down. i m joined by gwenda blair. she wrote the book donald the candida candidate. i don t know where to begin, so go. that tape makes donald trump sound like mother theresa. and it makes clear that michael cohen was never his attorney, he was his fixer. in that tape it says you cannot rape your spouse, which is incorrect. so he doesn t understand the law and he s also not speaking in legal speak, he s speaking in threat. he doesn t sound like a lawyer, he sounds like a mobster. sounds like, is, don t know. i think everything goes back you know what? and we re done.
another day, another slew of trump tweets, another falsehood. there is this chorus of critics screaming this is not normal. i wanted to take a moment to step back and dissect what the president is really saying here and why it matters to all of us. today the president has said the special counsel is rigged, he accused the justice department and fbi of meddling in the mid terms, called for a federal very long of his opponents and claims the justice department attorneys are pushing a plolitical agenda. this should not be normalized. it s a political effort to sway the court of public opinion. let s go now to trump biographer. she recently called the president the blame shifter in chief. gwenda, nice to have you on.
facts, the accountability and cause and effect. that language is very hard to catch up to the language of cable. it s two different communication systems and trump is really good at the cable one. gwenda blair, thank you so very much. my pleasure. on the same day that abc takes a stand on racism by cancelling roseanne, starbucks is closing 8,000 stores today to train on recognizing bias. is that enough, how effective it will be?
this is the guy from the access hollywood tapes. i mean, he s he just blew that off as locker room talk. he ll blow this off as in fact, his press secretary, press spokeswoman, sara sanders already did it for him. if you think that, your mind must be in the gutter. well, that s the response. he didn t mean it. you think that, it s on you. gwenda blair, thank you. good to see you. we ll be right back. nice to see you. a flare may weigh on your mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. that s how i thought it had to be. but then i talked to my doctor about humira, and learned humira can help get and keep uc under control.
and even during the week we heard a lot of his advocates on cnn in particular talk about how all power should ultimately reside in him, even as they were discussing the fbi and the justice department, which by design operate independent of the interference of the president in criminal matters. so i think there is this ambition to be in controlling of everything. and he may be asserting this sense of it s all about me because he s not quite in control, especially where robert mueller is concerned. michael, michael, gwenda, thank you very much. i appreciate it. fascinating conversation. thank you. we have some breaking news about new documents released tonight about john f. kennedy s asaturation including a secret fbi file about martin luther king jr. the 20-page document, part of the fbi s attempt to dig up dirt on dr. king, attempted to tie