this coming as president trump does appear to be going ut alone. essentially acting as his own lead attorney. this was according to sources who say the president feels misled and no longer wants anyone else in charge. it is a decision with massive implications, given the fact president trump s personal lawyer and ficker of a dozen years is under investigation and his documents have been seized by federal prosecutors. that means the president, who does not have a law degree, is trying essentially take over his own defense and today he went on offense on twitter about the russia investigation, tweeting slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the phony russia veinvestigation. where by the way, there was no collusion except by the dems. of course, there s a huge problem with the tweet like that. and that is this. the president himself said last year on national television that comey was fired because of russia. regardless of recommendation,
as he goes into it. however when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. north korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. the conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. the goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. i will be meeting with kim jong-un in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the area
and the entire korean peninsula. the stated goal and now, not so much. i think it is a getting-to-know-you meeting plus. there is another one. whatever else you might think of the summit, that sounds like a different agenda. human rights might not be on the agenda either. here is the presi
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things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don t have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn t recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it wo
that s it for me. i m gigi stone woods. the news continues right now with my colleague, david, who s been tweeting this whole hour constantly. thank you very much. great to see you. good afternoon, i m david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. we start this hour with president trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. the president ending his week touting friday s economic numbers. second-quarter gdp growth of 4.1%, that is the fastest pace since 2014. he s not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal attorney michael cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that president trump had prior knowledge of that now-infamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what we ve learned this week. cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that michael cohen is willing to testify that donald tru
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he was indicted for payments made to a mistress, how much stronger would an election fraud kbas in this instance if you throw in cohen s testimony? they tell me it would be much stronger for the following reasons. they say these were not made to the campaign, they were made to keep them from john edward s wife. michael cohen prepared to go into court and say yes, these payments were related to the campaign. motherover the payments from john edwards were two years before he ran for president. these happened just a few months before the election, and there is a tape now where it is being made clear to him that this
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tower in 2016. this contradicts the president and junior s accounts, so if this is a true, how damaging could this be? i m not sure how big of a deal it would be when it comes legally i think