that's the main point of rudy guiliani. he, as he says one thing and then walks it back, he raises questions in people's minds who are inclined to be sympathetic to the president as to whether there is any noticeable truth and if there is no noticeable truth and if one person says one thing and one network says another and another network says something different, when bob mueller comes out with his report, there is a big chunk of the american population that doesn't believe there is such a thing as objective truth and rudy guiliani's regular performances are designed to sort of promote that notion. >> the only alternative theory is that he's losing it. if that was the case, i don't think, you know, somebody in the president's orbit would decide not to put him out there constantly. so i think to your point, there has to be that strategy behind it. because the alternative is they're continuing to allow this person to just say stuff, not based on any, you know that we know of information or later claims that wasn't based on a

rudy guiliani should stop talking. we have been saying -- i have been saying it over and over again. as a lawyer you are supposed to sit back and wait. he's trying to play to the court of public opinion. but he's putting his client in jeopardy. >> after the bombshell from guiliani, i just love it. as i say it, i love sean hannity. oh, oh. okay. yep. all right, so trump tried to downplay the comment as guiliani making mistakes. when that incident happened. because he was new and couldn't know everything going on. let me play it. >> rudy is a great guy. he just started a day ago. but he really has his heart into it. he's working hard, he's learning the subject matter. rudy knows it's a witch hunt. he started yesterday. he'll get his facts straight. >> rudy is great. rudy has just started and he wasn't totally familiar with you know everything. >> that was 263 days ago, harry. >> yeah, that excuse no longer washes. and as april was saying, there are other lawyers working for the president. some of them are outside of gove

i think rudy guiliani and his statements are all over the map. you know, there's tapes that the conversations about the russia hotel deal was going on right up to the time of the november 16th election and then retracting that. i don't think frankly that anybody takes seriously with the possible exception, the day-to-day switches in direction of rudy guiliani. we have no idea whether what he says is true or whether it has been blessed by his client or he might correct it tomorrow. i will say this, it's notable so many of the steps and missteps and corrections are all about the same thing, russia. >> senator, thank you for giving us the latest update on where the talks are. >>> that's one open question we have to keep an eye on here. here's another one. is the president's legal team just confused or purposely trying to confuse you? the president's lawyers suggested he was lying for po potus, and now says that's not true, i'm not lying for you, and are you wondering why they are doing this? all that matters are the facts and we have them next. [kno

did you get any of that from rudy guiliani as well? did he in any way shape or form suggest that maybe roger stone was not as influential as he's been made out to be? >> he did. he did say that roger stone was only part of the campaign back in 2015 before stone quit. he had a clash with then candidate trump. it's hard to walk away from the idea at all objectively speaking that stone hasn't been part of the president's circle for decades. roger stone has been a close political advisor to president trump going back to the 1980s when he first linked up with ronald reagan's campaign in 1980 in the northeast region. these are friends. they've had falling outs, they've come back together. but guiliani said that because stone was not a formal part of the campaign, this is not something the president had to deal with in his view. >> robert costa, national political reporter, just hung up the phone with rudy guiliani, the president's attorney. thanks as all for your reporting. our chief legal correspondent is here with us as well. just two nigh

i mean, this is rudy guiliani saying, up to the election. they were warned way before the election. >> well, the other thing is, the president has said over and over again, at least in the past, that he had no big business before russia. that he had no incentive to do anything with russia that would be legal or that would be anything that would be something that would be misleading, because i have nothing in front of them. we know that in and of itself was a misstatement, because he had this big trump tower plan in front of him. >> in moscow. >> in moscow. trump tower moscow. this is more evidence of the president having behavior that at least some people feel is uncomfortable with russia. and i was in helsinki when we had, of course, that memorable press conference with vladimir putin, where he even said, you know, i believe russia and i think they could probably maybe help us figure out what russia did when they hacked our election and meddled in our election. so i think this is just more evidence that people -- that make people shake thei

i'm afraid it will be on my gravestone, "rudy guiliani, he lied for trump," somehow i don't think it will be it, but if it is, what do i care, i'll be dead. >> now, you guys make sense of it. john, you speak guiliani. >> yeah. >> you worked with him for many years and wrote for him many years. this seems to me he has decided relevance over legacy. okay. that's my first take. my second is, why is he so confusing? >> all right. let's break that down. i appreciate the beret cladden scene at the end of that. one, rudy's always had a fatalistic streak when it comes to his legacy. he has an exemplary record as mayor of new york and hasn't taken a lot of care focusing on that legacy. he's been all in for his client, the president of the united states. i think ruddy has done himself a disservice and his legacy disservice being so all in. he's being radically transparent not making his words carefully and he's picking up the phone any reporter calls whether on the way to the shower or not. i think he's trying to be honest but i don't think he's doing himself or his client favors. you can trac

. >>> and rudy guiliani does it again. a flurry of sunday morning talk show appearances that actually raise more questions about the president's conduct and contact with michael cohen than they answer. >>> and a moment of profound disrespect going viral as a group of maga wearing teens appears to taunt a native american man in a scene that has people outraged. talking to a new representative, one of the first of two native american women elected to congress. all of that coming up straight ahead, but we begin tonight with president trump's immigration proposal hitting a wall with democrats. the president's offer of protections for some immigrants in exchange for the nearly $6 billion for his wall creating a feeding frenzy for the sunday morning shows. >> we really want to come to an agreement here. the president really wants to come to an agreement. he's put offers on the table. the responsible thing for democrats to do put a counter on the table if you don't like this one. >> i don't take him at his word on anything. if he

and even if they did talk about it, in the words of rudy guiliani, so what? michael cohen goes to prison in just a few weeks for a bunch of charges linked to his involvement with the president, including lying to congress. here's rudy guiliani today on cnn. >> did president trump or anyone on the trump team talk to michael cohen about his congressional testimony before -- before he gave congressional testimony or after he gave congressional testimony? >> i can tell you -- first of all, i wasn't the lawyer at the time. >> right. >> michael cohen's lawyers reviewed his testimony with him. >> yeah, but -- did president trump -- >> no, no. let me answer the question! >> okay. >> as far as i know, president trump did not have discussions with him. certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. if he had any discussions with him, they would be about the version of the events that michael cohen gave then, which they all believe was true. >> but you just acknowledged that it's possible that president trump talked to michael cohen

rudy guiliani's comments over the weekend. we've been talking a lot how confusing they are to an extent. if guiliani's argument is that maybe the president did talk about building a trump tower in moscow all the way up until the election, legally, is there anything problematic with that? did he break any law by having his people engage in negotiations to build a trump tower? >> certainly, it smacks of elicit negotiations and dealings with an adversary, with putin's henchmen. here's the important thing -- >> is it illegal? >> he lied to the american people. >> is that illegal? >> it may well be if he also lied under oath or other context. the fact is putin had something on him, which may be the reason why he issued a statement about the trump tower meeting that was plainly false, why trump jr.'s testimony may well be false insofar as he is saying, didn't tell my father. the important point here, which was raised just minutes ago is we need to see the mueller report. it needs to be disclosed. >> you are suggesting maybe there ne

is displaced with what rudy guiliani said. because he put the president right in the center of this trump tower moscow deal all the way leading up to his actual election, which raises huge red flags about what the motivation was there at a time when the president is standing before the american people changing his platform, calling on russia to hack hillary clinton, if there wasn't some kind of a pay day that he was expecting at the end of the election, if you really for instance wasn't expecting to be elected. what was his plan b? or was it something else? was it the occlusion question? but rudy guiliani, the actual statement gets way more coverage than the cleanup. >> that is the problem the president has, including rudy guiliani. >> thank you so much, we appreciate your insights. we'll see you in a little bit on "morning joe". >>> still ahead, everybody, the labor strike comes to an end. >> we will have details on that historic agreement that have teachers in los angeles heading back to the classroom. >>> bill kierans has t

what purpose does rudy guiliani serve? what's his role? >> yeah, he's not the attorney you're going to send into a courtroom. he's not the one where you'll have real witnesses. he's the guy that president trump picked to represent him in the public cort of opiniurt of . he's not serving, you know, a helpful purpose in a lawyerly sense. most lawyers would not be all over the map. what he's doing is getting out there and undercutting the credibility of the investigation. giving the president's point of view out there and at least sowing down. >> in that interview with the new yorker, guiliani went a little bit further saying this, what i was talking about was -- >> okay, great. >> -- if he had those conversations, they would not be criminal. >> right. >> do you agree with that assessment? >> so here's the thing, craig. in isolation potentially that in and of itself is not criminal. when you look at trump having a vested interest in the moscow trump tower while lying to the public at the same time and advocating for more sanctions relief to a

but, donald trump and rudy guiliani, i could talk about mr. guiliani first, he doesn't have the arguably view of a pvt.. he committed a crime as far as i'm concerned, the indictable crime by threatening and impugning a man's family as a way of getting into the man's brain. we've seen that in movies in "godfather 2" how you can silently threaten somebody. it's a mock tactic that mr. schiff, the intelligence committee and mr. cummings put out in a public statement last night. so there is genuine fear in the cohen family. >> lanny, i understand you are saying that with the full genuine view and that's why i asked if you were with mr. cohen today. you are describing what you are seeing. i don't quibble with that. you mentioned "godfather 2." that's a situation where you have also congressional hearings and you have a star witness' family member brought into the hearings. but as you know, mr. davis the clear implication in "godfather 2" was the threat of violence or murder. here the threat appears to be, as i understand your allegation of the crime

type, wearing a lot of hats, rudy guiliani. and john roberts at the white house, just talked to rudy giuliani. >> i did just got off the phone with him, just spent about 3 or 4 minutes to get information that we could pass along. he said he can't imagine why congress would want to hear from michael cohen at this point. or at all, ball games he is a, quote, discredit theed liar. rudy guiliani said the democrats want to start an investigation without any evidence that anybody did anything wrong. because the mueller report is not even in so he's not sure what they're going to investigate. he said to me, quote, cohen doesn't know a damn thing about collusion. he did expect that the democrats when they took control of congress would do this, though he thought they'd wait for the mueller report to come out to see if anybody did anything wrong. and i also asked him if he thought maybe this was the first stepping stone down the road to impeachment. giuliani said there's nothing to base impeachment on, no evidence of a high crime or mis

interesting revelations today from the president's lawyer, rudy guiliani went on a sunday media blitz to take sort of a victory lap. it comes after the special counsel issued a rare rebuke of a buzzfeed report that trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project. guiliani may have thrown trump under the bus today when he admitted that discussions on the moscow project continued throughout 20916, even up to the presidential election months later than previously known. >> can't be sure of the exact dates, but the president should remember having conversations about it. >> throughout 2016? >> yeah. probably up to -- could be up to far as october, november. covers until the election, our answers cover. >> and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and the attorney and msnbc legal contributor and investigative journalist also author, i should know, of the book "house of trump/house of putin." start with you. your book talks about the relationship the president and donald trump had with putin going back decades? >> right. when we talk about the trump

take that to some of the more recent comments we've heard from rudy guiliani referring to michael cohen as a rat. the dialogue, the tone with which the president and his allies have spoken about michael cohen has devolved over time with the president trying to distance himself from cohen. remember one of the things that's at the crux of this, michael cohen pleading guilty to lying to members of congress about the discussions he had about that trump tower moscow project. one of the central questions swirling around the broader russia investigation. when you talk about how damaging the testimony could be, surgery it's something that the president, his allies are concerned about. there's one important caveat here which is based on my conversations with those close to michael cohen, it was anticipated if and when he does talk to members of congress that he wouldn't be able to discuss all of the topics in a public setting. >> why would that be? >> reporter: in part some of the information might be deeply held confidential. so there was a sense he wouldn't necessarily be able to cover every s

but one place where there's definitely no collusion is between rudy guiliani's brain and his mouth. >> in a new interview, the president's personal attorney, rudy guiliani, says he cannot say if trump campaign officials colluded with russia during the 2016 campaign. >> false reporting is saying that there has been no suggestion of any kind of collusion between the campaign and any russians. >> well, you just misstated my position. i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> i have not. i said the president of the united states. >> trevor: wait, wait. ( laughter ) hold on. did guiliani just admit that there was collusion? i think he did. and look at their faces. like, neither of them can believe what just happened. ( laughter ) like, like, cuomo looks like a valedictorian caveman, and guiliani looks like if golem realized he just left his wallet in an uber. so after months of saying there's no collusion, now guiliani is saying there might be collusion, not by trump, but by trump's campaign. and i'll be honest, i don't

what what the reason behind that jnd rudy guiliani said, yeah, the conversations may have gone throughout, or did go, throughout 2016. we don't know the speckifics or details of it, but it lends something to this. >> it lends a lot to it and i would not be surprised if in a few weeks or even months we find out that those conversations extended beyond the november 2016 election, into 2017 and probably first or maybe even second quarter of 2017. >> raises questions about conversations from the oval office we have no access to and conversations with vladimir putin people may subpoena, may try to get the interpreter's notes because we don't even know, the administration doesn't even know what he said to vladimir putin, amazingly stunning all of a of this is republican leadership has no inclination to find out or an inquisitive nature to even know what was discussed when you brought the russians in to the oval office and kicked the americans out? the other part of this, though, i think is very important is that whole concept of lying to the public during the campaign. did you hide this in a wa

is president trump's tv lawyer rudy guiliani really bad at his job or is he very, very good at muddying the waters? whatever it is, he was at it again today and over the weekend. first, quickly, some background, not withstanding the water muddying and smoke blowing the central facts were pretty clear. when we left you friday night, robert mueller's office had taken a rare step of disputing buzzfeed that president trump instructed his former corporate attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the real estate deal the trump organization was pursue figure

. >> betsy, reuters reportedly spoke to rudy guiliani, the president's tv attorney this morning. according to the article, he said mueller raised the possibility of follow up questions but their outside legal team said that trump would not respond. trump's lawyers and mueller's team have had no contact since then. as far as we're concerned, everything is over. guiliani telling reuters. what do you take from mr. joll ya guiliani's comments? >> i haven't spoken with mr. guiliani in the last 24 hours or so, but this report is consistent with what my sources have been telling me. the negotiations between president trump's personal league team and mueller and his investigators never formally closed. trump's lawyers had been under the impression that mueller had more questions he wanted answered, despite the fact that the president turned over written answers to questions from mueller's office. the next big question, of course, is does mueller try to twist arms on president trump's legal team to get more information out of the president himself? in my view, i think it's not likely that

here's rudy guiliani today on cnn. >>

the president's tv attorney, rudy guiliani told nbc news, if you believe cohen i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. jeff, what are you hearing from the white house? >> hey, craig. the strategy from the white house appears to be a simple one. they're making the case that michael cohen is a convicted liar, therefore you can't believe anything he says. and to give you a sense of it, here's a tweet the president fired off earlier this morning. he quotes a fox news reporter at the start. he says don't forget michael cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud. "the wall street journal" has suggested he may have stolen tens of thousands of dollars. lying to reduce his jail time. watch father-in-law. michael cohen's father-in-law was charged with defrauding the irs. what's that got to do with anything? nothing that we know of anyway. it's one of the reasons why michael cohen's legal team is making the case of the talk from the father-in-law of the president is designed to intimidate michael cohen who is scheduled to testify before congress. you asked more broadly abo

and then this week, trump's current lawyer, rudy guiliani, claimed it would have been totally fine for the president to talk to his former lawyer about what he was going to say in his testimonyo congress. >> as far as i know, president trump did not have discussions with him. hertainly had no discussions with him in whicold him or counseled him to lie. if he had any discussith him, they'd be about the version of the events that michael cohen gave then, which they l believe was true. >> but you just acknowledged that it's possible that president trump talked to michael cohen about his testimony. which would be perfectl normal! >> seth: no, it wouldn't! [ laughter ] nothing this president does is rmal. the guy couldn't figure out how to close an umbrella and his first instinct was to leave outside. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and rudy, i've got to sa-- [ laughter if you keep messing up like , thdy, he might do the same to you. [ laughter ] eerudy's comments over thend raised more questions than they answered. so in an attempt to clean up tha mess h, he did an interview with "the new yorker

replied guiliani, "those were televised?" [ laughter ] oh, rudy. rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy. [ laughter ] ultimately gay democratic mayor pete buttigieg announced this morning he has launched a exploratory committee for a possible presidential run, much to the dismay of mike pence, who believes being exploratory is a sin. an italian restaurant chain in new york has started offering gender reveal lasagnas. [ laughter ] so i don't know about the baby, but it will definitely reveal the gender of whose idea that was. [ laughter ] "or we go out for lasagna. [ laughter ] hear me out! [ laughter ] cut into a nice lasagna." according to a new report, so-called naked wedding dresses made of lace and sheer fabrics will be a popular trend this year. also a popular wedding trend this year, grandma heart attacks. [ laughter ] burger king has announced it will begin selling funnel cake fries starting tomorrow. i'd say, "run, don't walk." but something tells me that's not an option. [ laughter ] and this is so exciting. thanks to newly developed technology here at "l

the question remains and rudy guiliani, i guess said this morning he's not writing off the possibility that the president micha cenbouttalkedo his testimony or others have as well. we need to know exactly what the conversations were. they're not protected by any kind of a privilege. if anyone was instructing whether it was the president or other people affiliated with the white house or trump organization encouraging a witness to lie. we need to know about it. i will say another thing. we know the president's public statements have been false as it pertains to his business dealings with russia. so the combination of his public falsehoods with false testimony before congress certainly contributes to a picture of >>: ruction of justice. nnanre congressman. we turn to johnnee kendyresp onr keeping the department of justice in check. he joins us this morning from new orleans. senator, would you like to respond to anything the congressman said there? what is your interpretation of the special council statement regarding this report? >> myrget, sat through every minute of the hearing is that

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guiliani, had him concerned for his family's safety. cohen is set to start a three year prison sentence in march. >>> the latest on the developing crisis now in venezuela, opposition leader juan guaido says he would consider granting amnesty to president nicolas maduro and socialist allies if they help return venezuela to democracy. president trump has thrown his support behind guaido who has declared himself interim president and that prompted president maduro to order all american diplomats out of the country within 72 hours. right now the state department is asking nonessential staff to leave the country saying it's for security reasons and the u.s. embassy in venezuela will stay open. countries are >> the united states proudly recognized national assembly president juan guaido as the interim president of venezuela. the time for debate is done. the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate. >> along with the u.s. other latin american and western european countries are backing guaido's claim to the presidency. the u.n.

look at the rudy guiliani interview. now, rudy will see this and think, if they're almost done and under time pressure they're not going to subpoena my guy. we're almost done in the courts. i will say no dice. it creates false expectations, this notion of being close to being completed. i can't tell you how many times i have been privately confidentially close to the end of an investigation and never say it out loud, then something new pops up, get a new witness or cooperator and find new evidence maybe as found in the search of stone's home and going in a whole different direction and creates a problematic different direction. is there a new witness in the roger stone investigation, andrew miller, we know because the mueller investigation wants him to testify before the grand jury. by definition that has to be something that would be for an additional charge because it can't be for what he is already charged with, by the justice department's own rules. we know the stone investigation isn't over at all. david gregory, we

. >> rudy guiliani said this, quote, the fact that it goes back a year-and-a-half and nothing came of it showed a breach of national security means they found nothing. >> that according to the president's attorney. >> joining me to talk more about this, steve moore, a retired super agent at fbi. he's fwoot tgot the tie on for and russia operations chief. thank you for talking with us. i want to tuque to you, speev hall, how big could this be? is this a potential bomb shell. >> by the way you correctly phrased the question, yeah, it's a very big deal. from a counter intelligence perspective, there was always a lot of questions about guys like michael flynn, palm manafort, more recently. a lot of people have been in the news because of the activities that they undertook and they were brought to justice after allegations. but there was always a question, oftentimes raised by the white house, themselves, yeah, but was the boss involved? did donald trump know what paul manafort was doing or michael flynn might have been doing? now from what we've learned from the reporting this evening is

then rudy guiliani, a former prosecutor and mayor, somebody who knows something about the law, this is his response. if it was a counter intelligence investigation and it obtained any evidence it would have resulted in some action being taken or are they imperilling our national security. this shows how out of control they are. i want your response to that and then frank's response to it and ben's. >> i can't count the number of times over the course of this investigation rudy guiliani has fundamentally misstated the law in an attempt to throw people off the scent of the president's wrongdoing. he's doing it again. he did it going back to whether the doj could keep investigating during the election season. he's undermining the very integrity of the investigation by misstating the law. there's a difference as some folks, as frank said before, there's a difference between counter intelligence investigations and criminal investigations and there may not have been charges that would have flown from a counter intelligence investigation. what they are seeking to do is ascertain the extent of

guiliani today in the new york sometimes saying that he has nothing 57d that this investigation means nothing because it's been going on so long. but if it does come back that there is some sort of every day that has been identified, that president trump allegedly broke the law, what happens at that point? >> there is debate about whether or not a president can be indicted, a sitting president. i think one thing that could happen is you can see an indictment the indictment could be sealed and held until he leaves office. >> that would be one thing that can happen. he can be indicted after the fact for crimes as long as it's within the statute of limitations the actual time period you can bring the criminal case. certainly it gives enough information for impeachment. that's a different side, on the legislative side of congress. from a criminal aspect, i think it's more likely you see an indictment, filed, seemed and held until he leaves office than you do see a court fight over indicting a sitting president. >> let me admittedly ask you to speculate. based on this reporting. we know th

guiliani's statements over the last several days, which i think could be interpret as maybe trying to intimidate his testimony or perhaps be political messaging to the president's allies in congress that they should ask michael cohen about these types of issues related to his family business and his father-in-law's businesses and things like that. the second piece is matters that might affect the special counsel's investigation. and that was always a question that i had when this hearing was even announced, is whether there were certain things that michael cohen might be asked that perhaps those members of congress who don't want to disrupt that investigation would see it. and the third piece that lanny davis mentions is safety. that's a separate issue, i think. i haven't heard a lot of information about what the basis of their safety concerns are. >> all right. so, you know, on this point of michael cohen's testimony, this is the first time when you know at least when lanny davis came out and said he is worried about his safety, his family's safety. that's why he will postpone this.

guiliani went on cnn to say, "crime isn't even illegal!" [ laughter ] according to a new poll, house speaker nancy pelosi's approval ratings rose 6% since the start of the new congress, and her eyebrows rose 8%.er [ laug president trump on twitter today continued to push for his proposed border wall saying, quote, "a big new cavan is heading up to our southern border from honduras." oh, myod, that means the only thing between us and them is the border patrol, i.c.e., a fence, mountains, a river, mexico and . guatem [ laughter ] today was the tenth anniversary of the miracle on the hudson, when a u.s. airways jet -- [ cheers and applause ] yeah. when a u.s. airways jet successfully made an emergency landing in the hudsor. not to be confused with the miracle on the east river where a man swam all the way across without dissolving. [ laughter ]a n in his 50s recently experienced so-called debilitating night blindness after accidentally taking an entire bottle of sexual dysfunction medicine. [ audience oohs ] whicmakes you wonder, what medicine

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but his private attorney, rudy guiliani has been talking about it. he said this, we have had assurances from d.o.j. and special council muler that we will see the report -- muller that we will see the report, we will enter the review process with no preconceptions about blocking material but until we review the report we can't waive executive privilege. the man who will decide what from the report is made public and isn't is not bob mueller, it is bill barr, the newly nominated and former a.g., that is of course assuming he is confirmed by congressional lawmakers. i believe based on everything we've heard that's a pretty good bet. >> dana: i think so. kevin cork, thank you. lawmaker and the president continue to battle over border wall funding, we look at the big picture, possible fixes to the immigration system. 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.

now, he did say that -- or he was asked, rather, i think by pat leahy, leahy had read that rudy guiliani, one of the president's lawyers, wanted to basically edit it before it comes out. barr said that's not going to happen. >> they're doing a quorum call to make sure everybody is there before they start this final debate. ann gearrin, while i clear my throat, oleg deripaska was sanctioned, the president was forced to accept these sanctions because a bipartisan congress forced him to do this. now the treasury unilaterally lifting sanctions just on this one bad actor, someone very close to vladimir putin, at the same time as we get new information that the president wanted to withdraw from nato, which would be exactly what putin wanted. with all of this swirling around him, how does it make it look that the president is doing what seems to be vladimir putin's bidding on point after point? >> right. there are so many threads that do knit together around one central thing, which is that time after time the president defaults to a position that is close to or aligned with the things that put

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rudy guiliani, the president's outside attorney, backs that up. but you asked about the white house response to all this. here's a quick look at how that interaction went down yesterday. >> has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? >> i'm not aware of that. haven't had any conversations regarding that matter. >> can you guarantee the president won't pardon roger stone? >> i won't talk about hypotheticals. >> reporter: legal experts make the point that if president trump were to offer a presidential pardon with corrupt intent, let's say he did that as a means of keeping roger stone from cooperating, the president would open himself up to obstruction of justice allegations. you've got matt whittaker, the acting attorney general, he said he's been briefed on the russia investigation and he says it's close to winding up. >> i think the investigation is close to being completed. i hope we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> reporter: and as we've reported back in december, forces familiar told us that mueller wa

rudy guiliani adding new confusion about the president's business interests in russia during his campaign. and in a new interview, guiliani starts to wonder about his own legacy and what his gravestone might say. >>> also, national flashpoint, a kentucky school closed today reportedly over security concerns. it finds itself at the center of a firestorm after that video showed its students in a confrontation with a native american veteran. now president trump is weighing in. we'll get to those stories in just a moment. we start this hour with breaking news from the supreme court, which just gave the president a win on his attempt to ban transgender troops from serving in the military. pete williams has been following all of this. pete, tell us what happened. >> it's a short term win for the president. what happened here

coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news, president trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani, goes into damage control over comments he made about trump tower moscow. and all of the oscar nominees announced, in a history—making line—up that leaves the best picture race wide open. that's still to come. good evening. not only did today bring a wintry feel to the weather, there was quite a wintry look for some of us as well. not all of us got to see snow, but there certainly was some for a weather watcher in buckinghamshire, and with further wintry showers to come tonight and tomorrow, as well as the potential for some icy surfaces, some travel disruption does look quite likely. your bbc local radio station will keep you up to date. the showers today came as a mixture of rain, sleet, hail and snow, the snow not only over the hills, even to low levels we saw a bit of snow, and as we go through the evening some of these wintry showers will continue, particularly across western parts of the uk, but also some are likely to linger across parts of east anglia and the south—east.

i'm curious where it will go from here, if it becomes a public fight like we've seen with rudy guiliani trying to try the president's case out in the public. if stone pursues that and tries to keep this battle going. >> clint, i want to pick up on the point with chuck. we're toggling between these two breaks stories. one related to roger stone, one related to the air traffic delays that are happening in new york and philadelphia. i want to bring you news on that. president trump has been briefed about those delays according to the white house. the white house says they're monitoring those delays. they're in regular contact with officials at the department of transportation and the faa as well. so the white house is now monitoring, aware, keeping an eye on this. democrats on capitol hill are based on what speaker pelosi had to say as well. let me toggle back to the other one, roger stone. there's no good way to do this. we have two things happening. we'll bring you the latest developments on both of those. when it comes to roger stone, it's 10:57 here in the east. roger stone is set to b

still, and rudy guiliani made this point as did a number of the president's confidentes and supporters. none of those facts allege some type of development between or connection between the trump campaign and the russian government. >> that's not entirely true. i think you have to look at what the special counsel is doing. every indictment is a different puzzle piece. he's not put a global indictment together, but if you look the way the cases come together there's clearly been connections he put forward about the russian government, hacking e-mails and getting those to wikileaks and this has to do with roger stone and you may not be a single indictment, but you put them together and the circle is closing in. leland: this may be what you're talking about. jf july 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization one, referring to wikileaks, a senior campaign official was directed to contact stone about additional releases or damaging information organization one had regarding the clinton campaign. stone there half told the trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging mat

guiliani said -- neil: but it doesn't say that he hasn't. do you know what i mean? so it leaves you wondering gee, what else is going on? >> well the article does say at the end there's a vigorous debate, whether these agents overreacted by opening a counter intelligence investigation. i mean what do you mean a debate this is absolutely outrageous, they didn't over react. if there was such an inquiry, it was highly inappropriate. did anybody go to the joint chiefs and say my god, the president might be committing treason? neil: by the way we don't know -- >> the congressional leadership neil: we don't know this was going on john thank you very much. great catching up with you. all right, in the meantime, catching up with all of these people who want to be president of the united states. there is a new entrant i think that makes about 3,000 people vying for the white house, after this. alabama. aka, rocket city, usa. this is a very difficult job. failure is not an option. more than half of employees across the country bring financial stress t

guiliani, that this was unfair and untrue. and i think, you know, given how the rest of the press got carried away with that story, a-ha, a gotcha moment and we now have the president, the office took it, took action. neil: and comments in the middle after press report, you felt were so wrong, you had to say something? >> i did, maybe not quite as serious as that. there were occasions along the way leaks to the media you say to yourself hate, wait a second. neil: did you make a public comment on that, or your staff. >> i had to. there was a situation in which it was actually leaked by a judge on the special division about the fact that there was a grand jury investigation pending against the president, a politically sensitive time when al gore acceptance speech for the democratic domination and i ended up unavoidably forced to come forward and comment on something i would not have otherwise done, i had to comment to the fact that the leak did not come from our office. it's difficult to do and not something that prosecutors ord

we now know if you listen to rudy guiliani and people in this white house, there was potential activity going on, a potential business deal throughout the campaign for trump to have a property in moscow, coordination between michael cohen, his right hand person and moscow. moscow knew that. putin knew that. putin knows every single thing that happens in rush, contact that happens and that is one thing you would have dangling over him. >> it is. there are so many coincidences. if you're sitting at a craps table and somebody rolls snake eyes once, but if they do it 47 times in a row, the die are loaded, right? >> it's very concerning. >> anybody here watch sherlock. >> yeah. >> there's that amazing scone where the older brother is yelling in sherlock's brain and what do we say about coincidence, sherlock, sherlock respond, the universe is rarely so lazy. these are not coincidences. you can go all the way back to donald trump on this show in december of 2015, saying vladamir putin was a stronger leader than american leaders and he didn't care he assassinated people, that u.s. troops in ira