Is not the truth. Is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception . Its time to go deep. Lets get after it. In an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. All this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white House Counsel cooperated with muellers probe more than trump might have known. Here to discuss that and much more, former Attorney General michael mukasey. Judge, good to have you as always. Good to be with you. So if you were to hear that the president has decided, im taking over this probe. Im taking it over. What would your reaction be . I would shake myself and wake up. Just a dream . Yeah. Can he, or should he not . I i have no idea whether he can. I cant believe that he can. Hed have to fire mueller in the
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The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. That he was not trying to lead them in the direction of believing the law said you had to have an actual loan granted in a case like this. Only that manafort had a applied for that law with fraudulent information, poppy. Got it. Joe, before you go, its also intriguing that we learned that rick gates is not only required to testify as part of this plea deal with mueller team, in this trial hes required to help with the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The prbroader russia probe. Thats part of his Cooperation Deal in all of this. What do we know about that requirement . Reporter what we know is that mr. Gates has to cooperate. He has to cooperate fully. We also know that there was a discussion earlier in the trial when he was being questioned by prosecution or defense. I believe it was the defense and he was asked if he had been talked if he had talked to the fbi about the campaign
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. He said that initially. They later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. But as point of fact, judge, hes told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. Right. Maybe he did. And maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. Thats why sally yates, then at the a. G. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out Whats Going On with this. I dont think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. In fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. He is the guy who was going to be the National Security then why did he lie about it . Beats me. Thats a good question, no . Its an excellent question, but i dont know the extent to which he lied, whether h
This is cnn blakicnn break im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Were following Breaking News on the president s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the russia investigation. Two Court Filings just released, one by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, the other by prosecutors in new york, and theres new information about cohens cooperation. What it could mean for President Trump and for Michael Cohen as the feds in new york argue he should get substantial prison time. Right now, Robert Mueller also is set to file a secret document on Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman, and why prosecutors believe manafort lied. Theres lots of news to unfold right now. I want to go first to our
political correspondent sara murray. Sara, muellers document makes it clear that Michael Cohen was cooperating but hes not necessarily suggesting he shouldnt get a substantial prison sentence. No, i think theres
Him through this committee for eight months. So i think following proceed sure is something that you have to look at because your idea is not really point of order. The time has expired. If he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning, mr mr. Lewandowski. Im questioning you right now. Thank you. The president asked you who had no role at all in the white house to deliver that message to Attorney General sessions. The president could have just picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Attorney General. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder. The president thought what he was doing was legal, why didnt he just pick up the phone and
call Attorney General sessions, or why not ask any member of his staff who worked right down the hall to deliver a message . It is clear to me that the reason he went to you, mr. Lewandowski, is because everyone said no. So i want to ask you about that. Two days before meeting you, the pre