out whether stone s comments in the summer were accurate and has a significant back story or whether he was just making it up and his comments today denying any real connection to wikileaks are the accurate comment. shan, just to reiterate that point, stone denies any wrongdoing and denies any advance knowledge of the content or time frame for the wikileaks release. let s take a listen. let me say it yet again, i had no advance notice of the source or the content or the actual release date of the devastating material that wikileaks published. can he square that with his previous comments? i think it s hard for him because of the timing of so much of this. i mean, have you that rather important date where the access tape comes out on trump. it s almost as if wikileaks is responding to that. when you put that in conjunction with his perhaps puffery, his bragging about what he knew, you
that s the thing, people knew about the hollywood tape and the accusers and they voted for him anyway. i think that s why he thinks this is working for him. it also is a strategy where he is at thumb tails with his entire media strategy. the washington post is out to get me. so i think this also works in his favor to kind of take to bat roy moore anyway. well-see how it continues to play. more on the president at roy moore after lashing out after al franken.
both? you can decide for yourself. how far is it personal? that s hard to deny. 13 reasons he won t say it 13 women who have gone on the record with claims about roy s past behavior. so, the president says they are all lying, all of them. so, if you re keeping score at home, he is fine saying franken is guilt rkt and bill clinton and he s not surprised about harvey window steen but he s wielded to extend the doubt to roy moore, and the man caught on tape saying this.
be easily dismissed. there are a lot of people out there who watch that tape and say this is someone whose committed to this kind of behavior, which indicates it s not something that he at the time at least believed he was out of order. the white house also maintaining that these women who are accusing the president of wrong doing are still lying, even after all this time and promises of lawsuit they have a blanket statement that these women are just liears. and they provided no evidence to admit that they are. they just don t want to have the conversation and i think the president is drawn to images. al franken admitted that he did something wrong and he knows it ll harder to do it when it comes to the specific accusations that these women have made against him. i think they re using that as an opportunity to make this in some ways a partisan attack.
i think i basically agree he s taking a gamble. it was a gamble he took on hollywood access tape, just shrug it off. the voters stuck with him and he won the election. he s trying to do the same thing here. that s old news, i don t want to get into that, talk about something else. we passed the big tax bill, that s what s more important. that will be a gamble paid off. i do think times have changed since the access hollywood tape. at that time people stuck with him because they had great hope he would tlifr jobs, promises, detail with obamacare and the rest, now they re not seeing that happening he s not getting good marks. i don t think people are as near as hopeful and patient with him as they were then. and ed, the franken statement, it s one thing commenting on moore but wen you comment on franken you create more problems. right.