the other thing i ve been told by every guy that goes there. be careful. you know your room is being bugged. so everything that you hear about this, i ve heard from every businessman, every welalty guy that s ever gone over there. once again, you put trump in there. the specific thing here, it s a classic trump thing. in theory, we don t know what communication donald trump may or may not have had with vladimir putin in the past. literally, we have no idea. but the public record suggests that the one time that trump had ever spoken to putin was right after the election. so the notion that putin calls trump on the first call after to congratulate him on winning the presidency and starts talking to him privately about how beautiful the hookers are seems like it kind of stretches the begg beggar s belief. donald trump being donald trump saw this television interview and did what donald trump has done in the past which is to turn a public thing into a private thing. for the fact and fant
i think they ll look for other ways to go off rosenstein. it is clear from the reporting, including this morning from axios, that rosenstein s still very much in the white house s sights. one thing that i ve noticed about the comey memos that we haven t discussed is the way the president several times talks about being under a cloud because of the russia investigation. uses that phrase. i m just sure that we re going to hear that again in these coming weeks as rudy giuliani tries to negotiate in his words an end to the investigation as trump goes to meet with kim jong-un, the leader of north korea, goes if to other sensitive negotiations. and he is going to make that same argument, i am under a cloud, i am trying to do the nation s business but i can t. so i think as far back as the first weeks of his presidency he was sounding that theme. we ll hear a lot more about it. i want to just go back to one thing we went quickly past the trump tweet this morning, this recent tweet where h
understand the new media environment. under social media and the art of the deep tease and say, screw it. i don t care about all your niceties and traditions and established norms. i m going to play this game in a different way and it s the first person who has met trump on that playing field and has made him an incredibly powerful opponent to the president. he said on this show a couple days ago, the biggest surprise for him has been how weak the president s defense team has been. he thought he was going to be up against murderer s row. he said this is pretty easy for me. trump s management style is pure cronyism. the kind of people trump needs now, he doesn t know personally but he s not going to bring them in. you see goldberg and giuliani and this rogue s gallery of people he knows and that s why he hours a them. that s not going to be the best people. what rod rosenstein reportedly told the president that may have saved his job, for now. we re back in a moment.
with trump, if you are an investigator and you are looking at this thing and you are looking at these comey memos, there s a tell in there. and the tell is that trump is upset with flynn because flynn did not tell him on time return the call. that s the tell. what makes him mad is when he s afraid he s going to make putin mad. what nikki haley is in right noufr now, a sea of pain is because putin got mad. any action or statement that may anger vladimir putin undoes the president. an entirely new euphemism from vladimir putin this morning. girls of reduced social responsibility. you don t think that about me, do you? donny is the table expert on girls of reduced social responsibility. i ll cut this off and continue this on the other side of the break. president trump reacted to news the comey memos have been
be more incriminating, perhaps circumstantial evidence, that the president has never had any interest in understanding russia s attack on our democracy in 2016. i don t know that it incriminates trump further, nicolle, but it is an amazing snapshot of the new president talking with the head of counterintelligence investigations in effect against russia and all other foreign countries. and he asks absolutely none of the questions that you d expect a new president with very little experience to ask. the flow of conversations is about often petty things. almost random conversation. and then as we ve all been saying, this repeated mention of what happened in the moscow hotel room allegedly with prostitutes. i found myself wondering if donald trump was ready to ask the fbi director to if he could deal with that, take care of that and got no response. i wondered if the president