lemings behind a guy whose approval rating is about 40% on an issue where 75% of americans oppose the president? 75% of americans don t want the government shutdown for his so-called phony wall. what what comes next? at what point does mitch mcconnell say, hey you know what, maybe we don t want to lose ten senate seats in 2020. maybe i don t want to have to retire in 2022 early because i don t want to be minority leader for the rest of my life. when does that happen, john? it s got to happen soon or this republican party is reduced to dust. right. well, let s be clear. the question you re asking illustrates the fact that the republican party at the e intellectual moral level has already been reduced to dust.
you were talking about this kind of action that trump is holding hostages basically he reminds me of a guy who says you have a nice little form here, it would be a shame if you had a fire. you ve got a nice little business here, a shame if you put it out of business. you said this kind of thing is the framers were concerned about, you invoked the word tyranny. you re not nancy pelosi, you re not a california liberal, you re an independent senator from maine tocaucuses with democrats. is nancy pelosi correct that this is a moral issue? i don t understand her saying that it s immoral. i didn t get that. i don t see it that way. i think it doesn t make sense, it s uneconomic, there are lots of places where we don t need a big wall. there are all kinds of problems with it. what i m talking about, though,
room. he looked the at david pecker and said what can you do? how can you help my campaign? we know he made an illegal contribution. the approximated says he doesn t think he ever reimbursed ami and he didn t. but that isn t the issue. the issue, the president helped hatch in this conspiracy from the beginning and now the two other people in this room are both cooperating witnesses for the government. so you have both of the people in the middle of this conspiracy from the beginning who are now telling the government everything that happened and everything the president said. so president trump responded to his former lawyer s sentencing yesterday rejecting michael cohen s claim that it was his duty to cover up, quote, dirty deeds. the president claimed that prosecutors have a plot to get him by charging cohen with campaign finance violations.
in national security and not in the white house and believes that the person will likely out themselves. this is her sentiment. i m not interested in investigating. those who are investigating, great. i hope they find the person. i believe the person will sus himself or herself out though. because that s usually what happens. people brag to the wrong person. they brag that they did this or they did that because i assume part of this isn t the goal here not what the op-ed pretends the goal is, isn t the goal here really to sow chaos and get us all suspicious of each other? is that what s happening, getting suspicious of each other? if the person announces themselves, if they brag or if someone is to find that person out, isn t the issue or unissue is there s some real common denominator to the sentiment in the op-ed? you see it in books. in bob woodward s book that is
recording and that it a lousy ear is what i would say. and that it may have been done because it s very clipped at the end. you hear check and then that isn t the issue. the word is, who said the word cash. in what context, lanny? not context. i m talking about the word. he said cohen used the word cash. the tape has trump using the word cash. giuliani said something false on behalf of a client who is accustomed constantly to lying, and this is just another i saw it reported by nbc that giuliani had suggested that it was cohen who wanted to pay cash. however, in his own statements, which we can put up for you there we have pulled a couple of them. this is the transcript of what team trump says is said on the tape. don t pay with cash. check. you can decide for yourself when you listen to this. look that s comical. that s not what the tape says. i get what your argument is. mr. and mrs. trump america, listen to the tape. i know you don t believe fake news. do