public why is it that if he did nothing wrong he does not feel comfortable answering questions about it. well, we can already hear that answer. his answer would be in that case you can t trust these people. yes, i guess i guess the counter to that would be the president has allowed and encouraged all of his white house officials, the folks closest to him, nearly all them, to go in and speak with mueller. he has encouraged that. he has told them to do that. he could have stopped it. he could have created impediments there. why is it he allowed them but didn t do it himself? jonathan, you also reported on negotiations today. trump appeared to believe he is the guy who can sway bob mueller. is this all about what you say is this rage he has over what he sees as both the government and the media trying to undermine him? yes, i want to piggy back on michael s very good point there. the president believes that he can go in there and clear his
the campaign. if mueller is going to complete his investigation he needs to talk to cohen. does cohen go to prosecutors in new york or go to mueller saying look, i ll willing to make a deal, settle this do it all together and make a global cooperation deal with the judge is department. that s the question we have to see. emily jane fox, as we wrap up here, your sense of what michael cohen s team wants now. jonathan lamere s reporting that giuliani said there s 12 other tapes that they re reviewing, trying to decide whether to waive privilege on those tapes. is that something that team cohen wants out in the open? i think there is going to be a calculated strategy what serves michael cohen best going forward. whether that means withholding some things so he has cards to show investigators. if he does decide to cooperate, or if there is going to be more of this kind of drip, drip, drip leaking, then perhaps it serves
the members of the white house themselves are still trying to figure out exactly what president trump may have agreed to. we re relying on what the russians are telling us. i think there s been a lot of pushback from republicans, those, mostly those not facing re-election this fall, who feel this was a mistake. the president has given too much. changed the party. we saw the reaction on fox news which we never see to something the president does. the president, though, is telling people they wants jonathan, fox news, jonathan, you have the new york post. yep. being critical. talking about his see no evil diplomacy. you had the wall street journal. again, how remarkable that the wall street journal said we need a containment policy. they re correct. congress needs a containment policy not only for vladimir putin but also for donald trump. you had a lot of very conservative voices coming out, being very critical of the president, and yet here s the
watch this clip. it would be a sight to behold. a question i want to ask jonathan lamere along the same line that katty and swan were talking about a second ago. that was what struck me. in my mind the way it played out, the substance of distancing that coats was doing from trump was the thing that enraged trump first. trump then goes to my little scenario for how this played out. trump then goes to sarah sanders and says, let s get this tweet out saying that putin s coming in the fall. to tweet coats while still live onstage. he tweets coats and coats starts in that way that you saw in the clip. kind of laughing and kind of laughing at trump. the tonal thing of him saying, okay. oh, boy. that, then, further the cycle of thin-skinned rage is all spun up by this and now they are angry at him for seeming to mock trump with his laughter in front of this crowd of elites in aspen. whether that s the actual
we ve talked about this, john, for quite some time. republicans being too cowardly to stand up on the hill for donald trump. republicans in his administration biting their tongue when they should be speaking out. would you say this is a weak, at least, attached to this one event, maybe not maybe it won t happen to other events, but this was the one week that a good bit of the republican and conservative leadership in washington, d.c. thought leaders, and political leaders did stand up and speak out against donald trump? certainly it s just impurically, it was greater in number and there was more of it than we ve ever seen before on almost anything else. i think it s even more than there was. jonathan lamere mentioned charlottesville, one outstanding xavrm example, more this week. more than that, though, the sight of dni coats yesterday