His son to cancel the meeting. He did not tell the fbi about the meeting. And if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack, because he went out just about a month and a half after the meeting and said, russia, if youre listening, which years ago from today, as you pointed out, you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. Michael avenatti, after, represents Stormy Daniels said Michael Cohen has far more incriminating things about the president. I demanded release of all trump tapes and stated at the time there were multiple recordings and we know there are indeed over 100 recordings seized. This information on the Trump Tower Meeting is not the best information Michael Cohen has. Issure you of that. Start with kelly odonnell. Not far from where the president is spending the weekend at his
bedminster resort. Good morning. The president refused to answer questions on camera about Michael Cohen and that infamous meeting at trump tower with the russia
source telling nbc news former lawyer michael cohen is willing to tell special counsel mueller that he knew about that meeting in advance. bring in a clumpi iscolumnist t daily beast and a political analyst. what do you make about the claims and how this changes the investigation for the russia investigation? this was actually a very important week, because what it did was, it connected these, for lack of a better word, the sex investigations, that part of the story, with the russian collusion story. and the connection is the accountant, allen weisselberg, now testifying before the grand jury. so we learned on these tapes that, you know, there had been this special unit that may have broken campaign finance laws in paying off karen mcdougal. then we learned towards the end of the week that, you know, this
they leaned heavily on his memo. i think i have a bit of what they had to say about him right after comey s firing. let s watch. he made a recommendation. he s highly respected. very good guy. very smart guy. that was the wrong one. ashley, my point is, this white house has leaned on rod rosenstein s credibility, his professionalism, his bipartisan sort of document that he created. and now they re lumpi ining him with everything that has wronged or slighted the president because of russia. can you talk about the effect of the president s russia obsession? sure. first of all, that s exactly right in that rod rosenstein is now being treated like just about anyone in trump s orbit which is they like him, until they don t. and it can switch on a dime. and so what they don t like, as we sort of discussed earlier in the show, is that this is someone who is making president trump feel out of control. and, you know, doing things that the president doesn t like in a way that the president