Footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. We have doubleteamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information . And what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. Theres no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the Washington Post, no one has figured out where Michael Avenatti got all this Banking Information about Michael Cohen. And weve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. We have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what Michael Avenatti reported p p we have these Big Companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to Michael Cohen. Now we have the treasury Inspector General reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious
reports from the Banking Sector and if thats the way he got this information. If thats the way he got it, and the
The president right when he says witch hunt . Yeah, sure. You cant explain this any other way. A gog. Its a word you dont see in newspapers often, in fact, i dont think ive seen it before. It was in their report today of how people in the white house reacted toll Rudy Giulianis performance. Quote, the White House Council had no idea, neither did the white house Chief Of Staff nor the White House Press secretary nor the new white house lawyer, they watched agog as he freestyled on Live Television wednesday night about the president s legal troubles and unveiled an explosive new fact that trump reimbursed his long time personal Attorney Michael Cohen for the 130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels. Rudy giuliani went on fox friends to try to smooth over the mountain of lies and inconsistent statements now that have been told by donald trump and Michael Cohen about the Stormy Daniels payment. Michael cohens first statement about the Stormy Daniels payment was on February 13th which he said he was
Quote of the night from the french president , whose choice of english words to describe the wife of australian Prime Minister turnbull led to this. I would like to thank you and your delicious wife for your warm welcome. Delicious. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Its been an amazing 24 hours even by the actionpacked standards of 2018, there has been lots of drama and washington. As you well know, Rudy Giuliani revealed on the shale on hannity show that payments cohan made to a star stormy daniels, which seemed like a major story at the time. But within hours it wasnt even the biggest story of the day. Nbc news reported that federal Law Enforcement had wiretapped cohens phone, it and recorded a
michael cohan certainly seems a shady character but shadiness is not a cry. The fbi cant destroy your life because you talk like a character from the sopranos, those arent felonies. Basic norms were violated, attorneyclient privilege is an ancient and vital concept, an
And later, my conversation with senator Kiersten Gillibrand. But first we are following a wave of breaking news. Rudy giuliani tells the New York Times and nbc news Robert Mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by September 1st. So far we have not heard anything from the Special Counsel ourselves. Robert costa from the Washington Post reports an important asterisk. That deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. At the same time, President Trump ordering the Justice Department to investigate an if in Fib Informant who was used in the early stages of the russia probe. The president tweeting, quote, i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. As for the president using the power of his office to intervene in an ongoing Justice Department
investigation, maybe we shouldnt be too surprised.
Hes said the word spy 17 times since last friday. Adam schiff who was at the second meeting said he heard no evidence of a spy in the campaign today. There is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any Intelligence Agency placed a spy in the Trump Campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. Well, cnns chief Political Correspondent dana bash joins us now. Shes got new reporting on Rudy Giulianis takes on the briefings today. I know you talked to giuliani about emmitt flood and how he ended up in the briefings. What did he say . Thats right. I talked to him a couple of times tonight before coming on. I did ask him if emmitt went to these meetings at the behest of the president or maybe under orders of the president . He says he hasnt told him the answer is yes, but Rudy Giuliani tells me he assumes that was the reason why flood went, because
the president , his client, and the person who emmitt flood now works for inside the white house wan