maxine waters or anybody else, that ain t playing any more, president trump. that s congressman tim ryan of ohio last night with strong words for president trump after the president insulted lebron james on twitter. i want to bring back in caitlyn huey-burns and jim scott and joining me in new york, brandon robinson, the host of the scoop radio broadcast. let me get your reaction to that tweet. the president went to ohio to deliver a stump speech for a republican candidate last night. how convenient. didn t come up in the speech he gave. your reaction to what he had to say. how convenient that lebron james leaving ohio, going to l.a. that was the tempest storm the president was talking about on saturday morning, no less. listen, this is a guy who opened the school just this week. i promise school. a school that provides kids with an opportunity in the akron area to go to school for free. everything is free. i could go on and on. really and truly, i m wondering if there is any o
the way it contradicts what the president and his team said about a meeting that took place in 2016. caitlyn huey-burns joins me now, political report for real clear politics, and eugene scott, political reporter for the washington post. caitlyn, you know exactly what happened back in 2016. the president and his team s reaction to that meeting, what they have said since. how much has this up-ended that narrative, that story? just fundamentally, it has. remember, going back to when we when there was reporting about that trump tower meeting, that the president, you know, denied having a role in crafting that statement and turned out that he did. and in that statement, he said that the meeting was about russian adoptions. here it s very clear the president has just said that that meeting was to get dirt on an opponent. i think that is a very striking development in this. and remember, the trump tower meeting spe
individuals are making are very valid. you see that he doesn t dismiss the argument. he doesn t offer a counter argument. he calls don lemon, one of the dumbest people on television. you have to look at the substance of the attack and ask why he does not respond to people who look more like him in the same manner. caitlyn, there s been a lot of statements after the tweet came out. she said, it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation. the first lady she goes on to say, would be willing to visit the i promise school in akron. what did you make of this statement from the first lady? what does it tell you about i suppose of domestic life within the white house or bedminster where the president is for this working vacation, but more broadly, disagreement and division within this administration? that statement from the first lady was striking. and in terms of her be best campaign, it seems like lebron
kushner, paul manafort, donald trump jr. these are key individuals involved in the trump campaign. this was not some isolated gathering or interaction with someone who was a low-level person involved in trying to communicate with a foreign government, which is not legal. which, unlike what the president has tweeted. this is a very significant meeting. what all came out of it is still not yet clear. it s very possible that more was discussed than what has been admitted by the campaign, and we can trust that mueller is still looking into that. caitlyn, last question to you here. the president beginning this tweet by saying, i am not concerned about the meeting with my wonderful son. you look at that washington post piece, all about the concern that he has here. just ask you, in light of this tweet, how concerned should he be about his son in light of what was revealed in this tweet today? i think by virtue of him tweeting about it this sunday morning remember, this is the start t
believes the now released tape that michael cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. he also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president, trump, can be heard on. really what he is doing is keeping up his rapid-fire character attacks on michael cohen. it would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohen s latest assertion that president trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack casting doubt on the recording. you feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. we heard it. we had reaction to it. what do you make of what his legal team is trying to do, casting doubt on it w