President Trump's former confidant Omarosa
now claims that Trump knew in advance
about the Democratic e-mails Russia hacked
during the 2016 campaign.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
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It's important to remember that any time you hear
the President or his defenders say anything
about the Russia probe, they don't actually care about
the details of the case or the legal principles at stake.
Their sole motivation is to discredit the investigation
in the minds of voters.
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani even admitted as much on Sunday.
-Why have you decided to
literally try this case
in the court of public opinion?
Is that a deliberate strategy
on your part? -Yeah, absolutely deliberate.
I mean, that's where it's being tried.
Public opinion will be,
as you know, very important.
When I came into the case,
public opinion was against us.
Think of it this way --
They're our Grand Jury.
-You think the public is your jury?
Oh, I have bad news because you know who's your jury?
The jury.
[ Laughter ]
When you're in the court room and the foreman says,
"We find the defendant guilty,"
you're not going to be able to turn around and say,
"Now let's hear from you, America.
Text 555-0100 for 'not guilty!'"
[ Laughter and applause ]
So Giuliani admitted it.
For Trump and his team, it's not about the facts of the case.
It's about public opinion.
That's why Rudy's on TV all the time
looking like he just saw a spider on his toothbrush.
[ Laughter ]
That may also be why Rudy seems so uninterested
in the actual work of being a lawyer.
Like, you know, researching basic legal questions
or looking over documents.
-Of course it's a crime.
No, under article 2 of the Constitution,
I'm not going to tell you my opinion on it
because I haven't really gotten
to the conclusion of researching it.
-Is it possible that Robert Mueller has something
and you have no idea what he has?
-No. -Why?
-Because I've been through everything.
I've talked to the President.
The President is an honest man.
The President did nothing wrong,
hasn't done anything wrong.
Throughout this, he said,
"Give them all the documents."
John Dowd will tell you this.
1.4 million documents.
We didn't even look at them. We just gave it to him.
-You didn't even look at them?!
[ Laughter ]
You're his lawyer!
You should probably know what you're handing over.
"We gave Mueller everything.
Trump's schedule, his e-mails, his tax returns -- Oh, no!"
Oh, the tax returns!
Oh, Rudy, you screwed up this time!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Ohh!
Oh, Rudy!
[ Sighs ]
I'm going to brush my teeth to clear my head.
Spider!"
[ Laughter ]
Rudy's lack of preparation might explain
why he can't seem to settle on one coherent argument
about what actually happened.
For example, Robert Mueller wants to ask Trump
about his conversation with then-FBI director
James Comey who claims Trump told him
to drop his investigation of ex-National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn.
Rudy keeps cycling through
different explanations for that conversation,
sometimes in the same interview
as he did Monday on "Fox & Friends."
-Here's what happened.
The President says, "I never said to Flynn anything about --"
-"I never said to Comey."
-"I never said to Comey
anything about Flynn." Comey says,
and he adds this at the very end,
Comey says, "He told me to see if --
if I can give him a break." Basically.
So we have three defenses to that.
Under article 2 of the Constitution,
you can't really question
why the President would say something.
He has the power to say it.
Number two, what he was saying is perfectly justifiable.
He didn't say, "You must, you have to,
I'll fire you if you don't."
He said, "Consider it."
Number three, he never said it.
-Oh, my God!
[ Laughter ]
He's like a [bleep] magician frantically asking,
"is this your card? No? Okay.
How about this one? Okay. Hold on.
There's 50 more. Okay.
Is it a red one? Is it a red one?
Does it start with a fo-- sev-- nine?
[ Laughter ]
Rudy clearly just makes stuff up as he goes along,
and now he's got a new line.
He's telling people that Mueller told him
he would wrap up the investigation by September 1st,
although Rudy's story doesn't sound very convincing.
-We think it should end.
-The whole investigation?
-Absolutely. It should be terminated.
He should put out his report,
tell the American people what he has.
Why did I say September 1st?
Because a long time ago,
two months ago when we met with him,
he threw out September 1st as a date that he might be able
to get the report done by. -Hmm.
-And --
-Does he still sound like that?
-Well, we haven't talked --
he has not repeated that since then.
But he hasn't taken it back.
-Oh, he hasn't taken it back?
You're representing the President of the United States,
and you're handling this case like a fifth grader playing tag.
[ Laughter ]
"You said September 1st! No backsies!
Now pick one of these words."
[ Laughter and applause ]
But if Rudy seems unequipped --
if Rudy seems at all unequipped
to handle the Russia investigation so far,
then he's really going to be in over his head this week
with the latest revelations from Trump's former confidant
and aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman.
Omarosa's tell-all book has a lot of sensational allegations
like her claim that she saw Trump put a note in his mouth.
[ Laughter ]
Now this is Omarosa we're talking about.
So anything she says should be taken with a grain of lithium.
[ Laughter ]
But yesterday she dropped a new bombshell
claiming that Trump knew in advance
about the Hillary Clinton e-mails
that Russia hacked during the campaign.
-I think that he should come clean with the American people.
I think that he should honest
about what he did during
the campaign and what he
continued to do in the White House.
-You were instructed, according to your book,
to bring up the e-mails at every point you could
at the end of the 2016 campaign?
-That's correct. -Hillary Clinton's e-mails.
-Yes, that was our talker.
-Did Donald Trump know about
those e-mails before they came out?
-Absolutely.
-He knew about them? -Yes.
-He knew what was coming out
before WikilLeaks released them? -Yes.
-Amazing. So after Trump's public praise of Vladimir Putin,
his attorney general's meetings with Russians,
his campaign chairman's money laundering,
his deputy campaign chairman's tax fraud,
his personal fixer's secret shell company,
his national security advisor's lies to the FBI,
his son's attempt to get dirt from a foreign adversary
and son-in-law's secret back channels
with that adversary,
the person who could end up taking down
the President of the United States is Omarosa.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Omarosa.
It took her 14 years,
but she's finally getting revenge for Trump firing her
in season one.
[ Laughter ]
Now, let's be honest -- the only fitting way
for this presidency to end would be Trump to get indicted
and leave the White House crying in the back of a cab.
[ Laughter ]
Omarosa has also written in her book that Trump was furious
at his son Don Jr. after Don Jr. released his e-mails
with Russians revealing that the infamous Trump Tower meeting
in 2016 was an attempt to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
That contradicted their original story
that the meeting was about adoption policy.
Omarosa writes...
Wait, so he just said this in passing during a conversation?
Can you imagine making small talk with Trump in the elevator?
"Hey, Donald. Hot enough for you?"
[ As Trump ] "My son's an ass[bleep]"
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] Now, Omarosa obviously has
as much credibility as anyone else in Trump World,
which is to say very little.
But she's been releasing secret tapes
of her conversations to back up her side of the story.
In fact, she's taped everyone from John Kelly to Ivanka Trump
to Jared Kushner to the President himself,
which is incredible given that, as we've noted before,
Trump has a lifelong obsession with being secretly taped.
We saw that shortly after he became President
when he falsely accused Obama of tapping his wires
and then angrily tried to storm out of an interview
when he was asked to provide evidence for that claim.
-Did President Obama give you any advice that was helpful?
That you think, wow, he really --
-Well, was very nice to me.
But after that, we've had some difficulties.
So it doesn't matter.
You know, words are less important to me than deeds.
And you saw what happened with surveillance.
-But you stand by that claim about him?
-I don't stand by anything. I just --
You can take it the way you want.
I think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens.
I think it's a very big topic.
And it's a topic that should be number one
and we should find out what the hell is going on.
I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions.
-But I want to know your opinions.
You're the President of the United States.
-Okay. That's enough.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
[ Laughter ]
[ Laughter ]
-[ As Trump ] "Now if you'll excuse me,
I have a lot of paperwork to eat."
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Normal voice ] Trump surrounded himself with grifters
and con artists, and now that it's coming back to haunt him,
he's trying to grift his way out of it.
It's the first rule of Trumpism.
Everyone is grifting everyone else
and everyone eventually turns on Trump.
Omarosa is just the latest example.
They're all following the Trump mantra which is...
-I don't stand by anything.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
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