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nine months away. there is a lot to talk about. let s begin at the white house. kelly o donnell, we are learning that rob porter, the staff secretary, accused of domestic violence by his ex-wives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct? reporter: that s our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and sarah huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. that has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. the statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse and porter has said that these are smears. he has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. we saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior team including chief-of-staff john kelly were very supportive of por ....
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. i wouldn t bring him anything that s unsubstantiated before i knew what it was actually about myself. last year, cohen testified before two congressional committees regarding russian election interference, but a source familiar with cohen s testimony tells cnn he did not testify that trump had any advanced knowledge of the trump tower meeting. now the president s attorney, rudy giuliani, is attacking cohen s credibility. the man is a liar, a proven liar. there s no way you re going to bring down the president of the united states on the testimony, uncorroborated, of a proven liar. i guarantee you, this guy is a proven liar. reporter: when just a few weeks ago, giuliani seemed to have plenty of faith in cohen s truthfulness. if he believes this is in his best interests to cooperate, god bless him. he should cooperate. i do not expect that michael cohen is go to lie. he s going to tell the truth as best he ca ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation.on. reporter: after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. we re not going to hear opening statements today. it s possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. got it. pete williams. thank you very much. let me bring in national political reporter for the washington post and msnbc political analyst. two msnbc contributors. charlie savage. let me go over briefly this reminder about paul manafort and why the special counsel is interested in him. starts with donald trump. he hired paul manafort to run his presidential campaign in march 2016. prior to his work on the trump campaign, manafort did political work overseas. some for the pro-russian highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. he was the right hand man to manafort. what he ll have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. and senior reporter for the washington post, er rinne blake and anna palmer. carol, let me go to you. you are writing now about how the president sees this interview with robert mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. here s the thing, rudy giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. you know who s not? roberts mueller. that s absolutely true, hallie. robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. but one thing has not changed and that s the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes he s his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense tha ....
that so directly today. also tweeting about paul manafort, feeling frustrated, even victimized you might say that if there was, in fact, this previous investigation that we now know did exist where authorities had been looking at paul manafort back in 2014 about his financial issues which are the subject of the trial now, not directly related to the campaign. the president writes, paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. he worked for me for a very short time. it was roughly five months or so. why didn t government let me know he was under investigation? these old charges have nothing to do with collusion, a hoax. the president is right there that the financial issues that are being examined are not about the campaign. paul manafort worked for him for several months and he worked for him with the express purpose of helping the convention, people forget, you and i lived it, many of our viewers lived it with us ....