the then unfolding mueller probe, he reached out to lanny davis to pick his brain about it. lanny davis is a recognized expert and who has shown a willingness to work with people who are not necessarily on his partisan team. i think it s an interesting question. the activity michael cohen has been under taking here in public recently, the abc news interview, changing his social media profile and now with lanny davis, i think there is a question about whether there is about a legal strategy or a public image strategy. do you read lanny davis as somebody who can help him navigate the court of public opinion or the court of law more? so both. lanny davis is kind of like rudy giuliani in that he can go into a full on attack dog mode. he loves to go on tv and defend his client. he could be that lawyer for michael cohen the way giuliani
so a recognized expert in this. and one showing a willingness to work. michael cohen has been under taking in public recently, the abc news interview, changing his profile. public image strantegy. do you read lanny davis is somebody who can navigate the court of public opinion or court of law? both. lanny davis is someone like rudy giuliani who can go on full attack dog mode. he can be the tv lawyer for michael cohen the way giuliani is for the president. he also has mad skills.
cohen? so with lanny davis and another lawyer, a very effective guy petrillo, he now has better defense attorneys than donald trump. he is like more ethical and skilled version of rudolph giuliani. as you indicated, he can go into full attack dog mode for his client. he is also known as a deal maker. so if he is looking to make a deal with mueller, then lanny davis is the perfect guy to do that. and do you expect it helps in the case with michael avenatti who has been pretty aggressive against cohen in the public media? they both have very good media skills. but at the end of the day, what
does he have the idea he needs to double down in terms of the firing? a defense attorney may act as an attack dog for you in the media. in his prior statements maybe that is the strategy here. it also could be the strategy to negotiate with robert mueller for the terms of grand jury testimony as well. he is a former u.s. attorney and so he also would be very savvy in the ways of grand jury testimony. so, it may be for strategic reasons like that, but based on his statements, it could be that he does want to use him in that attack dog mode. can i pin you down, it would be in terms of strategy. what is the added value this attorney will bring in to give us a look ahead in terms of strategy we can anticipate? that s for me? yes, please, yes, barbara. i think it could relate to the grand jury testimony. does he want to put up roadblocks in terms of having donald trump appear before the grand jury, does he want to negotiate a more favorable situation with an informal interview, in
, we now have the far left eating them alive saying that maria: elizabeth warren. really an attack dog mode and they ve used donna brazile s book as a vehicle for that. it was rigged, bernie would have won, blah blah blah. certainly i think the scales were tipped i don t think you can rig 4 million votes but i understand the argument and why people felt disenfranchised by the process so we have to do better. maria: james? the president needs the tax cut to deliver the robust economy he s promising. that s one issue voters tend to give him very poor marks on everything except that and fortunately for him that tends to be what people vote on the economy but he s got to deliver there. i think where he s vulnerable is if the democrats choose to nominate a moderate, john hick en looper from colorado, somebody you could sell to middle america.