Caputo: Mueller Team "Very Focused On Russian Collusion"; Giuliani Matches Trump's Rhetoric on Russia Probe.
BASH: Welcome back. Rudy Giuliani has been an ally of President Trump's since well before he ran for office. The former New York City mayor has gone from a campaign surrogate to a private supporter and now a highly visible member of Trump's legal team. And those years spent with President Trump have given Giuliani the gift that he used today, the gift to speak his language.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They have a witch hunt against the President of the United States going on.</s>RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: This has become a witch hunt like the President said.</s>TRUMP: Our Justice Department should be looking at that kind of stuff not the nonsense of collusion with Russia.</s>GIULIANI: This is a Justice Department completely out of control.</s>TRUMP: Fake news, fake news.</s>GIULIANI: Russian collusion is a total fake news.</s>TRUMP: Comey is a liar and a leaker.</s>GIULIANI: The leaker in chief.</s>TRUMP: With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office.</s>GIULIANI: I believe he's one of the best presidents we've ever had.</s>BASH: It's just so great. I mean, listening to Giuliani this morning, of course, you heard it, but the way that the I.P. team put that together, it's just so rich in how unbelievable Rudy Giuliani is at speaking Trump speak. He didn't speak like that when he was mayor.</s>MICHAEL SHEAR, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Well, true.</s>BASH: I mean, he was candid and he was New York --</s>SHEAR: In so many ways, they're the same person, right? I mean, Rudy Giuliani is -- remember he is on the radio and do his mayor's radio show and have these free-willing and he knew how to use the media, manipulate the media. They both had issues with ex-wives, they both were on page 6 all the time. I mean, these -- And they both, you know, are bigger than life people. They're not, you know, receding into the shadows and it's the perfect -- I mean, if Donald Trump can't literally be his own communications director for the legal issues, then this is the next best thing.</s>BASH: And there's really -- it's about loyalty for the President, and Rudy Giuliani has been steadfast. He was one of the few people who went out there after the "Access Hollywood" tape came out, and even though he didn't get a couple jobs that he wanted in the Trump administration, he has still been incredibly, incredibly supportive to the President.</s>HAM: Yes. The president clearly feels a kinship with him, and it's obvious. And part of it is that he's so comfortable in this type of language because Trump speak is a New York dialect and so he's learned it easily. I also say that no Trump whisperer is really good at actually whispering. That's not really what he's at.</s>BASH: It's like how your grandparents whisper.</s>HAM: Yes.</s>KAPUR: Rush, outspoken, septuagenarian, New Yorkers with a unique talent for appealing to people's aid.</s>BASH: Except -- OK, so I mention loyalty and they have been very close. I just want to do a little flashback to when Wolf Blitzer interviewed Donald Trump back in 2007. Watch this.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: It is Hillary Clinton versus Rudy Giuliani for president of United States --</s>TRUMP: Well, we won't get into that now.</s>BLITZER: Where does Donald Trump stand?</s>TRUMP: We won't get into that now, but I do have my opinions. And we'll worry about that later.</s>BASH: Times changed a bit. A lot.</s>KAPUR: They both seem to have lost their filter over the years. You know, Giuliani has not been in political office since 2001 when he left. And Trump obviously was not before, but you see his recent interviews like that one. And he did speak with a filter, they're both gone now.</s>BASH: Yes. Yes. I'm not sure how much of a filter Rudy Giuliani had. It was a New York sized filter. Thank you all so much for being with me today, and thank you for joining us on INSIDE POLITICS. John King is back here tomorrow. Be sure to subscribe to the INSIDE POLITICS podcasts on Apple iHeartRadio, TuneIn or Stitcher. Jim Sciutto is in for Wolf Blitzer. He picks up right after the break.