and know about that me beforehand okay and that's the one that people really
key in on and and you've given us information about things that are not in
the bloodstream of America yet and now they are and as we learn more we have
guide Vinson who was with us today and he has a couple of follow-ups if you can
hang on for just one second hey mister thank you so much for calling in just I
just want to make this crystal clear for the audience because there are so many
meetings it's hard for all of us to sort of keep track so the questions are very
simple number one regardless of whether or not collusion would be a crime is it
still the position of you and your client that there was no collusion with
the Russians whatsoever on behalf of the Trump campaign correct okay and the
second question is of that meeting that we knew about at Trump Tower with the
Russians and high-level people within the Trump world
the Trump campaign at the time you were saying again for the record that the
presidential nominee Donald Trump at the time did not know about the existence of
that meeting prior to it occurring yes I'm glad you asked it very very clear
yes and let me make one slight amendment when when I say the Trump campaign I
mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign I have no reason to believe
anybody else did he only want was I checked with her obviously the top four
or five people all right you know what before and and Kennedy is here too she
wants to get in a question but before we go there I want to follow up with
something that you said because you said one of the meetings that may not have
happened are supporting that Michael Cohen had Donald jr. Jared Kushner Paul
Manafort Gates these would have been the upper people and the Trump campaign that
you're talking about in your amendment here correct okay got it Tennessee
hi mayor Giuliani they have all denied it right ask you a more broad question
because we've heard some of the parameters that you have laid out for
the president sitting down in an interview with Special Counsel what does
Special Counsel want from you what are some
the guidelines they've given you what are they requesting from you from the
president I can't go into all the details number one because that you want
to keep it as pill it's not privileged but it's confidential as possible
and second they keep changing I mean it's a negotiation so keeps changing but
the central parameters of it are and we believe they're not entitled to ask any
questions about obstruction because obstruction is can't could not have
happened under article 2 of the Constitution the President had a right
to fire call me he's got ten good reasons
he can't go try to construct the 11th good reason and now they're trying to do
it by looking at tweets I've never heard of obstruction by tweet or the theater
of the absurd if they want to talk about collusion which as I told you we're very
clear on we would we would we might allow the questions on that we didn't
think they were trying to trap them into perjure and that's what we do it
negotiating if there's some area where we can visually agree it'll be helpful
to them and we wouldn't feel like we've been we've been trapped mr. Giuliani at
this point you know we do have a Democrat guest on our couch today Adrian
Elrod she worked very closely with the Hillary Clinton camp one of the things
that we have learned via Adrian and other Democrats is that there is this
thought that we might be coming more to a close with the investigation that
Muller has knowing what you know and we don't know all of what he has are you
now yes or a no on a sit-down between the President and Robert Mull well you
think first time no on a sit-down until until we get we get ironed out exactly
what they want to do and then if the process is we have five co-counsel
senior people will advise the president he decides and he's always blamed in
favor of doing it well what are you telling about that what what what do I
say right now I'm telling him no way we're not gonna do it as a politician or
as a lawyer as a lawyer I can't I can't be a pal I mean I can't
be a politician it's too confusing if you try to be both
and that was a very good question because there is a whole political when
you're representing the president you're not just representing you know and there
is a whole protocol aspect to this yes however I do think the political climate
has changed a bit and it is I think people will understand much better now
and maybe one of the reasons we're EMS eyes the point about the legitimacy of
the investigation is we want to show that maybe he shouldn't be testifying in
an investigation that has no legitimacy and so I agree I agree with them
the woman who did you mention that I have the sense that he's near the end I
don't know that he hasn't said that he did say one thing that I could sort of
support that with two months ago act before all this stuff happened he was
aiming at the beginning of September at the time to get the report in he never
said it but I thought he was thinking of the of the November of elections and not
wanting to do a Comey interesting real quickly can I just do a fast follow-up
you say that you think the political climate has changed in terms of what's
happening now with the president how so and why well I think that go back to
rewind realize you didn't have the radon cone you didn't have the Horowitz report
kind of beating up on the legitimacy of the Hillary Clinton investigation and
also the beginnings of the counterintelligence investigation
against the let's say the Trump campaign has never been a subject of that but I'm
not sure I know what that means yeah the way they define it and he he he
it seems to me that were at a natural ending point now and I hope I hope it
happens because ultimately remember he can't indict don't have the power to
indict he said he wouldn't anyway right so what does that mean it means you
write the report he's got plenty to write a report okay can I ask you
quickly at this is Melissa Francis again I just want to clarify you're talking
about a second meeting that you say was going to possibly come
out in the media but it didn't happen so now it's not going to surface as a
meeting it didn't have and it didn't happen and that's yeah what I want to
say Don junior walked into president Trump's office and said no no okay all
right so the public record contains a leak mm-hmm by :
okay he was president at a meeting in which Donald Jr came in and informed the
president we deny that happen we say it didn't happen and if they had happened
it would have been mentioned a long time ago on the various hours of tapes that
we have the second meeting was brought to my attention through Jay Sekulow both
both of us dealt with it with two current reporters essentially the same
information about this meeting that took place three days earlier with a whole
group of people every one of those people says it didn't happen and why do
I mention it because first of all I thought it was going to come out second
my experience is that when you have stuff like this phone around it comes
out and I don't want it to come out and be unrebutted when it originally comes
out part of what we're trying to do here the jury for this case is the American
public the Congress yes but the Congress is a creature of public opinion and how
has things shifted just a device 22 percent net toward the president meaning
disapproval of MoMA not investigation has gone up some polls have but over
fifty percent used to be down to 37 38 and the president's position is shifted
by about an equal number including his approval rating so so I said the expect
you can it seems to me there be more understanding why you might wanna just
run in there and and and testify also all of you put on so many a lawyer and
you say that we would be at it we would be out of our minds that we put the
president know through a questioning that has to affect the public do I you
know I I he's the president's own we make you testify we're gonna get
disbarred you know it's interesting what you say
and you know people may watch this and wonder okay so they're getting their
their influence from from Fox News or other media that the actual truth of the
matter is there are a lot of people both sides of whatever political aisle that
you might draw who say and the legal profession separating out the politics
should be crazy to put your client into a situation when you know that he's not
economic with his words and it might get a little dicey and who would do that
with their clients so would you have separated the two hats that you wear
because you were formerly a politician mayor that's great city I understand
that I want to go back real quickly just to some points I'd like it if you
represent a doctor you got to be aware of the fact you represented a doctor
sure you can't pretend you're not and and also also he would not be testifying
and normally as you know defendants don't testify in grand juries or the
prosecutors right make up their mind without that why why are you just going
back to something you just said post Melissa's question why do you feel it's
necessary to get on the record with things that haven't been asked yet or
that are not what yeah what's coming well when I thought when I thought when
I thought it was gonna be published I wanted to get out in front of it and the
reality is that I can't I can't comment on the tape unless or the situation
unless we are attacked then I'm allowed to do that so we weren't being attacked
and I would actually I would actually be much my advice would be a lot easier if
every one of those tapes was out there if you had all the transcripts so can I
get two straight though because you know the reporting this morning is that
there's only one recording with the president's voice on it yet you talked
about and I wrote it down 183 tapes or recordings what is on those that would
be so different if they don't contain the President and even if you don't name
names and you probably can't it's it's a big question it is but it's easy dampen
there are only twelve recordings of any substance 1183 yeah the other the others
are call me back see you later how the president did this today the
president did today the Pres there's some of them have a little
substance to them but I think nothing harmful to the side whichever side
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