didn t know about the payment. i don t necessarily think that it was avanatti who backed trump into a corner, trump was literally backed into a corner by a reporter and he chose to say no and he didn t really elaborate on that. i think air force one is the last place the president is in a corner in the world. you watched the video. he has plenty of security, if he wanted to say he could have walked away. i don t have more on that, or i m only talking policy, or our court filings speak for themselves. or does not speak. there are many things that a responsible client could have said, i don t think he was cornered, i think he chose to say that and for his reason chose to throw it back to michael cohen. the thing is michael cohen has been taking the fall for michael donald trump forever. this is his job, this is why he exists. he s out there to fight for trump, protect trump, cohen
his concern was because we re looking at the potential, again, that s the subject of the investigation, coordination between the campaign and russia because it was president trump, protect trump s campaign, the person s view was inevitably his behavior is conduct will fall within the scope of that work and so he was reluctant to make the statement that i made. i disagreechltd i thought it there was not a counterintelligent investigation of mr. trump. i decided in the moment to say it given the nature of the conversation. at that moment in time. did you ever re-visit that in these subsequent sessions? with the fbi leader? sure. and the leader at that view didn t change. his view was still that it was probably, although literally true, his concern was it could be misleading because the nature of the investigation was is up that it might well touch, obviously, it will touch the campaign and the person ahead of
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