and tweets. there is a group called the global strategy group which put out a word cloud asking people to describe the russia investigation. look at that word cloud. do you see the biggest word? witch hunt. that donald trump just keeps saying it over and over again in order to get people not to believe. if you go through this survey which i was in a wormhole in the makeup room going through, people, including independents, have a lot of doubt about the investigation and think it s a witch hunt. they have tried to add spy to get it in your head so people won t believe it. how much damage could that do to the actual case mueller is doing if you now have a portion of the public that is going to say witch hunt. you could make an argument which is the largest scale seeding of a potential jury pool we have seen. you have to give trump credit. he expertly creates a dialogue where you have catch words that
conversation. attacks on the fbi, on the justice department storm troopers they call them, attacks on the legitimate mueller investigation they call it. i remember this kind of strategy being perpetrated back in october of 1984 in the days after president ronald reagan blew his first debate with challenger walter mondale, the reagan forces were preparing for the worst. what if reagan blew the second debate with mondale? what then? fearing it the worse, lee dream offed up the great american fog machine. if it s clear the president did badly it read, then it s our job to obscure the result about the at water strategy called for two main lionels of assault. one attack the other guy, in this case mueller. two, polarize the country, force people to decide whose side are you on, the political establishment or trump s. no matter what mueller presents, how it incriminates the president and his people, don t forget they say it s about a battle between them and us. the old great american fog
the white house judiciary committee. let a s dress what he said before you. isn t it a constitutional issue that the president has the right to do his job, obstruction of justice, is it obstruction of justice or using the powers of the president as they ve been outlined by our founding fathers? it may come to this. but to be honest the malpractice you heard from the senator is to leap to a whole bunch of conclusions that just aren t true. first of all, as rudy guiliani said, the president has provided vast amounts of documents, many of them well outside the mandate given for the special prosecutor. secondly, the reality is you re right, a president is supposed to conduct the business of government and with rare exceptions the tool that the house and the senate had, the only tool they have is not prosecution or entering ontries or demanding they come up but a question of trial or impeachment n this case mueller is asking
trying to keep impeachment and russia, russia alive in the mid-terms in case mueller s probe comes up empty. end quote there, katie, start. look, i find it interesting that a party that claims to be standing up for democracy refuses to except a year and a half later the results of a presidential election. october 21, 2016 hillary clinton said that donald trump would be attacking democracy if he refused to accept those results. the dnc is separate. millions of delays in the red. i wonder how they ll pay for the lawsuit. they aren t focused on elections to get their candidates into office. they re focused on keeping the russia narrative alive. bill: you think they re raising money off of this. a complete political ploy. that s exactly what this is about. bill: i have claire mccaskill and other prominent democrats saying that this doesn t have a lot of water to hold. go ahead.
he s 15th choice for the president s defense team. i m sorry, what was your question? [ laughter ] michael cohen who apparently is people do want to represent him, in your view. it seems like the president is really extraordinarily focused on whether cohen is going to decide to cooperate with bob mueller. not with bob mueller directly, but the southern district of new york. if the president hasn t done anything wrong he has nothing to worry about. if he has done something wrong, he should worry a great deal about michael cohen. michael cohen always professes loyalty. i want to mention something about loyalty we don t often talk about in the city. it s a one-way street. in general most politicians don t have loyalty to the people who have been loyalty to them. after the politician cuts their ties, that loyalty will wear thin. if michael cohen is in any legal jeopardy and his freedom can be taken away, i don t think there is any doubt in my mind that he would cut a deal. the othe