Heres part of the tape where they appear to be discussing buying Karen Mcdougals story from the National Enquirer. This audio originally broke on cnn. But Michael Cohens current lawyer, lanny davis, has authenticated it for nbc. We have not confirmed, though, what happened around the tape, whether it was edited or altered. Take a listen. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. Im going to do that right away. Ive spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up with so what are we going to do yes. And its all the stuff, all the stuff. Because here you never know whether that company so im all over that. Hes all over it. What theyre discussing, appears to suggest concern about a third party owning this story, this claim that could be problematic for trump, even if the third party would be the longtime friend referred to as david, which given what we know about the story is widely understood to be david pecker, a friend of Donald Trumps and the owner of the National Enquirer. Three key things, first, after months of hints, there is now actual proof Donald Trumps lawyer was secretly recording him. Second, trump does appear to have known about aspects of this arrangement for a tabloid to try to help him by buying mcdougals story. That means the denies from his camp about it were lies that he directed. Third, theres an implication here of some type of plan to use this third party, a tabloid company, to benefit donald trump. With that in mind, listen to more from the recording. You never know where that company. Correct, im all over that. I spoke to allen about it. When it comes time for the financing. Listen, what financing . Well have to pay. Pay with cash . No, no, no. No, no, no, dont pay cash. Is a clear and Important Message cohen wanted to impart. To be clear and fair, that tape abruptly ends. Trumps lawyers, theyre fighting all about what it means. Trump said he wanted to pay in cash. It appears. But theres a debate about that as well. The Central Point here is the question of whether trump, cohen or this tabloid broke any laws together or separately. The wall street journal reporting that cohen did set up a Shell Company to buy mcdougals story, that shows intent to make this happen, also important he didnt purchase the rights. Any other some other form of payment, some other plan, or conspiracy to use the legal word to make this all happen . Or, did it never happen, in which case, as donald trump has argued, maybe its not so bad after all. And was everyone honest when speaking to the authorities in person or through documents about this . And another big question after all the buildup with this tape out, when you take it all together in fairness, does it help donald trump or does it hurt him . Thats a question we begin with former federal prosecutor John Flannery and with the school of government. Get your view as a prosecutor, not as a critic of Donald Trumps policies or a critic of his judgment. Does anything on this tape, in your view, legally hurt the president . Absolutely. And, in fact, if you listen to the beginning of the tape, theres a very interesting thing happening. You hear a rustling, which i think means cohen turned on his recorder before he went to the meeting. And he knew he was going to tape it. And it goes off when he says no, no, no, a check. Cohen was protecting himself, and when he got to the meeting, he probably took it out of his pocket, pretended to be checking email and put it down between the two of them and then taped the conversation. Youre putting out a theory. You dont know that for a fact. Youre suggesting it was bad stuff cohen wanted to get on record for himself. No, im not about some secret cash payment that could blow up in our face. I think its worse than that. He knew before the meeting what the meeting was about. Thats my inference from this evidence. Ive had tape recordings in which its all muffled, the thing is hidden in the jacket pocket somewhere and he gets there and takes it out and plays with it and puts it down and he tapes the conversation from that point on. We see the context is entirely about campaigns. Theyre talking about pastors in the south, and he has some gruff talk about that. They talk about are we going to have to worry about my divorce . Is any of that going to come out before the election . The whole context is the election, then they talk about, can i trust them to have this . Maybe we should do something to protect myself, should we buy it . How should we do this . Now, i think heres the interesting thing, trump is the kind of person that if you tell him, oh, no, no, we should do by check, you think he doesnt come back and do it by cash, and consider peckers position again, thats conjecture, what im interested in tonight is whether the stuff on the tape is bad for him. Let me go to this is a man who had a professional obligation to his client. He hasnt been released from that obligation. He bragged about his loyalty. Take a listen to him talking about Attorney Client privilege. Im going to be the personal attorney to mr. Trump, but im going to remain technically in the same role for mr. Trump for President Trump as i was when he was president of the trump organization. Can i assume that in that role, not being a government role, that youd have Attorney Client privilege with President Trump . Yes, of course. It would appear Michael Cohens breaking that privilege today. I dont think Michael Cohen cares right now. I think Michael Cohen cares about Michael Cohens whats going to keep Michael Cohen out of the hot seat. And so there have been rumblings, his lawyer said hes willing to make deals, willing to talk, and thats what i think donald trump should be really concerned about. Because now were talking about somebody who knows where the bodies are buried. He knows all of the dirty and salacious details. We already know that donald trump has a complete disregard for ethics, rules and regulations. But now we actually have somebody on the inside who is saying well, no, actually i have tapes and this is how it was done. So right now, Michael Cohen is concerned about getting himself out of any kind of legal or criminal possibility. Its important when you say if the bodies were lawfully buried and died of natural causes, he still has an obligation to his client. If hes part of burying bodies that he killed, then other obligations would kick in. I want to broaden this out to two people who already know where bodies are buried. The executive editor of the New York Times, and jesse otto who has been on the Trump CampaignAdvisory Board and brings to us a perspective, i wonder your response on behalf of the trump perspective hearing all this. As the former prosecutor said it was a muffled tape because of the way it was recorded. What were seeing is a lot of people theyre saying theyre hearing one thing. Until we get more clear tape, were not sure. Who is yani, is Michael Cohen yani . I know michael. I am extremely shocked by what he did. I cannot imagine recording my clients without their consent, hes on his worst behavior right now. Are you disappointed in michael . Do you think hes done something wrong with respect to his obligations with the campaign you both served . I am disappointed, absolutely. I wont get into whether im disappointed in either the president or Michael Cohen. Im not surprised, let me say. This cohen trump soap opera is in its second year now, and weve got a new taactor. Lanny davis ive known for quite a long time. He got his black belt in street fighting defending bill clinton during the lewinsky thing. And i see, this is davis and cohen serving notice, not just to the president , but to rudy that youre no longer the only bully on the block. And that theyll take control of news and events, much speculation about why were hearing about this now, and how it fits into other stories, border security, immigration, and putin, which were covering later tonight. Lets listen to lanny davis who confirmed he is the source of the tape, that tells you this is material they do think will hurt the president. Heres more from lanny davis as this story broke. And there are more tapes of donald trump . There are certainly more tapes that mr. Cohen has discussed that he normally did in order to take notes. He used his telephone, beyond that, im not going to comment. So im hearing more tapes, howell and a kind of defense that i dont think is that good for a lawyer, i was secretly recording to take notes, most lawyers would say if youre doing something on behalf of your client, it doesnt need to be a secret. You would say howell, i need to memorialize this thing, and turn your tape recorder on. No. This administration and this particular episode had become a hospice where reputations go to die. Beautiful. And so, again, to repeat with lannys entry, now i think weve got big muscular players on the field who may not be afraid to bend the rules. Well, given the writer that you are, it is a flourish of a phrase. I give you the rebuttal. We dont know whos on the other tapes, whats on the other tapes. To skepticize at this point is too early. What he did was wrong. Theyve waived Attorney Client privilege in terms of letting them out. Well see what happens. I think were very close to lanny cooperating. Im not so sure we have mr. Cohen cooperating yet. And i think that if he were, the Southern District wouldnt have allowed this to happen and it might blow the whole deal. Im also interested if we follow the scenario they were having in that conversation if you went to mr. Pecker and you said to him, do you mind selling us this, i think he would say no, hed say theres no trail away from me. This appears to be a judicial excuse me, appears to be a newsmans decision not to run the story. If you come in and buy it, then you reveal exactly your role in the entire event. He might have wanted to be paid. Thats hypothetical. To use a legal term, hs the funkiest part of the whole story. What is a selfdeclared tabloid Media Publication doing in the middle of all this . It doesnt mean donald trump did something wrong, although he could have, but it does mean this tabloid is here doing what, political favors for a president ial campaign. I want to play and get your response, this is her lawyer on that question when we discussed it. All right. If your client made this deal with the National Enquirer, why was Michael Cohen involved . Its the 64 million question. Or is it the 130,000 question depending on the case . 150 in ours. You dont know . We dont know. Do you think its nefarious. Of course its nefarious. I think its the 25 question. What does a tabloid with the high standards that the National Enquirer have walk away during an election, pays 150,000 when the election is in november, and decides, oh, its not up to our high standard, or is it the longstanding relationship with trump and the conversations had with cohen, and probably trump whos his friend who is more concerned he get killed in traffic than to own the story. If they did that for political benefit done. Or lied to authorities about it, are those felonies . Yes. And i would be interviewing pecker tomorrow if he hasnt been interviewed by the Southern District yet. Im sure donald trump is out there listening to some camron and wishing people would stop snitching because this is all bad. No matter which you cut it, even if you say nothing legal was done here, it looks incredibly bad. We have another case of a coverup, the National Enquirer acting as a political organization. We have a trusted lawyer breaking that confidence, or at least the lawyers lawyer breaking that confidence to say im ready to speak, im ready to talk. Youre saying he said no snitching. I think it was kanye who said i got a lawyer to keep whats in my safe safe, and tonight were learning whats in Michael Cohens safe is not safe anymore. Special thanks to John Flannery and madison otto. Coming up, Michael Avenatti is here live to talk about what he think the tapes mean. Top aides gets grilled on capitol hill. Did the president tell you that he discussed relaxing russia sanctions or not, yes or no . The president is entitled to have private meetings. 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Trump Officials Say it will come when the russia witch hunt is over. Meanwhile, Donald Trumps secretary of state mike pompeo facing tough questions today about trumps meeting with putin. We really need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to, and what our strategy is on a number of issues. We saw an american president who appeared submissive and deferential. Did he tell you what transpired in the twohour meeting. Ive had a number of conversations with him about what took place in the meeting. Did you speak to the translator who was at that meeting . No, i havent. Did the president tell you he discussed relaxing russia sanctions or not, yes or no . President s are entitled to have private meetings. Joining me is jess mcintosh. Congress is supposed to do its oversight job, put aside the rhetoric and the drama of the Putin Meeting and actually say does Congress Want a different russia policy . Yes. Trumps cabinet is put in a horrific position by having to answer questions that involve facts because they dont know them because the president hasnt been forthcoming at all with what happened with the oneonone meeting with putin. Youre making a point in fairness to secretary pompeo, hes not a liar, but he may work for a liar who hides things from him. It comes back on his character that he works for a liar. I have sympathy, he doesnt know what putin and trump said, nobody knows but putin and the cabinet. Were in the dark. Secretary pompeo, riding the wave of the points youre educating us on, many people inside the kremlin know more than our secretary of state. Significantly. Thats chilling. Absolutely. You see the Defense Ministry in russia saying were thrilled to agree to the terms the president and putin decided. At this point pompeo can either say, yeah, they had a meeting, went really well, agreeing with what donald trump says in public, or try to pretend that thats not what he said. Hes stuck in this untenable position where he has to say, actually, the president s been really hard on russia when we all know its the opposite. Its not something that he can keep up. Its not a sustainable thing. Were going to see these cabinet members come forward and selfimmilate quickly. Thats what you do when youre working with someone thats a congenital liar. I find jesss analysis insightful and a little depressing. I would think so. To a large extent, this was there was a lot of theater here. The senators know he doesnt know what hes talking about. Pompeo knows he doesnt know what hes talking about. Pompeo knows they know he doesnt know what hes talking about. On some level, this is just to sort of exclaim this is very problematic that were all in the dark here. We have no idea whats going on. You mentioned that, and then you look at the wider context outside of what happened in the meeting itself, which is where having said things in fairness to pompeo, he and this is all developing news, getting it into our newsroom as hes been doing the hearing, he did not comport himself very well and that is in playing word games to defend or suggest that the president has not drastically undermined our own intelligence agencies, which remains a huge issue here. Lets take a look at this exchange, also, with senator corker. What is it that causes the president to purposely, purposely create distrust in these institutions and what were doing . Senator, i disagree with most of what you just said there. You somehow disconnect the administrations activities from the president s actions. Theyre one and the same. Every sanction that was put in place was signed off by the president of the United States. I mean, this shows what a bind republicans are in. Of course, were only seeing the ones who have decided theyre not going to run for reelection actually press the members of the administration, which is why you see corker seeming to uphold democracy, the rest of his colleagues decide thats not their job, running for reelection is. The policy is really on donald trump, so much of the answers he gave were really less for the senators and more for donald trump. Even when he said he didnt want to talk about what was going on with north korea publicly, i mean, look, if things are going well, im sure that we would have heard about it, and its either he doesnt want donald trump to hear how things are going, or he doesnt want to put donald trump in a uncomfortable situation where the rest of the country hears from the secretary of state that everything donald trump said was gained in those meetings with north korea were actually nothing. Right. Then you have an exchange with senator murphy of course, more on the democrats side. Take one look at this. What do you make of his most recent statement senator, ill leave you, you can speculate, you can draw whatever inferences you want for whatever purposes you so choose. Heres what i can tell you. Theres no inference. Its a statement from the president in which he says that the russian interference in the u. S. Election is a hoax from july 22nd. Theres no inference i need to draw from that. Thats the president s statement. Senator, you are certainly trying to draw inferences about the american policy. And i am laying out for you american policy. Well, i mean, hes drawing inferences because theres a lot of different mixed messages coming from donald trump and the administration. Pompeo can say were all on this together but it really is a function of him saying to the president , hey, im still on your team, and i will get your back here. But were not none of this is the normal process of the way that we formulate these type of foreign policies where there is some buyin from all elements of our government. And theres no buyin because theres no understanding of what the policy is. I didnt get to grow up in a banana republic. I dont know how they usually work. But i imagine that they involve an authoritarian figure head who has a lot of very well trained sycophantic yes men around them. That is the only way they are able to stand up and say the economy is growing when people are starving, and the weather is beautiful when its raining. Trump is trying really hard to be that figure, and the question is, do the rest of the republicans around him fall in line and allow that to happen . That speaks to a political point that can get lost here, which is if you dont care about the ethics and the rules of all this, and donald trump just wanted to do domestic poll t politicking and put this all in the rear view, didnt have some reason, ego or debt, or nefarious reasons in the dossier and elsewhere, for placating russia, he wouldnt have to go act like that with putin, then suck up to him, and then say hes got a white house invite. At a certain point. It doesnt look like a debate that happened over 2016 that people are roar sharking, it looks like a thing thats happening in slow motion before our eyes. Absolutely. It stretches the imagination that donald trump came in with a very sophisticated Foreign Policy agenda. Honestly. And the actions that hes taking are not even consistent with somebody whos trying to prove that hes not look, it feels like someone whos being leveraged. The idea that even the notion you would have, based upon even if it was all spurious, all the accusations, the suspicions were spurious, if youre donald trump and youre acting like a politician, you dont schedule another meeting with putin right before the election. Ive got to fit in a break. You stay, because i want to hear more from you as we do our special less depressing, an versely celebration. Sam seder, as always, thanks for being here. Michael cohen tapes to russia probe, is the pressure getting to donald trump . Donald trump rages against, quote, reality itself. Thats a real thing. And my power house panel tonight, bill crystal back together with the great fat joe, plus leah wright gore, plus jess macintosh, thats next. Need a change of scenery . The kayak explore tool shows you the places you can fly on your budget. So you can be confident youre getting the most bang for your buck. Aloha. Kayak. Search one and done. Be right back. 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Some critics have said, donald trump is effectively lying to and Gaslighting America and getting people nervous about what the facts are, and what sources they should rely on. The New York Times is now reporting that he, quote, raged at his staff for having someone elses television, the first lady, tuned to cnn, a news network, instead of fox, his aides also working to, quote, keep him insulated from the outside world. And all of this is the context for something we reported right here on the beat, the president of the United States saying people should not believe the things they see with their own eyes. This country is doing better than its ever done before economically. But its all working out. And just remember, what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. And i bring in our very special panel here on our oneyear anniversary celebration. Fat joe. Congratulations, i got my brother here, the dynamic duo. Twitter loves us, man, they love us. Brother crystal. Biggest ratings of the year when were on. You sound a little bit like the president when you talk about totally. Fat joe, in music, as in many other walks of life, where facts and truth and credibility matter, people talk a lot about keeping it real. Is donald trump keeping it real . Why is it important to him to tell people dont believe cnn, or whatever channel, and dont believe what youre seeing with your eyes . Weve never seen nothing like this before. And its so weird because youve got like half of america following the donald trump playbook. Then youve got the other half, you know what i mean, who doesnt agree with nothing theyre doing. I have the weirdest conversations at the airport, somebody whos for trump is just like they dont want to hear nothing weve got to say, and vice versa. Youve really got people almost like zombies to donald trump, they believe whatever he has to say, even though we know it isnt true. Well said. Im just his echo, his second man. Its kucalled a hype man. You know this stuff better than i do. When you introduced us. He said, why are you the great fat joe. Why arent the rest of us . You know what i mean . I agree, actually, look, it is you have a very divided country, very polarized country. The president has given up on trying to persuade anyone not on his side already, i think. If he mobilizes his base, he avoids too bad an outcome this november, and maybe the democrats mess up enough that he gets himself reelected. Its doing damage to the country. The degree of just flatout lying and sort of constructing alternative realities is genuinely shocking. Joe says hes got fans in the airport who like trump and they have a different set of facts. You have a lot of allies, former friends, maybe current friends in the conservative movement who are, by and large, down with this. What do they say to you and do you think they are being factually challenged at times . The intelligent ones say, look, of course he exaggerates and lies sometimes and doesnt have high moral standards, the tax cuts, the judges, the countrys not falling apart, the economys growing, were at war. Put up with this. For me, the big question is this, people now can say that, what happens the day after election day this year when it becomes a decision about the next four years . People can say im willing to tolerate him now. I dont agree with this. They can say that. Are they willing to say give him an additional four years . Thats where i think the trump nushls a nus numbers and polls are leading. Thats an important point. Hes turning the vice on republicans. Like, they were they could do the tax cut thing until he started putting children in cages. Then it became hard to say tax cuts because you sound inhumane when you do that. Whats really chilling is that his staff, these republicans who know better, who actually do see the issues that this is causing the country somehow want to keep him isolated from other viewpoints. The idea that he subsists in this little conservative echo bubble where nobody ever challenges him and theres no political ramifications for these insane things youre doing, as a staffer i would want him to know that there was real political consequence for some of the things that he did and said. When he lied, that hurt him. If you watch fox news only you would never know that there were any repercussions, that he was losing anything in the polls, that everybody didnt simply love him. As a staffer its very strange that its preferable to keep your boss in the dark. That suggests something really bad is going on. The staff are willing to tell him something, general mcmaster is willing to say, sir, you cannot do this. Gary coen, saying you should not do tariffs, theyre gone. This is the problem, i think. Trump seems more unhinged, as you were saying earlier on. And reporting earlier on. People around him had some standing and ability to push back. Fewer and fewer of those in the white house. Everybody bought into it because he had real reliable people at first around him. And then everybody kept dropping off, you know, and now its like, you know, its just a trump show. Either youre with him or youre not down. Right. And that theres really very little tolerance for it. Look at the Washington Post count. This is something that separates him from literally every other president. Weve had controversial president s. But 3,251 false or misleading claims within two years. Its more than five times any other president. Sir, youre essentially talking about a president who has been doing the in my feelings challenge every single day of his presidency for, you know, since november 2016. He is asking america, do you love me . And he only wants one answer, yes, i do love you. And which is why it continues to go over and over and over again. What he wants to be surrounded by yes people, loyal people, people who, you know, reiterate his points, say, yes, you absolutely are right. So this is you know, this is somebody who has constructed his own reality, not just from day one, not just from the start of his campaign, but his entire life has been about constructing a reality. That donald trump is the greatest. And then getting pretty upset, getting in his feelings when hes not. The persona for him has always been emotional. Its always been bullying. Thats one thing that strangely is consistent while hes obviously reinvented things, businesses when they went bankrupt, profession when he became a media star. Lets look at donald trump on the today show. Heres classic donald trump talking about screwing people when he was a young man. If i get the opportunity to screw any of the people that indirectly were not so helpful to me as they should have been, i will take that advantage. Hes polarizing, joe, but thats the persona that part of the country and a record high number of republicans, highest republican support for a republican president since bush 9 11 are still behind. Yeah. Well, morally its wrong. So it just seems like everybody feels like, yo, we got a republican, were riding for him, dont care what he does or says, what his policy is at the border. Whatever he does, were riding with him. Its so partisan, i just want to see the human beings come out and say, you know, this is wrong. You know, and that hasnt been happening since the beginning of his presidency. And weve been waiting for somebody to become humanized, somebody to say, you know what, hes wrong. And john mccain, you know, hes been the one, you know, to go up against trump. And the guy gave himself to this country and done everything, and theyre writing him off. Like, you know, youre the past. Were rolling with trump. And thats crazy. I think whats really sad is that you cant just flip this one backwards. Something had to go very, very wrong in this country for him to be elected in the first place. And that means we cant just say, oops, this is an aberration. Its not an aberration. What was the silent majority . Hes actually brilliant. He had a game plan, guys. I dont know if you all know that. He was waving it in our face the whole time, the silent majority. Were the media, we dont know anything. The guy next to you is really voting for him, but he aint saying it, he was going after that guy to begin with. You cant look at the polls. You cant even take the polls serious no more. You have to act as if hes up 100 points. Thats it. Because everybody thought he was going to lose. All the polls said he was going to lose, and he won. So, like, you have to run like were losing. Yes, absolutely. Even if youre ahead. He started this campaign by vilifying mexicans and playing to a white, racist xenophobic base, and it worked. Its not so much that donald trump was the thing that coughed up out of all this, but that we had that much racial animosity about having a successful black president to begin with. We cant say donald trump is an aberration and were sorry and lets take it back, never speak of him again because something was so wrong in america that that kind of campaign could win in the first place. 9 of obama voters, 9 of voted for obama in 2012. There was a real he was a candidate of change. He was lucky, too, not forget that. Huge republican field. A big russia assist. He starts against jeb bush, and then went against hillary clinton. Embodies the status quo. People want change. He bodied people who embodied the status quo. Russia helps him, comey helps him, a lot of things happen, but its happened. It was that it was that close. Quick break. The whole panel stays. Leah, i want to get some from you. We are celebrating our special night, weve been on the air now for a year. Well show you the best moments in 30 seconds. Then you might have a common condition called dry mouth. Which can be brought on by many things, like medication and medical conditions. Biotene provides immediate, long lasting relief from dry mouth symptoms. It is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. Plus, it freshens breath. Biotene. Immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief. I only get to do this once a year, but im going to say thank you for joining our show, and watching our shore. Because of you and the guests weve had, we are now mark ago year of this show existing, a year of the beat tonight, you could have been anywhere in the world, but youre here with us and we appreciate that. So here, a look back at this year. The premiere of the beat with ari melber starts right now. The first look at previously secret documents. Democrats, republicans are going to want to talk to mr. Trump. He is a man who carries out orders. Thats Important News about that meeting. Congratulations on this, and im super jealous. I think weve run out of coffee boys here. Every time someone gets a they just say thats the coffee boy. Are you prepared to be held in contempt and go to jail . Isnt this ridiculous. Its not ridiculous. The first person to have played donald trump is a porn star. Mary, let me say Merry Christmas to you. We have to respect laws. Go on. Well, thats it. Its like dangling this shiny object. Any dude that has a comb over like that lies to himself all the time. For a dollar, define collusion. Oh, god, its when you colewd. You know under the law that is an admission of guilt. Im not a lawyer, thank god. If you had to be on an island with one of our Current Senate colleagues, it would be its like a bouquet of flowers. How would i pick one . Im at the Schaumburg Center for research of black culture in harlem. Theres not a woman in america who isnt now reliving some experience. We are in a different place now in 2018 than we were in 2016. Were shifting the blame and the shame to the actual harassers. I cant tell you the effect it had on me. It was it was internal. There is a saying in Television News of a hard turn. Oh, i know a hard turn, and luckily, i can make one. I think you need to fall back and not give your guest homework before they come on the program. Fat joe, its about us, its about trust, its what i remember. Youre not shouting out bill kristol. Ive seen him on tv. But i dont know the man like that yet. Bill, we dont know you like that. Ispeechless. Im the original beatnik on your show. Its real life, fantasy, this is real life. There you have it. This time i think chuck was funnier. Oh, come on, stop it. Stop. We end the week, nancy, with bill kristol just burning me. I want a hug like that too. Youre getting one next time i see you. The model of the white house seems to be cash rules everything around me, dollar, dollar bills. There is a famous kevin gates song, about having two phones, one for the plug, and one for the load. Theres nothing wrong with having a blackberry. Youre on a street light sesame. If thats your girl, why you texting me . I dont know if we should go that far. I dont know if you ever listen to regular guy. He had a song legalize it. No, i have not. This is not met gala drag, this is casual. This is everyday drag. Its dangerous for me to even step into the political arena. Poopety scoop. Thats how we end all of our interviews. Im trump now. Sean penn, the novelist must be stopped. You know youre popping when you have more than one nickname. Camilla harris is i appreciate you spending some time on the beat tonight. Thank you so much, be gone. Thank you, sir. What can i say, we try. That is how we remember this year. Thanks to everyone. When we come back, the whole panel weighs back in, fat joe, bill kristol, jess macintosh, leah wright rigueur. T can i get i can see it in my, see it in my reflection. Ohhh can i get a connection . Tryna find the old me when heartburn hits. Fight back fast with tums smoothies. It neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum tums. Smoothies. And introducing new tums sugarfree. Gimme two minutes. And ill tell you some important things to know about medicare. First, it doesnt pay for everything. Say this pizza. [mmm pizza. ] is your part b medical expenses. This much about 80 percent. Medicare will pay for. Whats left. This slice here. Well. Thats on you. And thats where an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company comes in. This type of plan helps pay some of what medicare doesnt. And these are the only plans to carry the aarp endorsement. Thats because they meet their high standards of quality and service. Wanna learn more . 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One of the things that we have seen is that he has put a spotlight on resistance, on people who are challenging and i think that is one of the things that gets overlooked particularly in an era, a chaotic era, which is people that are running for office, and people making huge strides out of necessity but in a way that is incredibly valuable and significant. Yeah, we are seeing electorates change dramatically in ways i never thought would be possible. If progressives were able to figure out how to make our people turn out in local elections, and midterms and specials, the same way we turn out for president ial elections, that would be the ball game. We have seen the ground swell of people who realize they have a serious stake. We are seeing special election turnouts at 46 which is usually 9 . This could be, i hate to say worth it, because it is truly terrible to tons of families across america. But a chance that it spurs such a backlash of activism that we change the political structure. If it would be somewhat accidental if you buy the theory that trump got to be president by accident. Yeah, it could be a healthy reaction to something even if it is accidental. He is making it so much worse. You can talk about symptoms and the culture and all kinds of things that are wrong, but having a president , a lot of demagogues, a lot of liars, irresponsible leaders. We havent had one as president of the United States. Using his standing, his office to make things worse in terms of the discourse. We dropped the ball and we have to reflect on ourselves and say did we do enough and now we have to do more. With all of these races and everything coming up. We will not let donald trump become president for a second time. Thats how you feel . I know so. Thinking about this year, i want to do one weird thing at the end. I dont know if you know, sometimes we do weird things. 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