The White House Press corps have had for him all week about this. He also left for bedminster this afternoon, ignoring questions once again. Its just a pattern of this white house refusing to answer for why statements made both from the president and also from his senior aides at the White House Press podium have not turned out to be true, or at least they are now under question based on what we now are hearing from what Michael Cohen might have to say to special counsel mueller. It wouldnt be the first time that Sarah Sanders has had to correct herself after making statements about what the president knew and didnt know, but this time Sarah Sanders hasnt even been available to answer questions about this. The white house has been virtually silent. Yeah. Is there reporting on how the president is feeling about the latest news . Reporter well, the president has been very angry. Thats what were hearing from an Administration Official this week. Hes been watching the coverage on televisio
Case of the white house making statements about what the president did and did not know. Senior Trump Officials have said the president didnt know anything about these payments. That turned out to be completely untrue based on the audiotape of the president himself talking about that payment were Michael Cohen before the election. But, again, here the white house refusing to talk about it. White house aides are now referring questions about this issue to the president s outside lawyers even though some of these issues involve the statements made by people who worked in the white house now or very recently. So, anderson, theyre hoping that we dont continue asking questions about this. There hasnt been a White House Press briefing in several days. There have only been three this month at all. They are clamping down on the opportunities that reporters get to ask both the president and also senior white house officials questions about all of these matters. Abby phillip, thanks very much. N
to see the indictments that mueller is bringing. but there s a whole story behind the scenes, and i think we can just look at the things that we ve seen in front of our faces that don junior happily accepted this meeting from russia offering dirt on his opponent, which is a part of their covert action. and there s a lot of colluding behavior staring us right in the face that may not ever result in charges. carrie, we also know what michael cohen has previously said in front of congress about this very issue. so if he didn t tell the truth then, there s obviously legal jeopardy for him there. he has some exposure in terms of whether he would have to go back and perhaps correct his testimony. so that s something that a witness before congress could do. they could go back and either write a letter or ask to reappear to correct their testimony. but i think the bigger picture whether or not it s michael cohen who provides this information to the special counsel s office, the more import
claims that he knew in advance about that infamous trump tower meeting in 2016. that was the meeting attended by his son don junior and its alleged purpose was to dig up dirt on hillary clinton, dirt provided by russians who claimed to have relationships with the russian government. the relationship between donald trump and his one-time personal attorney michael cohen, of course, has endured for years. it s one that s built on loyalty but that all seems to be changing. here s cnn s chief political analyst gloria borger. this is some turnout, huh? reporter: in the private conversations between then-candidate donald trump and michael cohen, it turns out there was a tape. when if comes time for the financing, which will be what financing? we ll have to pay with cash? no, no, no. reporter: when cohen decided to release his secret recording in which the two men talked about buying a playboy model s story about her alleged affair with trump, it was seen as cohen s decla
into play in terms of impeachment proceedings, wouldn t it? or are you saying that would have little emappegal implicati? well t could have legal implications. we see there are tools that are used on the intelligence side like fisas and other techniques that have a lower threshold precisely because we re looking at the security of the united states, not necessarily trying to pursue criminal charges. when what they see crosses into the criminal realm, you re going to see the indictments that mueller is bringing. but there s a whole story behind the scenes, and i think we can just look at the things that we ve seen in front of our faces that don junior happily accepted this meeting from russia offering dirt on his opponent, which is a part of their covert action. and there s a lot of colluding behavior staring us right in the face that may not ever result in charges. carrie, we also know what michael cohen has previously said in front of congress about this very issue. so if he didn