look, if there is good news here, it s that the u.s. has clearly improved its intelligence collection capabilities against what s always been the hardest target, north korea. hermit kingdom, closed society. they have some really interesting insights into their nuclear program and found, as courtney said, that they are enriching nuclear fuel at secret sites. and more importantly, that they re working to deceive actively the trump administration about that. and this is evidence that was recently garnered, we understand, including in the weeks after the summit. and so the question is, is the intelligence community conveying that to donald trump and is he acting on it? i mean, john bolton the national security advisor suggested on television yesterday they are well aware north korea played games, but donald trump doesn t seem to be saying that. he seems to say that there is no more nuclear threat from north korea, he believes what kim is telling them, this is all proceeding in good faith.
you and your colleagues at the post are picking up from the president and his inner circle? we ve played that sound of him calling the cohen raid an attack on america. it rattled him at the time and i understand from you and your colleagues that it still angers him. yeah, it s been clear that, you know, there was that roger stone quote from back in april and that the new york times story that you mentioned where he basically said the president has treated michael like garbage for all these months and for all these years. michael cohen has always seemed like somebody who has been trying to get in donald trump s inner circle. apparently wanted to work in the white house. that never came to fruition. had this consulting business on the side which of course has been the subject of lots of probing here. i do think that joint defense agreement part is a key point here. this is not just michael cohen coming out and saying, i may flip on the president or hinting in that direction. this is
legal team has talked with paul manafort about pardons. talked with michael flynn about pardons according to our reporting. pas apparently we haven t had those kind of conversations with michael cohen according to roger stone this. may include multituds we may find out soon here. the story, mimi, aaron and i both reference, was one of the stories donald trump got on twitter the day that it ran. maggie haberman and her colleagues had a bite of the story and he attacked them. that s a trumpian tell, not that the story is fake, but it struck a nerve, it s too true for donald trump. i want to ask you a question, though, about how much of this is public facing and how much of this is unknown to us. this case was referred to the southern district because bob mueller either viewed it outside his scope. could there be any other reason? no, i mean, sounds to me from everything i ve read like he legitimately reviewed this as
demonizing and degrading this investigation and here you have michael cohen who poses a unique threat to donald trump. remember let s put that up again. this is not a publicly held company. women, financial crimes, financial ties to russia, any meetings between trump and russians and meetings cohen took on their behalf. that s the whole enchilada. what s missing? what does the fixer do he does the dirty business. he does the stuff that needs to be taken care of for a very, very secretive organization, a very secretive man despite his public profile. so, we have no idea what sort of a box we re opening up here, but donald trump does. exactly. let me put up donald trump doing the old coffee boy trick. distancing himself from michael cohen. well, as a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. but michael would represent me, and represent me on some things. he represents me like with this
the documents you ve been reporting on, ken. why don t you just direct your subordinates to get those documents over to congress? are you going to do it? the one thing i want to stay uninvolved in, at least for now i may get involved, but i ve been told by so many people, don t get involved. congress wants those documents. it s not good and they ll get the documents and it s getting and they re getting and they re great people. i didn t like the scene the other day where everybody was screaming at each other. i don t like that because it s bad for the country. if russia is, in fact, looking to sow discord or chaos, they ve got to be saying, this is the greatest thing we ve ever done. on that we agree, mr. president. ken dilanian, i m told by senior justice department official that they refer to the process as accommodating these document requests. they brought in a former u.s. attorney whose only job is to accommodate these document requests and everything they have asked