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profiting off his ties to people in power. and companies that hired him like at&t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. i know the game. i understand it. so many people have come up, lobbyists. i said i don t want money from lobbyi lobbyists. the system we have is broken. a guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. it is time to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. that s the best case scenario of what cohen has been up to. here is the thing. there are numerous reasons to believe that scenario may not be the truth. for starters, let s start with this. prior to taking money from corporate clients, cohen s llc of central consultants was being used to pay hush money to the president s mistress and unexplainably to a former government. specifically focus on u.s. tax reform, major trump campaign issue and the time warner merger. this had been announced by at&t in october just before the elect ....
the white house press corps have had for him all week about this. he also left for bedminster this afternoon, ignoring questions once again. it s just a pattern of this white house refusing to answer for why statements made both from the president and also from his senior aides at the white house press podium have not turned out to be true, or at least they are now under question based on what we now are hearing from what michael cohen might have to say to special counsel mueller. it wouldn t be the first time that sarah sanders has had to correct herself after making statements about what the president knew and didn t know, but this time sarah sanders hasn t even been available to answer questions about this. the white house has been virtually silent. yeah. is there reporting on how the president is feeling about the latest news? reporter: well, the president has been very angry. that s what we re hearing from an administration official this week. he s been watching the cover ....
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isn t illegal. let s watch. i ve been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. it s not. collusion is not a crime. i don t even know if that s a crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime. the hacking is the crime. the hacking that certainly is the original the president didn t hack. of course not. that s he didn t pay them for hacking. it s so much fun. an apparent shift in strategy. giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. you saw him there chuckling about it. and also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of president trump s frequent and categorical denials that there was no collus ....
A look at the day s news and headlines. at low containment. bill: it s a big job. probably something we deal with all week. thank you live in redding, california. sandra: president trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the funding he has been demanding. the president firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. which includes the wall. must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc. and go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a government shutdown. it sure is. history has shown that whenever there has been a government shutdown in the past it is the republican party that takes the blame for it ....
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. i had an aide next to my ear nearly screaming within the last several minutes when the president was with the italian president in the oval office but it s an example of just how hard they are trying to keep reporters from asking the president questions. obviously they can t be do that in the news conference coming p up. you may see the president with the investigation, the president may be tempted to call on somebody in the friendly conservative media to lob a softball at him. we ve seen him try to do that before, wolf. it s one of these q&a questions. two questions from american questions, two questions from italian journalists, is that right? that s right. obviously the president at some of these two plus twos, one thing that we ve noticed is at the very end of it, this happened at checkers with mueller and the special counsel calling him out by name. there are some glaring factual errors in ....