the details are and suggests essentially that the mueller investigation is over, there couldn t be any more to investigate, it s simply over and makes the point we re going to a report, quite confident there won t be charges against the president or close to the president. calls michael cohen s a scumbag never called as a witness because he has that credibity problem for recording the president, his client and as to whether there will be an interview, wouldn t rule it out. they had trouble getting connected on this point that the president still wants to do it because he wants to clear his name and didn t do anything wrong. what stands out to you from all of that so far? the fact that we re at a moment where i think everyone is so dug in on their positions. we have spent so much time saying, thinking this is a big turning point in the investigation and in people s perceptions of donald trump and nothing ever changes. you know, helsinki summit doesn t change, the kids at the
and they have said that at that point, they had thought that september early september would be a good guideline. i may have read into that that that s also a good time so you don t get accused of doing a comey and getting involved in the election. if he does not wrap it up by september, are you worried this will affect the midterms? yeah, i don t know which way. i mean, yeah, people against him get excited about it but if one of his biggest rallying cries, don t impeach. vote republican because they ll impeach. i think it sure as hell confuses the midterm and could be a go off on a ridiculous thing about impeachment. maybe you do. i don t think you want the american people voting on impeachment. you want them voting on taxes and russia and china eaand nort korea. as you sit here today, despite all of the stuff the president has said about how he doesn t think mueller can be trusted and doesn t think it s legitimate. you still believe if today they came back to and agreed to yo
fact that they were open for business to get that kind of opposition research and fact he encouraged hacking to go on again, we don t know where it trips up as a potential crime or those around him or whether there s a financial relationship with the russians. this is the part we simply don t know about any potential charges. that s where the rubber will meet the road. that s why ultimately judgment shouldn t be embedded on people s partisan affiliation, we need to look at the facts. we know the president saying russia, if you re listening, rudy made the point, some of trump s tweets provide plenty of information he argued for the special counsel. but there are also things he didn t touch, for example the question of the number that don jr. called after hearing the offer from the russians said he didn t know anything about that. that s a significant point that one presumably will find out the truth. despite all of this, jeffrey, despite all of the criticism of robert mueller
tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites. to find the best deal on the right hotel for you. tripadvisor. we are back with president trump s attorney rudy jewel nanny. mr. mayor, let me play the things you have said about michael cohen who you re not going after in no uncertain terms you mean before i knew he was taping his client? yes. correct. and lying? correct, listen to this. the man is an honest honorable liar. the man is a pathological manipulator, liar. which one is it? george washington would have said that about benedict arnold at a certain point of time. what are you picking on me for saying he was an honest man when i didn t know he was shaking down people for money and taping his clients and lying about
so much we don t know despite how much we talked about this. but this is fundamentally a political process. most revealing part of what he said to you, there will be a report and i ll be here arguing my interpretation and they will argue theirs. i think you re right there has been a fundamental judgment, depends on what we learned of course but people are dug in at this point and they have done a pretty effective job at taking trying to take todown mueller, the process. rudy has been very clear that his job is to play to the court of public opinion. you know i worked for rudy for many years as a chief speechwriter when he was mayor of new york. his job now as he sees it to provide the best defense possible for his client in the court of public opinion. and hard partisans are dug in. there are still some persuadables and as rudy has also been clear and we recognize, the question of impeach xt is ultimately a political one. there s the legal standard itself and they are clearly