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
react to elijah s speech and i was so proud to be an american watching chairman cummings, but as i said, where he gets teared up is when his kids get brought into it. you saw that very real. i just want to reset because it s easy to forget, two men, trump versus cohen and put yourself in cohen s shoes for a second. you re michael cohen and for years we ve seen this all take a bullet and everything. all of a sudden your life goes up side down because basically you were protecting the guy you were loyal to. and your life gets ripped apart and for the last year not only are you brought in front of courts days in and day out, you are called a rat, the dirtiest person in the world, the worst guy in the world and basically what you did is on behalf of the other guy and the other guy is the most celebrated man on the planet. you re going to jail because you are protecting the guy who then
partisanship here and that every time he throws out something it s going to have us all feeding on each other. he can just keep throwing these things out and trump will mischaracterize it or, yes, or no, and then eat each other up a couple weeks and do it again in a month. out of time. quickly, can i ask, any suspicion or concern the helsinki meeting could have been taped by vladimir putin? would that be typical standard operating procedure? i think you certainly he would try to do that. it was in the presidential administration building there. it would be unlikely, and they don t need to. president putin can sort of say whatever he wants to say in that meeting and cause trouble for us over here. thanks so much. good to talk to you. thank you. open warfare. up next, the pivotal moments that convinced michael cohen to go to battle with the president.
this is a person who was at his side in many, many situations. we ll see what allen weisselberg testifies to before the grand jury. he is so close to trump. you know, he comes out of his casino empire. been his accountant many years, worked for his father. he knows where all the bodies are buried. he s even along with trump s sons, a trustee of the business while trump is president. so talking about what he knows, and he will be compelled to do so before the grand jury, to a certain extent. this could get an awful lot messier for the trump family. thank you both. guarantee i ll speak with you both again. thanks. thanks, guys. rules for beating president trump up. why trump opponents should stop obsessing over that trump tower meeting. ahead on a.m. joy why claire
attorney michael cohen. calling him a liar. willing to tell the special counsel robert mueller trump knew about the 2016 trump tower meeting between his son and russia lawyer. joining me now, columnist for new york times and nbc pretty contributor brett stevens with a big welcome to you i can t wait to get to you this week. let s talk about this michael cohen. you re your reaction to this news overall, what are the implications of this going forward. they might be really serious, especially if cohen has a whole series of recordings. my fear is that i think the trump s opponents, and i include myself among them, have beeen cn i wantly consistently sort of banking on the expectation going to be smoking gun evidence. really bad news. michael cohen is kind of tainted witness. spent the time talking about what kind of lawyer he had been in his past life. the sort of jobs he did for