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 years ago from today, as you pointed out, you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. Michael avenatti, after, represents Stormy Daniels said Michael Cohen has far more incriminating things about the president. I demanded release of all trump tapes and stated at the time there were multiple recordings and we know there are indeed over 100 recordings seized. This information on the Trump Tower Meeting is not the best information Michael Cohen has. Issure you of that. Start with kelly odonnell. Not far from where the president is spending the weekend at his
bedminster resort. Good morning. The president refused to answer questions on camera about Michael Cohen and that infamous meeting at trump tower with the russia
responsibility. pursuing and investigating the president is within their p purview and they should pursue. if the talk of impeachment becomes the primary focus of the media, the public, at the expense, i think, of the issues that will end up defining this next election, which is health care, the economy, income inequality, guns, race issues, things i think people are focusing on more and more, you can do both. depends how you balance it. matt, pick up on that. you get a sense even though the president is tweeting about impeachment, just yesterday morning saying how can you impeach him when he s been successful in his words. you get a sense the republican party wants the democrats to go into this and start this process? yeah. i mean, to be honest i m not sure i understand what the house democratic position is, depends which member you ask whether they have actually started
to do with russia and it is a federal crime and charged here and people pleaded to. that s a nonprosecution agreement. it was not in robert mueller s p purview. they were involved in the manafort investigation. some aspects of that something that the office took a look into. they have the jurisdiction to look into the issues and that s why you re seeing this prosecuted in new york. here, how many other investigations and what else is going on? right. that has nothing to do with russia that involves people in this white house. that s the big question. to the extepnt there s not necessarily a russian connection here, it s huge. donald trump who continued to deny, deflect, suggest nothing to do with it, the idea that he was in a room where an idea discussed, possibly concocted, about payments to people to keep something quiet for his own benefit in an election, and again, i m paraphrasing here,
interconnected over the last year and a half since mueller took over the investigation and all of these new questions surfaced about what did donald trump jr. know? had he been fully disclosing information to the congressional committees? is he in sort of the the p purview of the special counsel? imagine waiting for your flight to take off that says so much about what s happening in washington. what i would give to be that lady sitting directly across from mueller. are these guys even acknowledging each other? quite something. anyway reporter: yes. we chuckle now. thank you so much, kelly. see you again. bring in brian bennett, senior white house correspondent for time and nbc news digital reporter. gentlemen, good saturday morning to you. a source telling nbc news that michael cohen is certainly ready to tell robert mueller then candidate trump new in advance about his son s 2016 meeting with russians at trump tower.
this evening that these members are thinking, why is he going so far off the rails on this particular question? and why is he, is he pretending that this is some sort of constitutional restriction on him, when it s perfectly in the p purview of congress. they may assume he doesn t know that, but his reaction to it has very much marked, i think, the investigation, and helped set a certain attitude inside the senate about where trump is on this. and i think it s made them more skeptical and much more dubious of his excuses. evan, what do you think of that? i think that s right. i think this is a reflection of fundamental issues about the president, not sort of just typical back and forth between the executive and the legislative branches about legislation. donald trump is deeply vulnerable, related to russia, and issues related to russia that have to do with his activities, before the campaign and potentially obstruction of justice. so this investigation is naturally going to put him