have possibly accepted help from the russians? i think if there are competing narratives of truth as rudy giuliani tells us, then isn t it time for donald trump to go before mueller and testify? i mean aren t the voters entitled aren t the people of this country entitled before the midterm elections, before the elections of 2020 to know what really happened, to straighten out these competing narratives? i think that requires him to i think this puts increased pressure on him to go to mueller. i don t want to use this old saying but there s an old saying to the effect you scratch a lie, you find a thief. the president, if he was willing to lie repeatedly about the payoff to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, which according to michael cohen and we now know he if michael cohen is actually a felon and did what he just pled guilty to, the president was lying about all that stuff time and time again. there s no telling what else he was lying about. if he s willing to lie about
care about that? i m not saying they don t care. i say i think they care more about other things. number one, to say he surrounded himself with convicted criminals, i mean, they were not convicted criminals when he surrounded himself with them. i think that s a little too much. they had been. because they had already broken the law. but they weren t convicted. so the idea they were criminals. the idea that he knew they were criminals. unconvicted criminals. you re making the assumption he would have known they were doing criminal activity, which of course, he did not. unless he was engaged in criminal activity and that s why he had so many around him, like his attorney. that s what his attorney has accused him of. preet bharara did a good job of explaining this is his side of the story. it s obviously president trump has a different story. the big problem with president trump s story is it s not been a consistent story. and that s problematic for him. but we re stil
affair with trump. when it comes time for the financing, which will be what financing? we ll have to pay won t pay with cash? no, no, no. reporter: to donald trump, it was the ultimate betrayal, the president tweeting, what kind of a lawyer would tape a client? so sad. the relationship soured even more after a revelation that cohen was prepared to tell robert mueller that then-candidate trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower where russians were expected to offer dirt on hillary clinton. trump denied it all on twitter, saying, sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. jam or no jam, michael cohen s deal with the government certainly won t help heal this relationship. randi kaye, cnn, new york. we ll see what happens next. before we go, a quick reminder, don t miss full circle
ourselves, okay, michael cohen has pled guilty to an unlawful campaign contribution in terms of paying these two women. why would he pay that without talking to donald trump? it is never made any sense that michael cohen did this on his own. well, first of all where did he get the money. second of all, who benefitted? that argument has never made sense. it s been made by all the surrogates who came forward after stormy daniels spoke. david schwartz was on the program, an attorney for michael cohen in another matter, and other friends of michael cohen, all of whom said the president didn t know anything about this. he did this out of the goodness of his heart because that s the kind of guy he is. he took out a home equity loan, didn t seek repayment. none of that is true. either they were lied to or they were on television lying as well. i m not saying it s not a good case against the president based on the fact michael cohen is willing to say it under oath. common sense, as j
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