laura bush spent time at the white house and going back to the invitation to see the christmas decorations. the first lady takes the lead in that role. you see efforts from the president and his staff and his wife to make this work. president trump has shown even though he certainly can hold a grudge, he can let things go, especially if someone is being gracious to him and maybe being complimentary to him. by having him involved and making sure he is invited and making sure he is welcome, he has been known to kind of be able to change on a dime to go from even in foreign politics, going from calling someone rocket man to saying we are in love with kim jong un. he has shown he can change quickly if you are nice him. for the white house, i had a senator pull me aside and say explicitly, don t make this about him. don t make it about the current
thread the needle on this. get a lease to going back to doing a great job. we put her in charge of recruiting. she said she doesn t want to do that. i know. i m obviously a big fan of elisa. she is one of the most talented members of congress we have. she is a big part of the future. that washed against us like they did against the democrats in 2010. those things happen. don t give up r, and this is different. this is something they will have to deal with. how do you respond to the demographics and not having so few women in the year of the woman? yes, a lot of republicans lost, but where are the women candidates and the republican
question. was there a deal with the russians? you watch the pieces come together and you mention the president s anger. he said that michael cohen is lying and he s weak because he s talking and said roger stone is brave because he is allegedly part of the wikileaks conspiracy. was he talking to wikileaks or the trump campaign? listen to an official saying the president is trying to put his thumb on the scale. he didn t order stone not to testify. he didn t have to do that. he said don t cooperate and effectively you are going to get out of jail free. if you do, i m going to tell everyone to throw the book at you. the mob does it with violence and he s doing it with pardons and law enforcement apparatus. the white house said the president is speaking his mind. you are the chief law enforcement officer and you are supposed to know these things. all of this talk about roger stone and what he knows and the
president is saying that he s got guts because he is not cooperating with the special counsel and said he won t testify against the president, but it wasn t that long ago the president said the same about michael cohen. he talked about flipping and something he believes should be illegal. he said i m sorry, i don t see michael doing that. he sat with the team for 70 hours. that s what unnerved the president because they were so close and michael cohen did know so much. the president said he is lying and making it up. that is to be determined. the special counsel knows they will question michael cohen s credibility. the special counsel said a minimum, but he has e-mails to back it up. that gets the attention of judge napolitano. normally a network where you hear the echoes of the president that this is a witch hunt and there is nothing here. he understands the law and says
you heard michael cohen s attorney defend his client s credibility in defense of allegations he made in court is not to be trusted and he said mr. cohen did not have information that candidate trum health care plan pri trump had prior knowledge of the e-mails before the elections and he has information that may be useful to mueller s investigation. what mr. cohen said set off tremors in washington, triggering an eruption from the president about a man he thought was a standup guy. michael is a businessman for his own account lawyer i liked and respected. most people flip in the government lets them out of trouble even if it means lying or making up stories. i don t see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and dishonest media. joining us is allen dershowitz, also, his law school student, cnn s chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. i want to go back to this thing