David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio
Ayman Mohyeldin hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He walked that fine line. He was just very critical of the investigation. Not going after mueller in a personal kpcapacity. But with the tone of the tweet we just read, he is really trying to assign mueller a motive as to why hes going after trump eluding to things like he didnt get the job, Nasty Business Relationship that went sour between the two men. Do you think this is a different tactic now that were seeing that hes building up for the past several months . Hes been going after mueller for a while. I do think were at a critical moment here. Theres a lot of of expectation that mueller is building to some more indictments, to some more cases and theres that Obstruction Report that he has been working on for some time. And theres a generally belief that hes not going to do anything after labor day. He doesnt want to be accused of interfearing in the election in the same way that james com
A lot of things. Thanks, appreciate the reporting. Im joined by caroline. Lets get to the conflict issue and what the president wrote over the weekend. Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to prtd tr President Trump. What he was talking about with this alleged Conflict Of Interest and white house wouldnt tell cnn either when they asked this question. You think you know what its about and has merit. There are three things we know that President Trump himself stated, theres this lingering Potential Dispute over fees at his golf course and then of course the other issue besides the fact that mueller had worked for wilmer hail, the law firm that represented jared and ivanka and experts in the doj cleared, they vetted him to do this representation ethically. But the issue is that interviewed for ahead of the fbi with President Trump days before his appointment as special counsel. I think as everything in this case, hes grasping for straws. They are
designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn t the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easily and specifically and conveniently applied to that phenomenon, the phrase fake news, because these were, in fact, fake news stories generated for political purposes, that phrase was soon adopted by president trump and his campaign. and then ultimately by all republicans basically so that that phrase became theirs. and the way they used it, the phrase fake news no longer described the thing for which that phrase had been coined. it no longer described this
enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn t worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible bar barrism to make you feel like we were at the end of the line in terms of human beings being able to live alongside one another. when we came to understand what russia did in the 2016 election, those made-up false stories designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn t the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easily and specifically and conveniently applied to that phenomenon, the phrase fake