all of this. this is consistent with the president s ethics and values. i think he would admire a guy who might double dip here or there, might hire the girlfriend of don jr., might hire eric s wife. this is all very consistent with how trump world operates. he is a swamp monster, and that s familiar to them. i spoke to mckay coppins earlier. he wrote his piece for the atlantic when he reported jared sporting a jacket over his oxford shirt and he had a good time with it. there is a real fight over who is heir apparent and who really represents the trump family and brand. so i read mckay s article today, and i thought directionally his reporting was correct. what s interesting is that ivanka obviously arrived in washington in the white house with her husband as the senior advisers and was perceived to be
extraordinary. we went into the weekend thinking the top item for rudy giuliani and jay sekulow was how they would respond to the request for interview. this has up ended their agenda. thank you. and here with more on what that means for the president and for his son donald trump jr. is glen kirschner, a number toer federal prosecutor. we have john lamear with us, he covers the white house for t th associated press . the president is on his 11-day working vacation. glen, let me start with you and what s at stake here looking at that tweet, reiterating what we heard from geoff bennett. there are three things at play here. the contradictions from the first statement handed out by representatives of don jr. and jared kushner. then you have this line at the end of today s tweet, i did not know about it. the president trying to distance himself here from what happened in trump tower back in 2016. and finally that third issue,
tape. he doesn t have anything to prove this version unless someone else will corroborate it. you have all these people lying or repeating lies they were told if cohen is right. that s the problem, erin. there s a credibility issue all around. the president is the father of don jr., who was involved. he allegedly worked on a letter. we don t know the extent of this. what he knew when. it s a credibility issue. it s about proof and how request you prove it? that s something we have to find out when he comes back. you know, you are right, and one of the problems here is michael cohen is not the most credible of characters, but what he is saying absolutely plays, right? it has the loudest ring of truth
one statement don jr. did describe was the crafting of the purpose of the meeting being about russian option. question, to the best of your knowledge did the president provide any et its to the statement or other input? and he responded owe he may have communicated via hope hicks. let s first obviously this is fascinating to look at these transcripts and we ve had people poring over all of these pages, you guys among them, good work. is there anything in here that is going to be of interest to the special counsel? i think everything in here is going to be of interest to the special counsel. there is so much ambiguity in the answers to these by these witnesses and so many i don t remembers, that mueller, who has
well, he has hired martin and jane ras kin, to wonderful lawyers out of florida along with rudy giuliani and those guys have the task of preparing the president for an interview if he decides to go forward with the interview. what you just did there, that mock cross-examination is exactly what these guys need to do with the president so that when he walks into that interview, he has gamed this all out, not in a game sense, but he has prepared himself for this interview. he knows what they know as much as they re able to, so that he can answer these questions as truthfully and fulsomely as possible. another burning question, here s one that mueller s team would like to know, what involvement did you have in the communications strategy including the release of don jr. s email, the air force one statement about that russian