out, with the russia investigation. we knew a lot of the things, the big ticket items that were in there, but we learned things like the president gave comey a chronology of his time in russia in 2013, the period of time when the russian when the dossier says the russians have this tape of trump with these prostitutes. he s saying that he went through a chronology at least twice with him about it. that s an entirely new thing we didn t know anything about. we knew about the president s comments to comey that he said putin had talked to him about prostitutes there. it s those kind of details, those new, revealing things that i can t imagine are helpful for the president. natasha, let me ask you. there s something about these memos. you read them last night when they first came out. and the first thing you were struck by, there s not a whole lot of news in them. we ll talk about some of it. but by and large, they are consistent with things that comey has already said publicly, either
life. do you think this is also cohen sending a message possibly to his former boss which is, hey, don t count on me. now, pardon, that would be a different story. i totally agree. the gravity of the cohen thing has been under reported for the beginning. they re not really separate. it s all one big investigation. when you get a magistrate s warrant to do a no-knock search, raid on the president s personal lawyer, given. the sensitivity of that, they had reason to believe there s criminal activity. and if there s illegal activity that cohen s gauged in, you would have to think it might have to do with his employer. so cohen is more important than comey, kocomey is more importan than stormy daniels.
went down. and it did not go well for the goals of intelligence agency. let s just say it didn t happen and trump really wants to say, you know what, mr. director, mr. comey, let s get the people who were with me in moscow. i ll bring them into the white house on monday. we ll do it somewhere off grounds and you can talk to each of them. we ll go hour through hour in my time in russia and i can prove it didn t happen. that s what you would do as a normal matter. instead, he s sort of testing comey to see what comey knows, but doesn t seem to be offering to help in disproving this thing. which of course he could do. i would dispute that as well, slightly. he also raises another very odd idea, which is to prove the negative. maybe you could run this down skpre and investigate it. comey says, we don t necessarily want to go down that road. there is a lot there that is weird. i know you think i m pouring cold water on the story. i like it when you re defending donald trump. it s a
ever hookers, even if he s denying the allegations of golden showers or taking part in those activities. the fact that he speaks about them so freely and comes back to them over and over again with comey, and now that we know certain things that are now part of the public record, things related to, for example, the stormy daniels case. what kind of a picture does one take away from all of that about whether or not we should have some reason to they maybe some of the most salacious claims of the dossier kind of have the kind of whiff of truth? yeah, you know, i don t know about engaging in these acts themselves. you know, people can judge for themselves whether people think it s immoral or those kinds of things, but the danger of engaging in these kind of acts is it leaves the president susceptible to blackmail. and that s something that should be very concerning, if any of these things are true, whether it s the government of russia or someone like stormy daniels. anyone who has that
with comey, one on one, during the dinner, he tells comey that priebus does not know the white house chief of staff, reince priebus at the time, does not know that they re having dinner. and trump tells him to tell priebus about it. and then as they re leaving the green room in the white house, where they ve had dinner, they re walking out, trump says, oh, yeah, yeah, priebus knows we re having dinner together. now, did trump misremember or was trump lying or was he trolling comey? there s a lot of things like that that the president does, where he just bounces around from fact to fiction, and it s hard to tell where his head really is. barbara, i want to ask you, bring you into this, into this topic. you think about it s not really a strictly a legal matter, although it touches on some legal matters. but when you have the president, there are salacious claims in the dossier. off president who is speaking freely about related matters. he s speaking about prostitutes, even if he s