existence. and in take after take trump did not say, go home. in take after take he didn t call off his supporters who were attacking the capitol. what he did do was call the insurrectionists very special. did not say go home. we now know multiple takes are there. that happened. they exist. and the news tonight from georgia and from the january 6th select committee in washington is adding to a building crisis for trump this week. yesterday the supreme court allowed allowed more than 700 documents from trump s white house to be sent to the january 6 committee and in new york the attorney general revealed her investigation into the trump organization she says has the goods, has uncovered a number of, quote, misleading statements and omissions in financial statements. it is important to note the investigation is civil but it is running parallel to a criminal investigation led by manhattan s da looking at some of the same conduct. we ll go outfront live in washington to begin our coverage.
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mr. trump. he directed me to make the payments. he directed me to become involved in these matters. including the one with mcdougal. i just reviewed the documents. in order to protect him. i want to pause here for one moment. not only does mueller s filing say cohen has provided information that is credible and consistent with other evidence that proves cohen s telling the truth, we re talking things like tapes, e-mails, those sorts of things. you don t have to take cohen s word for it. mueller has it another way too. but michael cohen is referring to his former boss as mr. trump. does anyone think that a guy who s going to jail for someone, who calls his boss mister, who s paying off women hundreds of thousands of dollars without his boss say-so? come on, it s ridiculous. sara murray is outfront live in washington and sara, what happened in this big mystery court appearance today? shutting down an entire floor for over an hour because of someone so important. reporter: well, er
last discussion about the moscow trump tower deal. evan perez is outfront live in washington and evan, you have new reporting tonight about how and when the president s team found out what cohen was going to do today. reporter: that s right, erin. it was yesterday, last night, in fact, that the president s legal team was notified by the justice department that this plea agreement, this plea from michael cohen was coming today. we were told that this is part of the procedure of the justice department, that they briefed the white house before significant legal matters happen. you remember back in june i m sorry, in july, before the justice department indicted some russian intelligence agents, they the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein went over and briefed president trump before he left for helsinki about that coming indictment, so that is not unusual. but we do know, erin, that obviously the president has been very, very disturbed about what mueller is up to and you can see
this breaking news. a surprising claim by the president s attorney. giuliani is telling cnn tonight he has been told by the special counsel that they cannot indict a sitti inting president. saying quote, all they get to do is write a report. they can t indict. at least they acknowledged that to us after some battling. they acknowledged that to us. that s a stunning thing to say, right? it s a conclusion that is likely based on justice department guidelines, it didn t mean though that the president is in the clear and i want to go to dana bash outfront live in washington. you spoke to giuliani. so, you know, explain first of all, why this is such a big deal? the reason, erin, is because as you said, it has been justice department guideline. precedent since the nixon years. the it was a guideline written by the office of legal counsel inside the justice department. stating that a sitting u.s.