if you re dealing with angela merkel or theresa may. when you re dealing with these brutal autocrats, they could give less of a hoot how friendly you are with them. they ve got very pragmatic, in some cases murderous objectives to achieve, so the president winging it on iran is unsettling. speaking of personal relationships with autocrats, i want to play for you what the president said, because it gets us into our next subject of north korea. we ll listen to that and talk about it on the other side.
lanny davis speaking for michael cohen. certainly michael avenatti. he wants somebody out there to muddy the waters. we ve seen mueller s approval rating drop. giuliani has been effective there. but this one around people close to the president just wonder what he was doing and it s raised concerns again whether giuliani is too often out ahead of his skis and is causing more trouble than he s helping. counselor, as the former fed here at the table, how do the feds view the day that rudy giuliani had and all that he said on television? so, brian, i think as a prosecutor, i m seeing this and what i m seeing is a little bit of panic from the president and from rudy giuliani and i ve seen it before. when a defendant and a defense team starts to feel the facts and the evidence closing in on them and they re feeling like there s nowhere else to go, you see this change in tone that jonathan referenced. and what s been happening over the last two weeks? we re learning more and more every d
why is that a red flag as the law sees it? well, in part because of other evidence. it s pretty clear that paul manafort was trying to monetize his service to donald trump. we know that he was offering private briefings to this russian oligarch, a man he owed some $10 million to, it s now emerged from court filings so yeah, absolutely a red flag and a potential that he was recruitable by foreign intelligence assets, and that s exactly what s at the heart of robert mueller s investigation, whether manafort was involved in any potential coordination with the russian election interference campaign. i can t thank you both enough. barrett, ken, thank you for laying out what begins tomorrow and we maybe talk about it a time or two on in broadcast in the weeks to come. the one thing president trump said today when we come back that will spread legitimate worry in his own party with the midterm elections 99 days away. that s where our conversation
he first issued the threat over the weekend saying, quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us votes for border security. which includes the wait a minute capital w wall. republicans on the senate appropriations committee today appeared opposed to that idea. i think it would be bad politics for the republican party to shut the government down. we would get blamed. it seems to me there s a way to get wall funding and deal with the daca population. none of us want a shutdown to go. no one wins. i think the american people expect us to do our job. if the president wants to shut down the government, you know, that s his prerogative.
and coming up for us, one week after threatening iran s president with historic consequences, president trump says, yeah, he s willing to meet with him with no preconditions. that was hours before his secretary of state was suggesting some preconditions. today in foreign policy, when we continue.