evidence. for instance, donald trump jr. called an unlisted number shortly after that meeting. get cell phone numbers leading to donald trump himself would be very strong evidence. brian, the president verbally silent, publicly speaking. you go to twitter and in a tweet says cohen is trying to make up stories to get himself out of an unrelated jam. different than the tone when the pr president called cohen a great guy. can you make heads or tails what this looks like? estranged now and unlikely to ever come back. michael cohen has turned on the president. he has in public actively is trying to undermine the president s story on this, and those tweets are really significant, because the president has put in black and white on the record what his version of events is, and there s no going back from that. that is incredibly significant.
did. reporter: referring to friction the president caused with nato leaders after demanding they boost defense spending. friday, for the first time, the president shared a national security council meeting on election interference, but notably, the official statement did not mention russia. his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in you are 0 elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. the president refused questions ten times this week. mr. president, sir, is michael cohen lying? reporter: after news his former attorney, michael cohen, is prepared to tell authorities that mr. trump was aware that russians offered to bring dirt on hillary clinton to a trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. in 2016. mr. president, did you know about the meeting at trump tower? reporter: but his only response has come on twitter. i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. then suggests a motive for cohen under investigation.
is to hurt the united states steals american citizens documents and offers them to you you have to have if you re of any common sense or a patriot or any ethics have to look into that before you jump. part of this problem is, it goes to the fact that i think people have become so partisan now they see their political enemies as real enemies, and, therefore, actual foreign enemies that can help them, they re willing to sort of work with them to take down their political enemies. we really are in a bad place if that becomes sort of the standard operating procedure. okay. i want to get to the president s hil cin helsinki meeting. talking at the senate foreign relations committee hearing this week. take a listen. a number of conversations with president trump about what transpired in the meeting and present when he and president putin gave a synopsis what took
government approach. big foreign policies, everybody has to be moving in the same direction. the problem with this administration is, there seems to be a,eneder the president policy and then whatever the president happens to say. trying to square those two things is really hard. can i ask you your thoughts on the fact that vladimir putin has invited president trump to moscow? the president s apparent willingness to accept? hasn t done it yet, but do you have concerns about that? if the president goes to moscow for a meeting? i have concerns about it but i think probably everybody in president trump s administration also has concerns about it. i don t think anybody under him supported the helsinki summit. and now they ve seen what came out of it, they certainly don t want a replay of that anytime soon. president trump seems to have his own sort of game going. sort of likes to stick his finger in the eye of everybody and it s the george costanza foreign policy. do the opposite of wha
june meeting, this now knnotoris june 2016 meeting, might have been something that donald trump knew about. it s a little bit like a mob case. you have liars on both sides, but just because somebody is established as a liar, like they re trying to paint michael cohen in the trump camp, doesn t mean that he won t be credible on the stand. if it comes to a try. so, you know, this idea that they can kind of knock him out by saying that this guy that they used to have in the family is now a liar which is what giuliani is saying, that s not necessarily going to work for them. but on twitter yesterday, you have the president lashing out at michael cohen, dibbling down de doubling down on the meeting, that he knew anything. would they take the president s word over michael cohen? jonathan, i disagree. i think they are going to be successful, the trump camp, in painting cohen out to be a guy