cooperating with the southern district. you remember michael wolf s book, fire and fury, he said the president did not even want to win that election back in 2016. he did not want to be president of the united states and it was quite a surprise he actually won. is the presidency the worst thing that may happen to donald trump? it looks like it may end up being that. i know many people have said that he was the most surprised person when he was won and that would lead to a lot of the speculation that he was really setting up deals for when he lost, that he would be able to go finish those deals. which may mean he did things that now will come out that were not legal or ethical. we will see. but clearly if you were not thinking you would be president, you operate in a certain way that is not careful and is not
toward finality. you would have to suspend belief to suggest that everybody around donald trump is falling and copping to pleas and none of this touches the president. he knows that mueller is heating up on him or his family. i think that s whiep y we see i. i think every republican cringed when they heard him say that piece you just played when he said i ll own a shut down. there are no winners in shut downs. there s only losers. donald trump is playing with fire suggesting he will own a government shutdown. you know we had this new poll saying 65% of republicans, 65% of republicans say that president trump should not compromise on the border wall to avoid a shutdown. they support what he s doing. yeah. this is the problem that the republicans have. donald trump speaks to the majority of the republican party but not nearly to the majority of the american people. they have this dilemma. it s why the republican party
back with breaking news, trump s former lawyer and fixer michael cohen sentenced the three years in prison and ready to speak out on donald trump s lies. cohen lands behind bars after implicating trump himself in a hush money payoff to women. trump saying he did quote nothing wrong by directing cohen to pay women who alleged affairs. fairs tru affairs trump and the white house have denied. he s calling the payments a simple transaction. here is what he said in the past. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. you ll have to ask michael. he made the deal. they weren t campaign finance. also the tabloids that caught and killed damaging stories about trump is cooperating with the fed admitting it made the
fact, i think somewhat gratuitously that michael cohen committed the crimes at the direction and koorcoordination individual one. michael cohen spoke quite a lengthy speech that was emotional at times but it was all about donald trump. the problem that michael cohen has here is that that s not the only case and those are not the only crimes for which he was being sentenced. at the end of the day what really drove his sentencing was the case in the southern district and primarily the five years of tax fraud that he committed and the bank frauds. that s what drove his guideline range so high. he had a lot of wood to chop to get down below that. he got a break because of his cooperation with robert mueller. he didn t get as much of a break as he wanted because he did not fully cooperate with the southern district prosecutors. that was something that his
court. he s going to make sure that they don t violate any of those rules. did you ever hear of a safe like this existing? no but i m not surprised because look at the culture of the enquirer. it s all about lock and key and keeping things secret. it would be natural for them to have a safe. why have a safe? just power, influence, leverage. i got the goods. don t mess with me. it s really what it s about. it doesn t seem like an up and up practice. the national enquirer. you can t say up and up and speak about the national enquirer. should the president will nervous? i think he should be very nervous. thank you for joining us. thanks. coming up, what else does michael cohen know about donald trump? the reverend al sharpton has met with michael cohen p.