decision about such a comprehensive investigation, then we would really have no need to have subordinates or superiors. yes. he did do an effective job of laying out that one person, even if the bias demonstrated in their text messages is not the sole person who can make the decisions to do so. in that vein, he wasn t allowed to explain further about that point. i as an american person and former member of the justice department, would like to have heard his response. in truth, he put himself in that seat today. if it weren t for the texts, we wouldn t be here. he opened the door. now we ll see if he can shut it. laura coates, thank you very much. gagliano, be well. major news overseas in the uk. huge state dinner with president trump and prime minister may. huge protests. huge fallout. we have a trump insider who was at the palace where the state dinner was. he is a trump confidant and friend. newsmax ceo chris ruddy in a tux, next. it s the ford summer sales event
gerson was in the seychelles, which as you know, very well, the meeting that took place with eric prince, a trump confidant and uae officials and a russian close to vladimir putin. gerson s spokesperson says he did not attend that meeting, but he happened to be in the seychelles at the same time as these other folks, and he met separately with the crown prince of abe dhabi. so he s in that meeting which we know is being scrutinized by mueller. second, he was in a meeting a couple weeks before that in new york at a four seasons where he was it was trump transition officials, jared kushner, michael flynn, steve bannon, officials from the uae and this fixer who we know is cooperating with robert mueller s investigation, george nader. he s a lebanese-american businessman. so rick gerson is at the beginning of this meeting brings
it was also discussed in the infamous trump tower meeting. the new york times reported that felix sater, a long time business associate with mr. trump with to help mr. art menc proposal reach the white house. sater in turn put him in contact with none other than michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer and fixer, and cohen according to the times said he would deliver the plan to the white house. cohen told the newspaper he left the plan in flynn s white house office about a week before michael flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser. cohen later called the times story, quote, fake news, but mueller s interest suggests otherwise as does his focus on two, two longtime aides to another trump confidant, roger stone. and that story is next.
stormy daniels. in fact, he has sort of accelerated it. he s poured more fuel on that fire. he thinks that he does need to be more disciplined or he needs to perhaps come off the air for a while. he s also frustrated in the interview with sean hannity, who we also know is a trump confidant. they speak frequently. he was surprised by rudy suggesting that trump knew about these payments and said, oh, they were funneled through the law firm? and giuliani repeated back and said, oh, funneled, yes. and the president, according to our reporting, got mad at both men, saying funneled, that suggests a criminal enterprise. that s not what we re trying to do here. yeah, that s not a normal word. peter, i have two questions for you. number one, the rudy factor. since the hannity interview, it strikes us tonight he s been all or part of our lead story every night since. so there s that. and, secondly, a serious question we don t get to see you in new york that often. by percentage, how you cove
these stories. he doesn t feel like he s sort of silenced the talk about stormy daniels. in fact, he has sort of accelerated it. he s poured more fuel on that fire. he thinks that he does need to be more disciplined or he needs to perhaps come off the air for a while. he s also frustrated in the exchange from a pref yusz interview with sean hannity, who we also know is a trump confidant. they speak frequently. he was surprised by rudy suggesting that trump knew about these payments and said, oh, they were funneled through the law firm? and giuliani repeated back and said, oh, funneled, yes. and the president, according to our reporting, got mad at both men, saying funneled, that suggests a criminal enterprise. that s not what we re trying to do here. yeah, that s not a normal word. peter, i have two questions for you. number one, the rudy factor. since the hannity interview, it strikes us tonight he s been all or part of our lead story every night since. so there s that. and, secondl