Rudy Giuliani on Sunday said while he has no knowledge of President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paying any women in addition to Stormy Daniels, he believes Cohen would have done so if he deemed it “necessary.”
“This guy is all over the map over the last 72 hours on some very simple facts that should be very straightforward,” Stormy Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, said.
Longtime Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis said Sunday that he believes President Trump needs to replace attorney Rudy Giuliani because of the former New York City mayor’s comments about a payment to Stormy Daniels.
“I think they’re irrelevant, what matters here is that the payment was legal. It was for personal reasons, to protect the family,” Washington lawyer Joseph diGenova told “Fox News Sunday.” “It serves no useful purpose in terms of the facts of it but as far as I’m concerned, it’s a nothing burger.”
“It seems to me that the approach last week of the Trump team plays into the hands of Mueller’s tactic to try at any cost – to try to find technical violations against lower-ranking people so that they can be squeezed,” attorney Alan Dershowitz told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
"Do you think his job includes lying to the American people? Because he continually does so and he undermines his own administration when he does so," the CNN host asked Kellyanne Conway on "State of the Union."
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that President Trump meant he was unaware of his lawyer's payment to Stormy Daniels at the time it occurred when he previously denied knowing about it.
“I think people are much more concerned about the economy and job preparation,” Republican Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) told CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that President Trump's misstatements did not come up during a visit last week to his home state.
"First of all, he has his communication style," United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told CBS’s “Sunday Morning.” "But you're not hearing me defend that."
“We don’t have to [comply with a subpoena]. He’s the president of the United States. We can assert same privilege as other presidents have," Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week.”
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said on Sunday that President Trump should delay his deadline for pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal to give European allies a chance to add measures that the president wants.
Iran deal supporters and opponents are digging in for a fight over the nuclear agreement as President Trump’s decision on whether to withdraw nears.
Few observers expect that Trump will stay in the deal after next week’s deadline on May 12. But Trump has teased a possible twist, saying “nobody knows what I’m going to do on the 12th.”
Voices, both at home and abroad, are making pitches in hopes of swaying Trump to their side.
But Trump appears intent on withdrawing — barring a last-minute follow-up deal with the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears to be in a state of massive upheaval following the departure of several aides and new allegations against the agency’s embattled administrator, Scott Pruitt.
Four officials at the agency have stepped down in the past week, an exodus that has deprived Pruitt of some of his closest aides.
Meanwhile, several new controversies have exploded around Pruitt regarding his travel and his ties to lobbyists.
