Hi, everybody. Its thursday. Its 4 00 in new york. It is also day 18 of the people of the state of new york vermont donald trump, the expresident s former Attorney Michael Cohen is just off the Witness Stand. The jury is done with their service for the day. Prosecutors and attorneys for the expresident are dealing with the all important question of what happens next. Its happening right now. A hearing over what the defenses case will look like and if they will make a case, if they have a case to present the updates from that hearing that is happening as we meet well bring them to you right away. All this is in the wake of a rather desperate and uneven attempt to undercut Michael Cohens credibility. It was to be generous, hit and miss, defense attorney todd blanche had a Second Chance at cross examining Michael Cohen after a day of rest yesterday. He moved around from topic to topic so quickly that todd blanche decided that todd should apologize to the jurors who would decide Donald Tru
joining me now, national campaign co-chair for obam for america and star of herald and kumar movies and star of how i met your mother. and star of the last word. the rule of this show is the person with the fewest credits gets to go first. so on these polling i m work on it. on the favorability number, if that holds, that s all you need to know. that s all you need to know. until you said the word felony, i was going to say, the only thing worse than being an unpopular candidate going into election where all the negatives about you are reinforced by almost everything you do, right? you re a one percenter who wants to cut the 1% s taxes. the only thing worse than that, expect the felony piece is vowing to raise 95% of tvoters taxes. this is the death nel of any candidate, right? going into the election, democrats are terrified to look like tax raisers.
taxes. the only thing worse than that, except the felony piece, is vowing to raise 95% of voters taxes. this is the death nail of any candidate, right? going into the election, democrats are terrified to look like tax raisers. now you have a republican, you have an independent body saying he s going to raise your taxes, middle class. i don t see how it can get any worse, except the felony. ever since mondale s campaign, democrats have been afraid to mention taxes while running for president. bill clinton mentioned them but by only saying he would have a middle class tax cut, which he then didn t do. here you have president obama saying plainly, i would like to see tax rates go up on taxpayers above this level and the romney campaign doesn t seem to be able to find the answer to that. i think because the president has been very transparent about it, right? i think it was even this week on barackobama.com, there s a tax calculator where you can punch in the numbers and see exactly