in a trump tweet. as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. these agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth. that sounds like it might have been him. the rudy trump statements were described to me by two sources familiar with the president and giuliani s thinking as a quote strategic play carried out last night and this morning, not a gaff or a stumble. the goal according to one of these sources, make clear to cohen that trump still has his back ask try to prevent him from flipping and cooperating with federal prosecutors. the sources adding, rudy and the president believe they, quote, know some of what was taken out of cohen s office and if you know what they have, you start putting it out there yourself to control the narrative. end quote. joining me at the table jim mussina, former white house deputy chief of staffer for president obama, also his former campaign manager in 2012, eugene robinson, washington post columnist, jennifer rubin also an opinion writer wi
made up story, it s an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. that they should have won. he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn t a target of the investigation. he s entitled to that. hillary clinton got that. and he couldn t get that. so he fired him and he said, i m free of this guy. so, we ve got, we ve got the old rod rosenstein defense which fell by the wayside the minute donald trump sat down with our own lester holt. i was going to fire him anyway. i didn t like the way the russia investigation was going. rudy said he fired him because comey refused to tell the president he wasn t a target of the investigation. there s a lot of stories here that we re hearing, nicolle. there is only one version of the truth. i think the one that is most likely is the one that is closest in time to when comey was fired. it s the story that he told lester holt and it s a story
client? i think we gained a number of i think this. we have yet another version of events relating to the $130,000 now we have michael cohen s states, the statements of michael cohen s attorney, david schwartz. we have the press briefing statements. we have the president s statements an air force one and now we have the fifth version which is mr. giuliani s statements related to what happened. i think all of that, the inconsistency across that s various statements adds fuel to the fire in our ability to get a deposition of mr. cohen and a deposition of mr. trump. that s first of all. second of all, if donald trump actually knew about the agreement, knew about the arrangement, still didn t sign it, inthat also benefits us. there is also reasons that we don t believe that the nda will ultimately hold up. make in mistake about it, inthe more that mr. july jewel rudy, if you are listening, if we can send a car for you to go
personal attorney and fixer michael cohen for the hush money paid to the porn star. sorry, i m giving you a fact now that you don t know. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. oh, i didn t know he did. i might have to hear that again. trump previously denied any knowledge of the $130,000 payment to cohen, but trump doubled down on the new version of events as debuted by rudy on hannity in a tweet this morning writing in suspicious untrumpian language. mr. cohen, an attorney, thanks for that, received a monthly retainer. lots of punctuation here. not from the campaign, and having nothing to do with the campaign, comma, from which he entered into, come a through reimbursement, comma, a private contract between two parties, comma. we are going to check, these are the most commas ever, ever seen