The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Lawyer. Hes been lying all week. Hes been lying for years. I mean z now, fred, President Trump has not answered directly cnns questions about Michael Cohens claims, nor about that personal private recording he apparently made of a conversation that he had with President Trump. He has, however, tweeted about Michael Cohen. At one point suggesting that cohen could potentially be making up stories to get him out of legal troubles connected to his taxi business, fred. Boris sanchez, thanks so much. All right, so how did we get here . Lets go back to the week this all happened in june of 2016. Here are the facts. We know the publicist rob goldstone, the man who helped orchestrate the meeting, emailed donald trump jr. To offer incriminating information on hillary clinton. Then just a few days later, then candidate trump offered up this message just two days before
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Which i imagine mueller i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him. It would involve something that actually wasnt settled even to this day. Whats the conflict in. I have a good idea what it is. Its one that would have kept me out the investigation. All cleared up . Add to that this. Giuliani is not sure that collusion with russia that collusion with russia, if it happened, is a crime anyway. Is this the definition now of moving the goalposts . Regardless of goalpost moving, why then is the president spending so much time and at every turn will say that no collusion happened with russia if its now not a big deal and not a problem . Again, all cleared up . As far as Michael Cohen, the president s Attorney Says cohen doctored the tapes of his conversations with the president , says their experts agree. Now what . Abby phillip is at the white house. I would not fault anyone if their head was spinning today
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Things that are not truthful for donald trump. We dont have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from Michael Cohen. The only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he Wasnt Recording Him when he actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from Robert Mueller and he peddles an untrue story, hes going to get himself into a heap of trouble. On the other hand, President Trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a
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A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. By those carr fire, the home behind us leveled and reduced to only ask. One of the only few items that remains recognizable as this picture dominic pickup truck in the driveway that was burned right down to the metal. Six people have died as a result of the fire. It is now 23 contained. Firefighters say it is still growing. Needed more than double in size from over the weekend. It stands at more than 100,000 acres. It is also destroyed more than 700 structures, many of which are family homes. It is unfortunate, if our house is burned, which it sounds like there is only two places standing. So the chances are that it probably will. People just want to know what is going on with her house. It is kind of like nobody wants to give a lot of news. If it is there or not or if it is burned down. That is a reality that many residents who were evacuated will soon have to face. Cal fire tonight deciding to allow the first ro