The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. We have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from Michael Cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. So if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. What it does is show us two things. One, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. As a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. So if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. Plus if hes told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. Could have been a 400pound guy in a basement. The
while not informing the american public and that michael cohen lied to congress about the timing of that. but clear lly they got that par wrong and after all day, mueller decides to put out this statement after business hours. do we know that s the part they got wrong? that is the line that the mueller statement refers to. that s the line that discusses information gathered by mueller s office. i see. you re saying that paragraph, the one that lept out at everyone in that piece which is basically that they learned of cohen being instructed to do this after gathering this evidence, the documents text, emails, testimony, the special counsel s reference is to that paragraph in the statement? i think so. i said this on the air today.
cohen to have lied. there s no other reason for cohen for trump to keep lying about cohen, right? we know cohen lied. we know trump lied on the campaign trail. we know cohen was consulting with trump s people before he did his testimony. all that s established. there s no chance that the buzz feed story is wrong. the question is simply, can they prove it. and that s always been the question up in the air. when we say can they prove it, we re not really talking about can they prove it in a court of law. can they prove it to lindsey graham. can they prove it to mitch mcconnell. can they prove it to the point where the republicans have to do something about the crazy liar that happens to be running the country. that point about waiting for the got em moment has been this kind of perennial issue here. i think that you know, ultimately all does turn on what lindsay graham and the senate republicans you know, ken earlier was speaking and i totally feel his pain about how frust
special counsel s office and character zagsz of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen s congressional testimony are not accurate. we should note other reporting on this exact topic went uncorroborated for months until it showed up almost word for word in mueller s court filings. so it s hard to know what s true this time. there is already public evidence supporting the latest report. michael cohen s own lawyers claim that in the case of his false statements, the conduct was intended to benefit client one and in accordance with client one s directive. that central allegation that the president of the united states told cohen to live, maybe the clear cut of all the crimes this president has been accused. so much so that came up earlier this week in the conformation hearing for his nominee of attorney general as an example of an obvious crime.
that seemed surprise the notion they would be eemailing andtectsing and discussing a directive to lie to congress. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing you would put in writing and where we re left is the idea of wondering whether there is corroboration in any form for michael cohen s story that donald trump directed him to lie. it s a completely plausible story. it s what he was saying he was directed to make illegal campaign finance but the question is it corroborated? because the house is not going to impeach donald trump on the word of a convicted liar. you made mngz mention of this but the significance of the time. buzzfeed writes this story. this thing gets lawyered and edited and they go back to their sources. these reporteders hars have a g track record.