The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Order is, territory now. And i wonder if theyve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up postenron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. They seem to be leaning on a First Amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up hes being scrutinized for the way these fit together. What Rudy Giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. The Idea Obstruction by tweet. He said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. The thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. He says, this is a witch hunt. There was no collusion. He repeats that over and over again. The thing is that does the president rea
that is still up in the air. amid donald trump s talk of hinting around of potential pardon for paul manafort, this trial does not seem to be going well for mr. manafort today. ben, one of the backdrops of all this is the meticulousness of robert mueller s prosecutors. i remember when the indictments were unsealed, all of the legal analysis was these were paper cases. on paper they looked air tight. what do you make of sort of that was a bipartisan analysis of the way mueller s prosecutors, his investigators had gone about their investigation. it was actually echoed by democrats and republicans, including on fox news when the russians were indicted a couple fridays ago, they had the key stroke evidence and it spoke to the meticulousness of mueller s investigators. what do you make of a fact that on a day like today donald trump strongly orders or suggest his attorney general fire mueller or end the probe and no one does anything? john tried to think of a
open. look, the president attacked me on twitter when i said he should think about himself and his family now, right? the loyalty from the president only goes one way? correct to most people. apparently not to his son-in-law, who, by the way, lobbied for michael not to be brought into the white house. interesting. i want to talk about something more significant, and that s july 27th. this is the day that donald trump asked russia, if you are listening, i would like to find you asked him the question. the emails. i said, were you serious? he said, yes, i am very serious. that keeps coming up. it was in the indictment that mueller released a couple fridays ago. a week ago now. he said that was the first time that the conspirators in the indictment, the russian intel officers tried to hack into hillary clinton s personal server. what did donald trump know on july 27th? is mueller focused on this date or why is mueller focused on this date?
cohen and his relationship with me meaning the president in the hope that he will flip. the president continued most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble even if it means lying or making up stories. however the president did not deny that his fixer did anything wrong. here s nbc s kristen welker pressing the white house on that. sarah, president trump tweeted over the weekend he doesn t expect cohen to flip. has he been offered assurances from mr. cohen? i m not sure about anything specific. i m only aware of the conversation from a couple fridays ago. reporter: why open the opportunity for him to flip? it suggests he has something to hide, doesn t it? no, i don t think the president has anything to hide. i think he s been quite clear on that. reporter: is the president open to a pardon for michael cohen? i don t think that we re going to talk about hypotheticals that don t exist right now. yeah, but you look willie, though, at the wait tos and
we haven t done that for a while. but there will be proposals put forward. the president put together a framework that i think is constructive. there are bipartisan groups working, several of them in the senate, to come to a solution. i think that we can, but if there is a problem in the end and we can t reach that, i think that these dreamers need to be protected. you said something earlier this week. you said that the president claimed to you, i had the meeting with chuck and nancy but then the base went crazy. so let me ask you, can you trust the president s word that he will stick by what he wants here when it comes to daca and an immigration compromise? we sure hope so. like i said, what he put out a couple fridays ago, the framework was actually helpful. i think there are some changes that need to be made to it, for example, legal immigration cannot go down significantly if we re going to have a work force that we need for the economy going forward. so there is some changes.