about the payment to stormy daniels, but now, presto changeo, suddenly it s no big deal according to the president. two days ago he tweeted, i m quoting now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution. okay. keeping them honest, it s not the dems. the dems have nothing to do with sending michael cohen to prison. the president s lawyer is going to prison. the president calls it a simple private transaction. again, let s remember what we re talking about here. we re talking about hush money. money paid to keep women quiet, within the words of the southern district of new york, the intent to influence the election. and if it s just a simple private transaction, why would the president feel the need to lie about it? yesterday, the president spoke to reuters and said, number one, it wasn t a campaign contribution. if it were, it s only civil. even if it s only civil, there was no violation based on what we did, okay? keeping them honest, the pres
arlington national cemetery on veterans day, that shows remo e remorse. we ve always seen presidents use, for example, thanksgiving day to show up and surprise troops, george w. bush did this with iraq right after the invasion in 2003. clinton did it in kosovo. exactly. he has avoided doing this in part because of security fears, you can t blame him. jim mattis was the target of a potential rocket strike at one time, a threat at least, but, yeah, it s the president s duty to visit troops, bring good will and he s showing remorse right now by suggesting he s actually going to do that. we will have to see if he really does. mark, his approval ratings with the military as far as we can tell from the latest polls, not a cnn poll, though, are still high with the military, higher than they are in the general public. is this important? is this a symbolic gesture for president trump who doesn t really generally count on symbolic gestures or doesn t feel the need to follow in what
thank chris is going through some of these big mid-term elections that i usually associate with big issues that are bad issues for the incumbent. health care, bad for obama. war, bad for president bush. a lot of fear and anger tends to be driven out in a mid-term race where you don t have as high of a turn out. i think the economy is strong, but what s hurting that a little bit is some anxiety about the gyrations in the stock market and whether a recession is coming and how long they can stave that off with government policy. i know that is on the president s mind and there was a calculation made by others that if we just run on the economy, we are not going to get the core trump supporters out because they think everything is fine and won t feel the need to vote. he has gone to this extreme.
martha: a quote from dr. ford s legal team to the fbi today because they are upset that they have not been contacted in the course of this supplemental investigation. they say it s inconceivable that the fbi could conduct a thorough investigation of dr. ford s allegations without interviewing her, judge kavanaugh, or the witnesses that we have identifies identified in our letters to you. both judge kavanaugh and judge kavanaugh testified under oath. i can understand why the fbi wouldn t feel the need to go back out to them, they had access to that testimony presumably. martha: a lot of what we are seeing in the interim in terms of new information that is kind of flooding the market here includes a lot of really wild charges from a number of people that he went to high school or college with, we are also getting handwritten information about beach week, back to beach week in 1983. i just want to put this up on the screen.
and you raised legal issues. it sms more likely than not that trump did write the statement. the question remains why does the president feel the need to review a statement from his son, a private citizen, about a meeting the president was unaware? that is the president s story. he knew nothing about the meeting at the time. one reason why sanders wants to correct the story is because every time they say something, something else changes. go ba july of 2017. as the story comes out, remember the broad team trump inside the white house or out, the story changed significantly. it is important to go back to that very specific thing that is at issue here. donald trump jr. claimed the meeting was a meeting where he would learn about adoption policy. the new statement we know that the president himself dictated said actually the meeting was