welcome to prime time . as you heard, the president s lawyer tonight says he was wrong to suggest that potus never signed anything after our primetime exclusive that proved that potus signed a letter of intent on the russia deal. but how about the president? he looked you in the face and he said, listen to me, there was a deal, everybody knew about it, there was a letter, and it was signed by michael cohen. now, there s another wave in this story. mueller, it seems, does, in fact, have sights on roger stone, one-time key advisor to the president. wait until you hear what he told me. the spin offensive is in full effect. and a mistake of colossal proportions. that s what a senior administration official calls president trump s decision to pull troops out of the fight in syria. even senate republicans are lit, and we re going to go one on one with a key democratic senator about what this is all about. and potus promised a wall. now that promise is wait for it crumbling.
things that the president denies, and they keep defaulting to the idea that if it s not clearly a crime, then it s okay. why? because they re not worrying about mueller or being under oath in these efforts. the president chickened out of that a long time ago. his puffery about wanting to go at it with mueller in person, remember that? it s as real as his promises about mexico paying for the wall. in fact, both were made for the same reason. sounds strong, and i ll never have to deliver. listen to this. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. that was a bold-face lie. he didn t say that to mueller. you heard giuliani on abc yesterday, right? with all but a smile on his face. to mueller, he thinks back and listens, i think that we put it so that the communications with cohen about the russia deal, they went well into november of that year, of the election year.
denies, and they keep defaulting to the idea that if it s not clearly a crime, then it s okay. why? because they re not worrying about mueller or being under oath in these efforts. the president chickened out of that a long time ago. his puffery about wanting to go at it with mueller in person, remember that? it s as real as his promises about mexico paying for the wall. in fact, both were made for the same reason. sounds strong, and i ll never have to deliver. listen to this. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. that was a bold-face lie. he didn t say that to mueller. you heard giuliani on abc yesterday, right? with all but a smile on his face. to mueller, he thinks back and listens, i think that we put it so that the communications with cohen about the russia deal, they went well into november of that year, of the election year. wait a minute.
trump tower in moscow into the summer of 2016? according to the answer that he gave, it could have covered all the way up to november of 2016. he said he had conversations with him about it. the president didn t hide this. earlier they said those conversations stopped in january of 2016. i mean, the date until you sit down and you answer the questions and you go back and look at the papers, you re not going to know what happened. that s why lawyers prepare for those answers. yes, well, let s go look back at the papers. because the papers submitted in court verified by investigators show cohen working on the trump tower moscow deal up through june, 2016 and then dropping it around the time russian meddling became public. after trump s past lies, rudy giuliani is opening the door to somebody working on that russia deal. maybe somebody other than michael cohen, all the way through november 2016. which just think about it tonight. it sounds bad.
district, they both have been doing is painting this picture, setting the scene for the multiple lies that michael cohen, a very, very close ally, formerly, to president trump was telling over the course of a long period of time. and in fact, cohen was lying about the moscow project until september of this year. it was only in september that he came clean about the extent to which they wanted to pursue this russia deal. so there was a ton of news that came out of the court papers on friday. frank, let me ask you about the russia piece of it because this idea of what michael cohen is now saying and this idea of trump, the folks around trump pursuing a deal, a business deal in russia well into the 2016 campaign counter against what cohen had previously told congress. how does that intersect? does it intersect with this question of potential collusion with the russian government. of russian government