donald trump jr. michael cohen says that he and all the other people there then heard donald trump sr. assent to the meeting and say it should go forward. he approved it happening. if that's the case, this is -- this is very serious, not just in terms of what this means about michael cohen's case and who is leaking what. this could be a very serious criminal matter for the president. >> and immediate perjury case for the likes of congress for donald trump jr. because he told one of the congressional committees that he absolutely never ever told his father about this meeting. >> right. and, so, perjury claims, the question of who spoken to the special counsel, who has been interviewed. that will all become important here, as will the specific nature of what the then candidate now president was advised as to what those russians were bringing. if he was advised, they got her e-mails, this was hacked information. if he was advised this was stuff the russian government somehow obtained by criminal means, t

between michael cohen acting as donald trump's personal lawyer in trump tower in donald trump's office in trump tower two months before the presidential election. let's listen to michael cohen describing to donald trump what he believes he had to do to create a company to pay substantial amounts of money for the silence of a woman who claims she had a one-year sexual relationship with donald trump. let's listen to that tape. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of of all of that info regarding our friend david. i'm going to do that right away. i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> so what do we got to pay for this? 150? >> funding -- yes. and it's all the stuff. >> yeah, i was thinking about that. >> all the stuff. because here you never know where that company -- >> maybe he gets hit by a truck. >> correct. and i'm all over that. and i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing, which will be -- >> wait a sec, what financing? >> we'll have to pay him something. >> pay with cash. >> no, no, no, no. i got it. >> che

trump or donald trump's businesses being discussed, issues involving donald trump being discussed on 100 michael cohen tapes. >> i would go back to the tweet you reference in the top of the hour when trump tweeted what kind of a lawyer tapes his client. i would answer that a little differently than you. i would say the kind of lawyer that tapes his client is a lawyer that has a client that's telling everyone he's taping everyone else. when you, as a reporter, would go into trump's office, he would say you don't mind if i turn on my tape recording system and he would reach beneath his desk and pretend to press a button. >> you say pretend to press a button. >> i know in fact we was pretending because we deposed him about this. >> instead of having a recording device in plain view, he would do this james bond thing. >> why not just actually record you? >> he would have had to pay to get a system put in. that's money he didn't want to spend. but when we litigated in 2007, my attorney said to him, mr. trump, you have repeatedly said that you had a recording system in your office and you

donald trump accused jessica leeds of lying. oh, i was with donald trump in 1980. i was sitting with him on a plane. and he went after me on the plane. yeah, i'm going to go after... believe me, she would not be my first choice that i can tell you! man! donald trump says you're a liar. what did you think of that? well... you know he... of course he is going to say that. he lives in a fantasy of his manly prowess. jessica leeds isn't the only woman with a story about the president. his hand touched the right inside... of my breast. donald trump would look up undertheir skirt and you know comment on whether they had underwear or didn't have underwear and what the view looked like. the person on my right who unbeknownst to me at that time was donald trump, put their hands up my skirt. he did touch my regina through my underwear. he pushed me up against the wall and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress. i had to say, what are you doing, stop it. it was a shocking thing to have him do this. some women have evidence to back up their stories. this is you

yes, there was quite a bromance between alex salmond and donald trump when donald trump was a reality tv star with deep pockets. he was promising to come here, create thousands of jobs, invest billions in scotland. that never happened, and that relationship soured around about 2014 with donald trump tweeting that alex salmon was maybe the worst leader that the free world has seen, which is a nice bit of foreshadowing there. but as i say, nicola sturgeon is a very different case. her relationship with donald trump has always been different, so no, i don't think this is an embarrassment for the snp. i think the media response, the public response and the political response in scotland have been quite in tune. i'm curious though, that you think it would have been better for her to have met donald trump. of course that rests on the fact that the president would have extended the invitation, but do you think there is a risk here that she could have scored more political points and more effectively gotten her point across if she had sought that meeting rather more forcefully? yes, and as i

donald trump? well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. one is that donald trump doesn't know what good lawyering looks like and sounds like. after all michael cohen was donald trump's lawyer for years. the same michael cohen who rudy giuliani now describes this way. >> the way is unethical. is a scum bag. he is a horrible person. >> will donald trump's next lawyer be describing rudy giuliani that way some day? another reason he has not been fired is that it is actually impossible to do a better job of defending donald trump. that might just be it. it is impossible to do any better than giuliani has done. he goes into tv interviews with no real ammunition and just follows the donald trump, kellyanne conway model of speaking as fast as he can. it doesn't matter what the words are because there is nothing honest to say that could be helpful. there is nothing you can say that is both honest and helpful to your defense. so one possible explanation for the public verb

>> donald trump back at the center of the world stage, the singapore summit with a north korean leader, back in helsinki, finland, for a summit with russian pres. vladimir putin. and a lot of controversy and speculation ahead of this, we will separate fact from fiction. i was live in finland, 22 hours of sunlight this time of year. a beautiful spectacular morning for the summit. four hours from now, the president -- the pres. and first lady will arrive in the wonderful yellow building behind me the site of today's meeting, donald trump and his russian counterpart will touch a range of subjects from nuclear arms control to syria, we are breaking that down early this morning. he is also trying to downplay expectation. >> let's have a meeting, i do believe in meetings, having a meeting with chairman kim was a good thing. having meetings with the president of china was a very good thing. so having meetings with russia, china, north korea, i believe in it, nothing bad will come out of it and some good will come out of it. >> reporter: you will have to stick with us, live pictures of the pre

donald trump and everyone in the trump white house know that most americans know that donald trump is an uncontrollable liar. the president knew he had no hope of convincing most voters today that he didn't mean to say what he said yesterday. the president knows that most voters, most americans, most children are way too smart to fall for the lie that donald trump told today. but donald trump must not see his voters that way. former cia director john brennan yesterday said that president trump's comments yesterday why wr imbecilic. and today donald trump took imbecilic to a whole new level. he gave his voters an intelligence test that he seems to be very confident they will not pass, cannot pass. he said that he forgot to say one word yesterday that would completely reverse the meaning of one sentence that he said yesterday. the line that donald trump changed today came in the middle of his response to this question, which definitely was not an actual answer to the question. >> would you now, with the whole world watching, tell president putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016

that is not donald trump. he is a bombastic businessman who went to nato with the idea of shaking up the status quo. world leaders who are still reeling from the sort of blistering, scolding attacks. he went in that way but he went out with a softer tone. i think went out with a softer tone. i think we will see the same thing today after the meeting at chequers. because first of all, great britain and the uk and the united states are our strongest ally. we have shared world values, we have shared concerns, especially when it concerns, especially when it concerns international terrorism. we are each other‘s largest trading partners. i think we can withstand these family squabbles. i know that brits and backbenchers are reeling today from some of the rhetoric and the somewhat provocative interview in the sun. however, i do think that the two leaders will find more in common than in their differences. but it is important to look at the nuances too. president trump is sending a signal. he is a populist president

after trump makes a disastrous mistake, donald trump and donald trump alone believes that he can prove that it wasn't a mistake by publically announcing he's going to make exactly the same mistake again. and so president trump did that again today, and he did it when the cable news world was riveted to an interview that the director of national intelligence dan coats was giving. the interview was deemed so important by other networks that they simulcast this interview. it was an extraordinary television event because of course donald trump has just this week equated dan coats and vladimir putin. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it is not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> and so as expected, andrea's interview with dan coats today began very badly for the president of the united states. >> moments after the president appeared to be siding with vladimir putin over you, you personally by name, you stood up and spoke out. i'm wondering why did you do that?

verses of donald trump jr. said and sarah sanders, at some point all those stories don't match, all of those stories will be in trouble. a lot of these investigative situations, people don't go line for the over line crime, they go down for an under line obstruction or perjury or lying to committee or something like that. this whole thing has been unfolding. that's what i have been wondering about. who has said what to what committee or under oath. >> let's just put aside tonight's breaking news and you consider the different story that's been told of this meeting and they denied he had anything to do of the drafting and hope hicks and on and on. do you believe any of this at this point? their explanations. do you believe the president did not know anything about this meeting? >> i don't know who to believe. i heard a lot of explanations about this meeting and shifting stories. i don't find several of the people involved in it and credible of what they have said. i don't know what to believe. i do know this. wh

just on the edge of donald trump's turnberry resort. we are on the coast, the west coast of scotland, a beautiful sunset is playing out. the cool air is hardly moving, it's incredibly still evening and the only noise apart from the purr of our tv chuck is the home of a scottish police helicopter, but in the next two minutes the president of america is going to be arriving —— tv truck. he will be staying here for a couple of days. really what we have seen today isa days. really what we have seen today is a shift from the focus on the uk and brexit slowly towards a broader, global issue which is the way that america interact with russia, because if the day began with a focus on what kind of trade deal can america and the uk cut after brexit, and theresa may talked about an ambitious deal, donald trump that contrary to what he said to the sun, he now thinks a deal can be done. so the mood music improved, and now we start looking ahead to that helsinki summitand start looking ahead to that helsinki summit and what donald trump will say

i don't actually see how donald trump can help him. that is a serious problem, because there is no way forward, it will alienate european partners. the means to agreement is very clear. it is on the table and russia has to accept it. it is useless. it is unfulfilled. president putin is very cunning when it comes to creating new opportunities or new ideas. the idea of some form of un peacekeeping force, some form of ceasefire that can be implemented is not rocket science. that could happen. the problem is that donald trump seems to have a very... because of the russian interference problem and other things. he wants to get out of syria. he can push anything through. we will find out on monday whether donald trump can play things as well as vladimir putin when the two men meet at that summit in helsinki. that's it for dateline london for this week — we're back next week at the same time. goodbye. saturday's tatachilla is the 30 in the london area, but parts of scotland and northern ireland reached 26. the lion's share of the sunshine a

donald trump was addressing his voters, first of all. every time donald trump goes abroad, he addresses his voters first of all. i am just explaining why he said that. secondly, the reason why he went after germany was a very logical and cunning thing to do, because this absurdity which is spoken about trump being elected with the help of the russians, he turned the tables around and said excuse me, you are buying stuff from the russians, you depend on them, so why you two don't talk to me like that? that is the point he was making, and it was a very clever move. i agree with that. there was a lot of discussion about nato and its failures in afghanistan, for example, when nato collapsed completely and showed its total incompetence, its total corruption and so on. nato, when you say it has to change, it has to disappear, gradually, because nato should have disappeared when the cold war was over. that was the arrangement... it is the perfect example of why the cold war is not over and if characters like you were a little bit more dispassio

you've been covering donald trump for a long time. would donald trump jr. set up a meeting to get difrt on the opponent and not tell his father. >> it is inconceivable junior wouldn't tell his father. that's why we need to know what number those two blocked numbers were that he called and let's not lose site of something here. when a foreign government calls you and offerings to help in an election. you pick up the phone and call the fbi, i need to speak to someone in counter intelligence. period. full stop. >> yes. and that clearly was not done. let's take one step back. paul butler said cohen is shady. okay. that is a take that i think is legitimate for people to have based on whatever we know about him so far. what's interesting is that inside the trump camp, they're not clear of whether cohen is shady or not depending on whose side he seems to be on. the man is a honest honorable lawyer. i suspected something like this. he's been lying for years. there's nobody that i know that knows him that hadn't warned me that if his back is up against the wall, he'

is donald trump keeping it real? why is it important to him to tell people don't believe cnn, or whatever channel, and don't believe what you're seeing with your eyes? >> we've never seen nothing like this before. and it's so weird because you've got like half of america following the donald trump playbook. then you've got the other half, you know what i mean, who doesn't agree with nothing they're doing. i have the weirdest conversations at the airport, somebody who's for trump is just like they don't want to hear nothing we've got to say, and vice versa. you've really got people almost like zombies to donald trump, they believe whatever he has to say, even though we know it isn't true. >> well said. i'm just his echo, his second man. >> it's kucalled a hype man. >> you know this stuff better than i do. >> when you introduced us. he said, why are you the great fat joe. >> why aren't the rest of us? you know what i mean? >> i agree, actually, look, it is -- you have a very divided country, very polarized country. the

meetings with donald trump. and then president trump threw in a last line today to end the press conference with a trumpian dash of incoherence. >> and if anybody watched peter strzok testify over the last couple of days -- and i was in brussels watching it -- it was a disgrace to the fbi. it was a disgrace to our country and you would say that was a total witch hunt. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> and so the final three words of the president's summit with vladimir putin were total witch hunt. joining us now is the former undersecretary of state in the obama administration. and former cia chief of staff and a former director of the obama white house situation room. he's currently director of the haden center. and these are challenging nights for programs like this because we really are tonight the first draft of history, and this was a historic day. with your experience, i simply want to give you an open opportunity to react to what you saw today. >> well, i think i felt, as most have today, incl

advantage of donald trump. i don't care what bolton says he is a russia heart, he does not trust vladimir putin or the russians and he is the kind of guy every american should be saying we are lucky to have him there. this thing in helsinki is going to be okay. >> talking about the g7 saying russia should be part of it, they need to be talking, they are involved in everything from north korea to the middle east and beyond and the president think there is no point having conversations with russia if they are not a player at the table because they have to be part of the solution. >> they got shoved out of the g-8 and went to the g7 because they annexed crimea. from a historical perspective september 30th of this year will be the 80th anniversary of neville chamberlain handing over the sudetenland to hitler, hoping to slake hitler's thirst for domination and it didn't, it led us to world war ii so history doesn't repeat but it does rhyme. it will be a delicate thing for donald trump but all of us from both sides,

. >> so you believe 100% donald trump knew? >> 100%. >> reporter: but rudy giuliani says trump did know. >> 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 the law firm. >> funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it. >> oh, i didn't -- he did? >> yeah. >> reporter: cohen wouldn't go on the record for this piece, but his friends claim this was all part of his job in trump world, giving the boss deniability and protection. >> if you know the relationship between the two people, he took care of a lot of things for mr. trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that's part of the overall structure is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> reporter: in 2011, michael cohen described his job this way. >> my job is i protect mr. trump. that's what it is. if there's an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it's of course of concern to me. and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trum

donald trump jr. met with russian agents after he was promised in effect incriminating evidence on hillary clinton taken from the russians. that meeting occurred. then donald trump, the president, tried to disguise it and deceive about it in his famous, now infamous air force one statement. so there are clearly links here to an ongoing criminal investigation that, unfortunately, colleagues in the house see as a threat to the presidency and rightly so. >> senator, we thank you. just interrupt right now. we're seeing images of the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states entering the presidential palace in helsinki, finland. he'll be meeting with the president of finland and then also meeting with vladimir putin. we believe -- we see the secretary of state there, mike pompeo as well. we thank senator richard blumenthal for being here. coming up at the top of the hour, and let's bring into our conversation peter baker. peter, as we see the president of the united states ente

this is donald trump taking a bunch of red meat, we got to vote. >> donald trump is a different type of president so we will have different results. places like montana and west virginia are focused to make it happen and he will bring a certain element of america that does not vote. look what happened with regard to tax cuts and incentives for individuals and so many things he is doing, that will inspire a lot of people to support the agenda. >> something in the news every day going on so i think that drive more people to the polls. thank you so much, have a great weekend. 6 minutes until the top of the hour, drinking while holding fireworks not the best idea as a dramatic woman, one man's independence day takes a terrifying turn. ♪ working for a living ♪ working for a living ♪ working for a living ♪ heather: are is in full swing and outside the studios the all-american summer concert series rocking out on that stage. head by for a free concert and bbqs. the good, the bad and the ugly which up first the good. a police officer gets a surprise k-9 partner for the day at the chi

what did donald trump know? the president's story about the trump tower meeting has already shifted. his lawyers claimed he was in the involved in a statement falsely claiming the meeting was about adoptions. then they admitted in the memo that he dictated the statement. now the strategy for donald trump is to attack michael cohen to boost the president's credibility. trump allies are gaming on how to bury cohen, according to the daily beast. the first attempt did not go so well. rudy giuliani tried to claim that he is a liar. >> he has been lying for years. there is nobody that i know that knows him that hasn't warned me if his back subpoena against the wall, he's lie like crazy because he's lied all his life. >> the same rudy giuliani said this about michael cohen just a few months ago. >> he doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> cohen's story may be just as dangerous for donald trump jr. as it is for the president. cohen reportedly w

a may has had a couple of days with the donald trump in brussels. what does she hope to gain by having him home in the u.k.? jon: i think this was originally designed, jane, atmosp, to make donald trump feel like he is the most well, man in the united kingdom, that britain cherishes the special relationship which it does, and they want him to feel li an important ally, not just hosecurity but in a future trade deal. ver, donald trump has given the most unbelievable interview to "the sun" newspaper, the best selling tabloid in the u.k., in which he intervened in the debate on brexit, but not in support of theresa may, but in support of her colleagues to who are arguing that britain should have a hard departure from the eu. he said tonight effectively that if britain goes down the softer brexit route that theresa may proposes, the trade deals donald trump was hoping to concludeth wier with the u.s. might be off the table. that is aar pretty extraord intervention. , he is not being very nice to his hostess, is he? how tricky is this for her? could this

>> it's actually a donald trump quote. the last time bob woodward interviewed him was in march, 2016. donald trump said real power is -- i don't even want to use the word, fear. and that's where it comes from. >> that's often leaders, you know, do they want to be loved or feared? >> do they want to be respected? >> right. >> but in his case, real power, fear. >> wow. well, i look forward to that. and that's coming out in the fall? >> six weeks from almost today. september 11th, right before the midterms. >> wow. fascinating. thank you very much for the preview. a quick reminder, watch "full circle" on facebook weeknights at 6:25 p.m. eastern. the news continues. time to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts now. don? >>> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. we have a prime time exclusive with the one and only lebron james. one of this generation's greatest star athletes. three-time nba champion. he started out as a kid from akron, a kid who missed 83 days of school in the fourth grade but he had big dreams. he's a

first of all, you remember there's two different donald trump, the donald trump of the 90s, the fights, the casinos, mike tyson was there, don king promoting the fights. he's hanging out with hip hop cats. and this other one, the post dementia donald trump who loves picking fights. i think he's a lonely man. i think this man never really had a lot of friends. he wants to be popular. he wants to be a celebrity. and he loves being able to twitter slam people because you don't have to see them face to face. he's not good with that. >> are you suggesting that not unlike drake's observation, people with twitter fingers sometimes aren't as hard core when you meet them in person? >> they're keyboard meet them i >> they are king board gangster. >> do you think the yolk was on trump when you -- >> the win for him was to get a show, to go almost to the goal line, not win, pull a hamstring move and get a tv show, because he could have said, i could have won. i am too good. too truthful. too different. it takes the perfect trifecta. you can throw anything out there, you don't care. and you have to

about donald trump. some of them are making comments about the president unlike anything they have ever said. consider the chairman of the senate finance committee orrin hatch. and remember that orrin hatch is the senator who said this about donald trump. >> we're going to keep fighting, and we're going to make this the greatest presidency that we've seen not only in generation bs t maybe ever. >> so the only member of congress and possibly the only american not named trump who has said that donald trump could be the best president fsh is now saying something that doesn't sound like orrin hatch at all. i actually don't recognize the current trump-supporting version of orrin hatch. the orrin hatch who i knew and saw virtually every day when i was working in the senate finance committee in the 1990s was one of the reasonable and sometimes cooperative and compromising republicans on the committee who helped get the committee's work done, especially on matters of international trade. and orrin hatch has alwa

trip donald trump said he views it live near putin as a competitor not an enemy. and facebook labels thousands of russians as being interested in treason sparking concerns about the way the company is profiling its users. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us the president has been welcomed by theresa may to a black tie. dinner at a palace in oxfordshire but in the capital crowds who took to the streets to voice their outrage over the president's visit sasha citric and i reports from london the general mood here is that these people don't want donald trump to be visiting the u.k. at all in fact just earlier we saw this protest his helicopter was landing just behind us and things god's extremely loud here these people are forced just part of the pond protests that will be taking place in the u.k. for outside the next couple of days with massive protests expected to take place on friday and indeed this is donald trump's final official visit t.j. as he was president it's been granted re

jon: all dressed up, and donald trump does have somewhere to go. not a state visit, this is meant to be a routine work trip for the president, accompanied by first lady melania. well, you could have fooled me. the british are pulling out all the stops. is may be a country in turmoil, as the president remaed, but it knows how to put on a show. the dance of the -- bands of the welsh, irish, and scots guards, and the setting was winston churchill's birthplace, a hero of donald trump's. theresa may and huand, philip, waited patiently to greet them. when the turmoil of brexit is finally over, this is the man she might be concluding a trade deal with. and the prime minister wants to make him feel welcome. a feeling not universally shared. >> racist trump has got to go. jon: at the gates, protesters gathered to make clear their displeasure at donald trump's visit. although this his middlewa england, and iall a bit sedate. tomorrow will be bigger, when the trump baby blimp will fly over the thames, and protesters promised tmake their voices heard. not that

with me is a donald trump biographer. the '90s are back with us, is this not just a surreal moment in this country? >> well, it's been a surreal moment, i think, since donald trump descended on the golden escalator and announced that he was running for president. and one of the elements they think is really surreal is that michael cohen is the guy who would record conversations with people, i suspect he recorded me, and then trotted it donald trump's office to play his recordings for his amusement. this should not be a surprise top donald trump as much as he says he's outraged by all of this. this is standard operating procedure in his world. and it's just come back to bite him a little bit. >> it's interesting you note, you say you probably have a recording back to when we talked about comey, which is from ions ago and donald trump said, watch out, we may have tapes. and now it's like -- it's all flipped on its head. and how do you -- knowing the president as you do, and now that this open war exists between cohen and tr

that's the real donald trump. i don't give him a pass for what happened in the press conference. >> do you believe, tom, that that's exactly what many people throughout the uk and certain will i the people in that crowd will hear? they will hear code words and what the president had to say about immigration? >> how can we draw any other conclusion after what happened a year ago and what he's been saying consistently? >> tom? >> yeah, completely. i think a lot of people will be concern bed by the what the president said not just today but in the years he's been president and in the campaign for him to become president. that's why it was important that theresa may disagreed on him publicly on immigration, to reflect the british view. which is, we've had hundreds of years of welcoming people into this country. we've got much better at integrating people into the country. there are elements of immigration that people don't like. that is part of the reason that led to the brexit decision. donald trump is probably right

by donald trump jr., his son. by cohen's account, trump approved going ahead with that meeting with the russians. i should note, don, cohen does not have evidence such as audio recordings to corroborate this claim. i should also add that a source familiar with cohen's house testimony -- remember he testified on the hill -- said he did not testify at that time that trump had advance knowledge and the reports filed by republicans and democrats on that house intelligence committee did not mention these claims. >> okay. so then what about the president's side? what's the response? >> so we reached out to everyone involved here. let's start with the attorney for donald trump jr. he tells cnn, i'm quoting, donald trump jr. has been professional and responsible throughout the mueller and congressional investigations. we are very confident in the accuracy and reliability of the information that has been provided by mr. trump jr. and on his behalf. attorneys, that is lanny davis. we also contacted one of cohen's attorneys,

and donald trump knows if his voice is on those audio recordings because donald trump's lawyers had the right to listen to those recordings when the court was deciding whether or not those recordings were protected by attorney-client privilege. donald trump obviously wanted to create a huge distraction for monday's news cycle and he knew witch hunt just wouldn't do it. the president knew he needed something bigger than witch hunt so, the president went nuclear with iran. thanks to our experience with president trump and north korea, we now know that when the president goes nuclear in his tweets, we are not on the brink of launching a nuclear attack. we did not know that when the president began his five months of threatening north korea with nuclear attack, but we do know that now. we know that the president is not a homicidal mass murderer willing to kill millions of people in north and south korea on a whim. we know that. we know the president is not going to launch a nuclear attack on iran. but we know the president believes he needs to launch a rhetorical attack on iran. we know the

my question is do you find donald trump easy to deal with? >> the first point i'm about to make, why did we talk -- this comes as a surprise. was it worth going all the way to helsinki through the atlantic to insult one another? there's no need to go and meet personally if you want to insult the person. we met, improving the relationship, or turning it completely and the second point of this answers whether we have something on some. we don't have anything on them, there can't be anything on them. i don't want to insult donald trump when i say this and may come as rude but before, he announced he would run for the presidency he was of no interest to us. there are plenty of people in the united states, in the construction business, he organized the beauty pageants but never occurred to anyone he would think of running for president, never mentioned his political ambition. utter nonsense. mentioned this in the press conference, being visited by 500 businessman, every one of them is a major industrialist, tycoon. was that special services, organ

donald trump jr. be worried about this indictment. >> donald trump jr. if he is you know living in a country that actually has laws that he is held accountable to should be worried for a very long time. donald trump jr. put e-mails on twitter about a year ago showing that he had elicitly conspired with russia revealing that whole meeting. i'm a little concerned he thought he could do that openly and be no consequences. other russia mafia members of the mafia/kremlin officials have been in plain site. that's a pattern you see throughout the republican party. donald trump jr. is not unique in this respect. now there finally are indictments, there are consequences. if that's going to continue, yes, donald trump jr. certainly somebody who should be concerned. >> let me come to you now on part two of this because there's the nra piece of it. you've written an entire book about this thing called the family and the religious right and power. quickly, at the 2016 and 2015 national prayer breakfast events, but

they look back in history, as they mentioned, donald trump threatened north korea, then donald trump gave north korea everything they wanted. donald trump made his secretary of state fly half way around the world to try to resolve the dispute with kim jong-un. clean things up in the press, and kim jong-un basically spit in our general direction and went out picking potatoes with potato farmers. so the iranians must be, like, getting the brinks trucks ready to back them up and get money from donald trump, because whenever he starts talking like this, he's the sucker in the end. what should the rest of the world think of donald trump's opening round of bluster which always ends in weakness and groveling on his part? >> well, joe i don't think it's thought through, because we don't have much of an iran policy other than economic pressure. we're not willing to counter them around the region, be it syria or anywhere else. the short run, it's actually good for the regime. the currency is plummeting, didn't get the benefits they wanted from the nuclear agreement, but this strengthens them f

camp has donald trump's endorsement and mike pence on saturday. cagle was endorsed by nathan beale who is plagued by the release of secretly recorded tapes on one of them offering $300,000 in exchange for an endorsement. the winner will face democrat stacy adams in november. brian kemp will join us live in the next hour. >> donald trump meeting with veterans today. the commander-in-chief addressing vfw convention in kansas city for his first time as president, donald trump spoke during the 2016 campaign, the president made veterans issues a priority under his administration. >> the president celebrating in the usa, his made in america event fueled by american heart, sweat and pride. >> kevin court takes a closer look at the white house. >> america never waves the white flag, we only waive the red, white and blue flag. the era of economic surrender for the united states is over. >> even as donald trump welcomes to the white house a shining array of us manufacturers, business owners and ed produces for the annual made in america showcase, the econom

donald trump jr., does anyone believe donald trump jr. is going to take a meeting like this and not tell his father? i don't know him. but i have seen him. when he testifies donald trump jr., before it's the house intel. he alleges and some attorney client privilege. there's no lawyer in the room. he claims that stage he can't talk about it because there was a lawyer in the room. we don't know who it was. we know michael cohen was still donald trumps lawyer. june 9, everyone. that's the date that everyone is focussed on. >> think about it. i have gone to trump tower. there's different floors. the configuration is everyone's office is in a row. with glass. you can see. and then right in the middle when you walk in the conference room, at least where they conduct business. the conference room is right by the elevator and the entrance. everyone can see everything. david, take a look at what rudy giuliani said. about michael cohen. to chris. watch this. >> the man is a liar. a proven liar. there's no way you'll bring down the president of the

i hear donald trump say cash and check. the trump organization has this argument that he was talking about a way to pay for things and not green money. then why did he mention a check if he was talking about a full payment or prorated or staggered payments, he wouldn't have said check. >> so, listen, i spoke with some of michael cohen's friends. i just want to read it specifically. his friends say it certainly looks like he wants to tell the tuth to the most important person in america right now who is seeking the truth about trump. you know who that is, that's mueller. i asked lanny davis when he was on your set, i asked him, please come see me, i want to ask you about something i heard. he said, i can't answer that question. the truth is on our side. who wants to most hear the truth from michael cohen? i have to leave it at that and leave it unanswered. >> lanny davis is a very talented advocate. he's certainly a much better lawyer than i am which is why we have to do more homework here. talk to mueller about what? muelle

trump with his knowledge he also will praise donald trump i think he will admire him for fighting against the old us american leaves for swimming again that's against the tide and that's something president trump could probably like so put in finally will once again try to reset the u.s. russian relations on the personal level but nobody knows whether the u.s. president is really interested in that idea in any case since he's on your grace integration relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly worse so far you're at a lot of questions about how donald trump and vladimir putin will speak about ukraine and russia's annexation of crimea and some analysts were speculating that report does not actually shooting for official recognition of of that annexation of crimea what is a perspective there in the kremlin. well it's very unpredictable how concrete the results of any issue could be which is going to be discussed you know how. so we all we only know that syrians ukraine and probably yes the financials ukraine but insulin media highly likely

donald trump jr.'s lawyer, he told cnn that donald trump jr. has been professional and responsible through the the mueller investigation. we are confident of the accuracy and the information that was relied on mr. trump jr. and on his behalf. he declined to comment. you remember this on chris cuo o cuomo's show. he attacked cohen's credibility. >> right, that he's been lying all week and for years. >> jack, if this coalition is truth, was there a crime committee? >> well, if this can be demonstrated or come rated. the narrative that the trump campaign was not willing and eager to get the support of foreign powers including adversary like russia. it would provide a motive for obstruction case if this was proven to be true. i think there is a step back for a moment and put this into context of an investigation that is also focusing on the fact that the president invited rush that to come off with the 30,000 hillary clinton e-mails, subsequent attack on her personal servers. and subsequent on dnc and the clinton campaign and the release of those t