take from that? yeah, so as a prosecutor, it s possible that the president is saying to a witness, a potential witness, stay strong, i have your back. if and only if mr. cohen, you have mine. and that type of conversation particularly happening, you know, in private or well over the airwaves can be awfully troubling to prosecutors. i don t know that that s what the president was saying, but i guess as a prosecutor, i tend to have a suspicious mind and that s what it makes me think of. i do want to ask you about politico s analysis, they say that it could be pretty tricky to potentially get michael cohen to flip. and again, we should be clear that we don t know that it s the intention of the sdny to get cohen to flip. but here s what politico writes, even if cohen is determined to break his confidence with trump legal ethics might deter federal prosecutors from vetting his
post here, but let s build three other posts and we will then have a big house that will cover all of our concerns about iran. i suspect he will also say you have a new secretary of state likely to be confirmed shortly, so why don t you give him some time to work with us. so i think that president macron has given on several issues here, he s saying that the paris climate agreement is not just about france. and we will see if any of those offramps will be taken by the president and see if macron can say that he made progress here. this can also be a north korea issue as well, because if america is seen to be pulling out of the iran deal, what assurance does iran have that any agreements will be honored in the future.
phillip, thanks for being with us, we appreciate it. when macron goes in and meets with the french president, wants him to go back to the paris act koract accord, what is he using to get donald trump to potentially change his mind? it seems that relationship we have now seen over the last 24 hours in fact, they seem to truly get along very well, the french president and the u.s. president, we saw that in mt. vernon yesterday, we also saw that at the white house, but it really is a contrast between how they get along as presidents and the views they actually have, which as you say are completely different from one to the other. and it looks like the french president didn t get all too much out of his meetings at the
wouldn t want this for anybody, he s a good man, he wouldn t want to deal with anybody, it s disgusting, he s ultimately going to make his own decision. reporter: i read that the same way as you, katie. i think we re having an issue with jeff. let s go over to garrett. reporter: we can make this argument that jackson was being unfairly maligned by the press and he made this argument also that democrats were targeting ronnie jackson because they had previously tried to derail the confirmation of the secretary of state. you got the sense that the president was trying to make the case that ronnie jackson was one of the finest men he ever met, but the president was in many ways giving jackson the
from them. mr. mcconnell, did you meet with dr. jackson? so the president says it s dr. jackson s decision, senator mcconnell says it s the white house s decision, they re waiting to hear their queues from the white house. it does sound like they re waiting for jackson to bow out. that this confirmation is not going to go forward, am i right? kevin barron, are you there? executive editor of defense one. i assume the viewers just knew your face and wouldn t actually need an sbintroduction. it s business as usual at the white house, so this nomination is already off the rails before it really began. and, yeah, it sounded today like the president gave him an offramp. but he still wanted him. in the same breath, the president said he wouldn t put himself through the process, but he did, he s the president, he