believing, maybe, behind the scenes, she would be the one to soften trump up, she would be the one to try to get him to exercise a little bit of civility, a little bit of humility, to focus on what s good for the whole country as opposed to just giving his base what they want. and it hasn t really happened to the extent that people expected. i think the other thing that you re seeing is that she has now adopted this woe is me attitude, and we just saw it in the sound byte that you put out there, and she also had another interview recently where she said that she believes she is the most bullied person that is out there. and so, i think when people look to her and say, how can she essentially with the kind of bully pulpit that she has, she even has this supposed program that she wants to focus on cyberbullying but that s not really what she focuses on when she talks publicly. and so i think that people don t really understand what it is that she wants to accomplish as first lady. i know
now are being implicated all around him, and the there s a real feeling of a drum beat, and also, everything that mueller or sdny is finding has corroboration, and they are it s not simply looking at michael cohen s words. and i think, mark, that is the key point. i don t think we can say it enough, right? they put it in the original. as trump keeps saying, michael cohen is a liar. sure, we all know he s lied. they re making a point. this isn t based on what he says. other people have corroborated it. they have tapes. they have e-mails. they actually have the proof and facts at this point. it s almost absurd that we have to sit here and discuss it, right? if this was anybody else, we re talking about his lawyer, who he himself, i mean, we all remember the image of him popping back into air force one and on the airplane and saying, oh, yeah, you have to ask michael cohen, he s my lawyer. now you hear him saying, michael
just coming to peel. we did not know about but i guess the person who knew about it would have a reason to be angry about it, as he was. all right. absolutely. thank you all three so very much. and next, president trump, well, changing the subject. i have to go check. i don t think they even paid any money to that tabloid. have to go check? plus russian maria butina who came face-to-face with president trump. today, guilty, admitting to being in the illegal agent working at the direction of the russian government. and first lady melania trump s poll numbers take a dive. why? boom. enjoy your prime rib! anyone ever call you, meat santa ? no, that s. weird. happy holidays.
don t do it. reporter: given the tone of the coverage. he can t even get people on the d-list. reporter: no wonder the president is described as super pissed. apparently he crossed his arms so hard they went all the way around. reporter: he s been getting lots of unsolicited advice. you know, he should try me harmony. i have one for him, anderson. craigslist. reporter: but the president says we have a lot of people that want the job, chief of staff. reporter: whoa. discrimination. why limit it to people? obama s official photographer suggested bo the dog. he s smart, doesn t leak in the oval, has never talked to a russian. and a new yorker cartoon recommended the central park mandrin duck noting his approval ratings are through the roof. we did find one eager applicant using the twitter name no one. no one says, i want to be trump s white house chief of staff. that takes guts, considering what s happened to the previous chiefs hired by the magician in
coming to the country, and that he s going to protect them from these invaders seems to really resonate with his supporters. and he s banking on the idea that that s what is going to actually bring them to the polls, the fear that if they don t, something is going to happen. and the issue with that, though, is that this is something, you know, focusing on fear tactics and this caravan doesn t play very well within independents, and actually repels the democrats. and so the question always is, for the democrats, will the democrats actually get their supporters to come to the polls to vote? it is interesting. there was also that ad that the president was trying to run on cnn, cnn didn t run it, it was one of those things, looks like a duck, quacks look a duck, might be racist, it was racist and we didn t run it. the midterm elections shaping up to be a referendum on donald trump while some think it could be great voter turnout, the