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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
Russia investigation? how closely is it being watched? oh, i think if you if you re sitting in london as i am in europe and beyond, people are watching this. i think there is a confusion, sort of a lack of understanding as to why it is that americans don t universally take this more seriously. i think a lot of people see this as clearly below the standard that you would expect of an american president. but on any number of dimensions. you raise the question of tariffs. obviously juncker was in washington last week and that meeting turned out at least in the short term more favorably than many expected. so there are a number of dimensions on which around the world we re not seeing coming out of the white house from the president, from people around him, what one would expect. so the russia investigations are yet another dimension. and certainly i think that