accused of a crime that he cannot be prosecuted, cannot be investigated by any local prosecutors while he s in office during this case that was recently ruled on. the president s legal team basically said if the president shot someone on fifth avenue, local police and prosecutors couldn t investigate him for that. so they ve tried to push this very strong version of presidential immunity and push it all the way to the supreme court. we ll see if this new supreme court with a couple of president trump s appointees will buy that argument. it s a very expansive opinion that no one has taken up. the president takes things personally. we talked about what he s demanding from congressional republicans in the impeachment inquiry. we ll get back to that. two of his appointees on the supreme court, jake sekulow saying it will go to the supreme court. this issue goes to the heart of our republic not sure about that part but the constitution is significant. yes, they are. how powerful is th
people, and it sounded a lot like the way he was treating michael cohen before michael cohen became his ex attorney. i m going to ask that in just a moment. david, let me do that. asked about the situation today, trump denied knowing the men that were associates of rudy giuliani who were arrested and he said ask rudy giuliani. let me play that. i don t know those gentlemen. now it s possible i have a picture with them because i have a picture with everybody. i don t know them. i don t know about them. i don t know what they do, but i don t know. maybe they were clients of rudy. you d have to ask rudy. so the point that gloria just made, david, it sounds a whole lot like this infamous exchange that trump had with reporters about then-personal attorney michael cohen s hush money payment to stormy daniels. here it is. do you know about the $130,000 to stormy daniels?
long time to be, you know, tied to, and that is rudy giuliani. word biden and everyone in the that s right. absolutely, erin. room knows what that means and the president is trying to put it is a frightening moment. some space between himself and rudy giuliani. it s interesting that it you heard the president on the could be a third rail of bolton south lawn of the white house on and we re wondering what he has this afternoon on his way to the to say about this and how important he could be. rally in minneapolis telling reporters he didn t know the two thank you very much. i want to go to sean patrick associates and telling reporters if you want to know what they maloney who sits on the house were up to, talk to rudy intelligence committee. all right. you and i were both desperately giuliani. at one point the president was asked why are you appearing in trying to re-do this as greg was laying some of it out. these are now very deep concerns these pictures with these two that were r
giving of false or misleading statements. 74. we saw it again in 98 when the house drew up articles of impeachment against then president bill clinton. the house accused him of efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence. influencing witness testimony, counselling witnesses to lie. it is against the law. it is also documented in the history books more than once as grounds for impeachment proceedings against a sitting president, which means if you are the president or perhaps one of the president s lawyers, you might have had some alarm bells going off, given what michael cohen just said to congress. on page 5 of your statement, you say, and i quote, you need to know that mr. trump s personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to congress about the timing of the moscow tower negotiations. who were those attorneys? from the white house? yes. jake sekulow. i believe abbe lowell as well.
encouraged president trump not to react and give oxygen to the claims made in the book. that seems to have held for several days but today something clearly irritated the president over this and he had his press secretary issue this statement. what exactly was omarosa s role in the white house? reporter: she was actually a very high up employee. she had the title of assistant to the president, a top earner making $179,000. but her role was not very well defined and aides often complained that they didn t exactly know what it was that she did in the white house. that was clearly something that made her clash with john kelly, the chief of staff coming into the white house last fall trying to weed out people he thought didn t have well defined roles. jake, i have been on the phone with current and former officials that worked with omarosa saying she was glad she left the white house and thinks the claims in the book unfounded and absurd and did concede a close relationship with presid