To Robert Mueller . President s personal lawyers, theyll make that decision. Or make a recommendation to the president on that. I dont think anythings off the table. But now with cobb stepping aside, with the addition of flood, trumps legal team could take a more adversarial posture when it comes to Robert Mueller and that could set the stage for a more contentious fight going forward. The big question we are asking about this development, do the changes in trump a s legal tea suggest that he is going to war with mueller. Weve learned the special counsels legal team is trying to figure out a way to compel the president to testify. At a meeting back in march, reportedly the meeting turned tense when the special counsel to was told he had no other option but he claimed he does. A subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. A president ial subpoena would be deeley significant. Only three president s have ever faced the prospect of being compelled to appear before a grand jur
As a campaign contribution. Ill hawk talk to the head of a Watchdog Group targeting trump over this issue. Giuliani claiming it was a personal reimbursement from trump to a lawyer who handled all sorts of dealings for the president. He also gave more details about that repayment, telling the washington post, quote, it took place over a period of time, probably all paid back by the end of 2017. That is probably a few other situations that might have been considered campaign expenses. Well, giuliani also saying trump had no knowledge of the payment to Stormy Daniels until very recently. He didnt know the details of this until we knew the details of it, which was a couple weeks ago. Maybe not even a couple, maybe ten days ago. Thats the giuliani argument, the Stormy Daniels story was a possible embarrassment on a personal level with potential to affect trump and his family and therefore not related to the campaign. But then there was this morning. Giuliani seemed to indicate, no, there we
Cue the no collusion tweet. Quote, so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. No questions on collusion. Oh, i see, you have a made up, phony crime, collusion, that never existed and an investigation begun with el li l illegalillega illegally leaked classified information. Quote, it would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened. Witch hunt. One thing the times report makes clear, the questions that were shared with the president s legal team were shared when attorney john dowd was still on that team. Dowd resigned from the team at least in part over a dispute with the president about the wisdom of his participation in an interview with mueller. And after making the determination that the lines of questioning for muellers investigators were potentially too perilous for trump. Giuliani has his first meeting with bob muellers Team Last Week and it appears rudy may have reached a similar conclusion. It may be whe
It on air force one. I want to bring in april ryan and political commentator van jones, host of the van jones show we know now according to the New York Times citing three sources new about the payment and knew about it months before after dedenying which means he lied to the American People. We can now say if the stories are correct, the president did lie and lie is a strong word in washington. The president on Board Air Force one and talked to reporters and reporters asked him and its on tape that he knew nothing about it. Indeed, he knew about it months ago. This goes to the president s credibility, the trust factor and it is a piece into this investigation by Robert Mueller that is following the trail of money. This is not good for this president at all. Theres a lot on the line with this and we just have to wait and see how this plays out. The president , if these reports are true, he lied to the plubli and reporters. The president s denial which is not even one month ago on air f
Washington. New tonight, giuliani is reportedly calling on attorney general Jeff Sessions to step in on the cohen investigation. Chief National Correspondent ed henry just attended an event with the newest member of the president s legal team. I was just with Rudy Giuliani a few moments ago at a 9 11 charity event. The tunnel to a towers foundation. He was very up front about saying that he had another conversation with the president a few hours ago and that the president , despite all the Media Chatter about giuliani having disastrous interviews, that the president is very happy with the pugnacious tone that giuliani is pushing. In fact, giuliani confided to me that the president joked he is so pleased with giulianis performance hes thinking about sending him to the talks with kim jong un to try to work out the peace talks with north korea because he likes the tough line that giuliani is taking. Remember, last night we talked about the president moving quickly from cooperation to conf