The oval office, President Trump declined to weigh in on the Russia Investigation. At a News Conference with the italian Prime Minister do you feel betray ed by Michael Cohen, sir . A question about cohen and no response. Instead, the president unloaded in his usual safe space where there are no questions, on twitter, tweeting there is no collusion and slamming the Russia Investigation with a personal attack taz Robert Mueller rigged witch hunt and just after the president was tweeting there was no collusion, his outside lawyer was claiming on cnn that collusion isnt a crime. Which i dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. You tart analyzing the crime. The hacking is crime. Add about that, the president relied on his aides. If theres no collusion theres no crime in collusion. Giuliani suggested the Special Counsel may have a conflict and couldnt say what it is. You have to hear the conflict. Not the president. I cant tell you. Not sure. The former mayor railed against coh
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
It took place. Did you know at the time about that meet something. No, i didnt know anything about it. It must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. No one told you a word, nothing . I know we talked about this on the plane a bit. No, nobody told me. Sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. Thats not what Michael Cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when thencandidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. That contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. And others in Donald Trumps orbit. Did you tell your father anything about this . No. It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. The president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and thats when he was notified. Joining me now is jeff
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Thats it for me. Im gigi stone woods. The news continues right now with my colleague, david, whos been tweeting this whole hour constantly. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Good afternoon, im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. We start this hour with President Trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. The president ending his week touting fridays economic numbers. Secondquarter gdp growth of 4. 1 , that is the fastest pace since 2014. Hes not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal Attorney Michael Cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that President Trump had prior knowledge of that nowinfamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what weve learned this week. Cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump did know about
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio