News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Damaging. Both the combination of the Michael Cohen revelations and also the fact that mueller is still going. Its causing a lot of people around the president to worry, and theyre also worried about the midterms. Theyre worried mueller might drop something before the midterm elections that could be devastating to republicans. And trump also seems to believe that possibly if he talks, it could bring this investigation to an end more quickly, but theres not necessarily any evidence of that. Yeah, i mean, its interesting the way that trump seems to think that he could Charm Mueller the way that he thinks hes done with kim jongun and with other world leaders. If he gets in the room, he can win them over. This is of course a very different situation. The other thing that is interesting where giuliani is saying put up or shut up, the irony in that is that bob mueller i
says there s going to be an open hearing like this, where you have live tv cameras inside? typically we would absolutely expect that kind of coordination and the last thing the dems want to do is compromise or in any way harm mueller s inquiry. there s another development we re watching, sabrina. cnn has learned that the main pollster for the trump campaign, tony fabrizio, he was called to testify last year before mueller and his team on the polling information. we now know that paul manafort, the campaign chairman, was secretly providing sensitive, internal campaign polling information to the russians through this individual. what does this all mean? this meeting took place in february 2018, almost a year ago. it was previously unreported. it obviously does take on new significance, following the revelations that paul manafort shared internal campaign polling data with an associate of his who has known ties to russian
damaging. both the combination of the michael cohen revelations and also the fact that mueller is still going. it s causing a lot of people around the president to worry, and they re also worried about the midterms. they re worried mueller might drop something before the midterm elections that could be devastating to republicans. and trump also seems to believe that possibly if he talks, it could bring this investigation to an end more quickly, but there s not necessarily any evidence of that. yeah, i mean, it s interesting the way that trump seems to think that he could charm mueller the way that he thinks he s done with kim jong-un and with other world leaders. if he gets in the room, he can win them over. this is of course a very different situation. the other thing that is interesting where giuliani is saying put up or shut up, the irony in that is that bob mueller is perhaps the only person who we haven t heard from. yeah, yeah. he has shut up. he never speaks. he speaks t
you should stiff arm mueller and keep him at a distance. however, at the same time, it does seem that trump and his allies throughout the conservative media and on capitol hill, we ve been watching this closely in politico. the rhetoric is escalating. we ve been through cycles like this. people may remember the holidays at the end oh of the year, the rhetoric was cranking up and there were predictions that mueller would be fired. that didn t materialize. but it feels like it s cresting again, and maybe even more intensely. and i think joseph digenova
think about the first part of what he said there, in effect john dowd s a good man. in effect, that s why he s leaving. yeah. he wasn t a vicious enough fighter. it s a little confusing, because john dowd did not want donald trump to sit down for an extended, open-ended interview with special counsel robert mueller, fearing that it could become a perjury trap, feeling there was too much risk. he and ty cobb have disagreed over that part of the strategy. ty cobb has been much more open to the idea of trump talking to mueller with fewer conditions. and dowd seemed to feel that trump was not taking his advice on that front. so as far as the actual interaction with mueller, dowd was could not get the president to agree with him that you should stiff arm mueller and keep him at a distance. however, at the same time, it does seem that trump and his allies throughout the conservative media and on capitol hill, we ve been