he fired his attorney general and replaced him with a critic of robert mueller. he's threatened a war-like posture with democrats. he's threatened to investigate them if th

mueller or control robert mueller. robert mueller does not care about how he's depicted in the press and robert mueller is going to get to the truth about donald trump. >> one of them talks all the time. one of them talks never. one of them served in vietnam. one of them had bone spurs. one of them is on twitter. >> one of them still weighed what he weighed when he was 18. >> one is under investigation. the other is investigating that guy. this is a position the president has never really been in. >> ever. >> he's never been in a place, tim knows this, where if he lied he'd get in trouble. where he couldn't push something off or countersue or -- his entire toolbox of how he gets out of problems in his life. how he's gone through his business. it's unavailable to him. this twitter account is valuable to the country. it's like an early warning system. we can see him popping off. something is going on. >> i defended this today. i was asked why we cover his tweets. i said, listen, he fires cabinet secretaries whose agencie

but we know robert mueller kept his head down and is going forward with his investigation. every time something comes out we go oh, my, and robert mueller's six months ahead of that. so all i know is that i leave my faith in that be rot mueller is going to do the best job he can and will present the facts in a very thoughtful way that can be presented to the public so they have faith in him. that's the most important thing, as he presents it, he will present facts, not ifs, not maybes. and that's something we can trust. it won't be coming from the president or democrats or it won't be coming from republicans, it will simply be coming from the special investigator. >> paul manafort not cooperating any longer with the team. how much of a blow is it to mueller's team and does it delay this investigation? >> i think it is a blow and probably does delay the investigation to some extent. but that doesn't mean the debriefings with him were completely useless. it sounds like mueller reached the point where he thinks he has no credibility as a witness because he lied but there may b

. >> what is it robert mueller is doing with michael cohen's deal here and his guilty plea? >> what i find most interesting in the course the controversy that mueller wanted, pulled over the draft plea agreement mueller wanted him to sign, what is interesting about cohen and corsi, mueller is clearly hunting for trump. there was a lot of speculation about trying to bag trump. these are moves by mueller to get a clean shot at trump. patent succeed. does he have something more than these two individuals. >> listen to trump yesterday. >> making statements to the house and senate, he put out a statement talking about a project that was more or less an option we were looking at in moscow. a well-known project during the early part of 16 and even before that, i didn't do the project, decided not to do the project so i didn't do it. we are not talking about doing a project. we are talking about not doing a project. michael cohen was convicted i guess without putting it into legal terms. he was convicted of a very long-term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organizat

we got the news that donald trump is working on his answers to questions to robert mueller. i have a 17 -year-old daughter applying to colleges right now and i imagine that same scenario. [laughter] really? no collusion. next question. so i want to talk about collusion on how we portrayed in the book because with the defense republican conservative champions of the trump presidency no evidence we ever colluded with the russians so with that there is no evidence that trump sat down with military hackers to explain how to hack into the dnc with what documents to release but we portray a series of events in the book that point there was a type of with the trump tower meeting in 2016 to send the message to the russian emissary to meet with her. that also goes to paul manafort and running the trump campaign the troika of the top they all get the e-mail not much came out of that meeting that the emissary is coming of cra secret scheme the kremlin had to help trump. so what did they say in response to that secret plan? in his own words, i love it. so forget about what came about of

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. >> what do you think robert mueller is doing here? >> what i find most interesting about this, this is a guy who mueller wanted to plead guilty. over what was essentially the draft plea agreement mueller wanted him to sign. muellerinteresting is is clearly punting for trump. the four there was speculation, is he trying to back trump. i think it is clear the answer is yes. tose are moves by mueller get a clean shot at trump. they did not succeed. does he have something more than these individuals? >> michael cohen has made many statements to the house and senate. he put out a statement talking , which wasroject more or less of an option we were looking at. it was written about in newspapers. it was a well-known project. it was during the early part of 16. it lasted a short time. i did not do the project. doing aot talking about project. we are talking about not doing a project. convicted, iwas guess. he was convicted with a long-term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organization having to do with the irs. and i don't k

dismissal as ais threat against special counsel robert mueller's ongoing russia investigation. evidence uncovered by the investigation or a confirmed presidential effort to obstruct it could get house democrats grounds for impeachment. although nancy pelosi says she would not support suchch a move unless it is a bipartisan effort. womanakistani christian has been freed from prison a week after the supreme court overturned her conviction and death sentence. she spent eight years on death row after neighbors accused her of making derogatory remarks about islam and the court decision to release the mother of five has sparked protests and death threats against her. we explain. years,eath row for eight she has finally left this prison. the christian woman n is believd to remain in protective custody over fear for her own safety. -- foreign ministry said rumor she e s flown out of t country had sparked anger among some residents. wrong. decision is the government should review it and bring her back in, and she should be given strict punishment. >> the decision last week by the suprem

and so robert mueller now has that. lawyers always love to see people who've gone down a path they're going down so they can find possible road markers and precedents. i assume this document will be very useful to robert mueller. >> i would think so. it sounds from the way that road map was written that it is something that would be sort of in the spirit of how mueller might do his report. in other words, it was done in the voice of the grand jury. so it invoked the authority, the legal and moral authority of the grand jury, and it was very factual, here are the facts and not sort of putting a lot of spin or argument or analysis on it. i think at the end of the day that's the kind of report that mueller would be likely to write anyway given sort of what we know about him as a prosecutor and as a person, and that will carry the most weight because we need people to look at facts and evidence. that is what is sorely missing in this sort of debate that goes on where rudy giuliani puts his spin on things on tv. and mueller

they should not be able to end it, -- with robert mueller's investigation in any way. they should not be able to end it or interfere with robert mueller doing what he thinks is right, and that will help guide us as we go through this process. >> is there anything you as do to stop a nominee? if schumer: we would hope there is a constitutional crisis that our republican colleagues would join us in supporting the ting thet -- thwar president from creating that crisis. we don't know because he has not done it so far. a do you have any hope of deal on taxes? mr. schumer: one of the things democrats proposed in both the house and senate was reducing some of the huge tax breaks that went to the wealthiest and corporations and corporations in putting that into infrastructure. hopethat is something i the president will consider. >> democrats campaigned on a $15 minimum wage. we have not heard more about that. >> we want better jobs and better pay and we will look at different ways to get there. nancy pelosi said she was calling on the trump administration to with draw their su

a source familiar with michael cohen is said to have spent over 70 hours with robert mueller's team on a variety of topics, including russia. >> reporter: michael cohen dropping a bombshell in federal court pleading guilty to lying to congress about how much the president knew about a potential trump tower project in russia during the campaign out of loyalty toe president trump. >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> the plea agreement says the man who once said he'd take a bullet for the president gave information to special counsel robert mueller during more than 70 hours of questioning between august and november. according to course documents, among other things, cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with trump referred to as individual one on more than three occasions, cohen claimed. while cohen told congress last fall that the moscow project ended in january of 2016, he now admits discussions about the project lasted as late as approximately june 2016 when trump was the presumptive republican nominee. cohen now admits he made the false statements to p

on his way to meet with robert mueller's team. robert mueller again pushed back the sentencing of former campaign official rick gates because he is still cooperating on, quote, several ongoing investigations. and we saw two days of jerome corsey, a friend of roger stone's predicting in online video he will be indicted by the special prosecutor for perjury. the attorney general followed justice department rules and reaccused himself from overseeing robert mueller's investigation of the president. president trump has been very public about this reasoning for well over a year. donald trump is so relentlessly ignorant about history or ethics or norms or what integrity looks like that he actually has no idea that he was not supposed to ever say publicly i want to fire my attorney general because he's not protecting me from an investigation. but now that he's done that, there is not yet any evidence that the person he installed to control the mueller investigation is actually controlling the mueller investigation. republican senator lip

it's with the special counsel, robert mueller. and for the first time it involves cohen admitting to committing a crime in order to cover up the president's dealings with russia. mueller revealed in a filing today that cohen even had a 20-minute phone conversation with an assistant to long-time putin lieutenant after requesting help in getting trump tower in moscow built. he denied he responded to cohen's appeal, a lie, it means the russian official told the same lie michael cohen did. in other words, think about this, the president's bag man and putin's deputy were both working on the same coverup. confronted with cohen's testimony today trump displayed one of his truly distinct skills, which is to pretend like he has not been caught when he so obviously has been. >> there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. when i run for president that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business. i was doing a lot of different things when i was running. even if he was right, it does

look, this is all speculative when it comes to robert mueller. they have been very closed off and nothing has leaked out of this investigation, but we keep hearing time and time again that this investigation appears to be closer to a conclusion than anywhere else throughout the process, so if the president is anticipating that we may be getting a report soon, that may explain his behavior. >> we'll have much more on the breaking news. we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. (music throughout) mopping robotthe from irobot. its precision jet spray and vibrating cleaning head loosen and scrub stains. all while navigating kitchens, bathrooms and those hard to reach places. you and braava jet ordering it from outback. easily enjoy all your favorites when you order outback delivery or curbside takeaway right now. outback steakhouse. aussie rules. pai'm open to that.medicare? outback steakhouse. lower premiums? extra benefits? it's open enrollment. time to open the laptop... ...and compare medicare health plans. why? because plans change, so c

we don't know that's why robert mueller's investigation is so important. we will ultimately know all of the facts because he seems to have more of the facts and more people plead guilty and are found guilty at the end of the day, but what we do know is there are far more tentacles into russia than had previously been disclosed. and so one has a legitimate question as to whether, number one, he does have economic interests there that are affecting his judgment, whether oligarchs have invested in his business and lastly, does all of this affect the way in which he responds to russia which seems to be incredibly benign as a time in which putin is violating the international order left and right and putin only understands strength and so long as he continues to do what he's done for example, in ukraine in taking those ships, arresting the sailors, violating the international law on the high seas, he will continue to march forward in this regard and be a risk to the national interest and security of the united states. >> senator bob menendez, thank you so much

that's what robert mueller has been able to do. i think we have a lot more to do. >> good of you to take the time to talk with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> if you're a democratic sta r staffer right now, what are you doing and what are your priorities? >> they already have a wish list of questions they want to ask and devin nunes wouldn't let them ask. republicans were asked leading questions and when democrats try to follow up, they would cut them off. they can go back against michael cohen's testimony and see who was putting out this false story about the russian deal ending in january versus june. >> only six prosecutions for lying to congress. i think that number would surprise a lot of people. is that about to change? >> i think it is. i think mueller's plea agreement with cohen yesterday really shows that he's very serious about holding people accountable for lying docongress. all those people who thought i can shade the truth here, i doesn't really matter. they are caught in a trap because they are on the record sayin

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maybe he thinks robert mueller is getting close to something? we know there has been a tremendous amount of activity about roger stone, and donald trump, jr. has not been contacted in any way. >> the president has had little visibility into what mueller knows and what he has and this move is one way the president will be able to get a better view of what mueller is up to. the president said multiple times saying i could run this investigation if i wanted to and order people fired, and this is a better way to get what kind of evidence there is and all the calls for whitaker to recuse himself, and i don't think it's going to happen because president trump was unhappy with sessions for recusing himself. >> the republican senators that praised mueller at the outset and then said integrity must be protected. are they going to ring their hands and sit on their hands? >> gentlemen, thank you very much. we have to get to our breaking news. there has been another mass shooting in america. let's get to the new developments. >> announcer: this is cnn break

robert mueller would never -- would never make the deal that the lawyers may be pressuring is that they don't ever have to have follow-ups. these questions reportedly do not include anything about the obstruction and there is no way that robert mueller would agree that he's just never going to ask the president question and he's not going to try to do it. that's not in keeping with his character or any prosecutor i've ever known. >> that could be the hold-up. they still want answers to obstruction's questions and the president's lawyers want a guarantee, that you'll leave us alone on obstruction. >> president trump may have unwittingly revealed his true intent to install matt whitaker as his new acting attorney general in an interview today. asked who might replace whitaker as a permanent attorney general, the question that did not mention the mueller probe at all, he digressed into a rant about the russia probe. whitaker's just somebody that's very respected. i knew him only as he was with jeff sessions and, you know, look, as far as i'm concerned this is an investigation that should n

there is no cooperation between michael cohen and robert mueller's team, even though mueller spent a significant time talking to him. he has also spoken to prosecutors in the southern district of new york about the other charges that he pleaded guilty to including, of course, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. so the question is is this an effort to perhaps get more leniency ahead of his sentencing coming up on december 12th. it's unclear at this point who will be present in that courtroom when michael cohen does plead guilty to misleading congress. that is something to watch out for. robert mueller's team, their reaction to this, and what led to this because presumably he told congress what he told congress. but we know robert mueller's team has already been looking into this issue, what the president knew about the trump tower deal and moscow. and so the question is is through that investigation they were able to uncover that what michael cohen has told congress didn't line up with the fact that they had from other communications from other people involved in this investiga

chuck rosenberg, i'm going to you on all things robert mueller. this was always going to be a precarious time. donald trump, whether feeling backed into a corner by democratic gains or emboldened by republican gains and as only trump could be both in one moment he seems to be. but the concern was always going to be the fate and future of the mueller probe. my understanding it's now likely in the hands of a staunch trump ally, a person more a political figure than respected legal mind and someone who has written openly about his concerns and displeasure with the duration and the direction of mueller's probe. >> that's right, nicolle. you've characterized it fairly. you don't get to be the acting attorney general and overseeing the mueller probe following the dismissal of jeff sessions unless they know -- trump knows, the white house knows what you think and how you're going to act. i hate to say that. i would hope that matt whitaker could rise to the occasion. i hope he understands the gravity of this investigation. and that his reputation and the

is robert mueller threatening to subpoena donald trump and haul him before a grand jury? i think this is part of the negotiation that's playing out between the trump team and the mueller team about what answers trump is going to give. i don't see how it's okay for trump to say he's not going to answer questions about obstruction of justice, a main part of robert mueller's investigation, but that's their position right now. because they believe that that probe stemmed from the firing of james comey and trump had an absolute right to do that. >> let me suggest a strategy. they'll say, you can have half of what you want, you can have written answers, which is nonsense, because lawyers write the answers and they'll be cleverly written. but i've got this new guy, matthew whitaker, who's any attorney general, and he's not going to push for any sort of subpoena, so live with it. how about that? we'll give you something, but don't ask for more, because i've got a guy that's going to defend me. >> if that happens, mueller has to report that to congress. >> he has to tell the congr

mueller could ask about, and a couple of pieces to this, written questions may or may not satisfy robert mueller, and we will have to see. typically, when i have talked to legal experts they say, hey, somebody wants to be in person to ask the questions, and the special counsel did -- >> i think that we just got the piece. let me play this tape of the president. >> we are writing up rules and regulations to make a position. i they you were treated very unfairly, and both of you, unfa unfairly, because you have somebody interrupting you, and if they don't listen to rules and regulations, we will end up back in court, and we win. but more importantly, we'll just leave. and then you won't be very happy. because we do get good ratings. >> you talk about rules and regulations, what do you mean? >> decorum. you can't take three and four questions and just stand up and not sit down. you have to practice decorum. you were there. you understood. and you understand. we want total freedom of the press. that's very important to me. more important to methane anybody would believe but you have to act w

why does robert mueller care about it? >> we knacare about it a lot because it goes to the heart of integrity. paul manafort was also charged with witness intimidation. that charge arose while his indictment was pending. they added additional charges and the fact that they tried to tamper with witnesses led to him -- his bond being revoked and him being put in jail pending his trial. so why does it matter, nicoll sne frank is exactly right. we have to show intent. when you try and get people to change their story, when you reach out and ask them to remember things in a certain way, you're essentially saying to prosecutors and to agents, i did something wrong and now i'm trying to cover my tracks. that helps me as a prosecutor show that intent that's required. as frank said, either to charge obstruction -- i'm sorry, to prove obstruction of justice or to prove witness tampering you have to prove someone acted corruptly. that's a hard thing to do. mr. stone is making it a bit easier for us to do that. >> congressman swalwell

mueller or have robert mueller fired? did i get that right? >> i do believe that. and also, if the president believes that the only way to clear his name is for the mueller investigation to clear his name, then he would not fire him. because otherwise there's no way donald trump gets his name cleared. >> do you actually believe that? or are you just trying to convey that to president trump, trying to convince him psychologically, some sort of vulcan mind melt here, that don't do this, president trump, because you want to clear your name. do you actually think that he has this red line? >> i do. because i think he would have actually, in fact, executed a firing of robert mueller. i think he does think in his mind that the majority of the american people would rise up against him and that the judiciary committee and now the democratic control of the house would be a check in balance on his ability to do that. >> congressman ted lieu, thank you so much. and presumably, congratulations on your re-election. i'm assuming if you

robert mueller and his team? >> reporter: there are a lot of theorys, of course, one of them is he forgot. a memory issue. i think that's the least credible. i think there also is this looming concern that there is a pardon waiting for him in the white house when this is all over. i hope that's not true. pardons in this circumstance would certainly raise serious questions about whether this president or any president is above the law in the united states. >> do you believe a pardon by manafort by the president would be an ad mission of guilt by the president considering manafort's role in the campaign? >> yes, i would. >> that's a serious charge. the white house, by the way today said at least sarah sanders said she doesn't think there is any considerations of pardons right now. she was specific on. that how concerned are you, that a potential government shutdown would put the mueller investigation on hold at least for the days there would be no funding for that investigation? >> i don't know the internal working

bmu -- robert mueller. a sentiment echoed earlier today by mitt romney, the republican party's 2012 nominee for the white house, mitt romney said that the robert mueller investigation should remain unimpeded. >> senator elect romney. >> pleats bring in david chalion. republicans lose the majority of the house, the president declares victory and fires the attorney general what do you make of all of it? >> i thought he was going in to put his spin on the election. he did pad his senate majority. lost the house. he hung on to some governorships in key states, ohio and florida. there were things for him to tout and yet, he has this press conference where he relishes the fight with the press. he jumps right to threatening democrats, don't you dare investigate me or i'm going to use senate republicans to go right back at you. immediately after he fires sessions, because he didn't want today to be about the fact that the democrats won the house of representatives in a pretty sweeping result. >> what's your bottom

we'll talk about the president's most recent attacks on special counsel, robert mueller. why is the president going public and suggesting that a pardon is possible? >> you know, wolf, you describe this interview as stunning. and it is quite stunning. the idea that he is going public with possibly pardoning paul manafort. if you flash back just to yesterday, the "washington post" asked him the same question. he wasn't willing to go on the record publicly to talk about this. and now we have him going on the record publicly. in some ways, it's not surprising. because we have heard the president in the past speak pretty, you know, favorably about paul manafort, even as he tried to separate himself from him. he called him a brave man. at some point he suggested he was being unfairly targeted. but he was being treated worse than al capone. i think the question now is why is he doing this? and essentially breaking from the advice of his team around him that wanted him not to talk about pardons publicly, because they feared that mueller might see this as interfering in an ongoing

the information that robert mueller has. and so to frank's point, we don't know all that he has and we don't know if he answers all of frank's questions. we certainly know that he's got more than was stated in that document. that means that we suspect that there are going to be family members, potentially don junior would be the most likely, that should be worried about what kind of information mueller has about his relationship to conversations with russians. but also, if you put all the facts together, which we don't have time to do -- you did a great job of running through some of it -- we have all kinds of contact between the trump campaign and russians. remember that michael flynn -- he conceded that he lied about conversations with the russian ambassador during the transition about softening -- his not being upset about what they were going to say or do about sanctions because of a different deal. this was all happening in concert with donald trump in the campaign, trying to make money off of russia. and when you put a

lying to robert mueller, trying this kind of stunt on robert mueller is a very, very bad idea and it could land a lot of people in jail and possibly some lawyers in some very hot water. >> richard, when you're home in minnesota people come up to you over the weekend at a cocktail party or a football game and they ask you just tell me something, do you think mueller has the goods, do you think mueller has the case? how do you answer? >> it's pretty clear he's got the case. most people i know in minnesota are well aware that robert mueller's got the case. just look at president trump's twitter feed today. i mean, he's tweeting out pictures of all of his political enemies behind bars saying when are the treason trials going to begin? he is attacking robert mueller again on twitter. just today president trump threatened to declassify information in order to retaliate against the democrats. so he is going to destroy our national security, make us vulnerable to our enemies by disclosing classified information simply in order to get retribution against his political enemies. this is a very

so what does robert mueller get out of this and what doesn't he? >> well, you're right that it is of somewhat limited value for the reasons you identified. the other reason is that these answers are likely being drafted by lawyers. i mean, with president trump's input as to the substance of them, but they can be, you know, tweaked and edited and revised my lawyers. and so that limits the value to some extent. but nonetheless, as ken said, it does lock president trump into a story. there are certain facts that are going to be true or not true. and it will be very difficult for president trump to wiggle out of those things later. you know, when he talks to the media, it can be very free wheeling and one day he can say one thing and one day the other. this is a very sober process where these are the answers that he represents as truthful. and so, he can't later on down the road say that that that wasn't the case. so in that way, it does help narrow the scope of the facts for robert mueller. >> we also know about this president, that he does like to ki

well, suppose robert mueller was not entirely convinced that paul manafort was pulling strings. suppose mueller was very careful in what he said to manafort in the way he posed questions to manafort, not to give away any sort of concrete documentary evidence or any other evidence he might have of trump's fo trump's foreknowledge of that meeting. so manafort could tell trump essentially they've got nothing on you, you can deny, you could say you didn't know anything about it and they've got nothing. in fact, they might have something. so i don't discount robert mueller's savvy regarding manafort and his true allegiances. >> jerome corsi is the other character from trump world who is pulling away with what was to be an agreement with the special prosecutor to plead guilty to a single perjury count. ari melber interviewed jerome corsi today. and the audience should know at the outset he's a pathological liar. he was the originator of john carry's attacks on service in vietnam where he was served honorably and was decorated in combat. jerome corsi, part of it was the originator of t

is robert mueller's job in jeopardy right now? >> well, i -- i think the -- the real question is what robert mueller does as special prosecutor. with his recommendations for possible future indictments and future steps that have tab taken, is that going to be jeopardized by now having this individual now have oversight over that prosecution? i think it raises some very serious legal questions hearing. i think under the president and others feel about that investigation, but if they cart that game with how that sessioning proceeds, they will cause problems for themselves. if they want to raise additional issues with regards to the obstruction of justice, let them play this game because it's a dangerous game to be played. >> i guess the bottom line is you know the white house chief of staff, it's often been recordy. are you worried that the president is ready to fire more people now that the mid-term elections are over? >> well, you know -- you know, presidents certainly have the right to fire who they want. that's not the issue. bu

said they expect to be indicted by robert mueller. after a break, former watergate assistant special prosecutor jill wine-banks and former prosecutor will join us with their views of what happens when and if the president does give robert mueller written answers to some of his questions. i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> the jerome corsi drama or is it dromedy continued today. today was just one day after jerome corsi, an associate of roger stone, announced he expected to be indicted by special counsel robert mueller. today what he decided to do was cancel at the very last minute an interview with nbc news anna schecter. she explained exactly what happened today to chris hayes tonight. >> he actually came to rockefeller center. i sent a car for him. he was out on 49th stre

are going to try to say that robert mueller is illegitimate and set up for his dismissal now will that succeed two questions one is there enough resistance in congress not just from democrats but some republicans to try to check this and to how does robert moore move legally with this process when is he ready to present the evidence not only against allies of donald trump the donald trump himself that's probably going to be in the spring so like is donald trump in his inner circle let's say four months to get him out to fire him before they have to face the music. so and that's actually not the only news that we have coming from washington because also yesterday during the president's press conference there was a dispute between the president and a c.n.n. reporter jim acosta asked the president about the migrant caravan headed north and things really heated up i'd like to play this video and then get your reaction after there we go well if you go on as president that this caravan was an invasion as you know i despise your senator to be to as you know this president karen was not an inv

we're 18 months into robert mueller's special investigation and he has the cooperation of a key player steeped in both trump's business and presidential campaign. michael cohen told the court he's guilty of making false statements to congress about the trump tower project in moscow. this is huge. and cohen is already being called back to testify in front of congress. >> what does it mean now about how much we can rely on what the president is saying about any continuing russian financial interests? this i think only underscores the importance of our brangiing mr. cohen back before the committee but looking into the issue of whether the russians possess financial leverage over the president of the united states. >> today cohen officially named the president in court. this is key, because it ties trump to the trump tower/moscow discussions, well past the time that the president claims those business negotiations ended. of course, the president had something to say about it. >> he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. he's a weak person. and not a very smar

>> i think robert mueller is a man who does his job. he does it according to the law and the rules that have been prescribed to him. i think what you'll see is a dedicated, persistent investigation that follows the facts that are necessary to determine whether laws are broken. that includes getting answers in this case from the president. if the president is unwilling to provide answers that are necessary to complete the investigation then they will follow up as is appropriate under the law with whatever tools are available to make sure they run every fact down. >> okay. the relation -- revelation there could be something going on, what's your immediate reaction? >> what is in the facts underline that is a draft or actual indictment or criminal complaint. there sure is a lot out there in the public record that would warrant investigation. as you reported at the top of the hour, what you see is already in public charges there's a near 100 million dollar russian conspiracy to undermine our elections. part of that conspiracy the russians u

it's not rare when it comes to robert mueller. he already has had problems with witnesses who have been involved in plea agreements at one stage or the other. papadopoulos essentially became hostile to them, even as a cooperating witness come to the point that mueller try to increase his sentencing, which the court rejected. corsi refused to accept the deal, according to his own account, because he felt that he was being told to lie. this is fairly rare. usually these are witnesses who are desperate for deals, and really would not risk taking off a prosecutor. so clearly mueller is not getting what he wants. the question is, is he getting enough to get him where he wants to go? >> martha: so, mr. goodstein. i know that you don't believe this is wrapping up anytime soon, and nobody knows. but one indicator is that the president has responded to the questions. that was considered to be one of the last elements of all of this. but it does seem that the mueller investigation is frustrated with what they are getting, as jonathan turley

schumer: i just heard the news, but i would say this, protecting robert mueller and his investigation is paramount. it would create a constitutional crisis if this were a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the mueller investigation, and i hope president trump and those he listens to will refrain from that. let's see what we should do here. i know you will want to have other questions on this but let's do first the subject i talked about and then on this, and then on this, ok? i am going to stick to it. we will get your questions on the newest announcement. >> in your opinion, did kavanaugh negatively impact the numbers, the losses last night? mr. schumer: the bottom line is, we did not move forward and push forward on this nomination. the president did and he has a right to do it. but what they did is show the nation that republicans and president trump want to fill the bench with judges, justices who re anti-women's health care, who would side with radicals on no gun control. who would hurt though right's of women, minorities, voting rights, -- hurt the rights of women, minorities

it didn't matter to robert mueller. he is more interested in making the mainstream media bubble and fairs like alka-seltzer and he is just desperate. all he wants to do is mention russia. all of their entitlements intee people. under any circumstance purchase we can mention russia. breathless reporting, giving credit to its never ending witch hunt. by the way, robert mueller is playing your media with their bias in their hate of trump just like a fiddle. watch this. speak to shakespearean because somebody who said it would take a bullet for donald trump. he is now pointing the gun. michael: could be the most terrifying person for donald trump. the single most destructive person for donald trump going forward. >> i believe it. >> reaction from michael: when the news but michael cohen was exactly what we as prosecutors always hear from mob bosses. the cooperator is lying. he is saying these things about me that aren't true. this is kind of playing out exactly like a significant complicated organized crime prosecution woul

robert mueller has taken his testimony and since he signed on and made a plea agreement said that he believes michael cohen has a lot to offer and that he is credible. if cohen is saying we were talking about this for much longer. the trump tower meeting for much longer than i said and there's documentary evidence to back it up, robert mueller is saying i trust you with this. what else can you tell me? what else can you back up? the big question now is donald trump has sent over his answers to the special counsel in regards to a number of questions about collusion. not obstruction but collusion. does robert mueller have the answers and says this lines up with everything i've heard from the other people i've interviewed or does this contradict this person. does this contradict that person? was donald trump being honest or was he caught in a trap there? >> ties to a sanctioned construction. a country in financial peril. >> when you're an investigator, you look for the who, what, when, where, why. this could be the how. i'm sorry. this could be the why. why would donald trump want to wo