Ke teamwork, attention to detail, and Customer Service are critical to business success. Like the ones we teach here, every day. In washington today, the spotlight is squarely on the president s legal troubles. The president trying to explain away troubling statements from his new lawyer Rudy Giuliani. When did the president know about that Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels . This was a very bad week for the trump team. Hes exposed President Trump to possible prosecution for two crimes. As far as im concerned, its a nothing burger. Giuliani tries to clean up a potential mess he made for his clients. The president doesnt age knowledge meeting Stormy Daniels, correct . Gee, im not involved in the daniels thing so i dont know. In terms of what you mean by met her. So the president does deny
any sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels . He has. As i said, im not involved in that. Right now im at the point where im learning. I want to make sure, george, did that interview just happen . W
information to the industrialist in moscow who had done business with trump, it s a long dpli complicated story. then to the son, then to promoter and then to donald trump jr. right. it s classic russian stuff. in other words, there are so many people in that pipeline that you get two things out of it, you get confusion, took us a long time to figure that out. number two, you get plausible denial. number three, the russians get a down payment because donald trump jr. took the bait. when they offered dirt on hillary, he said yes. if that had never been discovered, if the press had r never picked it up and two years from now russia wanted something from the trump administration, they have what s called kompromat, have an e-mail in which donald trump jr. a says i m game, and b did not notify the fbi. so maybe the press saved don jr. from later headaches. i think or perhaps the country. john mclaughlin, jeremy bash,
about this over the interview. we know robert mueller has threaten today subpoena him in conversations with his lawyers, subpoena him to go before a grand jury. what it sounds like from what giuliani was sailing today he doesn t know. the president could decide not to comply with the subpoena for a grand jury. that would hut him in uncharted territory. there have been three presidents who have been subpoenaed in history. this goes back to thomas jefferson. he first declined to comply, then he did ultimately give over some documents. nixon, of course, was given a subpoena. he resigned before that ever came to a head. and then bill clinton was subpoenaed and did ultimately testify. if the president decides to run that all the way up and does not comply with the subpoena, we re looking at the supreme court having to weigh in. it could be a real constitutional crisisti, somethg we ve never seen. let s not talk about the politics of what that would look like, what he s trying to hide if he
rudy giuliani says he doesn t know about that. he s just speaking out of turn to some extent. there could be additional light shed on this because there were documents seized from michael cohen s hotel and office by the fbi that could answer these questions. but as of right now just a bunch of speculation who knew what when. joyce vance, could i get to you weigh in here? is this potentially overstated? what are the real rubber meets the road legal implications of julie kind of changing his story? the president can t be held accountable for giuliani s statement in court, so it s not like these statements become evidence that s used against the president at some point. but the problem is the constantly shifting stories and the president s response to them which could at the end of the day help mueller, other prosecutors or congress refine a case against him. michael schmidt, could i get you to weigh in on that? if you re bob mueller, what are you taking away from the events of the
ties, ties to the russian mob, his taxi business that, you know, scaled onto into questionable loans for various real estate deals. i mean, this guy, i think there was somebody quoted in the story who came from a mainstream bank, i believe it was pnc who basically said, this is the kind of guy we wouldn t want to touch. and that yet this is the person who is defending donald trump. yeah, and it provides a real window into trump s world of real estate and business. this is a guy who, yes, he s involved in all these sort of disparate ventures, but the one thing that you cannot do is extricate them from trump. he has been in trump s world. and one of the closest people to donald trump on the business side personally on the legal size, for decades, and that is something that poses serious problems for trump, both in terms of questions about his loyalty ongoing and whether he might provide he might flip and provide information, and