did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. i never directed him to do anything wrong. whatever he did, he did on his own. president trump and his defenders are trying to draw parallels to another case involving another politician, john edwards. the former senator was acquitted on one count and the jury hung on five others. john edwards indicted on six felony charges, four of them for collecting illegal campaign contributions. hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled to his mistress covering her travel, housing and medical expenses. the defense said those payments were intended to keep an affair secret from edwards family, not from voters. help us understand how well this argument works. you ve seen it made by the president. you ve seen it been made by rudy giuliani. does this hold water? i think you re elevating it to call it an argument. it s a tweet at this point.
i don t think that argument works. that s why we re going to be looking at that edwards case. the j us sis department in that case meaned forward on that too far. and if the president can make the argument that this was a payment to avoid personal embarrassment, and frankly donald trump could say, i ve been paying off women for years, long before i ever started running for president, this actually makes a lot of sense. laura: well this is what the new york times leads with, in their main coverage of this today. prosecutor s say trump directed illegal payments during campaign. so it s involving two women, mcdougal and stormy daniels, 150,000, 130,000, one payment made to buy the rights to karen mcdougal s story from american media and the other direct payment. you know what i go back to? the question is somewhat related here. but why hire michael cohen? again i don t know michael cohen. i talked to him like once or
and then say, i don t have to respond to the subpoena. i don t have to show up and take the fifth or not take the fifth, i don t have to do anything because i m the president. see whether that argument works. at a minimum, it delays the process, until if he is compelled, he would have to decide whether to take the fifth, but it pushes it out quite a bit. we have precedent here. you don t need to go back to thomas jefferson. you got bill clinton. and they keep mentioning him for a lot of different reason, some more for the court of public opinion than the court of law. but if they get presented with a subpoena, the president is not above a subpoena. so here s my view. i think that at the end of the day the president will lose that court battle, but he won t lose it tomorrow. it will take months, maybe a year to delay the action. maybe a year? push it past the mid terms, hope the republicans can keep congress, keep this issue at bay. once you take the fifth, it s generally though
hey, mom, go in the courthouse, i ll watch her for you, cool. a mother at a custody hearing. custody hearing. so the republican party, as steve i m sure about to tell you, they re already wearing trump badly this week. it wasn t a good week everywhere. people are running against trump democrat. so democrats are going to be running against everywhere. not just in alabama. but everywhere against roy moore. the republican party right now is a party that doesn t have room for someone like jeff flake who s a very decent guy, he s a traditional republican, he s interested in fiscal conservativism, he s pro-immigration. no, we don t like him, but we like this culture war, lawless troll, which roy moore has been his whole life, even before he was heavily petting 14-year-olds in the woods. explain to me why this argument works. i heard steve bannon go after jeff flake, saying, please, he s a guy who let an unlimited amount of immigrants in. there was never an unlimited amount of immigrant
you re a smoker that should go out to insurers. the problem is they are not getting the right information. until you fix that nothing else matters. they can have as many sign up as possible. if the data they are producing is bad that s not good. let s see if this argument works. a lot of the obama care website is not the first time a major program had problems being implemented. for example, medicare part d. right? while republicans today are hammering the affordable care act some were far more forgiving of president bush s law back in 2006. any time something is new, there s going to be some glitches. all of us when our children were new, we knew as parents we didn t know everything we were doing and had a foul up or two but persevered and our children turned out well. even no matter what one does in life when it s something new and learning the roechs it it will take a little adjustment. but as we were signing up 27