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you can t on its face determine whether it s unlawful or it s within the law. that s for prosecutors and fact-gatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. david? kelly, very quickly. you ve been in contact with rudy guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. and we saw rudy guiliani. we saw the president s legal team and the white house communications team this week talking about the president s tweets. what they signify to them. they talked about them as opinions versus orders when we got that extraordinary tweet earlier this week. it seemed to address the attorney general, jeff sessions, directly. let s take that and apply it to this. i am sure that we will hear from the president s legal team. this is the president spouting off. it s him offering an opin
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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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putin. we ll see about today. we re looking for the united states to improve this computer glitch. that does it for us. we ll see you right back here tomorrow. in the meantime, stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. good morning, everyone. i m stephanie ruhle with a lot to cover today. starting with answers, e-mails and calls. some of president trump s response to robert mueller s questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. late-night phone calls between donald trump and his associate roger stone and the president dangling a pardon for, guess who, paul manafort. emission failure. the va says it will not reimburse all veterans who were paid less due to a technical glitch. taking stock. markets surge after the fed chair suggests interest rate
increases might slow down. now an expected meeting between trump and the leader xi jinping over the weekend. there s a possibility a deal can be made. having said that, some caveats as always. we begin with
it sounds like he was still of the mind-set i will take a bullet for donald trump and now and you don t lie to congress about trump s business dealings in russia unless you know it s going to get you, cohen in criminal trouble, or it s going to get trump in a lot of criminal trouble. it sounds like michael cohen has now gone from taking a bullet for the president and lying to congress about the president s potential business dealings in russia when he was a candidate to maybe not being on the receiving end of those bull leslest bullets anymore. there was a lawyer connected to all this who, when cohen came out many months ago and said he would take a bullet for the president, said that it is often those who talk the toughest that are the quickest to flip. here we are now the second time
Judge yourself. correct. the president took an oath of office and that oath of office requires him to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that means the criminal laws and civil laws. there is nothing that allows the president to determine the investigation of him, for him to pick his own prosecutor and pick his own investigator and pick his judge, pick his jury and make himself innocent. that s not the rule of law that we have. for him to say that shows that he has not the slightest inkling of what our constitution requires and what our democracy is. it s very dangerous. because, obviously, they re getting so desperate. the news s is nightightening. if cohn engages in a cooperation agreement. donald trump is in real, real trouble. heavy duty trouble. deep water potential criminal trouble. as much as donald trump wants to continue to tell everybody