is anybody feeling good about any of this, about all of this? well, as i said last night maybe this guy is. there he is putin. so let s go through it all point by point. first, there s a story everybody s talking about tonight president trump versus nancy pelosi in this corner, right, and then in this corner. trump advisers said it best, this is king kong versus godzilla. the president denying the speaker a plane on her military trip to afghanistan and suggesting she fly commercial to a war zone. so a trip that was kept under wraps for security reasons as trips to a war zone usually are is publicly revealed by the president. all this coming about an hour before pelosi was supposed to leave. members of the delegation on the bus, their plane sitting on the runway. and predictably it sparked indignation on both sides. i m just shocked she didn t
you re the smartest man on this panel. he s not practicing law here. he is not practicing law. he s practicing politics. and don, you re exactly right. we have the lawyers that are representing this president and trying this case with mueller in the court of law and then we have rudy giuliani who s trying the case in the court of public opinion. the problem is the way this story has transgressed over the last year and a half to no collusion, this is fake news, this is hoax, to we don t believe to the best of our knowledge there s collusion to there s no collusion to now, well maybe there s collusion but the president didn t know about it. last night for the first time we had trump s base sitting at home in the recliners wearing their maga hats watching that doing the cuomo brow saying what the heck did he just say? that s where we have the problem. and the fact they re moving the
i think splitting it down the middle is the deal that pence and mulvaney offered early on and then the president repudiated it. so he was not willing to accept that deal. and democrats have an upper hand here because they have voted to reopen the government. republicans and democrats notice senate have voted to reopen the government and leave the issue of homeland security and the border wall for further negotiation and the president has refused. so when he sends letters to pelosi saying you shouldn t leave while we have 800,000 people out of work, he has the ability to put them back to work, the congress has agreed to put them back to work at various times here and he won t do it. but i do think the other point, don, look she played hard brawl. she doesn t want to give him the platform of the state of the union to litigate this issue. he then responded and kind of threw a spitball back. the thing i thought that was astonishing about it, though, was referring to a trip to afghanistan
the cnbc poll and was quite angry about it. every interview i went to, he brought polls. he would hand them to me. sure. and i m sure he looked for them every morning when he went into the office. now, he s not a fellow who googles himself. he has people google for him, and they bring in these polls and they circle his standing and either a good day or a bad day. google me. tell me what they re saying. and i also think what s fascinating about this is that this is a president who s employed people all throughout his life to pump him up, and poor michael cohen was trained to do it for himself. he winds up creating this fake twitter account of women who love cohen. yeah. and i mean, it s kind of pathetic.
the shutdown. and the fact is the speaker of the house is third in line in our government after the president and the vice president. so exposing her trip to a war zone is pretty questionable even these days. and because, of course, the %-p. did you know that? white house official tells cnn the president has been watching the tv coverage and is pleased. so we can probably expect more of these bare knuckle tactics on both sides. on both sides. and speaking of the president watching tv, here s something he apparently wasn t pleased about. sources telling cnn he was startled when his nominee for attorney general william barr said this on live tv during his confirmation hearing. i told him how well i knew bob mueller and how the barrs and muellers were good friends and would be good friends when this is all over. the president reportedly