President had, in fact, repaid Michael Cohen, the money he used for a hush agreement on daniels. On comey, he gave a brandnew justification for his firing. Oh, he possibly exposed his clients and old friend to greater jeopardy. In addition he called Jared Kushner using his word disposable and ivanka trump untouchable. He said three americans captive in korea will be returning home today. Even though he has no role today or necessarily the security clearance. At the same time, mayor guiliani doubled down on Stormy Daniels and tried to spin this as a new white house legal strategy, even tow we have new reporting from our gloria bornlger apeople are freaking out. The legal team felt blindsided by mayor guiliani. Meantime the president weighed in with series of legalistic sounding and trump sounding self damaging tweets on Stormy Daniels admitting for the first time he repaid Michael Cohen for making the hush agreement and more likely Michael Cohens claim he did this all on his own without
A former trump president ial Campaign Aide said after his interview its clear that investigators are focused on russian collusion. Do they now know more about the Trump Campaign than the people who ran it . And speaking freely, Rudy Giuliani raises hope north korea will soon release three americans but the white house says it actually cant confirm that. Does he have access to National Security information . Wolf blitzer is off today. Youre in the situation room. The white house bombarded with questions of the bombshell interview of Rudy Giuliani, the newest member of President Trumps legal team, press secretary sanders was just forced to defend false statements she and the president made about hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. Rudy giuliani blindsided the white house revealing what the president knew about the deal and that the former new york mayor linked it to the 2016 election. The white house now saying that mr. Trump eventually learned of the payment to daniels. Were go
Always liked and respected. Most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble even if. To which we saw wow. Joining us to discuss is natasha bertrand. This just came out moments ago. What is your reaction to these tweets, natasha . It seems like he is very worried. Michael cohen is someone who has been really loyal to trump for well over a decade. And trump in return has treated him like garbage. He has taken him for granted and not appreciated Michael Cohen in a way that he has wanted to be appreciated. If you walk into Michael Cohens office in 30 rock he has paraphernalia from the inauguration. He never got a place from the administration and was disappointed that he never got a place on the campaign and the president never gave him one. So so this is something where he could be signaling, for example, that stay strong, michael. We may pardon you if you dont flip and dont Start Talking to the authorities. Or it could be as simple as he has been talking to Michael Cohen
Accidentally tells the truth about the hush money payment. Political and legal turmoil follows. A White House Legal Team testify to what giuliani revealed. That the president paid Michael Cohen and cohen acted to fix the daniels problem days before the election. Also are House Republicans working hand in glove with the white house to undermine the russia probe. The new and harder white house line on firing james comey, the president didnt needs a reason. We begin with what giuliani said and what the rest of the white house and the president s legal team knew about it. Its safe to say is the word blindsided a correct word to apply here for how the rest of the legal team is viewing this in the white house . Surprised, caught flat footed. That is how they felt, members of the president s legal team, not only white house officials, thats how they felt as they watched Rudy Giuliani make those comments on fox news last night, this is according to multiple sources, speaking to our team. And r
Counsel subpoena. More on that. Plus, the president picking primary sides on whats shaping up to be a big day. Republicans looking to West Virginia as democrats look to a larger question. Should unanimous i can pelosi stay gore . Our Garrett Haake got beyond the beltway talking with candidates who want a fresh face. Thats later on but we want to state werve here this morning and well begin with nbcs Geoff Bennett over at the white house. Jeff, lets talk about cold feet, lets talk about gina haas skel a cell and try to make sure that kend at her confirmation hearing she ends up getting through. Reporter to be clear, the source whos confirmed to us that gina haskell did offer to step aside ess stressed that it wasnt an issue for her having qualifications to do the job, she was concerned about the potential damage to her reputation and to that of the men and women who she sairved long side at the kraim for the last 30 plus years. Her nomination has reopened this contentious debate over he