there s a question of whether or not he has told any lies that could potentially be that could potentially pose legal jeopardy for him. secondly, there s the question of whether getting help from a political campaign foreign source is illegal. how that meets up with the federal laws about what campaigns in this country are allowed to do. those are questions that tend to stick. those questions have stuck. if you spent all of your presidency so far dealing with those questions, beating them back, fending them off, you might want to rethink going down that road if the choice got presented to you again. but tonight, when the president himself was asked on tape about his son and the russian offer of help during the campaign, he was asked by abc news anchor in and interview today, the president said something that once again is shocking, but this is another one of those things that we will be talking about for a long time to come, because this one has reason to stick. your son, don jr.,
those are questions that tend to stick. those questions have stuck. if you spent all of your presidency so far dealing with those questions, beating them back, fending them off, you might want to rethink going down that road if the choice got presented to you again. but tonight, when the president himself was asked on tape about his son and the russian offer of help during the campaign, he was asked by abc news anchor in an interview today, the president said something that once again is shocking, but this is another one of those things that we will be talking about for a long time to come, because this one has reason to stick. your son don jr. is up before the senate intelligence committee today. and again, he was not charged with anything. not only wasn t he charged, if you read it, with all of the horrible fake news, i mean, i was reading that my son was going to go to jail. this is a good young man, that he was going to go to jail. reporter: in june of 2016 just months before
our reporting begins with president trump saying he would likely listen if another nation offered dirt on a political rival. he also said he might not report it to the fbi. the president telling that to the abc news anchor george george stephanopoulos. i think you might want to listen. there s nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called a fellow country, norway, we have information on your opponent, oh, i think i d want to hear it. you want that kind of interference in our elections? it s not interference. it s information. i d take it. shepard: it is interference and a candidate accepting anything of value from a foreign entity is a crime. fbi director christopher wray said to lindsey graham in his confirmation hearing that campaigns should report such a thing to the fbi. president trump says his fbi director is wrong. the special counsel robert mueller said russia interfered
in this new place in this world. by repositioning himself between trump and investigators. regionally that meant fighting back through the media. at the end of last week he got his hair freshly shorn and picked out a black suit to wear for his first on the record interview. on saturday afternoon, abc news anchor george stephanopoulos entered his sweet at the regency hotel where the two men spoke for 45 minutes. it was supposed to be on camera but at the advice of mr. cohen s counsel, the new lawyer due to start this week, quote, they stuck on an audio only format. quote, for months, people in his circle told me about the possibility of him sitting down with the formedable anchor. they said he would talk to steph no, ma am lust, perhaps with his family onset to demonstrate the legal toll. all of this would be heavily promoted, maybe for weeks and it would be truly revealing and
and picked out a black suit to wear for his first on-the-record interview. on saturday afternoon, abc news anchor george stephanopoulos entered cohen s suite at the regency hotel where the two men spoke for 45 minutes. the interview was initially supposed to be on camera, but at the advice of mr. cohen s counsel, guy petrillo, the new lawyer due to start this week, quote that. stuck to an kaaudio only format. quote, for months, people in his circle told me about the possibility of him sitting down with the formidable anchor. they said he would talk to steph stephanopoulos perhaps with his family onset to demonstrate the legal toll. all of this would be heavily promoted, maybe for weeks and it would be truly revealing and intimate. this was not on a broadcast. it was revealed by tweet about 12 hours ahead of the interview s publication and stephanopoulos on-air unveiling. the last-minute roll-out was