of trump s attacks when he came after the nfl players for kneeling in protest of racial injustice during the national anthem. what was that experience like? what do you think jeff bezos is going through right now? what advice would you offer considering what margaret just said? i think the difference here is he is going after a company. he is going after bezos. bezos is a big boy and can take the presidential criticism. he has $100 billion in the bank. that will help him through this difficult time. i think the difference with the nfl was the president was going after the entire workforce of the nfl, the players, the the guys on the field. and it was, you know, at best it was racially insensitive. at worst it was something worse. so i think for the nfl s from the nfl perspective we really had to stand up and say that it was wrong. we did that.
and it actually did. oh, it did. you agree with that, guy? no, i think it s getting worse for manafort. i think that mueller and his team are now as a result of the rosenstein memo are probably unleashing dozens and dozens of new subpoenas. you know, once an indictment it returned you can still use the grand jury to investigate new 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 kazakhstan and russia. what does that tell you. that they are investigating two things possibly. one is sort of ala manafort.
the saga of the president and the porn star. president trump for the first time breaking his silence about stormy daniels. denying he knew about the hush money payment as he spoke to reporters and air force one. mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? then why did michael cohen make this. you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney and you ll have to ask michael cohen. down where he got the money. no, i don t know. the porn star attorney doubling down dwulk down tp saying we look forward to testing the truthfulness of mr. president trump s feigned lack of knowledge of the payment. let s discuss now arriva martin is here. she is a cnn legal analyst and the author of the best seller make it rain. also cnn legal analyst mark garragos. good evening to both of you.
personal interests not so with you as your self-adooration is disgraceful. what s your reaction to that dpirl. you can t fault john for being too subtle. this is i ve said this before about the way i think putin approaches our president right now. and as a trained experienced kgb 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.
and the question is is whether he wins or whether he decides to fold. right and remember. i just made a gambling allusion which i don t gamble. remember, don, he just had a very bad day in court the other day on his motion to dismiss the mueller prosecution as being outside of his mandate. what he triggered was the 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.