knew about it. so, money can t buy stormy daniels silence. that is a pretty dangerous situation for the president to be in. i agree with ms. daniels lawyer and i m sure ari has a lot of experience sitting around lawyers. i don t know lawyers for really, really rich people who put forward six-figure dollar amounts on behalf of their client without at least consulting their client. rarely do they ever do it out of their own bank account unless there is some nefarious thing to cover up. one of the interesting things about the trump personnel is mike cohen, not a good lawyer. the mistakes that were made, the whole way he set up the llc which was to keep this all quiet turned out to expose him and let all this stuff get out to the public. there are questions about donald trump has the best people. doesn t seem like michael cohen was performing at a very high level of lawyering in this case. i don t want to do espn for lawyers and that s fun. that s why we have you here.
collusion, and obstruction of justice and i think that collusion, which has the international component and it is not a crime, conspiracy is a crime. i think if you look at everything going on, the where the inquiries are going and who the lawyers are on the team, there is a whole other c-word which is just corruption. and i think there is a corruption case here that is that is interwoven with the collusion and conspiracy case but international corruption is what he is looking at and involved trump and jared kushner and different countries beyond russia. and that is what paul manafort was charged with. financial corruption. and americans don t like they don t like corruption. they can put up with a lot of things, but corruption, that loses elections. we ll have a test for that. peter baker, thank you for spending this hour for us. we are grateful. we have to sneak in one more break. we ll be right back.
done, he s defined deviancy downward. he is sordid and grotesque and vulgarian. john mentioned the 13 women who accused him of sexual harassment. that happened before the election. right. so to me, i don t want to sound cynical no, no. i think people have factored that in about him. on that point, let me put this up. ronan farrell wrote in the new yorker about another woman, a play boy model, concealing infidelity, what interests me is how there was an operation for keeping them silent the way harvey weinstein had an operation for keeping some of the women he was encountered silent. the interactions that play mate mcdugal outlined show striking similarities who had sexual relationships with trump or propositioned them for sex or harassing them. the affair is entirely
dinner, everybody is wondering whether stephen miller or melania trump will be the next out the door. so it s a big, big churn now inside the white house. you saw the first half of our show. that was an easy call. let me put up rachel maddow s wall. the daily show tweeted this out. a sneak peek of maddow s list of trump administration departures in two weeks. she joked at the end of last week, i need a bigger wall. i just watched jaws, so the idea i need a bigger boat is in my brain. i love this idea of her list getting bigger and bigger. peter baker, serious question. gary cohn getting credit for being an adult in the room, i understand that. i don t know him personally. this is not a personal observation, but what did he actually prevail upon? it seems like he failed to convince the president to pull out of the paris accord. he failed to sort of prevail in terms of the language the president used after the
and how she handled john edwards scandal and hillary clinton how she handled bill clinton. that is a volatile thing. huma aberdeen. one quick point. i think john s point about republican women is a really important one. we ve been doing a lot of reporting on republican women. women who have joined the resistance within the gop and are running against the trump sort of the kind of trumpism trumpism. and i think that you re really, really going to see an impact of that phenomenon in the 2018 election, not that they re going to vote against the gop, but that you could see low-turnout among republican women and that could be very, very dangerous. i want to get back to the legal questions. obviously sex is one thing that men lie about whether they re president or not. and i wonder if he is with bob mueller, if there is real concern now that he could perjure himself. i think there is a concern he would perjure himself period