there s a relationship there. i was a little surprised to see him do an interview with george stephanopoulos that aired this morning. what s that about? i think the timing is very interesting. from my reporting earlier this week, there was not really a media plan this soon. it was not long planned, supposed to happen. what we saw today is a pattern of behavior that has been playing out over the last eight months where michael cohen has been focused on his legal situation and then the president will tweet something that is incredibly upsetting to him. this happened, i remember one morning, the first morning michael cohen was due in court in the southern district of court was the first time the president did an interview on fox & friends. it was a total surprise to him. in that interview, the president said for the first time, i think it was he did such little legal work for me and the trouble he s in is nothing to do with me. michael cohen was in the hotel room he was living in. the
you did commit a crime. i have so many questions for this group. i have almost as many questions that donald trump has legal problems. i m going to keep everyone here at the table and on remote. we ll take this break. when we come back, we ll ask the question, did donald trump s lawyer just admit that the president did, in fact, commit a crime? also, the special counsel s office just out with a new court filing related to michael flynn. what they are saying about the interview that landed michael flynn in so much trouble. and we re learning more about the story that broke at this time yesterday. the investigation into the trump inaugural committee and questions about illegal foreign contributions. stay with us. you ll want to hear it all. - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations,
into it a little bit. and i think frank is dead on the money when he says that mueller was right to call them on it. it s clear this wasn t some misadventure that flynn stumbled into. the fbi showed up to interview him because he d been making these sorts of statements in the press already and anybody like mike flynn who as the nsa knows when someone tells you that two fbi agents want to show up in your office to talk to you, everybody knows that that s what it s about. if it s a friendly visit, it may be one agent but, frank, correct me if i m wrong. two agents means there s an interview that s going on that has some seriousness. one of those people is there to write the 302, the record of interview. flynn knew what was at stake in this conversation. this is just an effort that backfired a little bit as it came off. frank, it s not go ahead, frank. when he got the call from the deputy director that two agents were coming over, two very senior agents he said is this
talk about all these other times the president has said to me because i ve been waiting to be sentenced. i m sentenced now and i m going to respond for the first time. i want to play more sound from this interview. the interview with cohen and stephanopoulos. this was something that really stood out to me. take a listen to this. why should we believe you now? because the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and helpful. there s a substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i am telling the truth. the special counsel did say that you were doing your best to tell the truth about everything related to their investigation, everything related to russia. do you think president trump is telling the truth about that? no. are you still cooperating? if they want me, i m here, and i m willing to answer whatever additional questions they may have for me.
and put their country above their career, that s what nancy wilson did. may she rest in peace. that does it for me. thank you for watching. i will see you book here tomorrow live with a brand-new show at 5:00 eastern. up next, deadline: white house hosted by john heilemann. aloha, everyone. i m john heilemann sitting in for the one and only but absent today nicolle wallace. michael cohen once famously said to someone actually sitting at this table that he would take a bullet, in quotes, for donald trump. that was then. and now, the president s former lawyer and fixer is sending a message to his old boss. i know the truth. the feds know the truth and everyone else is about to know it, too. in his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison, cohen undercut trump s legal argument in the case that appears increasingly likely to be brought against him in the southern district of new york.