know if he has a tape of the meeting at which he said he attended or was prepared to tell prosecutor mueller he was at the meeting where the president approved meeting with the russians in trump tower with don junior, paul manafort and his son-in-law jared kushner. uh-huh. so your interpretation of the tape, joe? do you agree with rick? i do. i agree with rick that obviously the tape doesn t help the president s case, but, again, we don t know if the tape was doctored. if it was doctored, obviously, that casts it in a completely different light but clearly doesn t help the president s case, with this revelation. at the same time i m not sure disclosing the tape that cohen has helped himself with the prosecutor. especially if the tape has been doctored. but nonetheless, i mean what we hear on the tape isn t helpful to the president s case. selena, doctoring potential
this is they re fighting it out in the court of public opinion. you would never handle a normal investigation like this. because again, anything you said. now bill, you turn the only thing that should matter is the trump tower meeting is not evidence of an espionage conspiracy. legally that s what matters. if you fight every single thing about the tape. it s a one week story, what does the tape say? did he lie? the tape doesn t prove a crime. bill: trump tower final question. to have the meeting is not illegal. right. bill: to lie about it is not good you aren t under oath. that s not a crime. where is the crime here? well, in the narrow meeting at the trump tower there is no crime. the question is does it fit in within a context of proving an espionage conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia which is the rationale for the
look, if you are a defender of donald trump, you hear what you want to hear. if you are an opponent of donald trump you clearly hear that he wants to pay cash to bury the story of this playmate. and you put the pieces together. in and of itself this tape doesn t prove anything except to prove that there are other tapes. this is just one piece in the very large puzzle that bob mueller is putting together. look, michael cohen, if he recorded one tape, you better believe this is like cockroaches, man. where there is one there is more. oh, believe me, i m well aware it s about the relevant of each one. let s start with this one. steve cortes, let me bump up ana s vig on this. this tape does prove pretty reasonably that the president wasn t hearing about these efforts to get around the karen mcdougal payment for the first time. he knows the dollar amount involved. he s familiar with the construction. he s familiar with what cohen is
pay with cash. ana navarro, what do you hear, and why does it matter? chris, this reminded me so much of that debate earlier this year about yanni or laurel. do you hear yanni or do you hear laurel? some people definitely heard yanni. some people definitely heard laurel. look, if you are a defender of donald trump, you hear what you want to hear. if you are an opponent of donald trump you clearly hear that he wants to pay cash to bury the story of this playmate. and you put the pieces together. in and of itself this tape doesn t prove anything except to prove that there are other tapes. this is just one piece in the very large puzzle that bob mueller is putting together. look, michael cohen, if he recorded one tape, you better believe this is like cockroaches, man. where there is one there is more. oh, believe me, i m well aware it s about the relevant of each one. let s start with this one.
behavior here is inappropriate, wrongheaded and weak and cannot stand. but the white house is not backing down. sanders says the reporter refused to leave when asked and says, quote, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event but made clear any other journalist from the network could offend. as for fox news, we stand with caitlin collins and cnn on this. full access for our journalists for free and unfettered press. now for reaction to all the stories, former governor of arkansas mike huckabee. good to have you with us. i find it interesting that even critics of the president say in the recorded tape doesn t necessarily show any wrong or criminal wrongdoing. lanny davis representing michael:links back to the clintons in the 90s, davis who served as special counsel to bill clinton in 1990s argued wednesday morning that while the