. >> i laid out why rudy giuliani. the problem with rudy giuliani is that he's mercurial and temperamental. the president has picked as much of a fight as you can pick with james comey. i'm not sure anybody who lives in new york or knows rudy giuliani or was here after and since he was mayor thinks he's the kind of guy you bring in to bring things to an end. if the fight is in full force, maybe you want rudy giuliani there because he comes in with two machine guns. >> i agree. he is not the guy who is going to be brokering a good deal. he's not the kind of person you'd want to do that. on the other hand, he is the only person on that team of lawyers that even has any kind of experience dealing with the u.s. department of justice on criminal matters, in white collar crime. he's bringing two other people who are former assistants with him that were, i believe, assistants in some u.s. attorney's office. so -- >> who knows the southern district of new york well and the judges and the prosecuters. >> at the end of the day,

everybody around the inner circle of donald trump said, rudy? no. no rudy, no rudy. that's the first thing. the second thing is, based on what rudy himself has said, he may have made it up all up, who knows, he may be the subject of the investigation, not somebody representing the president in the investigation. >> well, you raise something -- >> he said he knew about the 30,000k -- >> i want to be very clear pinpoint to be very clear. what comey is saying, what he downloads on msnbc is that they were looking into whether the fbi was leaking into giuliani. as untoward as all of that is, it makes rudy a key player, but the first line of the investigation would be whether people inside the fbi did anything wrong. i wonder what you think about why donald trump would be moved back towards rudy, when they clearly didn't get long enough to bring him on at first? >> here's a few reasons. number one, the southern district of new york, as you were discussing. as you know, as a lawyer, as somebody who's been involved in court cases, there's no more revered jurisdiction than th

everybody around the inner circle of donald trump said, rudy, no. no rudy, no rudy. so that's the first thing. the second thing is based on what rudy himself has said -- he may have made it all up, who knows -- he should be the subject of the investigation, not somebody representing the president in the investigation. >> well, you raise something, and i want to be -- >> he said he knew about the 30,000 -- >> i want to be very clear. what comey is saying, what he disclosed on msnbc, is that they were looking into whether the fbi was leaking to giuliani. as untoward as all of that is, it makes rudy a key player. >> yes. >> but the first line of the investigation would be whether people inside the fbi did anything wrong. >> right. >> i wonder what you think about why donald trump would be moved back towards rudy when they clearly didn't get along enough to bring him on at first. >> here's a few reasons. number one, the southern district of new york as you were discussing. as you know as a lawyer, as somebody who has been involved in court cases, there's no more revered

down took pictures of rudi without permission the duchess left the villa then italy. but i thought on. both of us in the halls and when he knew what a house of a tree a bottle and a piece of bread were again he visited me. before. he could only see through one eye the other was blind. kwame for. under four and we became close friends and not for political reasons or due to from going to. learn good or cooper meant he was a good personal fear god if i mean maybe. he was called a phrase monger. yang. we are. there for he did use a lot of phrases. but he was a gentle person. who wrote letters to years of pocket money i don't believe you'll remain a fascist and i'm not mad at you the one wrote back. two years later he took his own life in prison by suffocating himself with a plastic bag. he was given an entry permit to england on his way then he had his first epileptic fit a consequence of the shooting the university of cambridge admitted him as a graduate student but england had had a conservative government says nine hundred seventy read rudy lost his residence permit a

stem took pictures of rudy without permission the duchess left the villa then italy. but i thought on. both of us in the whole earth and when he knew what a house of a tree a bottle and a piece of bread were again he visited me. before. he could only see through one eye. the other was blind. crummy for dog. under four and we became close friends and not for political reasons or two from when and why i'm good at cooper long term and he was a good personal fear god if i mean maybe and. he was called a phrase monger. yang. we are going. after he did use a lot of phrases but he was a gentle person. wrote letters to yells of. i don't believe you'll remain a fascist and i'm not mad at you the one wrote back. two years later he took his own life in prison by suffocating himself with a plastic bag. was given an entry permit to england on his way there he had his first epileptic fit a consequence of the shooting the university of cambridge admitted him as a graduate student but england had had a conservative government says nine hundred seventy read rudy lost his residence per

i don't know what to make of that. >> i legend of rudy giuliani has outstripped the ability of rudy giuliani. it's not surprising that he comes in, i'm going to end this in two weeks. we're going to make a deal. he is transactional in the same way trump is. that's one of the reasons why they are friends. i don't think giuliani will have anything -- he is not going to have any power with the mueller investigation. robert mueller is not scared of rudy giuliani. i really do think this is more on cohen and how that whole ball of wax is going to go down. >> remember the baggage that comes with rudy giuliani. he is a peacock. what is clear from president trump's behavior is that he doesn't like anyone getting the limelight. maybe they told rudy you do this slice of the pie. i'm not sure rudy giuliani will get that message. >> he will be on tv a lot. thanks for joining me. es. and this is "dateline." >>> it's the ice cream truck. i see it. i see t. >> hey, guys, i'm matt the ice cream man. >> he is pretending to be a sweet-talking stranger. >> how would you guys like to play ice cream? >> but reall

i don't know what to make of that. >> i legend of rudy giuliani has outstripped the ability of rudy giuliani. it's not surprising that he comes in, i'm going to end this in two weeks. we're going to make a deal. he is transactional in the same way trump is. that's one of the reasons why they are friends. i don't think giuliani will have anything -- he is not going to have any power with the mueller investigation. robert mueller is not scared of rudy giuliani. i really do think this is more on cohen and how that whole ball of wax is going to go down. >> remember the baggage that comes with rudy giuliani. he is a peacock. what is clear from president trump's behavior is that he doesn't like anyone getting the limelight. maybe they told rudy you do this slice of the pie. i'm not sure rudy giuliani will get that message. >> he will be on tv a lot. thanks for joining me. >>> have a great weekend. >> you too. >> thanks for joining us. happy friday. it's a friday. that means there's lots going on. in missouri tonight, the sitting republican governor of the great state of missouri, he has just been

before rudy started in the ghetto hot helped my high school and look at. history was his favorite subject he was a conscientious student and got good grades not because it was demanded of him but because he enjoyed learning and set himself high standards. he once wrote we can see today what the few other and this is i should have brought as a unified germany is currently inconceivable my mother didn't have us four sons for the war we hate the war and want peace even at a young age really dutch has made no attempts to hide his convictions. in november nine hundred fifty eight rudy spoke publicly for the first time at the annual congress of the so-called free german youth school group he had rehearsed his speech at home he didn't talk about sports but about why people shouldn't join the national people's army. and there was trouble last year when i wasn't willing to join the army i was a member of the free german youth. and there was a confrontation at an annual congress when i voiced an opinion about the army and socialism and about the national question. i

one, rudy is getting his sea legs in this case. he just arrived as of last week and so he wants to meet the person who's prosecuting/investigating this matter to size up a case and also size up the probe, like what is it exactly that mueller still needs and wants before he completes what we've described as a partial report on his findings about obstruction. the other thing that's going on here is that ever since a raid at the home and office of michael cohen, one of the president's closest confidentants and his personal attorney, the president has deeply soured on the idea of sitting down with mueller's team. why is that? because he felt really caught off guard as did most of the trump legal defense team, how could this have happened without them knowing. the mueller's team is not leading that investigation. you'd have to be kind of naive to believe that there isn't going to be a day when mueller wants to interview michael cohen about his behavior and interactions with the campaign and particularly in trying to talk to any russians

before rudy started in the get hot helped my high school and look at. history was his favorite subject he was a conscientious student and got good grades not because it was demanded of him but because he enjoyed learning and set himself high standards. he once wrote we can see today what the few other i mean this guy should have brought us a unified germany is currently inconceivable my mother didn't have as for sums for the war we hate the war and want peace even at a young age made no attempts to hide his convictions. in november nine hundred fifty eight rudy spoke publicly for the first time at the annual congress of the so-called free german youth school group he had rehearsed his speech at home he didn't talk about sports but about why people shouldn't join the national people's army. and there was trouble last year when i wasn't willing to join the army i was a member of the free germany. and there was a confrontation at an annual congress when i voiced an opinion about the army and socialism and about the national question. i came out in favor of

while rudy's comrades were waxing lyrical about free love he chose a very different style. with. this bonnie. and as a line that we wanted to have a party and we invited lots of people. i know that's fine and like now friends people from different working groups from the third world groups done so i know our hawkes i composed a kind of wedding speech and it was read out loud as a kind of sermon a lighter or complacent. heart. prayed. berlin in the mid sixty's wrote things are getting serious now for the revolutionaries who see they are a tiny minority that will remain irrelevant to society for quite some time because it exists largely outside of society. wanted to get those who are disadvantaged by the capitalist system to become active because people only destroy their traditional norms if they believe they can improve their situation. to the socialist german student league formally the student wing of the social democratic party seem to be the perfect instrument for this. or that he rose quickly through the leagues ranks but many long established members thought he was too radi

stem took pictures of rudy without permission the duchess left the villa then italy. but i thought on. both of us in the halls and when he knew what a house of a tree a bottle and a piece of bread were again he visited me. before. he could only see through one eye. the other was blind. crummy for dogs. under four and we became close friends and not for political reasons. why i'm good at cooper long term and he was a good personal few obvious i mean maybe and he was called a phrase monger. yang. he did use a lot of phrases but he was a gentle person. wrote letters to you as a bomb on i don't believe you'll remain a fascist and i'm not mad at you wrote back. years later took his own life in prison by suffocating himself with a plastic bank. who was given an entry permit to england on his way there he had his first epileptic fit a consequence of the shooting the university of cambridge admitted him as a graduate student but england had had a conservative government says nine hundred seventy read rudy lost his residence permit again. for two on his behalf but to no avail

i don't know what to make of that. >> i legend of rudy giuliani has outstripped the ability of rudy giuliani. it's not surprising that he comes in, i'm going to end this in two weeks. we're going to make a deal. he is transactional in the same way trump is. that's one of the reasons why they are friends. i don't think giuliani will have anything -- he is not going to have any power with the mueller investigation. robert mueller is not scared of rudy giuliani. i really do think this is more on cohen and how that whole ball of wax is going to go down. >> remember the baggage that comes with rudy giuliani. he is a peacock. what is clear from president trump's behavior is that he doesn't like anyone getting the limelight. maybe they told rudy you do this slice of the pie. i'm not sure rudy giuliani will get that message. >> he will be on tv a lot. thanks for joining me. that is all of the time we have tonight. >>> have a great weekend. >> you too. >> thanks for joining us. happy friday. it's a friday. that means there's lots going on. in missouri tonight, the sitting republican governor of the g

let's talk about rudy dpooul giuliani. he wants a list of how they can comply with the mueller investigation. then he hopes it can be wrapped up. a couple of weeks. what's your reaction to this? >> i have a couple reactions. they are a little mixed. on the one hand, it seems like big news. rudy giuliani is a well known person. et he had the job that i had later. he served as mayor of the city of new york. he ran for president. it's a big name. it's attached to a person who a little bit like john doud is outspoken and not afraid to get into the fights with adversaries. he's a strong willed person. we have heard a lot of news over the last few weeks and months that donald trump has had a hard time finding people who are very experienced in a very real on the courtroom kind of way. he's very able lawyer and has a storied history as a defense lawyer for a long period of time. that's not been his recent experience. he's been a defieder of donald trump in a significant way outside the courtroom. he's one of the only people who c

and rudy has a sort of 1980s legal mindset. trump's head is in the 1980s. rudy is that, and he knows the southern district of new york. he comes out of there. he will defend trump capably on tv. trump trusts him, which i think is important in terms of having trust with your lawyer. i think it's a good hire on trump's part. >> i agree completely, at least from the communications standpoint. you have a known face who is a good combative on tv. >> i think this is a win for trump. >> now you have someone in the room, mueller in massachusetts, rudy in new york, rudy was obviously mayor on 9/11, mueller was the fbi director. they worked together in that crisis. they know each other, one would assume they have a professional relationship. the question is to what end? will it speed up at least the resolution of will or will not the president answer questions? >> i don't know. there is a risk here of overpromising, right? and for all the good relationship that the president has with rudy giuliani, you know, i think he sours very quickly if he feels like he's being h

rudy giuliani is not one of those people. he's a has-been who was never all that great in the first place, which is why he can make this outrageous statement that he can bring the investigation to an end. trust me, he cannot do that. there are trials scheduled for september and october of this year. >> what do you make of it, shannon? that's a hell of an offer. i'm going to shorten this thing up. >> i think the key to that statement is, i don't know what's outstanding, as in i don't know anything about this case at this point but i think i can wrap it up in a couple weeks. >> what about this character, ty cobb, he said this was going to be over thanksgiving. and trump's been absorbing and swallowing this stuff for months. >> the argument that the trump lawyers make is, listen, we've given you all these documents. you've interviewed every witness. what more do you need, especially on the obstruction? >> more on the business end first of all. >> what more do you need from us? what are you asking? what's the outstanding request

in one nine hundred fifty four rudy started in the get hot hauptmann high school and look at. history was his favorite subject he was a conscientious student and got good grades not because it was demanded of him but because he enjoyed learning and set himself high standards. he once wrote we can see today what the few other and this is i should have brought as a unified germany is currently inconceivable my mother didn't have asked for sums for the war we hate the war and want peace even at a young age make no attempts to hide his convictions. in the i'm a nine hundred fifty eight rudy spoke publicly for the first time at the annual congress of the so-called free german youth school group he had rehearsed his speech at home he didn't talk about sports but about why people shouldn't join the national people's army. and there was trouble last year when i wasn't willing to join the army i was a member of the free german youth. and there was a confrontation at an annual congress when i voiced an opinion about the army and socialism and about the national question. i came out in f

what do you think rudy giuliani's mission is? it can't be people talking on camera wrapping up the mueller investigation in two weeks. what is the actual mission as you understand it for rudy giuliani? >> so, part of it is that the president, his long wanted to be more aggressive on this probe, both actually and just sort of in the court of public opinion. and if you look at just, you know, rudy's first few days on the job, that's very much what he's doing. the truth is those conversations he had when he met with mueller's team earlier this week are not actually that dissimilar to the conversations that the president's previous legal team was having. sort of there going back and forth, trying to understand one another to the best they can. they're trying to figure out if an interview makes sense and what the terms of the interview are, to try to limit the president's portion and to try to wrap up his involvement in the probe as quickly as possible. but giuliani is doing it with a sort of more aggressive and tough talking and conf

rudy giuliani. he was here in florida meeting with the president in palm beach for some 30 minutes or so at mar-a-lago at least the other night, talking about this. rudy giuliani being brought on board here. but it is those questions about michael cohen, what he might do that i'm told is worrying the president tonight. erin? >> all right, jeff zeleny, thank you very much. and a very fair concern. "outfront" now, jay goldberg, long-time attorney, personal friend of president who represented him in both of his divorce cases. and you spoke to the president about michael cohen. you're also a former federal prosecutor. >> yes. >> you've known him a long time. you know new york extremely well. he called you? >> he did. he called me on april 13th. >> so this is after the raid. >> yes. >> so what did he ask you? >> he asked me about a number of lawyers and what i thought the lawyer best suited for him would be. and i didn't accept the notion of flip. flip means to me that when faced with the potential of sp

rudy is an institutionalist. he can make the focus less frayed and more focused on the investigation. >> john said that. you're right. that should be emphasized. everybody is meeting donald trump for the first time unless they watched him on tv. if you have known him and seen hum work for decades, the idea that when somebody tells him you need to slow down. you need are rethink this, this is a small group of people. rudy giuliani is one of them. i got moved to the outside a little bit for that. but now he needs his expertise. >> he does respect him. >> absolutely. laura, go ahead. >> the fact that he is respected perhaps and is able to advise the president of the united states speaks nothing to whether he can advise robert mueller, who i'm sure is more than capable of compartmentalizes his permanent interactions with people in this probe. i'm not making light of the fact that perhaps rudy giuliani is influential and that his reputation will proceed him in this case. but whether or not they can accelerate a positi

i'd like to ask you something about rudy giuliani. on october 28, 2016 you isnsent letter to congress notifying them that the fbi was reopening the investigation on hillary clinton's e-mails. two days before you did that, president trump's friend, former mayor of new york, your predecessor rudy giuliani said this on fox news -- >> mr. mayor, we got 14 days. does donald trump plan anything except for a series of inspiring rallies? >> yes. >> what? when will this happen? >> we got a couple of surprises left. >> october surprises? >> i call them surprises in the way that we're going to campaign to get our message out there, maybe in a little bit of a different way. i think it will be enormously effective. and i do think that all of these revelations about hillary clinton finally are beginning to have an impact. he's got a surprise or two you're going to hear about in the next two days. i'm talking about some pretty big surprises. sf >> i heard you say that this morning. what do you mean? >> you'll see. >> so he's not just hinting there,

rudy guiliani is not one of those people. he's a has been who was never all that great in the first place. which is why he could make this outrageous statement that he can bring the investigation to an end. trust me, he cannot do that. there are trials scheduled for september and october of this year. . >> what do you make of it? >> i think the key. >> that's a hell of an offer. i'm going to shorten this up. >> the key to that statement is i don't know what's outstanding as in i don't know anything about this case at this point but can wrap it up in a couple weeks into ty cobb said this war was going to be over last thanksgiving. and trump's been swallowing this stuff for months. >> i would say the argument that the trump lawyers make is listen, we've given you all these documents. you've interviewed every witness. what more do you need especially on the obstruction. what more do you need from us? what are you asking? what's the outstanding request. right now they're saying there aren't any outstanding requests for documents

and rudy giuliani joins the trump legal team. he says he wants to negotiate an end to the mueller probe. and for the first time ever a sitting senator makes history by bringing her newborn baby to the senate floor during votes. >> good morning, everyone. it's friday,

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani joined president trump's legal team. and the democraticco national ittee filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the russian government, wikileaks and the trumpampaign, alleging a conspiracy to support trump's 2016 bid. and earlier this week, lawyers for the president and hison persal attorney, michael cohen, argued against releasing seized thisat were month in a raid by the f.b.i. trump allies on capitol hill, like congressman mark meadows of north carolina, have been threatening impeachment or contempt of congress for deputy attorney general rod rosenstein unless he handed over those comey memos. but let's begin with breaking news. josh, welcome to "washington week." that attorneyght general jeff sessions has warned the white house that heou step down if rod rosenstein, who oversees the mueller pro, t special counsel investigation, is fired. it really brings up this bigger theme. it's not just about the comey memos this week. it's reall about the tensions between the white house and the mueller investigation, repu

which rudy would you be getting? >> rudy is sort of an unofficial campaign person may actually know debate be more involved or knowledgeable, knowledgeable of what happened during the campaign. >> he certainly has insight into that. and he has a lot of equity in trump world which is going to be helpful not just in dealing with the president but also folks around the president. the interesting question here is is there a game of chess going on in terms of jeff sessions and what might be happening with jeff sessions going forward, shuffling around the department of justice. >> do you think he is auditioning? >> i don't know if he is auditioning knowingly or not. but let's put all the cards on the table. >> i think if you wanted to be attorney general this would be a very bad career move for rudy giuliani if he has his eye on that prize. that's going to make it a little more difficult. >> i don't want to get into the confirmation story right now with you they are struggling to get nasa officials with 50 votes. giuliani

he gets both of those in rudy guiliani. and his self-debasement continues. >> i think it's a recognition by trump and his team that he has more of a political problem than a legal problem. the legal problem is going to sort itself out. this is going to get decided by politicians not by judges, at least what mueller's looking at. whether rudy guiliani is the right guy to be giving political advice, i don't know. but i'll make one prediction which is by the third or fourth time rudy guiliani is on tv he's going it get his wings clipped because he won't like him getting more publicity. >> and then if he ends up on time magazine. >> it's over. >>> when we come back more on what we're learning about comey's memos on president trump, and what will they mean for the mueller investigation. more? they've been saving folks money for over 75 years. a company you can trust. geico even helped us with homeowners insurance. more sounds great. gotta love more... right, honey? yeah! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. if yorhe

trump i think, wants the same thing from rudy giuliani. i think trump thinks he's going to be an attack dog. >> for we americans who stand up at ball games and stand when the national anthem is played and care about the place, how should people feel about the fact that a president eight days into his presidency, ten days into his presidency had concerns about his national security adviser? >> bad. i mean i continue to think -- i mean there are a million -- there are lots of things to say about michael flynn. but whatever those things are, all of them point to one thing, which is that the idea that the trump organization, the trump transition was in such a state of disarray and was so incompetent and so irresponsible that michael flynn was placed in that position, it is probably the single greatest failure of political national security vetting in the history of the country. and the only thing that strikes a slightly optimistic chord is at least the trump -- according to the comey memos, at least trump sensed there was a little bit of a pro

let's also remember that rudy giuliani is a brilliant lawyer. i had self-cases with him going back to 1973. won some, lost some. but he is always an incredibly strong opponent and an extraordinary courtroom lawyer, particularly on cross examination. rudy has everything the president needs. loyalty. courtroom skills. political savvy. and knowledge of everybody involved in the process. >> professor dershowitz, i think you make a really fascinating point about the michael cohen investigation and i want to get to that in one moment but first i want to do a quick fact check on something that rudy giuliani said himself about the russia probe. i hear what you are saying. you are saying this might be wrapped up quickly. he is saying he is the person to wrap it up quickly. the "new york post" reports, quote, i don't know yet what's outstanding but i don't think it is going to take more than a week or two to get a resolution. they're almost there. i'm going to ask mueller, what do you need to wrap it up. is that realistic to think that he can actually wra

maybe they told rudy you do this slice of the pie. i'm not sure rudy giuliani will get that message. >> he will be on tv a lot. thanks for joining me. >>> have a great weekend. >> you too. >> thanks for joining us. happy friday. it's a friday. that means there's lots going on. in missouri tonight, the sitting republican governor of the great state of missouri, he has just been hit with new felony charges. the first felony charges against governor came a couple months ago in conjunction with allegations about an extramarital affair. then came an extraordinary bipartisan report from the missouri legislature containing graphic allegations of violenol and sexual abuse in the course of that alleged affair. the state lenggislature has bee considering whether they may want to start impeachment proceedings. now tonight, the new felony charges against the governor have just been filed. these new felony charges are not related to the alleged affair. these new charges allege he misused a veteran's charity that he ran basically to fund his campai

what we forget, aside from rudy in campaign mode is that rudy also has a profile that is highly respected and a long pedigree in law enforcement. he was associate attorney general, he was the attorney in the u.s. torn district of new york. when he was mayor of new york, he had very, very strong relationships with the nypd and all federal law enforcement. he has a pedigree here that goes back decades not just with mueller but with comey also. so this is somebody who is in a position because of his trust with the president to bring the temperature down in terms of how the parties are working together. and while i don't think rudy in s in a position to miraculously solve a special investigation in two weeks, he is in a position to help the gears move a little quicker and better. >> that is what he said. he said he hopes to because of his experience and relationship with mueller, he hopes to end this thing in a come of weeks, which i said earlier is no small task. >> i don't think that de-escalates it. a couple of reasons why i think he took it, i think he does think he can make a difference.

>> i love the moves of john bolton, rudy guliani, larry kudlow. people that have long relationships or strong relationships with the president. if you're going to work in an administration, particularly at the highest levels of the administration, you have to have candid and honest conversations with the president. what we've seen in the past is those weren't taking place. >> thanks. more "outnumbered" in just a moment. there's little rest for a single dad. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid... ...plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. guys,but you've got sto be strong.st remember janet? she got cash back shopping with ebates and hasn't been skeptical since. where'd the money come from? stores pay ebates. psh!!! psh!!! then ebates pays you. psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! psh!!! and they'll send you a check. psh!!!! oohh!! sign up for free. shop your favorite stores. get cash back. ebates. som

it is just more gamesmanship. >> alex, what is the job of rudy giuliani? he hasn't practiced this type of criminal law in quite sometime. is he here to be the man to negotiate with robert mueller? is he here to put on a public face of this for the president's base? what is the job exactly? >> sort of all of the above. and on top of that he used the word honest broker to describe potentially robert mueller. i think he is somebody the president sees as an honest broker, right? we have seen president trump cycle through a number of attorneys and sort of lost patience with and lost faith in. rudy giuliani is somebody to have a personal relationship with and as we saw in the ronny jackson affair it matters more than anything else. >> with rudy, you have to think everything he's saying is publicly and communicating with the president directly. it's not about what he says about mueller because rudy and mueller know each other. mueller doesn't care what rudy says in public but he can bring down the temperature between the special counsel and the president with the

you spotted rudy giuliani there, just before he joined the president's legal team. what does his addition mean at this time? >> obviously he's a very competent attorney, very highly respected attorney, back in new york. he also has agt le relationship with people like bob mueller. he knew cey, back from being mayor of new york and they were over in d.o.j. and so he believes that he's coming in sort of bringing ine rapport of an attorney but also someone who can sit with thesmen, look them face to face and say this is the way it's going to be. let's wrap this up right now. he really believes and he's been out there in t last two days, since this news emerged, really saying i'monna wrap this up. i'm gonna get this thing under control and we'ret gonna j finish it. >> the fundamental question for rudy giuliani, though, will be, what isis approach? the legal team has been besieged byig iing, lots of different strategies. the president's l dyerarted amid some squabbles internally. so what does he do differently? they told the president, listen, this will be over by thanks

i had no follow-up question for rudy giuliani, i thought he went bongers. i understand why trump would want his around her, but he's not going to get trump too far. >> let's look at another point and that's jeff sessions not recusing himself -- or at least not yet recusing himself in the michael cohen investigation in the southern district of new york. let's listen to what senator leahey said today about that. >> have you sought any advice with career ethics officials about whether you should recuse yourself in the cohen matter? >> i have sought advice on those matters, and i have not met with the top ethics person on it, but i can assure you i've not violated my recusal. >> matt miller your reaction to the attorney general's situation with the michael cohen case, is that one where he should also be recused? >> absolutely. he was cagey about it in his testimony. when a department official recuses from a case, they don't say so publically, it would give the public some indication of the scope of the investigation, but that doesn't apply here. they've confirm

after comey made the announcement and rudy giuliani says that was what he was hinting at. >> did rudy giuliani and therefore, the trump campaign have advance notice that this announcement from you was coming? >> not that i know of but i saw that same publicity and so i committed an investigation to see if people disclosing information in any other place that resulted in rudy's report in fox news or other leaks in the media. i don't know what the result was, i got fired before i finished. >> that answer from james comey here last night gotten a good bit of attention in the wake of the interview. mr. comey tells us rudy giuliani's comment prompted him, comey to order an fbi investigation into whether people inside the fbi were feeding the trump campaign non public investigation of the clinton's investigation during the campaign. james comey ordered an investigation into that but he said he does not know what the result was for that investigation he ordered because he soon got fired. >> well, we are not 100% sure what happened to that investigation, we think what probably happen to it th

i think rudy giuliani is a short-termer. since he joined there has been more leaks in the trump strategy than the previous year. that will sit badly with the president and the lawyers who will try to do their work. so we have 15 minutes of fame here for rudy giuliani. and i think he's going to recede into the woodwork and the hard labor will fall to the raskins, and per casey might join the raskins. they will do the hard work. they will advise the president has to the advisability and the availability of not taking an interview with mueller. it is not clear they have a legal basis to refuse that interview. so for all the posturing about what they want from giuliani, he wants to see whether mueller is objective and what his thinking is about comey. all of that is not relevant. he wants to proceed with this intervi interview. and he has the legal right to do so. >> the second thing is what will happen with this legal effort to protect mueller. we don't know enough now. muck connell is saying he won't put it on the floor. let's

and he wanted rudy on his team. but let me tell you, i think even more significant than rudy, who's, you know, rudy giuliani, who's obviously a big name, but hiring jane and marty raskin down in miami, this is a serious couple of lawyers down there who are serious lawyers, well-known. i've talked to a bunch of white-collar lawyers here in washington who say, these are people who are going to make a difference for the president's legal team. and so rudy giuliani is going to be the face, he's going to go interact with robert mueller's team. and, you know, rudy is telling people, rudy giuliani is telling people, certainly, that, you know, the fact that he used to work with robert mueller, he knows robert mueller very well, and he feels that his presence and his negotiating skills are going to help bring this home, down the home stretch. look, i'm not sure if he's being a little too optimistic, but i do think that overshadowing the hiring of the raskins, begin, this husband and wife team down in miami, who are going to

i'd like to ask you something about rudy giuliani. on october 28, 2016 you sent a letter to congress notifying them that the fbi was reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. 11 days before the election, an vant that the hillary clinton campaign perceives to have landed on them like a meteor in the closing days of that campaign. two days before you did that, president trump's friend, former mayor of new york, your predecessor rudy giuliani said this on fox news -- >> mr. mayor, we got 14 days. does donald trump plan anything except for a series of inspiring rallies? >> yes. >> what? when will this happen? >> we got a couple of surprises left. >> october surprises? >> i call them surprises in the way that we're going to campaign to get our message out there, maybe in a little bit of a different way. you'll see. i think it will be enormously effective. and i do think that all of these revelations about hillary clinton finally are beginning to have an impact. he's got a surprise or two you're going to hear about in the

>> depends which rudy shows up. we don't know if it's going to be the rudy that wants to go out there and be on tv and discussing this matter or if it's going to be the former prosecutor who knows you have to be methodical and go after this to really help the president. he definitely ticks off two boxes for donald trump. he's -- donald trump is comfortable with him and he's a big name. but it's going to be interesting to see how he approaches this. he still does have relationships within the southern district which he represented in the '80s. and there was even some rumors that he was one of the people that kind of forced comey's hand to release the information about the anthony weiner e-mails because he was still -- he was hearing that from the southern district at the time. >> and he was going on fox doing his whispering, there's something big coming four days before the election. >> he's thautd to be one of the pipelines from the leaks that go from trump favorable forces inside doj and fbi to fox news. i heard so

. >>> rudy giuliani joins the trump legal team. he plans to give the mueller investigation a little push. >> what do you think happens when you demonize law enforcement? >>> the sheriff in florida not holding back after the death of his deputies. >>> a bank about to be slapped for a $1 billion fine for fees they should not have paid and insurance they need didn't. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. friday, april 20th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. 11:00 a.m. in moscow. we are live shortly from that location. christine, the memos took 45 minutes to leak to the media. that is where we are in 2018. we will talk about them shortly. we talk about that now. president trump tweeting on the reaction of the declassified versions of the memos from james comey. the president wrote, james comey memos just out and show clearly there was no collusion, no obstruction. also he leaked classified information. wow. will the witch hunt continue? the critics find the assertions questionable. >> many were written by james comey hours or minutes after se

rudy is great. he has been my friend for a long time. and wants to get this matter quickly resolved. does the white house have the ability to put this in the rearview mirror. bre peyton and scott martin with, and marie harf. go buckeyes. >> just don't ask us about the last couplens for football. kennedy: it's an emotional sport. and this is an emotional time for the president and for the country. so many elements wrapped up in this russia investigation which seems to sprout new legs and scurry in different directions every day. so what does the appointment of rudy giuliani as to be and advisor to the president say to you about the investigation? >> it's certainly an asset. i think the investigation will march on. i don't see this wrapping up or going away anytime soon. any time you are in legal trouble, you should keep your trap shut unless you are compelled to do otherwise. even in that case, keep your answers short. people who stalked to mueller have gotten into trouble. kennedy: there are two elements to the president. the president h

recognize rudy when he was sitting right in front of him. >> i want to introduce rudy giuliani, and rudy is very much of an expert on cyber security. it's been a very important thing to him and what he does. maybe i'll ask rudy to say a few words. where's rudy? >> thank you very, very much, mr. president. first of all, congratulations on what is in fact a historic start of an administration. [ laughter ] >> seth: he was directly across the table from him! [ laughter ] how was trump going to find the hackers when he can't even find rudy giuliani -- [ laughter ] -- at the same table? no one else looks like rudy giuliani. [ laughter ] was there another 200-year-old bald, beady-eyed man at the table? now, over a year after that proclamation, reports say giuliani's committee accomplished pretty much nothing. but luckily, trump didn't just leave rudy in charge of it all. he also tasked jared kushner with helping to lead cyber security efforts, in addition to being in charge of creating peace in the middle east, fixing the v.a., and solving the opioid crisis while simultaneously going through p

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rudy giuliani has met with mueller. the attorney general, jeff sessions, talking about executive privilege and the president's pardon abilities. so there is a lot to cover. let's bring in former federal prors micha prosecutors michael zeldin and laura coates. this is actually kind of complex as a legal tactic. you can say it is is a no-brainer. you have an open criminal investigation. plead the fifth in the civil case, it will keep it in abeyance and keep it quiet. pleading the fifth can have a negative inference with the jury. that is about legal tactics. the main optical problem, i'll start with you, laura coates, is what his boss says this means. listen to this. >> have you seen what's going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible. >> the mob takes the fifth. if you're innocent, why take the fifth amendment? >> when you have your staff taking the fifth phaeplt, taking the fifth so they're not prosecuted, i think it is disgraceful. >> did you think it was disgrace

and rudy's not a practicing lawyer at this point. he's a rainmaker for greenberg, the law firm he's now at. his former law firm, giuliani, and i think it was burrman, they did work for cambridge analytica. that would also make him a likely witness that mueller may want to talk to at some point. as long as he's not representing trump in court, he's advising him, that's much less of a problem. but there's no way he's going to be in court representing him in these matters. and by the way, your other guest is quite right about the relationship with the fbi. the association of former fbi agents used to meet at the trump hotels. and the key person they dealt with was patty mcgahn, donald's fixer, the uncle of don mcgahn, the current white house counsel. >> and among giuliani's other clients, apparently, jared kushner's bank. >> a bank that's paid over $6 hurricane million in fines for laundering russian money and the only bank that directly loans to donald. so there are lots of things here. by the way, how can this case be settled in a wee