A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Erin. Throughout the day we saw the president several times, the first time in the oval office with the italian Prime Minister asked questions about what is he talking about exactly with Conflicts Of Interest with bob mueller. He did not answer questions there. He did not answer our questions in the east room later on after that News Conference and he didnt answer questions later on again in the oval office. He clearly does not want to talk about publicly on camera about bob mueller. Erin, that does not mean he is not thinking about him and tweeting about him. There is one thing thats clear, it is its clear that bob mueller is in his head as this trial of Paul Manafort perhaps begins tomorrow, that may be the reason, there may be other reasons, but its clear the president wants to talk about this in a controlled environment of saying things online. Does not want to be asked about it. This anger and rage, erin, is more strategy tha
And people are exhausted. Trump did respond to Michael Cohens plea today. This morning he wrote if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of Campaign Finance violations that are not a crime. President obama had a big Campaign Finance violation and it was easily settled. Trump also spoke to fox news about his relationship with Michael Cohen. He was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, there was a lawyer and the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from, but hes didnt do big deals. Did small deals. Not somebody that was with me that much. You know, they make it sound like i didnt live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. Turned out he wasnt a very good lawyer, frankly. He was somebody that was probably with me for about ten take this all together this being the president of the United States after all. The Washington
You can see it weeknights 6 25 p. M. Eastern at facebook. Com Anderson Cooper full circle. Right now the news continues. I want to hand it over to chris cuomo for cuomo prime time. Chris . All right. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo. Plm to prime time. We have new information about what may be next for Michael Cohen. If hes going to deal with any more authorities. And the president s latest legal misstep. Trump has twisted his story once again about the payments made by his lawyer to help his campaign. And this latest one has him tied up in knots. We have trumps former lawyer, whom he called for advice about how to handle the cohen situation. What he thought then and now. And you know the president is on his heels with what just happened because he whipped out his what about defense. What about obama . He did it too. No, he didnt. We have the facts ahead. And a convicted felon gets some
very high praise from the president , raising a question. Will Paul Manafort soon be getting a
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Youre defending Michael Coman . No, what im saying you cant have it both ways. You cant say for a year and a half this is about russian collusion and i was part of the Successful Campaign of this man who won fairly and squarely as you well know. I disagree with your assessment. Tell me because its patently untrue. We dont promise the audience an outcome. You have to respect the democratic process. I think he won the electoral college, and that means hes president of the United States. Thank you very much. Hes your president , too. You need to show respect to the president. We cant even get our agenda covered on cnn thats not true. We cover it all the time. The truth matters. Thats what we sell to our odd krns because thats the only reason we have a job. The truth is you lied about this. You knee about what Michael Cohen was doing with these women
and the payments. He lied about not knowing. Says me,
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Thats something that i think is very foreign. I guarantee it, chris, even though he koops, hes smart enough, Michael Cohen, not to say he was present at any meeting in which the president said i have an arrangement with the russians. Witnesses dont do that. Why not . If the question of collusion is on a scale one to ten, hell move it up to seven. Hell say, well, the president says he has a good arrangement with the russians but hell never say that the president said that he had a Collusive Arrangement with the russians. But thats t not the standard. What if he were present for a meeting where somebody gave the president information about something the that was going to happen that was a 23u7ks of the hacking and the president therefore knew about it at a time when he said he did not know about it . What if the president that would be punishable. Meetings that he said he doesnt know about and Michael