trump: thank you. when elvin was a boy, he and his family legally immigrated to the united states from the dominican republic. at the age of eight, he told his dad he wanted to become a special agent. today, he leads investigations into the scourge of international sex trafficking. he says that if i can make sure these young girls get their justice, i've really done my job. thanks to his work and that of his incredible colleagues, more than 300 women and girls have been rescued from the horror of this terrible situation and more than 1500 sadistic traffickers have been put behind bars. pres. trump: we will always support the brave men and women of law enforcement and i pledge to you tonight that i will never abolish our heroes from i.c.e. thank you. >> [applause] pres. trump: my administration has sent to the congress a commonsense proposal to end the crisis on the southern border. it includes humanitarian assistance, more law enforcement, drug detection at our ports, closing loopholes that enable chil

trump is. he is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat. >> cohen also alleging trump knew that wikileaks was about to release the stolen democratic national committee e-mails during a phone call with his longtime friend and adviser roger stone. >> you testified you were actually meet with donald trump in july 2016. when roger stone happened to come and tell mr. trump he had just spoken to julian assange. is that correct? >> that is correct. it was a short conversation and he said, mr. trump, i just want to let you know that i just got off the phone with julian assange and in a couple of days, there's going to be a massive dump of e-mails that's going to severely hurt the clinton campaign. >> so, mr. trump was aware of the upcoming dump before it actually happened? >> yes. >> the president previously told "the new york times" he never discussed wikileaks with stone. and wikileaks tweeted today that julian assange never spoke by phone with stone. roger stone released this statement today, m

trump jr. and the cfo of the trump organization. the other was signed by trump himself, months after he'd already become president. here's cohen on those revelations today. >> the president of the united states this wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. >> based on your conversations with him, there any doubt in your mind that president trump knew exactly what he was paying for? >> there is no doubt in my mind. >> cohen said that president told him to lie about those payments and he testified that the president had advanced knowledge that julian assange of wikileaks would release those emails. >> a lot of people asked me about whether or not mr. trump knew about the release of the release of the democratic national committee email ahead of time and the answer is yes. mr. stone told mr. trump that he'd just got off the phone with mr. assange and he told mr. stone within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of

he did to trump what trump has done to everyone else. he has damning testimony, he's insulted him personally and trump's in a box halfway around the world and can't do anything about it. the next leg of this, i think, is people inside the trump organization are going to start to have to decide do they take care of themselves, do they take care of trump or do they try to find a middle ground? i don't think they're going to ultimately be able to have a middle ground. >> mimi, how does that work? >> well, i mean, it sounds like allen weissleberg, for one, has already made a decision about that. he reportedly has an immunity agreement with the southern district. >> i want to be careful there because i don't know for sure, but just based on the reporting that we're gleaning, maybe you have more specifics, i think his immunity was pretty limited. so there is cooperation agreements and then there is immunity agreements. cooperation agreements are you tell us everything about everything. immunity is we're going to bring you in on this one day to

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump. >> and in your sentencing statement back in december in front of the judge, you said this, mr. cohen. my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump, a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness. is that accurate, mr. cohen? >> i wrote that. >> you wrote that and said that in front of the judge is that right. >> that's correct. >> let me read you a few other things and let me ask you why you did some of these things. when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, was all of that out of blind loyalty to the president? >> no it was not. >> when you failed to report 4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no i did not. >> and when you failed to pay 1.4 million in taxes, i got constituents who don't make that in a lifetime, when you fail to pay 1.4 million in taxes to the u.s. treasury was that out of some blind loyalty to the president of the united states. >> it was not. the number was 1.38 and change and i have paid that money

trump, donald trump jr., ivana trump and eric trump. >> in your statement back in december back from the job. you said my weakness can be characterized by donald trump, a blind loyal true that led me to choose a path to darkness. is that accurate? >> i wrote that. >> you said that in front of the judge, is that right? >> a few other things here, let me ask you, why you did some of these things. when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 , and 2016, was that all out of blind loyalty to the president? but no it was not. >> when you failed to report $4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no i did not. >> when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes, i have constituents, but don't make that in a lifetime, when you failed to pay that in taxes, to the u.s. treasury, was that out of some blind loyalty to the president of the united states? >> it was not. but the number one point changed and i have paid the money back. to the irs. think the american people appreciate that. >> i would also like to say, it was over the

trump and talk to him. i recalled don junior leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice which i could clearly hearsaying the meeting is all set. i remember mr. trump saying, let me know. >> and at that time, question, did you go up and talk to your father about it? trump junior, no, i wouldn't have wasted his time with it. trump junior, i never discussed it with him at all. this is so key, the context of that meeting and the different versions of what happened. >> yeah. >> that the president knew about it. >> and again, it's a meeting with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. this one, though, will come down to who do you believe? do you believe michael cohen? do you believe donald trump jr. there will be no evidence of that. one document to prove one way or the other. as to who do you believe with donald trump you have to talk about the context that he's said more than 8,000 fall statements during his presidency according to a count by "the washington post." that's 8,000 plus. >> and a t

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump. >> and in your sentencing statement back in december in front of the judge, you said this, mr. cohen. my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump, a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness. is that accurate, mr. cohen? >> i wrote that. >> you wrote that and said that in front of the judge. is that right? >> that's correct. >> let me read a few other things here and let me ask you why you did some of these things. when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, was all that out of blind loyalty to the president? >> no it was not. >> when you failed to report $4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no, i did not. >> and when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes, i got constituents who don't make that in a lifetime. when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes to the u.s. treasury, was that out of some blind loyalty to the president of the united states? >> it was not, but the number was 1.38 and change, and i have paid

trump ever struck mrs. trump ever. i don't believe it. >> are you aware of anyone purchasing that tape, then. >> i don't believe it was ever purchased. >> you never saw this tape? >> no, ma'am. and i know several people who went to try to go purchase it for cash and kill purpose, it doesn't exist. in my opinion, that's not something -- >> good to know. is there a love child. >> there is not to the best of my knowledge. >> so you would pay off someone to not -- >> it wasn't me. it was ami. it was david pecker. >> he paid off someone about a love child that doesn't exist? >> correct it was about $15,000. >> okay. how many times did mr. trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf? >> quite a few times. >> 50 times? >> more. >> 100 times? >> more. >> 200 times. >> more. >> 500 times? >> probably. over the ten years. >> over the ten years -- >> when you say threaten, i'm talking about with litigation or an argument with -- >> intimidation? >> a nasty reporter that has -- is writing an article. >> what do

the attention of hanoi may be on donald trump, but the attention of donald trump is on washington. jon sopel, bbc news, hanoi. joining me from washington now years the nuclear safety hello. her research focuses on nuclear safety issues in the region, especially north korea. let's begin with what has been going on where you are in washington, dc, that testimony by president trump's former lawyer, it has been obviously capturing the imagination there, so tell us just how badly do is president trump need a foreign policy win here in norway to deflect what is going on at home? well, it is difficult to predict how this will impact on president trump, but i think we can say that the us north korea diplomacy that we have seen since last year has been a leadership driven process and it continues to be so. the good news is the two leaders have a good personal relationship. whether we will see change from the singapore summit in june, the leadership process continues, by president trump is under pressure to produce results in hanol under pressure to produce results in hanoi, so we will see.

trump needs them and they need trump. it's uncomfortable and it's weird, but they're sort of stuck with each other at this point. i think the difficulty to navigate for this reality gap is that yes, coal mining is not coming back in this country, steel jobs are not coming back in this country. if they are coming back they're done by robot, not trump supporters. and sort of cruel nostalgia he's peddled to people, a world from the 1950s so perfect and everybody can work a high school education can get a job and pay for a family and vacation and retirement house didn't exist and never exists now. i don't think the time window is long enough to disillusion these people away from trump. part of what they are involved with in trump they've given up on the system, given up on america, and they just want an avatar for all their vengeances and resentments and their feuds with people they don't like. >> and elie, matt slap whose wife worked for donald trump previewed the next thing these folks want, tomorrow will be the first day t

there will be no trump wall. but donald trump cannot stop talking about the wall that exists only in his dreams. and here is how donald trump insulted the intelligence of american voters today. >> we're building as we speak in the most desperately needed areas, and it's a big wall. it's a strong wall. it's a wall that people aren't going through very easy. you're going to have to be in extremely good shape to get over this one. they would be able to climb mount everest a lot easier, i think. >> there's no wall. not one word of that was true. and everyone knows that. during the government shutdown, faye smith, who is a security guard at the smithsonian, went to mitch mcconnell's office to ask him to do his duty and pass a bill to re-open the government. >> i'm here today to bring my bill for mitch mcconnell to show him, if you're not familiar, i'm on a second chance program. i have to have my rent in on time. i have no more money coming in. i am a barred at the smithsonian institute and i need my rent paid and i h

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trump. only donald trump could find a way to push that number up. tonight president trump is flying across the pacific to another meeting with north korea's dictator, kim jong-un. the president is doing everything he can to make this week's headlines focus on his meeting with the north korean dictator, but washington will not allow that to happen. even the slightest development in robert mueller's investigation would be enough to make him turn away from his trip, and michael cohen saying the crimes he committed with donald trump in order to win the presidency will prove impossible to contain for president trump and his allies trying to keep that focus on north korea. and tomorrow the house of representatives will hold an historic vote, a vote of disapproval of the president of the united states and his declaration of national emergency to take money away from other government purposes to build a wall on the southern border that congress has decided not to build. the resolution already has en

trump. >> mr. chairman, i have a point of order. >> state your point of order. >> rule f, rule 9 f of the committee rules say that any testimony from your witness needs to be here 24 hours in advance. the committee, the chairman knows well that at 10:08 we received the written testimony and then we received evidence this morning at 7:54. now, if this was just an oversight, mr. chairman, i could look beyond it, but it was an intentional effort by this witness and his advisors to once again show his disdain for this body. and with that, i move that we postpone this hearing. >> second. >> second. >> i want to thank the gentleman. let me say this, that we got the testimony late last night. we did. and we got it to you all pretty much the same time that we got it. i want to move forward with this hearing. >> mr. chairman, with all due respect, mr. chairman, this is a violation of the rule and if it was not intentional, i would not have a problem. i'm not saying it was intentional on your part. i'

trump: finally. for years, the united states was being treated very unfairly by friends of ours, by members of nato, but now we have secured a $100 billion increase in defense spending from nato allies. they said it could not be done. [applause] pres. trump: as part of our military build-up, the united states is developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system. under my administration, we will never apologize for advancing america's interests. for example, decades ago the united states entered into a treaty with russia in which we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capabilities. while we followed the agreement and the rules to the letter, russia repeatedly violated its terms. it has been going on for many years. that is why i announced that the united states is officially withdrawing from the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, or inf treaty. [applause] pres. trump: we really have no choice. perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding china and others, or perhaps we can't - i

trump. >> if you watch him on television he is in essence a surrogate for the president, in his speech, in his response. rarely if ever that i can recall criticizing the president because no one is perfect. we all deserve to be criticized sometimes, it's warranted. so he's essentially a surrogates for the president. my question is, though, it's been reported they communicate all the time, he and the president. do you think the president could have encouraged him to do something like this? >> i think he needs to answer that question. and it's one thing to be a surrogate for the president on policy. it's another thing to abdicate your constitutional responsibility to be an independent branch of government and coordinate in defending the president in obstructing the inquiry of congress. that's a very serious matter. >> let's talk about you're on the house oversight committee. tomorrow is going to be historic. what do you want to ask cohen? >> like your gusts said previously is stick to the fact

trump is. he is a racist. he is a con man.d is a cheat. >> woodruff: ...michael cohen testifies president trumpim directedo lie and break the law and that mr. trump personally reimbursed r hush money while in office. we help put the claims of mr. trump's former lawyer in context ath response from lawmake a former special counsel on what today means fointhe stigations into the president. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> eric trump, donald trump jr. or alan weisselberg. >> they knew this payment was false and illegal? >> i can't make that conclusion. >> you told representative kelly that the president was aware of this scheme. >> that's correct. grip the american public to understand the explosive nature of your testimony in this document. are you telling us mr. cohen, that the president directed transactions in conspiracy with alan weisselberg and his son, donald trump jr., part of criminal conspiracy of financial fraud? >> yes. >> do you know with this criminal financial scheme that the president, alan weisselberg and donald trump jr. involved in is investigated by the southern district of new york? >> i'd rather not discuss that question because it could be part of an investigation going on. >> i want the american public to understand. it's only a part from bob mueller's investigation, there's garden variety financial fraud in your allegation and the smoking gun documents suggest, the president, his son and cfo maybe involved

trump, donald trump, jr., ivanka trump and eric trump. >> in your sentencing statement back in december in front of the judge, you said this, mr. cohen, my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness, is that right? >> i wrote that. >> you wrote and said that in front of the judge. >> that's correct. >> let me read a few other things and ask you why you did some of these things. when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, was all that out of blind loyalty to the president? >> no, it was not. >> when you failed to report $4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no, i did not. >> and when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes, i got constituents that don't make that in a lifetime, when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes to the u.s. treasury, was that out of some blind littlety to the president of the united states? >> it was not. but the number was $1.38 million and change and i have paid that money back to the irs at this

trump? president trump has long been established by many fact checkers, not exactly allegiant to the truth himself and as far as i know never convicted of lying to the fbi or congress. >> some very, very explosive charges he's leveling against the president of the united states. >> effectively bank fraud by saying to deutsche bank that his net worth is more than according to michael cohen who says he knows these things and it was fraud against just generally against the american people. maybe fraud is the wrong word. i'll let jeffrey to be toobin and the lawyers over there, as aggressive as michael cohen has tried to be in saying mea culpa. i realize i'm not the perfect messenger, the republicans have continued to help him with that in an even more aggressive manner and the one potential problem that i thought michael cohen has is when he was asked if he wanted a job in the white house, and he said no. our reporting, i know, pam you have been told and i have been told by people in and around

trump, donald trump, jr., a ivanka trump and eric trump. >> in your sentencing statement in december in front of the judge, you said this, my weakness can be characterized as blind loyalty to donald trump, a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness. is that accurate, mr. cohen? mr. cohen: i wrote that. >> let me read a few other things enemy ask you why you did some of these things. when he filed a false tax return 2014, 2015 and 2016, was that out of blind loyalty to the president? mr. cohen: no, it was not. >> when you failed to report for million dollars in income to the internal revenue service committed you do that to protect. trump? mr. cohen: no, i did not. rep. jordan: when you failed to pay $9.4 million in taxes, i have constituents who don't make that in a lifetime, when you fitted to pay that to the u.s. treasury, was that out of some blind loyalty to the president? mr. cohen: it was not. but the number was 1.38 and change and i have paid and i have paid that money back to the i.r.s.. it rep. jordan: i think the american people appreciate about 1.38. : and th

>> i did it to protect donald trump, donald trump junior, ivanka trump and eic trump. >> in your sentencing statement back in december in front of the judge, you said this, mr. cohen, my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump. a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness, is that accurate, mr. cohen in. >> i wrote that. >> you wrote that and said that in front of the judge, is that right? >> that's correct. >> when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, was all of that out of blind loyalty to the president. >> no it was not. >> when you failed to report income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no, i did not. >> when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes to the u.s. treasury, was that out of some blind loyalty to the president of the united states? >> it was not. but the number was 1.38 and change. i have paid that money back to the irs. >> i think i the american people appreciate that 1.3. >> i also liked to say it was over the course of five years. approximately 260,000 a year. >>

including trump himself calling out to the russians and the trump tower meeting. there was just so much on the plate already, and i think it's striking really how early on mccabe and others saw that there was a real issue here and this wasn't just about politics. >> and we're going to get into the politics in a minute because one of my favorite exercises is to imagine if this was a democratic president doing all of these things. republicans would be camped out sleeping in tents outside the white house holding impeachment hearings on their ipads. we will get there in a second. i want to stick with sort of the evidence mccabe had to support his move of opening a counterintelligence investigation. there was this anecdote about who donald trump trusted when it came to the nature of the north korean regime. watch this. >> essentially the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the cape ability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states, and he did not believe that because president putin had told him they did not. president putin t

president trump is exploring other avenues. we have heard him talk publicly about this national emergency that could be declared if there is no agreement on border wall funding. nancy pelosi just a couple days ago declared -- made it clear that they are not willing to budge on that. we probably won't see a $5.7 billion which is what president trump and republicans want. emergency,national we have never seen that be used for border related issues. it is not something that presidents use often. we know that president obama used it for swine flu back in 2009. president trump is exploring that. we don't know how that would pan out in the court. there would definitely be some objection. president trump the court would side with him if it made it that way. we are also hearing from the washington post that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is not excited about the idea of a national emergency being declared for border wall funding. apparently republicans could potentially come up with some sort of resolution to totally shutdown t

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i did it to protect mr trump donald trump jr even could trump and eric trump. and in your sentencing statement back in december in front of the judge you said this mr cohen my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness is that accurate mr cohen i wrote that you wrote that and said that and from the judge that right that's correct and you read a few other things here and let me ask you why you did some of these things when you filed a false tax return in two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen was all that out of blind loyalty to the president no it was not when you fail to report four million in income to the internal revenue service did you do that to protect donald trump no i did not and when you failed to pay one point four million in taxes i got constituents you don't make that in a lifetime when you fail to pay one point four million in taxes to the u.s. treasury was that out of some blind

one check co-signed by trump's son donald trump jr. and the cfo of the trump organization allan weisselberg. the other signed by donald trump himself. months after he had already become president. cohen was asked about his public explanations concerning that payment. >> mr. cohen, you sent a statement to the reporters that said, "i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to miss stephanie clifford and neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was party to the transaction with ms. clifford and neither reimbursed me for the payment either directly or indirectly." was the statement false? >> the statement is not false. i purpose lly left out mr. trum from that statement. that was what was discussed to do between mr. trump, myself, and allan weisselberg. >> did the president call you to coordinate on public messaging about the payments to ms. clifford in or around february 2018? >> yes. >> congresswoman katie hill, california democrat you just saw there questioning cohen, will join us later in this hour.

untruths were on behalf of donald trump in the interest of donald trump, whether it was trump tower, any of these things, a woman. these were not for michael cohen's benefit. the untruths were blind loyalty. the premise is you can never believe someone who's told an untruth ever, ever, ever again. i'm going to take everybody out at this table. think we're pretty honest people. that doesn't apologize for what he did but there's no logic. that means anybody that's ever done anything wrong or that we can't believe, and particularly coming from the other side where we know we have a president that has lied 8,000 times. >> yeah, listen, here's the other thing, not all liars are the same in trump world. paul manafort and mike flynn were liars eligible for pardons at one point. if you're to believe that john dowd dangled pardons innen front of those witnesses. >> michael cohen, no pardon or ever want a pardon. what people are going to see tomorrow, nobody heard from michael cohen other than the few minutes he spent with stephanopoulos. nobody has seen what i have seen, some other people hav

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump. >> in your statement in december in front of the judge, you said this, mr. cohen, my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to mr. trump that led know choose a path of darkness, is that accurate mr. cohen? >> i rote that. -- i wrote that. >> you wrote that and said that. when you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was all that out of blind loyalty to the president? >> no, it was not. >> when you failed to report $4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? >> no, i did not. >> when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes, i have constituents that don't make that in a life time was that out of some blind loyalty to president of the united states? >> it was not but the number s $1.38 and change and i paid that back to the irs. >> i am sure the american people will appreciate the $1.38. >> it was over the course of five years approximately $260,000 a year. >> that's what i said, five years. got it. when you made false statements concerning a home equit

trump? >> i believe so. >> when you arranged a payment to ms. clifford, you stay in your testimony, i'm going to quote from your testimony, that you did so, quote, without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether it was the right thing to do. you said that. unquote. that's your testimony today. you said you didn't even consider whether it would be legal. how could you give your client legal advice when you're not even considering whether it's legal? >> i did what i knew mr. trump wanted. this conversation with mr. trump -- >> i didn't ask whether you were a good fixer. i asked whether you awere a goo lawyer. >> sometimes you have to meld both together. i needed to at that time ensure and protect mr. trump, and if i put my -- which i'm clearly, clearly suffering the penalty of, i clearly erred on the side of wrong. >> so you feel like, without bothering to consider whether it was proper much less whether it was the right thing to do, by ignoring any conscience, if yo

world the trump campaign trump's financial dealings trans personal life he's also leveraging that closeness to offer a very damaging character assessment those two things together make him sound very credible now we've seen the way the president has reacted to michael cohen ever since cohen quote flipped on him and started cooperating with investigators start cooperate with prosecutors he called him a rat he's threatened him he now. talks about how his security is under threat his family is under that big and he directly accuse the president of causing these threats to his safety here. but again cohen sort of in a tough spot trying to turn on his former boss as representative jordan pointed out trying to paint him as this ultimately very bad guy now if you're someone who doesn't support the president this is something that you know you are the new you are he knew that this was something trump was capable of this is what he was like if you're someone who supports the president and you you see good in him and you want him to be a good president for the united states. this is going to be inter

president trump tweeted at 10:00 p.m. to amplify the reports, just out big deal, telephone calls after the innocent trump tower meeting that thel, media d dems said were made to his father were just conclusively found not to be made to me. they were made to friends and businessfr associates of don. really sad. last night house intel committee chair said democrats are pursuing the phone records after republicans on the committee dechiened to comment when they were in power. schiff said the outcome does not rule out other possibilities.d >> those conversations could have taken place over the phone or taken place by don jr. walking down the hall to talk to dad, but t it's key to understanding the president's involvement in all of this. >> we already know that the president and his son misled the country about meetings the campaignet was having with russians. they denied they even took place. when they were confronted with meetings liex louk the meeting in trump tower, they misled the country again about what took place in th

donald trump's deal. let's play hardball. >>> for the very first time robert mueller's prosecutors have revealed a quid pro quo between the trump campaign and russia. i'm chris matthews in washington. we have an explosive show for you. >>> we're following the face up with

trump is. he is a racist, he is a conman, and he is a cheat. >> cohen today detailing never-before heard information about trump's hush money payments to women and on russia. now cohen originally covered up for president trump on paying hush money to stormy daniels. today, though, we saw it, $35,000 check reimbursing cohen for the payment. you see that check. it is one of the exhibits produced by michael cohen today signed by donald trump, signed by donald trump. look at the date. he was president of the united states when that check was signed. cohen testified today that president trump called him while he was president to make sure that he continued to lie about the payments to daniels. >> did the president call you to coordinate on public messaging about the payments to miss cliffords in or around february 2018. >> yes. >> what did the president ask or suggest that you say about the payments or reimbursements? >> he was not knowledgeable of the reimbursements and he wasn't knowledgeable of m

if donald trump jr. and jared kushner took this meeting innocently, in ignorantly and sort of stepped into it -- it's possible. but mr. manafort? he would have clearly known what the russians were up to. >> two nights before the meeting on june 7th, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. >> we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> we just don't know if the speech that donald trump made is a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. >> for all the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time he hardly gave it a second thought. >> i didn't care about the meeting. it sounds bad, but it's true. i didn't care. i wanted my client to be happy. that's always my ultimate goal. >> coming up -- >> so tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? for powerful clar

trump. >> do you believe michael cohen provided key information to the special counsel, robert mueller, about the collusion part of the investigation? >> i can just tell you, based on, you know, what we've seen from michael cohen's -- his plea, that he has provided hours of testimony to the special counsel. this is a team that's moving expeditiously. doesn't have time to waste. and i would just conclude that, you know, looking at how long he spent with them as compared to others who have been relevant, it would appear that he has been quite helpful to me. >> what was your assessment, congressman, of what michael cohen had to say about roger stone, assange, wikileaks, damaging democratic e-mails during the campaign. >> i watched michael cohen testify yesterday about the exchange with roger stone, it really just confirmed what most of us had believed based on all the arrows pointing in the direction that roger stone had told donald trump about what julian assange was doing. from our investigat

meanwhile on the substance, it's trump who armed ukraine, it's trump who sanctioned russia and it's trump who's trying to stop the construction of a gas pipeline. those foreign-policy geniuses can't take the fact that present trump is actually succeeding where they failed. >> out-of-control, excuse me, you can use exactly those words to describe the iraq war which told us would literally last two months, not eight years. >> he was right it wasn't eight, it was 18. according to brown university, a combined cost of the post 911 found that half a million people died in iraq as a result of war related causes. never. [inaudible] but they condemned to pull them out of syria. it's just as clearly talk about the economy. they wrote trumps economic. [inaudible] it's not an illusion you out of touch idiot, they are seeing the substantive benefit of 5 million jobs. wages are rising for the first time in decades and gdp is topping 3% after all the experts said it would never happen. it's not some kind of cosmic coincidence, it's the result of having a pro enterprise, pro- worker president in the whit

what exactly did he tell trump? what did trump say to him? that's not anything we've gotten answers to so far. >> and how much was he in contact with the children? >> and other members of the trump organization, including the children. absolutely. >> it's not just russia. it is finances. it is -- >> and i expect if the hearing is done appropriately and the right questions are asked, at the end of the day -- >> that's a big if. >> big if. michael, myself, ken dilanian, the whole nbc investigative crew will have leads on other stories and other projects to look at. >> we'll see. and we'll see how much mike come h -- cohen answers. and whether or not we can read into some of the questions he is not able to answer in front of the committee. that could say just as much. >> or doesn't want to answer. >> so much. we're all going to be watching. thank you, guys, very much. >>> and next, what would a successful summit with kim jong-un look like? im jong-un look like? after months of wearing only a tiger costume, we're finally going on the trip i've be

i wonder why they keep talking about trump and jackson, jackson and trump. i know the feeling, andrew. >> michelle, is this the soft bigotry that trump is innocent of knowledge of his favorite president? >> it's more that the best you can say for trump, the sort of only affirmative defense of trump is that he's historically ignorant about the one president who he claims to model himself after. that's sort of the best case you can make for trump. clearly he knows what the trail of tears is. at least enough to reference it in a nasty tweet. i also want to respond to something that rebecca nagle said. full disclosure, my husband has been consulting for elizabeth warren. but we are not the same people, same person although we are not like the conways. you wouldn't work for somebody if we didn't both support what she stood for. i want to say elizabeth warren did, in fact, have a native american ancestor and grew up believing this was part of her heritage and identified with it. i think she was mistaken and she obviously shouldn't have identified herself as native

trump is. he is a racist, he is a conman, and he is a cheat. >> reporter: it was a high stakes do-over for cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying to congress. >> the last time i appeared before congress, i came to protect mr. trump. today, i am here to tell the truth about mr. trump. >> reporter: he came armed with a long list of accusations. he says the president knew ahead of time that wikileaks founder julian assange was going to release hacked dnc e-mails that were damaging to hillary clinton, because he heard trump talk about it in a 2016 call with his adviser, roger stone. >> mr. trump put mr. stone on the speakerphone. mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, "wouldn't that be great?" >> reporter: both the president and roger stone deny this ever happ

the operation of the trump organization the trump foundation and around a lot of you know trump's otherwise entrepreneurial activities like trump university and others which have been disbanded so he knows a lot and you know this just feels like a mafia trial where a guy you know deep inside who had the ledger books and you knew what was going on is confessing all or at least intimating that he's got a lot and because he is going to jail already it's interesting that while he could he could add to that you know he is coming off rather well and stable and sound in this very fascinating you know highly tense discussion and back and forth he made reference to a check that the president wrote reimbursing cohen himself for house money and he also said that trump knew in advance from roger stone about the we can leaks drop of e-mail to damage hillary clinton's campaign that was back in twenty sixty and out of those two which is the most potentially legally damaging revelation to the president. it's hard to go either or the president has denied knowing anything about the wiki leaks but as you know