president trump from that buzzfeed story that he directed michael cohen to lie, something we haven t corroborated here at cnn, to the ongoing government shutdown to the mueller probe. just in general, we are all watching to see what comes out of the white house. barbara russ has worked for donald trump as an engineer on trump construction projects. she was well respected in the trump organization, and there is a lot going on, barbara, right now, as you re tracking this as well. difficult headlines for the president. in your experience, just knowing how he reacts to things, how do you think he views these headlines? typically and historically, he always rolled with the punches. there was always good news and bad news, and he was able to, you know, keep up his morale. a very positive-thinking kind of person, in other words, never accentuates the negative in terms of his press. he used to say all press is good press. now i don t see that. i see him going into a corner, i
union, everybody is there. he goes through, he makes the walk-through and glad-hands everybody and pans his own people in the audience and the camera keeps shooting to him. this is very slanted forwatowar president, no matter what he s going to say. it s a tremendous opportunity he will presumably miss out on because pelosi took that step. what do you make of the relationship, barbara, between nancy pelosi and donald trump, the way they relate to each other? i think that pelosi knows what she s dealing with and she s reacting exactly the way she should be. trump, on the other hand, i think is shell-shocked. i think he didn t expect he underestimated her to begin with, and i think he wanted her to be the speaker because she s a woman, and i think he thought viscerally that he could just control because of that. and i think he s very surprised at what he s seeing and doesn t know what to make of it. all right, barbara, thank you
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see him scratching back like a cornered animal. i think he s afraid. in this buzzfeed story, they talk about internal company e-mails, texts that led them to the conclusion that president trump had indeed directed michael cohen to lie to congress, which is under oath, by the way. we know the president tweets, barbara. he isn t really known for e-mails and texts. does that sound right to you? it might not just be he that is doing the e mailing and texting. there are other people who work for him, assistants and things like that. he does dictate letters, i know that, so he probably dictates e-mails. he either does it himself or he dictates it, but i m sure he communicates that way, absolutely. nancy pelosi told the president he should reschedule his state of the union for after the shutdown, after the shutdown being over, or that he should deliver it in writing, and then very clearly in retaliation he cancels the military aircraft
are more toned than the women in beverly hills. and you re standing right there as a woman. with an architect, a professional, a big architect, and we looked at each other and we didn t know where to go with it. did anyone say, mr. trump, that s inappropriate, or you didn t say that to him? no, you didn t say that to him. you just went with the flow. and he talked about, as i was saying, when his business started going to pot, he started saying how the reason it was happening was his executives were zuiscrewing it up and he wasn t around because he was off having sex with so many women. but he appointed you, barbara, you oversaw the building of trump tower. because he knew that i would do a good i was excellent. i was the best person at the contractor s office and they were grooming me for big things. he sort of stole me from them.