come from your business number. them, not so much. we let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. the others? nope! get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call or go online today. breaking news. the white house banning a cnn reporter from a rose garden event after she asked questions at an oval office event. our kaitlan collins was serving as the pool reporter as the event, so she s the reporter sent in to represent all the reporters, to ask the main questions of the day and be the reporter there. so she s the one person there. it s her responsibility to ask all of those questions. and here is what happened. did michael cohen betray you, mr. president? thank you very much. thank you, everybody. mr. president? did moichael cohen betray you?
complete understanding of that. did not know about the payment? although that is something that trump himself refused to say when he was standing side by outfront now, former nixon side with putin. white house counsel, john dean, erin? all right. thank you very much, michelle asha rangappa, and audio expert, kosinski. and michelle, really giving us a sense of what happened there. paul ginsburg. he has 40 years experience in contentious. and outfront now, let s this area, including working on get to denny heck who sits on the o.j. simpson and waco cases. the intelligence committee. and congressman, obviously, you saw heard everything that john, let me start with you, went down today. moen moichael cohen appears to did you find secretary pompeo s answers, the way he chose to answer these questions or not officially turned on trump by releasing this tape. answer these questions, right? a trump he made of a man that he well, the policy is unchanged. said he would take a bullet
do you think he thinks he has a pretty complete understanding, those meetings. congressman heck, or do you so i think especially if there think that he is really may have been things going on really doesn t know and is just trying to put a good face on it? that otherwise lawyers wouldn t well, probably more the do either, i could see that latter, erin. but here s the deal. if, in fact, the president gave michael cohen may have foreseen him a complete 100% readout on that there might be a time when he would want to protect that meeting, then it really himself. well, interesting. begs the question, why wasn t when you talk about bad memory the secretary of state in that in meetings, you ve got to meeting to begin with? wonder if that s what jim mattis because the fact of the matter, and mike pompeo are worried throughout all of history, that about, when they re getting is the norm, not the practical briefed by the president about of this president, which is to what happened with
bolton releasing a statement, well-established russian saying, quote, the president interference, not just in america s democracy, but on all believes that the next bilateral western democracies, as a matter meeting with president putin should take place after the of fact. look, the indictments that the russia witch hunt is over. so we ve agreed that it will be special counsel, director after the first of the year. mueller, issued for the 12 uniformed members of the russian now, we don t know whether the russians have agreed to that or intelligence services is a master piece of criminal not, they haven t said. but after the first of the year investigation. and i confidently predicted it is a big change from this fall, will go down in the history which is what the white house books as such. announced on twitter. to be able to trace their names, so why is this meeting suddenly on ice? well, our jeff zeleny asked. recreate the paper trail, as it were, is brilliant detective mr. presiden
explanation. the phone either cut off or stopped recording. so we don t know why it suddenly got clipped off. do you buy that, paul? no. we re at the end of the conversation with trump and cohen and it goes into another recording that is that appears to be a telephone conversation. has the attributes of a telephone conversation. now, how it got there from the original to the copy to what was turned over, we don t know. but we didn t hear the end of the conversation between trump and cohen. and instead, we heard the beginning of another conversation. so could have been edited? absolutely. which obviously raises serious questions. and asha, you know, i also want to ask you about the reporting. sources telling us, prosecutors were caught off guard when cohen released this tape and that his doing so could hurt his chances to get a deal with prosecutors. could releasing the tape backfire for him, asha? i don t think so. he has he has good attorneys.