take a listen. you obviously realized this was coming from the office of the candidate of the american presidency. every week dozens and dozens of foreign businesses approach us mentioning possible investments, searching for contacts. this is from the lawyer for us it s no different. it s future president trump. this is from the lawyer to the future president trump. for you he s the future president trump. for us it s one of the applicants. you have to understand that. you have to understand that we have an open e-mail address that is public and dozens and dozens of applications are coming every week from businessmen, from well, whatever. lots of people from all over the world. i asked him, ayman, what
going to meet with him and confront him on the issues that decide us. that is not a good taboo in diplomacy. macron had a press conference where he stood next to vladimir putin and you were use interfering and if you use there is another alternative to the approach donald trump took, but here he really did take an approach of avoiding putin. beyond some exchanges at both the russian government and the u.s. government acknowledged, there really wasn t much of substance that they discussed. i think president trump was trying to say there, you know, we are taking a hard line. the alternative explanation is this is domestic politics and international politics colliding and the mueller probe is heating up. they didn t want the optics. of course the state department, mike pompeo denies that and says this was all about russia let me ask you about exchanges that happened at that level.
meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the g20. he was saying it was over the issue of ukraine and the fact that russians ceased ukrainian sailors and two navy vessels. he also avoided putin for most of the summit, but according to the white house they did have an informal conversation. does it negate the fact they had this discussion if the president was trying to posture on the world stage saying he s kaucancd the meeting? do we even know what they discu discussed? they exchanged plaes an plea. president trump has tried two different modes with putin. we saw in finland, he said i m going to meet with him but i m not going to confront him. here the decision was i am going to want meet with him. he hasn t yet tried i m not
russians some element of leverage over him, because he s obviously keeping this a secret for a reason. could he actually have won the republican nominee if he said he was working with putin privately at the while he was running? i don t know. so that s a big piece of information for the russians to know that the public doesn t know. so david johnson, as a businessman, president trump has made a lot of money from both russia and saudi arabia. he s boasted about that. he s talked about how saudi arabians bought millions of dollars of condos in his towers. and though he has been back and forth about this business dealing, take a listen to this. i like the saudis. they re very nice. i make a lot of money with them. they buy all sorts of my stuff. all kinds of toys from trump much they pay me millions and hundreds of millions. i have nothing to do with just so you understand. i don t make deals with saudi arabia. i don t have money from saudi arabia. i have nothing to do with saudi
i wanted to congratulate you on receiving the freedom of the press award that is dedicated to building asian leaders. thank you. that means a lot coming from you. and all of you for clapping. well deserved pnch. hi, guys. a lot to break down this hour. the walls of the white house must be feeling much tighter. the president lashing out as the muller investigation heats up with the new guilty plea from michael cohen and new denials from roger stone. cohen s plea deal includes new revelations, claims that trump was moving full steam ahead with business as usual even during the presidential campaign trying to line his pockets with russian money. now, all of this as the president returns from a g20 summit that included a truce with china and drive-by encounters with two of the world s most notorious leaders. we re going to take a look at that. we want to begin with new developments in the russia investigation. the special counsel now appears to be closing in on roger stone.