Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. We got to stop it. We got to stop meddling. We got to stop everybody from attacking us. Russia is there. China is there. According to sources close to the white house, the president is scared for his son. Lying about whether the president knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians, that would be perjury. I think they have taken this very seriously and their denials what do we have on the other side . The word of Michael Cohen. Do you think he uses that as a scapegoat . At times. At times. Reporter i think the first lady is underscoring it is an
option. No greater mystery in the world than a relationship between husband and wife but it is astonishing and gets to the wonder about the marriage. Good morning to you. Its sunday. We are happy to have you here. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. It is wonderful to be here. Lets start off with the news. This morning a glimpse into why President Trump is so anxious about the russia investigations and increased his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller. The president s Son Under Excrete knee to helping set up that 2016 meeting with russians who had promised to dirt on hillary clinton. Cnn Sarah Westwood is in live in new jersey where President Trump is on his working vacation. This isnt a new investigation, by any means, nor a new meeting,
but why is President Trump concerned about his son now . We have known about this meeting for a very long time, but what is only recently come to light is the fact that trump may have had advanced knowledge of this meeting or, very at the least, may have been told about it Shorlted Afttly after the fa is something the president has dined. Michael cohen is preferred to testify to special counselor Robert Mueller trump had known about the meeting and contradict what donald trump jr. Has already told congressional investigators. Rudy giuliani, trumps personal attorney, is denying that trump jr. Is in legal jeopardy telling cnn n a statement, it is not so. A year of investigating there is no wrongdoing on his part for ma matter or the president. Nothing has changed. We are not worried about Michael Cohen he has no knowledge of
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Crossexamination will go along those lines 10, 15 other questions i could ask in that chain of events that would get the jury to say, oh, okay, he has something here, wherein, he lied before, why Isnt He Lying now . Why should we believe him now . I think the answer for prosecutors will be its not just his word. There is Documentary Evidence which would substantiate the things he is saying. When you have a white collar prosecution, you have a paper trail as prosecutors have presented which corroborate exactly what occurred. In the case of the accountant, of course, that paper trail remains consistent, but then the question becomes you could have said something, right . You didnt. Is there a reason for that . Is there a basis for you having immunity . So that exposes them to the jury, but in the final analysis, while it may be good theater, i think the substance of the documents that the government has, just so much to overcome for the defense in the case. Julian, Karl Bernstein said
this is worse this watergate. Karl bernstein was at the center of the watergate. From all of the evidence that has accumulated over part of the scandal, he sees a person in power who, ultimately, is more corrupted than Richard Nixon. I think its too early to tell. We are in the middle of investigations, rather than at the end of an investigation, and we have to remember, in the middle of watergate, it wasnt always clear where this was all going. But he is trying to send a powerful warning sign that there is more evidence now, this early in the president presidency, than there was about Richard Nixon when he resigns really two years after the investigation is launched. But we do need to point out that what manafort is on trial for are alleged crimes prior to his dealings with president
trump. Donald trump citizen is not involved in anything manafort is talking about in court right now. But we have to keep Remembering Manafort was the head of Trumps Campaign during a critical period in the campaign. And so this story about who he is and what Money Problems he had and what he was doing all give shape to the person who was at the very top in the summer of 2016. So that is how the Money Manafort and the campaign are probably connected in the minds of Robert Mueller. Again, this is an investigation that is in process so we shouldnt jump to conclusions yet. Exactly. Julian zeleny and joey jackson, im sorry, but we have run out of time. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Absolutely. On State Of The Union today, ed royce is on the show as well as former Massachusetts GovernorDuval Patrick only here
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the power to pardon, and i would think don jr. Would be the first one in light to get one, if it came to that. And so im wondering, basically, jack, do you agree or what . Well, i think that is way down the road, martin. I think for right now, what Rudy Giuliani said is a better indication of what is going to happen and he is saying he is 100 confident that Michael Cohen has nothing to say. Michael cohen has said on other occasions that the president did not know about this meeting, but giuliani went on to say there was nothing to this meeting. It was a Meal Aboeting about ad and didnt morph into any other action. Whether information came out about hillary or not, there was no action item that followed up on it. So, you know, based on what giuliani is saying, he is feeling pretty confident there is nothing there. Yeah. Im sure he is. I mean, Michael Cohen made those kind of statements when he seemed to be on the president s team and that does not necessarily seem to be the case,
brett. Its amazing. Whole thing is just incredible. Yes, there was a Collusion Meeting at trump tower. It was billed as a Collusion Meeting, which is more fairly described as a conspiracy meeting. Where the trump people, including three very close to the president , basically came to a meeting to get illegally obtained russian information to attack hillary clinton. Now where i come from there is high odds that is going to be called a crime. I think it was a crime. I think the president has reason to worry about everybody in that meeting from the american side and if it turns out there is evidence that he knew about it in advance, i think he has even more reason to worry and that is a lot of reasons. Brent, do you think he could bring these charges, Obstruction Of Justice, if that what it will be, before the mid terms . I wrote a piece on friday, a column in the hill i think it will happen before the mid terms and how it happens remains to be
seen. But i think its clear there was obstruction. I think what america is witnessing in realtime and Rudy Giuliani is almost an accessory to this, is a walking, talking, televised Obstruction Of Justice every day. Let me tell you. The midterm elections are going to be one day after the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon being elected president. Think about that. And next week is an anniversary of Richard Nixon resigning from the presidency and he gave the best speech he had ever given as he was about to leave the white house, one of the best speeches by any president where he said, some may hate you, but they dont win unless you hate them. In which case you destroy yourself. And trump is running around the country every day, most recently lebron james, telling us who hold on, brent. Lets make this a conversation. Jack, the manafort case, before we run out of time, i would like to get your thoughts because im
wondering how impactful do you believe, especially if there is a guilty verdict, that that would be as far as blowback against the president and this administration and going forward, the other Investigation Mueller is focused on . I think, based on what brent has outlined they are looking at this thing not a matter of justice but a matter of politics. I think the case against manafort has been, largely, political. Just think about this. For tax evasion, only 1 of the people are ever tried now when they go to jail its like a three to fouryear sentence, including, by the way, the maker of Beanie Babies went to jail and got in ty warner never went to jail. He had tax evasion what is your point, jack . He never went to jail but mueller wants 305 years out of manafort. I think the timing of it is suspicious. The fact he has nine prosecutors who donated to hillary clinton. I think all of this is really a smear on the justice system. What about the evidence, jack . There is a significant amount of bookkeeping evidence. This is documents here. Its not just political rhetoric that is very, very suspicious. Im saying this is a high prof