and this person, instead, according to the new york times chose not only to stay, but to under mine what president trump and this administration are trying to do. and i have to tell you i find t the media s efforts incredibly disturbi disturbing. and i will also your other question directly. someone will say you didn t answer the question, it s not mine. it is interesting to hear how he is framing it. i think the person has more than a single option to leave. the whole case is that this person has chosen to stay to work in the administration to stop some of the president s impulsivity. yeah, and in the op-ed the writer acknowledges policy successes and things that are policy issues with which he or she agrees has more to do with the president s personal
ly done so far? you know, i don t think cohen is trying to do some sort of reverse psychology on the president. i do think he s actually trying to defend his reputation. the sense that i get of this, especially i had a conversation earlier today with a person quite close to cohen and that person s explanation of this ex look, if cohen was trying to get the president to come back to him, to woo him or pay his legal bills, he would be doing the opposite of what he s doing. he wouldn t go talk to george stephanopolous. he wouldn t hire lanny davis who of all the lawyers in d.c. is known as one of the most loyal clintonites. you don t hire somebody from hillary clinton s inner circle if you re trying to woo the president back on your side. this is very much a declaration of independence. he s drawing a line in the sand. daniel goldman, thank you for spending some time with us today. wait until you hear what the white house had to say about that video we showed you earlier. remember the
mouth and the things he tweeted that shows you everything you need to know about the way the white house is framing it as a 2018 campaign issue not a 2018 policy issue they are trying to resolve. saying this is an issue that can wait after the mid terms and the people you just saw on stage describing this horror of criminal immigrants coming across the border and committing these crimes how do you on one hand say this is something that is so bad with these families and another one saying but we can wait and solve it later. there is a bill being worked on as we speak. the compromise bill, compromise among just republicans, that could, with the president s full-throated support, potentially pass the house of representatives when it comes up next week. they are trying to add things, even as we speak, ad provisions to that bill that might attract more conservative support. but it s interesting to see how that goes when the president is
both parties have requested, have demanded. raj shaw would only say it s being treated as an internal issue. look at this exchange between shaw and peter alexander earlier. do you agree she is a bit of a victim here? and why? again, the matter is going to be addressed has been addressed internally. what i will say is when you work in any work environment, you with your colleagues at nbc or elsewhere, if you don t if you aren t able in internal meetings to speak your mind or convey thoughts or say anything that you feel without feeling like your colleagues will betray you that creates a very difficult work environment. i think anybody who works anywhere could recognize that. is there any environment where conveying that thought would be viewed as appropriate? i m not going to address it any further. we don t know yet for sure whether kellied isler has been reprimanded. you are seeing here that the white house is framing it as a
obviously one that s more defensive of the iran deal. but he s framing it in a way that s it s a way to work with donald trump, for donald trump to put his stamp on these matters so it could be appealing to republicans as well. it mimics the role he has in french politics where he s positioned himself in the center and been able to appeal to the right and left at various times. can he we bring it back home and talk about trade ant twha emmanuel macron and donald trump talk about trade and exact on trade, secretary? well, yesterday in the press conference macron on a couple of occasions, you know, tried to use trump s frame, you know, trade has to be balanced and reciprocal to say it s balanced in the context of france. right. and the united states. so we say, hey, we re good on trade. now, what happens with angela merkel later in the week, very different conversation. the senate escort committee, by the way, just being announced by vice president mike pence which means that w