anonymous writing style. do you have any insight into who you think it is? no, i certainly don t, and in fact, i have not read the anonymous book. i ve had friends who read my book and that book and they said when you actually do consider both books, you can tell they re pretty different. i m not sure why the author of yesterday s article thought it was me, but like i said, not me. tell us what we need to know about holding the line, about your book? to that point there are similarities that run through. i think that what i really discuss is what you and i just discussed, alisyn, and that s the incredible importance of a political or excuse me, a politicized military, the damage that can do. you want to step away from that, and you also want to make sure that people understand what s really going on behind closed doors, to provide the facts from an apolitical standpoint. you can judge for yourself, don t let anyone tell you what to believe, read for yourself and figure it out
hand. on the other hand, i continue to believe and the polling suggests that you could not donald trump could not win with his base alone. he seems committed to this path. the last 48 hours is an example of that. but the numbers suggest if everyone who comprises his base votes for him he still he still doesn t have enough votes. what is your big takeaway from the g7. two things. one is america s increasing isolation from our strongest allies, right. the g-6 and then the united states. so there was a lot of internal differences among the countries under the obama and bush administration but now we see an alignment of those countries sort of teaming up against us because trump because of the way that trump presents america on the world stage. so on climate change, on iran, on russia on trade. on trade. it s trump against our allies. he didn t even show up for an
republicans. also happening now the lawyers for president trump s former campaign chair paul manafort must respond to robert mueller s sentencing memo. in that memo, mueller s team slammed manafort as a bold criminal who repeatedly and brazenly broke the law. joining us now is dana bash, cnn chief political correspondent jeffrey toobin, former federal prosecutor and david gregory, a cnn political analyst. david gregory, give us the big picture on just all of the news that s going to be happening on this pretty dramatic week. look, on the one hand, the president on the world stage. he s not going to be in crime time because he s on the other side of the world with the time change, but with an historic summit, leading america on the world stage and perhaps achieve something big. he s negotiating with china. could be important for the economy. but back home, this drama with michael cohen is going to be big because he is going to be in person, very dramatically on capitol hill. a pre
when you speak about defending america on the world stage, yesterday, we saw joe biden doing just that. he was in munich for the security conference and he didn t mention trump by name, but he made it clear that he doesn t agree with the way he is governing. listen to this. i promise you, i promise you, as my mother would say, this too shall pass. we will be back. we will be back. don t have any doubt about that. i don t think joe biden is throwing his name in the hat for u.n. ambassador, but what sort of statement did you see him making there? well, look. joe biden has been contemplating whether or not to make what i guess would be his third run for president. every indication is that he is getting the bug just like many other democrats, that he s got the experience, he s got a lot of attention, he s got a lot of
in realtime as it s played out. lots of people are wondering, is that because lindsey graham may wanting to become attorney general or may be being considered to become attorney general? so people familiar with lindsey graham s thinking insist that he doesn t want to be attorney general. there certainly has been speculation that that may be something that he would be into. you know, who knows. the president could tap him for that job and sometimes you never know what your answer is going to be until you re actually asked. my sense is that lindsey graham prefers the role that he has in the senate. he has a lot more freedom. he potentially has a much longer tenure than going into an administration that could be replaced with democrats come two or six years down the road. he gets to travel the world. he s kind of a voice for america on the world stage, especially, you know, after the death of john mccain, who was his close friend. i think he feels that responsibility more than he ev