they ve learned that in president trump s world, the outlandish and the zany and the scandalous often turns out being true. when we come back, the latest in the war of words between jim comey and donald trump. comey warns about violating more norms. david. what s going on? oh hey! that s it? yeah. that s it? everybody two seconds! dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald s helps more people go to college. it s part of our commitment to being america s best first job.
what do james comey, hillary clinton, chelsea manning and people who burn flags all have in common? according to the president, they should all be in jail. that was former fbi director comey taking exception to trump s suggestion that he be locked away. it s just the latest example of a profound disintegration of norms that s been playing out since the day trump started his campaign. joining me is harry litman former deputy attorney general during the clinton administration. your impression of watching comey try to take what is, i think in his view, a factual telling of his encounters with difficult decisions at the justice department that have come under fire from the right and the left, and having to wage this asymmetrical post fact, in the gutter war with a president who managed to defeat 16 republicans that way and the hillary clinton campaign that way. what do you make of someone from
documents during the raid shows you what poor lawyering donald trump has. if you read the filings back and forth, he makes such ridiculous arguments, the cohen team. and trump was asked or asked to be allowed to intervene and couldn t come up with his own independent arguments. so both the judge and the prosecutors of the southern district did their best not to show contempt. but i think there was some internal eye rolling. they re taking positions that have no basis in fact. they have no idea how things work, like the taint group or the work that works for attorney/client privilege. it s kind of an embarrassment. you d think that somebody out there would want to represent the president of the united states. he s gone through a dozen. he s moving onto legal zoom.
your line of work, the justice department, going to toe to toe with a president who fights dirty? i mean, it s sort of surreal. toe to toe is the word. this s a lot of coverage of it as if it s acaged wrestling match, comey versus trump. comey did some things that i m on record as saying were mistakes, but he s 100% right here. this is not normal. this is not okay. it is not the job of the president of the united states to say who should be in jail and who shouldn t be in jail. and that s even if what we were saying had any basis in fact, which it doesn t. it really is an attack on the norms. and a little postscript, having listened to the last panel, because the thing about stormy that in some ways is heartening yes it s anomalous and sensational, but it really is a kind of triumph of the rule of law there. it s kind of good news.
it s simple. easy. awesome. this is about the worst person the president could have in the cross hairs is michael cohen. furthermore, and you know i m not a big fan. i don t think the guy s that smart. i don t think he did a good job of covering his tracks. we now found out that he may have actually made audio recordings of some of his conduct, which have now been seized by law enforcement. that s a disaster. that was stormy daniels attorney. michael cohen has spent his career making donald trump s problems disappear. now he s the problem trump can t possibly make vanish. cohen, unlike ivanka or the other kids, is the only person on earth intertwined in trump s