claim like this. of course, you ll remember, he said everything from president obama was not born in this country to president obama had trump tower wiretapped. david? cecilia, stay with us for a moment, as there is a breaking headline late today regarding michael cohen, president trump s former personal lawyer, who was raided by the fbi and is under investigation. the new york times reporting tonight that a long-time partner of cohen s in the taxi business has now taken a plea deal. evgeny freidman agreed to plead guilty to one count of tax evasion, and promised to cooperate with state and federal investigators. freidman is a russian immigrant, he s known as the taxi king. so, let s get back to cecilia tonight. what could this mean for michael cohen? reporter: well, it could potentially mean more trouble, david. it remains to be seen. freidman cut a deal and will serve no jail time in exchange for cooperating. investigators could certainly use this to pressure michael cohen. pri
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are actually substantive problems that relate to whether or not the president of the united states and his team are being honest about their interactions and relationship to senior officials in russia. eli, let me give you an example of communications problem, someone who tweets that president obama had trump tower wiretapped during the presidential campaign, that would be, you know, like a wicked bath communications problem and, of course, that s all donald trump. i mean, this problem goes to the top. mike is not the problem. if they bring in david, it s going to fall on this president whether or not he can sort of clean up his messaging and stop this sort of throwing out falsehoods on twitter, whether they re about russia or anything else. even if they re not going to under cut or hurt him in terms of the ongoing investigation related to russia. they continue to eat away what little credibility this white house has left. he s one piece of it whether
being honest about their interactions and relationship to senior officials in russia. eli, let me give you an example of communications problem, someone who tweets that president obama had trump tower wiretapped during the presidential campaign, that woulbe, you know, like a wicked bath communications problem and, of course, that s all donald trump. i mean, this problem goes to the top. mike is not the problem. if they bring in david, it s going to fall on this president whether or not he can sort of clean up his messaging and stop this sort of throwing out falsehoods on twitter, whether they re about russia or anything else. even if they re not going to under cut or hurt him in terms of the ongoing investigation related to russia. they continue to eat away what little credibility this white house has left. he s one piece of it whether you re on the communications
narrative. if you notice right after he does that, the white house changed. now we ve changed again. phillip, i mean, what was according to your reporting, what was the president angry with comey about? the anger built over a lot of time, actually. there were a number of instances during the campaign that made him angry. once he was in office he was angry that comey didn t back him up on his baseless claim that president obama had trump tower wiretapped. he was angry with some of comey s comments and his testimony. about being mildly nauseous. exactly. about thinking he might have influenced the outcome of the election. it built over time. and this past weekend when the president was at his golf course in bedminster, new jersey, he really said look, i ve had it, comey has to go. the russia thing was hanging over it. he was bothered because every time comey would come out in public the question was always russia and that s the thing that