written before the interview. no under oath. like making up his mind before he ever interviewed her and lawyers in the room making signals at you. heather: do you think he is being treated fairly, michael? no. and i would also say i think rudy giuliani, by saying that, is really misleading the american public because as u.s. attorney he knows that when an investigation is ongoing that a u.s. attorney would write a letter like was done in the case of hillary clinton when the investigation looks like it will wrap and they aren t found guilty. he also knows the president is not above the law. he can be subpoenaed. when rudy giuliani does this it not only hurt the president s