Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. 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 is two years ago from today as you pointed out you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. Lets go to Kelly Oconnell in new jersey also joining us u. S. Congressman Danny Heck Of Washington and glenn kushner. First to you, kelly in berkeley heights, new jersey not too far where the president is spending the weekend at the bedminster resort. I want to talk about the ten different ways weve counted that the president has refused to answer questions on camera regarding cohen in that 2016 Trump Tower Meeting in the month of june. Are we hearing any feedback from
the white house on this . And all of this Radio Silence on this matter,
so, i think what is of material significa significance, here, alex, we ve moved from the area to conspiracy. with the meeting hiding in plain sight when he admonished the russians to go ahead and get hillary clinton s e-mails. now with prior knowledge and intent, we re now beginning to inch into the territory of conspiracy. and what s the difference? well, collusion isn t a federal crime. conspiracy is. who do you think has more credibility right now, is it michael cohen or is it donald trump? well, i wouldn t want to have to rely on the credibility of either of them. but i m hard-pressed to understand why at this point mr. cohen would be lying. for me, the question is always, where are the incentives for behavior. and i don t see any incentive from mr. cohen at this stage of this whole sordid affair to be