Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Stories here, who has more perceived credibility at this point . Its a tough call. What do you think . Well, thats a good question, i dont think either one of them does. President trump says things that are untrue all the time. He has about this very anecdote because the New York Times reported a year ago he helped create a false statement about this meeting. Don jr. Most likely told his father about this meeting, its not plausible that he wouldnt have. Michael cohen doesnt have credibility. Rudy giuliani doesnt have credibility. I think what this does, we dont know again if this is collusion, if collusion is a crime. If this is actually an impeachable offense. Well wait for mueller to figure this out. Whether or not there was a direct act that could be
translated from collusion to conspiracy. But i think what this does is, with Michael Cohen
if he knew that the meeting was to take place, he did not tell his son to cancel the meeting. he did not tell the fbi about the meeting, and if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack. because he went out and said, russia, if you re listening, which was two years ago from today, you would be rewarded for hacking hillary clinton s e-mails. it s an interesting time line that gives us more of a picture of this mosaic. what do you make of the congressman s comments. you really see this defense that trump has laid out is very rests very much on him not knowing about this meeting. one of his own talking points has been, why didn t the obama administration do more to publicize the russia threat. if you knew that was rush yaz was actively trying to help your campaign by peddling dirt. why didn t you do more?
and here s the best part. you still own yohome. call now! take control of your retirement today! shepard: in our next hour or nation s intelligence chief set to brief senators bee heendz closed doors about rush yaz attempt to interfere with our election. we ll look at capitol hill and live reports. justice department watchdog ready to investigate how that department and the f.b.i. handled the clinton e-mail case. we ll talk about that with the policy policy center from wall street journal. in 16 minutes on shepard smith reporting. heather: the cincinnati staying up all night repeal obamacare.
eliana johnson, political reporter for politico. where are we on this? i think we hit something of a turning point between yesterday and this morning. trump acknowledged for the first time in several months after praising vladimir putin, rush yaz president, on the campaign trail and denouncing the intelligence community, he acknowledged in his press conference that he does think russia was behind the hacks of the democratic national committee. and that was, i think, potentially a turning point in some sort of a detente with the intel community. followed this morning by jim clapper s statement, the director of national intelligence, that he thinkles it s inappropriate, the number of likes that have been coming out of the intelligent community and the intelligent community stands ready to back and help donald trump when he s inaugurated next week. we could see a thaw in the relationship between trump and