single time. this is a self-proclaimed counterpuncher. we have known that since day one of his presidency. can he win this fight and a win by a win, i don t think anyone expects him to get $5 billion but as ali says he s pushing for the little bit more than the 1.6 than the democrats were offering? what does it mean to win? the target keeps shifting and that s what he does. he loves to fight as you say. and if he loses on this, he ll just redefine what it means to win in this context. so it s kicking the can down the road. wait until the democratic house comes in. and suddenly it s nancy pelosi s problem the democrats are obstructionist. look at the seats that the democrats are gaining 40 seats in the house. i have been talking to my sources and they say president trump intellectually understood the democrats had won the house on election day and now with
comparison to something else we learned today. an immunity deal with america media incorporated, parent company of the national enquirer, won t be prosecuted in exchange for cooperating with prosecutors and admitting it participated in the cohen payment to silence karen mcdougal, in concert with the candidate s presidential call pain. to silence her before the election so is it didn t influence the election. one thing we don t know is what ami tried to hide. david pecker was interviewed by prosecutors and mr. pecker and donald trump have been friends since president 199 the 1990s. just like that, it gets a lot less simple and lot less private. one of many, many interesting things today, the president who famously calls himself a counterpuncher has so far not punched back, neither to the press nor on his twitter machine, but there is late reporting about how he s taking it all, our chief white house
prosecutors and mr. pecker and donald trump have been friends since the 1990s. just like that the so-called simple and private transaction, it gets a whole lot less simple and certainly a whole lot less private. one of many, many interesting things today, the president who famously calls himself a counterpuncher has so far not punched back, neither to the press nor on his twitter machine, but there is late reporting about how he s taking it all. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta joins us with that. what are you learning about the president s response today in the bake of cohen s sentencing? reporter: anderson, the white house is just giving us the best information they have at this time and this hour, anderson, it s silence. the white house hasn t really responded to this. the president was given an opportunity to respond to this. he didn t earlier today. we re told behind the scenes he s seething about this, referring to michael cohen as a liar.
this politically is a really open question. an important point. when we re seeing the strategy by the president. he s a counter puncher. you probably get nervous every time he tweets. maybe he should check his own voice on that undercover reporting cohen made. i think what we see is an ongoing cover-up by the president. if we think back, you know, he started out on air force one saying i don t know anything about it, it didn t happen. then it shifted to, if it happen happened, my lawyer is the one who took care of it. then if it was wrong, it was only civilly wrong. all of those are evidence of n conscienousness of guilt. you make the critical point everyone s trying to sort through. this story keeps changing. is that not potentially,
cohen threw punches for donald trump. no other way to put it. he tried to spin stories for donald trump, if you wrote things or said things about the businessman even before he was in politics, then the candidate, even the president in the early months of the trump administration, michael cohen would, i don t say this in a bad way, he would get in your face. he was a sharply loyal counterpuncher and sometimes puncher. julie of the associated press. here, michael cohen now facing a three year prison sentence. how does the president react and number two, does it affect, you re seeing some of the attorneys in the case coming out here as well. let s listen for one second here. let s go. all right. hearing the conversation back there. sometimes we re all laughing. that s a new york moment outside of the lawyer. trying to see if they have something to say. not always pretty looking but