And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this afternoons joint Press Conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. I havent heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, hes one of the finest people that i have met. Admiral jackson, dr. Jackson, hes a wonderful man. I said to him, what are you needed for . And as far as experience is concerned, the Veterans Administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest Hospital System in the world that is small
but jason greenblatt would have more cover than michael kon does if he was acting as an advisor or a fixer, right, chuck? one more way to think of it, i think the factual contours that he lays out are really important. but prosecutors don t really set out to get anybody, what they want from cohn is the truth and they re going to take that truth wherever it leads, it may lead to the president, it may not lead to the president, it may lead to other people, we don t know sitting here. but i don t like the characterization of prosecutors setting out to get somebody. at least good prosecutors don t think that way. i think it s always important to remember that the prosecution here, the sdny could solely be going after something that michael cohen did alone, with no real intention of trying to get him to turn on the president of the united states. there s got to be reason why this is with sdny and not with robert mueller. gentlemen, thank you very much.
it s a little bit overwrought. quote, cohen isn t the biggest catch from the trump world, other players know far more about the president s dealings than his lawyer does. this is what you wrote on bloomberg view. who were you talking about? i was talking about jason greens abo gre greenb greenblatt who is president trump s white house attorney. people attach their stars to the president s wagon in the hopes of furthering their own careers. michael cohen began working there in 2006. he wasn t an attorney in any of the usual ways, he was a fixer, he solved problems for trump. if there s somebody inside the trump administration who knows where the skeletons are, it s jason greenblatt.