get favorable treatment, have access, that will be what this investigation will be looking at. it s not unforseen, not unpredictable that will happen. that is the bread and butter of prosecutors doing corruption cases. there s another side of this legal coin. one side is you need to hire me in order to get benefits. the other side, which is the old mafia version of it, you need to hire me to prevent this president from doing serious damage to you. i will get this president not to do damage to you. i don t know this for a fact but based on the way i know michael cohen and the way he s conducted himself, there s little down in my mind probably both messages were delivered. let me say this, i seriously doubt at the end of this, there s going to be any doubt as to whether mr. trump knew what was going on here. because otherwise, michael cohen
out there and apologize to senator mccain and his family is an unwinding of his moral authority, the authority you should have as white house chief of staff that donald trump has done that to him is a horrible thing and that john kelly has accepted it is an equally horrible thing. it s a disgrace to see. john kelly will continue to go to work tomorrow and work side by side with kelly sadler. coming up, some members of team trump are getting very worried about team pence.
tonight s last word is from last night s episode of john heilemann s show, the circus, on showtime. i stop predicting what happens in a world where donald trump s a factor. and the only similar sensation that we ve ever felt to this were the final two years of the nixon presidency, which ended the way it ended. there s never been anything else that feels like that. but nixon was a rational man compared to trump, and therefore to a certain extent, predictable. this is completely unpredictable, and everyone who issues predictions in this thing is faking it. the circus gets tonight s last word. one of the writers of a new
because otherwise, michael cohen would have had to string these clients along, month in, month out, relating to what he was telling the president, communications with the president, at some point these clients that retained him had to ask him, did you run it by the president? what did the president say? when do we get to meet the president? when do we have lunch with the president? what s the president s position? that had to occur at some point in this process. unless michael cohen is lying to the clients paying him all this money, the president had to know that michael cohen was carrying the water for some of these folks. john, the chances of michael cohen lying to the clients also seem to have a high possibility, one of the the washington journal reports talk how unhappy michael cohen was about his lack of relationship with the president when donald trump was in the white house. one of the fundamental realties of michael cohen is if you go back to the period when
sacrifice, respect john mccain, so he must either feel as though he s given up on trying to contain some of the excess in the white house or he feels cowed by president trump who he s afraid if he were to order the person who committed this sin to atone that somehow he would face the wrath of the president for allowing anybody in the white house to apologize for anything. so either one, either he s given up sor he s afraid of donald trump, neither is a good look. your reaction to the former marine general, working in the white house, being absolutely silent on this comment about john mccain. it s sad. there s no other way to describe it. john kelly had great service to the country, paid the highest sacrifice in the loss of his son, and a dedicated military man and someone with that kind of record not to have the authority or the will or whatever he s been deprived to