there s a sense of shock inside this white house because of the double barrelled legal news that happens on tuesday. still reeling from that in most respects. and the president has become isolated, but it was isolated in many ways over the last few weeks. he s been unhappy with michael cohen, the person he relied upon to talk to people like david pecker, keep him in the tabloids, handle situations behind the scenes. now he feels betrayed. the candidate s been named by cohen in court, and so now it s been brought to the presidency. when you listen to sara sanders, the press secretary and others, they keep saying they re not talking about pardons in the white house. but that doesn t mean the president is not talking about manafort and cohen with people like giuliani playing golf in scotland. for frank, for all of us who don t have a background in your
throughout the election in which the national inquirer wrote no negative stories to president trump and had story after story that was deeply negative not only to hillary clinton but remember their ted cruz coverage, really ridiculous allegations the president then used on the campaign trail to try to discredit ted cruz. you see this pattern of this news organization i use the term news organization very loosely this organization, you know, seemingly working on behalf of trump s campaign. and i imagine a lot more will be coming out. bob costa, you had the president today seemingly divorced from his role as the head of a law-abiding society. you ve always been a very good west-wing whisperer and interpreter. by how much is there a sense that the walls may be closing in? there s a sense of shock inside this white house because of the double barrelled legal news that happened on tuesday. still reeling from that in most respects. and the president has become
interpreter. by how much is there a sense that the walls may be closing in? there s a sense of shock inside this white house because of the double barrelled legal news that happens on tuesday. still reeling from that in most respects. and the president has become isolated, but it was isolated in many ways over the last few weeks. he s been unhappy with michael cohen, the person he relied upon to talk to people like david pecker, keep him in the tabloids, handle situations behind the scenes. now he feels betrayed. the candidate s been named by cohen in court, and so now it s been brought to the presidency. when you listen to sara sanders, the press secretary and others, they keep saying they re not talking about pardons in the white house. but that doesn t mean the president is not talking about manafort and cohen with people like giuliani playing golf in scotland. for frank, for all of us who don t have a background in your
anti-fascist protesters. and then the day turned deadly. this street with james alex fields jr. barrelled his car into a group of counterprotesters remains a memorial to heather heyer. heather was killed in the attack, 35 others injured, the driver will be tried for murder and federal hate crimes. there was anger and outrage and reaction to not only the violence, but the hateful rhetoric that was openly on display here. i have a message to all the whi, the message is plain and simple. go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. reporter: then very fine people on both sides. reporter: president trump s refusal to condemn the racial attack further inflamed the national conversation. when you think about the flash point that charlottesville was in this country. where the dialogue around race
putting people back to work in this country more so and you would be rebuilding what is a crumbling infrastructure and you could even be use that to help make the tax code more fair again. instead of looking so sour, i would have barrelled ahead and said, okay, let s work with you on those two major issues. one point i have to make, though. i mean, have we forgotten the way republicans reacted to barack obama s state of the union address? i was going to say that. by the way, gene. that was not state of the union. republicans do the same thing to democrats. democrats do the same thing to republicans. let s agree they should stop. let s agree they should stop. that was my point. my point is that this is by now a rich tradition. let s stop. the people from the party in power jump up and clap and the others sit down and look stony faced. and believe me, i would put