decades. mr. trunk, his lawyer michael cohen and mr. pecker have strategized protecting him. and in june, it was reported that ami had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors related to the mcdougal payment. there is a closeness here that extends back to well before donald trump was a political character. and speaks to trump s history of coddling or cozying up to gossip writers. he maintained close relationships with the people who wrote those columns and he would doll oe out pieces of
a positive, not a negative. and if that doesn t work out, i will be the worst enemy he ever had. will hurd of texas offered a dire warning. hurd writing over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the cia, i saw russian intelligence manipulating many people. i never thought i would say the day where the american president would be one of them. trump responded to his critics writing i got severely criticized by the fake news media for being too nice to president putin. in the old days they would call it diplomacy. it was loud and vicious. i am joined by michelle goldberg. it is interesting to watch
of the ami payment in august, two months prior to the election. and we are hearing maybe we should buy these rights from ami because trump wanted to be the gate keeper of the secrets. he didn t want anybody to know about this before the election occurred. rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer confirmed the recordings saying the conversation was less than two mon mn minutes long. giuliani confirmed that trump had directed cohen to make the payment, but quote the payment was never made. adding that mr. trump had told mr. cohen that if we were to make a payment related to ms. mcdougal. the idea that there is somebody this close to donald trump, the idea that he recorded this conversation and now potentially more conversations, is that something that was ever you think was ever on donald trump s
before people head to the folks, the politics of this should be looking at it and saying are you kidding me? i think we are excited. democrats are excited. polling to suggest that that messaging is working. running on local districts, they are running on this. and the polling supports its effectiveness and another actual indication of this effectiveness, in the state of alabama, you had republicans in the republican primary running on corruption. so it is an effective strategy. russia speaks to trump s corruption. another indication that he is corrupt. just like the salacious sex scandals, and just like etpa. and i think it is having an
radar? hes is quoted in saying he s very surprised. trump spent most of his career threatening business acquaintances. and a lot of times that was bravado. trump had people in his orbits who are fixers. i don t know legally how much this issue with the payments are going to come home to roost for the president in the way that is actually threatening to him. i don t think campaign law violations. what does he know about russia. trying to get a new hotel built in moscow. there are all these odd little moments which michael cohen is