me. well, the projection, we can leave that to psychologists but clearly joe biden is in the president s head. he s in it for the polling, because this is a president who reacts to what he s seeing in the news. he s seeing a lot of coverage of joe biden and hypothetical matchups. the fact is joe biden is not the only person those quinnipiac polls show beating trump in head-to-head matchups. there are six democrats who would gebeat him in nationwide head 20 head. biden wants that, the surest nominee, surest chance for democrats to beat donald trump. he wants to be above the democratic fray. you see how easy it is for him sort of goad trump into solidifying that for folks. the biden campaign releases excerpts of the speech talking about the president as an existential crisis. a couple hours later, just like that, there s the president on
officer what he looks for is ways to influence and coopt, the way he found to do that with president trump is his ego. and i think, you know, john has a point here, that as long as there is add las vegas of president trump and those who add late him are people he likes, to include putin and that in itself is not not in my view not a good characteristic or attribute of the president president of the united states i have to ask you before you go i m out of time. you work for multiple presidents. do you respect the president the way he is leading? well. well that s a tough one for me. my father was a career army officers pb world in world war ii, vietnam korea. i served 34 years in the military. it s almost a part of my very being to be respectful of the president, particularly in the role as commander in chief. this president makes that tough.
charges. and i think that s what s going on here. these prosecutors know how to follow money. they know how to trace funds. and i think that s what what they re doing. michael i have a question for you. we reported that mueller is looking into trump s businesses. but tonight mclatchy is reporting that investigators are interested in michael cohen s role in business deals with the trump organization in georgia, kazakhstan and russia. what does that tell you? that they are investigating two things possibly. one is sort of ala manafort. independent financial crime by the trump organization. remember, manafort in some respects engaged in money laundering and tax evasion and failed to register as a foreign agent untethered to the collusion investigation
release of that august 2nd mandate letter which said exactly mueller is doing what rosenstein asked him to do. i think his case now is going to be a jury trial. and his hopes of a dismissal are vanished. so now he has to make the tough decision whether to cooperate or not. i appreciate the input. thank you so much. when we come back we ll dig into the real reason behind president trump s repeated attacks on amazon.
that s how you feel in a situation like this. i wasn t surprised, don. for me it was a question of when, not if. trump can t keep quiet about anything. stormy daniels lawyer has been brilliant about using the media, the cable shows trump watches religiously to goad trump. and the president can t go a day without counterpunching, as the team likes to say. the fact he went this long he should be given credit for that because it s very strange to me he didn t come out on day one, particularly after the 60 minutes interview when stormy said the sex wasn t good. i thought trump would lose it and we would see him tweeting up a storm. and he held his composure and didn t say anything then. i have a theory about this. my theory is that originally when he heard he was not a