seriously by most conservatives. as early as 2011 michael had donald trump on his radio show and said you know what? i think you should be the president. this is so far out on a limb for most conservative radio hosts, even fox news, sean hannity, rush limbaugh. these people did not come around until later on donald trump and it built a bridge for trump into a constituency that really didn t trust him, didn t know him as anything more than the star of apprentice and a flashy playboy developer from manhattan. so to have savage suddenly, it s been pretty gradual actually, but to have savage start to doubt trump is significant because it really undercuts the core of the president s re-election message which is i kept my promises to you. savage and a handful of others in the party in the conservative movement are now saying, you know what, mr. trump? you didn t keep those promises. and proof of that is the fact that the wall that you told us
and they ll develop the information that they have and they have the written answers from the president. and so just the absence of forcing the president to appear doesn t necessarily lead to the conclusion that there s no obstruction investigation going on. but let s also not forget one of the many reasons the president didn t submit to questioning was that his lawyers didn t trust him. they thought waess goihe was lie. that s right. so they went via the lawyers. it does set up a difficult standard. everybody here, republicans included, admit that the president lies all the time. the difference is, no, it s not illegal to lie to the american people or lie on tv. it is, however, a different matter when you re dealing with a special counsel. so he s got that the veneer, the lens of the lawyers that he s got to go through. but we ll see when the report is released whether or not he cross line. because the lawyers don t know everything mueller s got.
heel of donald trump, i think. as his personal attorney, his so-called fixer, the potential for severe embarrassment is enormous. whether he s able to reveal something that would constitute an impeachable offense, i have my doubts that we ll see anything new in this area. the reason i say it is because mueller and southern district prosecutors gave him sort of a limited credibility endorsement. they didn t give him something called a 5-k-1 letter which you get a substantial reduction in sentence. they felt he wasn t fully cooperative. he held back information. they still didn t trust him. so i think whatever we listen to from michael cohen we have to listen carefully. i think you will see a strong attack by the president s advocates on credibility. lisa lerer, the moment yesterday with roger stone in
translator: you repeat that at every meeting. i like it. the improbability of either of them, reagan, the cold war hawk, gorbachev, the party guy, doing this kind of thing is just unheard of, and they did it. reagan had been in a low in 1987 with iran contra and many americans didn t like him. they didn t trust him. the negotiation with the soviet union in many ways saved his presidency. mr. gorbachev may not have seen much of america, but he certainly made sure that a lot of americans saw him. motorcades don t very often turn a lot of heads in this city. but when they stop on a dime, so does everyone else. i want to say hello to you. that was very special. he didn t have to do it. he did it. i am very surprised and i m pleased. what do you think of gorbachev? the guy is a pr genius.
important and incredibly historic and a kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. that s not to mean that any of us enjoyed it. but we knew it was important, and we knew it was important to be handled well. what was not yet clear was how these historic events would play out with the american people. as we were heading into the november 1998 midterm elections, president clinton s poll numbers were holding. nobody wanted him impeached. but they also didn t trust him.