on our supreme court. you didn t have to. i know you ve done it at great personal cost. this is a public service. i want you to know that i m grateful to have the opportunity to hear from you directly today. i would like to first follow up on that line of questioning miss mitchell was following. i think a lot of people don t realize that you chose to come forward with your concerns about judge kavanaugh before he was nominated to the supreme court. do i understand correctly when you first reached out to congresswoman eshoo and to the washington post tip line that was when he was on the short list but before he was nominated to the supreme court, is that correct? correct. and if i understand your testimony earlier, you were motivated bay sense of civic duty and, frankly, a hope that some other highly qualified nominee might be picked not out of a motivation at a late stage to have an impact on the final decision? correct. i felt it was important to get the information to you but
there. i don t know how it works with dictators, i know how it works with a senate majority leader. we all can remember last year, donald trump insulting mitch mcconnell, demeaning mitch mcconnell, humiliating mitch mcconnell. tweeting nasty attacks about mitch mcconnell. rubbing his nose in mud in dirt. and now mitch mcconnell, does whatever donald trump tells him to do. he kowtows to donald trump. so domestically, politically, humiliating some men actually has worked for him. maybe he thinks it will work on the world stage also with dictators. i get a sense that there s this oscillation with the president, he s going back and forth between high praise and huge insults, sometimes on the same people. think what triggers that oscillation is the idea from donald trump s perspective of what are you bringing to me? are you bringing something to me that i can use? that makes me look good? that fulfills my campaign promises?
attorneys come tomorrow and he does not yet have a new attorney so there are several steps that need to take place in order for whatever happens next to actually come to fruition but he s entering a whole new sphere of this legal drama. we ve been in the middle of this will he/won t he cooperate game it feels like for months now. i guess the question is what s the hold up? what is he considering? what on the side of the ledger exists that says i wouldn t cooperate at this point and has he been approached at all by the southern district for a deal? . our reporting is they haven t come to him yet. the holdup is that they have not come to him. according to people around him, he hasn t been approached and i think that that is the major holdup right now. do you have any sense, emily, of his sources of income. i don t know that there s income flowing in right now. his primary job for the last two months has been sorting through 3.7 million documents. that s been taking up to ten hour
respects cojones and another white house report in response to the g7, we are american bees. it seems like this is a locker room of frat boys driving this policy. what do you make of this approach to foreign policy? it seems to be driven bay sense of manhood that s deeply problematic. well i don t think there s some great mystery about donald trump there isn t this, as meeko and joe know for many years there isn t this private donald trump with voluminous layers, he is who he is. you ve seen him in public for 30 years. so there is that. but donald trump sees the world as a series of countries that owe america money. it is literally, he s not viewing the world as collections, alliances, regions. there is a little bit of that. but it s you owe us money. what can i squeeze out of you. to give in his mind, the american worker a better deal.
making sure that it will never happen again. so that is such a fundamental misunderstanding by donald trump of vladimir putin and his motivations, that, yes, it s truly petrifying. it s petrifying, it truly is. you know willie, yeah, i think what we just saw there in the interview is donald trump s version of george w. bush s i have looked into his soul and i ve seen he s a good guy. i can deal with him. donald trump suggesting he can deal with him. it s so interesting what he said on the plane, i reflected back to gosh, it was such a long time ago this past weekend. when donald trump said that actually, that the crimea invasion made a lot of sense. because the people of crimea wanted the russians to be there. which reminded me of something that i saw last night on