that being said, the strategy from the trump legal team seems to be to fight this out in the court of public opinion. that s what rudy giuliani has been doing over the last couple weeks. that is the political strategy the president has insisted on. i want to talk about this coziness with russia. trump is open to visiting the kremlin after receiving the surprise invite from putin. it s been a confusing and shocking relationship, especially since the helsinki summit. where do things stand in your opinion? it s interesting to concerned republicans throughout the government and outside of government that it took days for us to learn from the president of the russian federation, that they had discussed president trump going to moscow. now, it s one thing the only thing worse that putin coming to the white house, where you heard congressional leaders in the president s party say he would
if he knew that the meeting was to take place, he did not tell his son to cancel the meeting. he did not tell the fbi about the meeting, and if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack. because he went out and said, russia, if you re listening, which was two years ago from today, you would be rewarded for hacking hillary clinton s e-mails. it s an interesting time line that gives us more of a picture of this mosaic. what do you make of the congressman s comments. you really see this defense that trump has laid out is very rests very much on him not knowing about this meeting. one of his own talking points has been, why didn t the obama administration do more to publicize the russia threat. if you knew that was rush yaz was actively trying to help your campaign by peddling dirt. why didn t you do more?
particularly with those political voters. i m extremely disappointed with the fecklessness. i have to ask, why aren t they focused on protecting our elections. they have a guy who s a republican, who was appointed by the president. it doesn t make any sense to me. jeff sessions continuing to back his deputy, however, take a listen. my deputy, rod rosenstein is highly capable. i have the highest confidence in him, you probably know, not only did he go to the wharton school of business, but graduated from harvard right here in this area. so what i would like congress to do is to focus on some of the legal challenges that are out there. very to ask you, adrian. what do you think is really behind this move by the freedom
not be welcome in the congress, that would be quite a frosty visit in washington. but the only thing worse is for president trump to go to moscow. that s not in the best interests of this country. they can keep talking at g 20 meetings or get together in some way, on neutral ground. it s not a good idea for the president to go to moscow. if you re looking at the next couple weeks and months, and the midterm elections coming up, you re going to see continued push back from republicans who want this whole idea to go away. shocking we found out about it days after the two hour meeting that no one knows anything about between president s trump and putin. not in the best interest of national scout. probably best that it s been postponed. thank you for sharing your insight. next up, legal jeopardy, how michael cohen s bombshell allegation puts president trump and others in a pretty uncomfortable situation. stay with us.
some sort of obstruction of justice. we have donald trump jr. saying he didn t know about it. president trump has said he didn t know about it, i don t know that this standing alone makes out a criminal case, you add it to all the things president trump has tried to do to divert attention from the investigation into coordination with russians, this could be a powerful evidence of obstruction of justice. the challenge for mueller will be to find that truth, that proof. cohen reportedly claimed several people were in the room when trump was told about this trump tower meeting. corroboration can be everything for prosecutors to make their case. how could that change things for the president if there were other people there. there were two ways it could change for the president. one is corroboration, if other people are persuaded to tell the story that does appear to be there. you don t need the corroboration, you have the ability to examine what happened