president trump continues to be dogged by questions about the investigation of his long-term personal lawyer michael cohen. today the day of the president s first state visit with the leader of france was no exception. mr. president what about michael cohen thank you very much. [ inaudible ] stupid question. is it a stupid question? if cohen knows there s a pardon on the horizon, could it keep him quiet? or quieter? and is there a chance of cohen caving better than not? even president trump suggested today it could be a legal minefield. the executive editor of bloomberg blind field and chuck rosenberg is former u.s.
opportunity to step aside if he saw fit. let s listen to what the president had to say. i don t want to put a man like this through this process, it s too ugly, and too disgusting. are you saying, mr. president, that you would stand behind him? i would stand behind him. if i were him? in my ways, i would love to be him, but the fact is, i wouldn t be him. reporter: you can plainly see the unexpected issues of governing, he didn t pick mr. jackson because he had a deep well of managing large organizations. he said mr. jackson didn t have that, most people don t. and he said that he thought this would be smooth sailing, we know that certainly wasn t the case. it appears the president picked ronnie jackson without the proper vetting because he likes him personally. he had a strong personal rapport and the president gave him that
and kim jong-un opened and honorable today and then a reporter followed up on that in the bilat a moment ago, asking why he would call a dictator who just recently sent back one of our citizens in pretty bad shape and dies a short time later, an honorable person. you mentioned today that you thought that the leader of north korea has behaved openly and honorably. this is something that many people have accused of starving his people, killing family members. what did you mean when you called him that? i think we re doing very well, meetings are being set up. and i want to see denuclearization of north korea, a lot of concessions have already been made, we have made no concessions despite some of the media saying i have made concessions. what is the president s strategy here, obviously it s very different from other leaders before him. i think what he s frying to
ethics questions that pruitt is already facing. yesterday, the white house said that it s monitoring those issues but also praised pruitt for pushing the president s agenda at the epa. now there is another sweeping change in the works. today, the washington post reports that pruitt is pushing a controversial transparency rule limiting what research the agency can use. juliette elprin from the washington post is one of the reporters on that story. explain to me this rule, on the service it sounds like a good idea, transparency, i only want to be able to see the signs that i can understand the process behind. is that the best way to describe it? exactly. well, that s certainly how administrator pruitt and his supporters would describe this rule. they would say that what they are doing is taking the underlying data that s behind the studies that epa uses to draft, say, environmental regulations and other rules that
it s a little bit overwrought. quote, cohen isn t the biggest catch from the trump world, other players know far more about the president s dealings than his lawyer does. this is what you wrote on bloomberg view. who were you talking about? i was talking about jason greens abo gre greenb greenblatt who is president trump s white house attorney. people attach their stars to the president s wagon in the hopes of furthering their own careers. michael cohen began working there in 2006. he wasn t an attorney in any of the usual ways, he was a fixer, he solved problems for trump. if there s somebody inside the trump administration who knows where the skeletons are, it s jason greenblatt.