yet in the same interview giuliani tried to make the case that trump had nothing to hide. mayor, if the president has done nothing wrong as you say again and again and he tells the truth he hasn t done anything wrong, george. and he tells the truth as you advised him to do, what is the danger in answering robert mueller s questions? ary they re trying to trap him. it s only a trap situation if he doesn t tell the truth. no, it isn t. it s only prosecutable if they have some built-up manipulated evidence to prove the president didn t tell the truth. how often has that happened? you believe the president is telling the truth. if you believe that, you have that conviction, you re his attorney. why don t you say go in, talk to robert mueller, tell the truth. because i wouldn t be an attorney if i did that, george. i d be living in an unreal fantasy world that everybody tells the truth. it s called the real world. joining us on set, jan palmieri.
i solved north and south korea. why can t i solve us? sorry, donald, it s too late for that. i know you don t believe in climate change, but a storm s a coming, baby. imagine how the president must have felt seeing that on saturday night. what i wouldn t have paid to be a fly on the wall. watching the woman responsible for allegedly he cans posing a secret hush money operation telling jokes on live national television where he likes to be. uncertainty lingers around whether or not the man who paid her is spilling secrets to the special counsel. so, is team trump worries? let s ask rudy giuliani. are you concerned at all that michael cohen is going to cooperate with prosecutors? no, i expect that he is going to cooperate with them. i don t think they ll be happy with it because he doesn t have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. what is he talking about, kimberly? i have i have no idea. i mean, i think that s part of
i imagine robert mueller will use them with a grain of salt because of the shifting stories that we ve seen here. but it s really legally perilous for a lawyer to get out there and make these statements on behalf of his client. and, ashley parker, your paper included a story on saturday and i heard it today from sources close to white house counsel don mcgahn and new russia lawyer emmet flood that those two lawyers who have a lot of responsibilities, flood in the russia investigation and don mcgahn as white house counsel, have not green lit whatever this strategy is that rudy and the president seem to be carrying out. is that do you have anything new on that today? so, that was certainly true initially. not did they just not green light, but they had no idea what was coming. there was a sense that in at least one of the clean up efforts, i believe it was on friday, rudy giuliani sort of put out a statement trying to walk back some of the stuff he said previously, that there was
before the election and after the access hollywood tape came out. and the reporting in your paper and others seems to be bearing that out. yeah, and, look, i mean, i ve said this to you before. this isn t a story where we re all like, oh, i m so glad to be covering donald trump s relationship with stormy daniels. right. this is only kind of a story that keeps going because the president and his lawyer keep going out and talking about it, which then we have to then kind of figure out, well, is that right? no, that s not right. and then they go on television, they clean that up. so, that s just a big part of what this story has been for the past week. i had a time when the president could be talking about, you know, oh, maybe we re going to have a diplomatic breakthrough with north korea. he s obviously, you know, on the verge of making decision with iran, unemployment is very low.
contradicting himself, my favorite comment is i don t want to talk about the cohen matter because i m not really i m not involved in that. he s the one who revealed that the president reimbursed michael cohen, which got this whole, you know, strange ride going. but i think as long as he remains in this position where he s being combative, where he s speaking on behalf of the president, calling this a witch hunt, saying that everything that but that gets lost when all of the i looked at every front page of every print edition of every newspaper this morning there. were no front page stories and i guess that s yt president started tweeting about it. all the coverage was rudy giuliani being confronted with an able george stephanopoulous when rudy fumbled whether he ever met her. on that point, what giuliani himself said, it s his job to handle the mueller thing with while the president focuses on china and iran and north korea and all these things happening. he s not doing tha