It took place. Did you know at the time about that meet something. No, i didnt know anything about it. It must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. No one told you a word, nothing . I know we talked about this on the plane a bit. No, nobody told me. Sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. Thats not what Michael Cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when thencandidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. That contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. And others in Donald Trumps orbit. Did you tell your father anything about this . No. It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. The president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and thats when he was notified. Joining me now is jeff
bennett, msnbcs white house correspondent, natash
Thats it for me. Im gigi stone woods. The news continues right now with my colleague, david, whos been tweeting this whole hour constantly. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Good afternoon, im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. We start this hour with President Trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. The president ending his week touting fridays economic numbers. Secondquarter gdp growth of 4. 1 , that is the fastest pace since 2014. Hes not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal Attorney Michael Cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that President Trump had prior knowledge of that nowinfamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what weve learned this week. Cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump did know about
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio
Stars dorondo dale, and in the face of all that lying the president took it to a new level this week. Just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. Well, this is a president who doesnt hesitate to tell you that whatiosee with your own eyes and hear with your own ears is not the truth. The sheer number of lies can be overwhelming, and the danger is well become numb to all of this, that well tell ourselves its just trump being trump. But theres a larger question here. Can the truth survive President Trump . As a new York Real Estate developer he built his business on his own blatant lies claiming trump tower has 68 floors when the truth is easy to see, it has 58. When according to a forbes
reporter his real worth was closer to 5 billion and this is man who built his campaign on lies starting with racist birther lie starting with president barack obama was not born in this country, a lie he still reportedly clings to in private. He wasnt born in this count
Ukraine intractable, syria, extend the new star treaty for five years thats going to expire in 2021 as a result of these two president s coming together . Yeah. Can they agree for no Nuclear Proliferation and put pressure on north korea and also put pressure on iran . Is that possible . I think so. Paul okay. Lets talk about the domestic politics here because you know to have an effective Foreign Policy, you need domestic support. And the way the president handled that Press Conference has really hurt him in terms of his ability, i think, to maneuver inside congress and have the support he needs. Why did he get such at odds with the Intelligence Community judgment about 2016, when he really didnt need to . Yeah, i mean, listen, monday was a disaster. I think it was a low point of his presidency, to be sure. I dont get it to be frank, paul. I mean, i know that they put a
president . You know, theres a lot of misunderstanding about this. In talking to the people around the president , wh