Reporting that it includes new details about the alleged incident in that moscow hotel room. Comey reveals when the allegations came up, trump told him to consider having the fbi investigate the prostitutes allegation to prove it was a lie. Comey says in an apparent play for my sympathy he added he has a beautiful wife and the whole thing has been very painful for her. He asked what we could do to lift the cloud. In response he writes though i didnt know for sure, i imagine the president ial suite of the ritzcarlton in moscow was large enough for a germ phobe to be at a safe distance from that activity. He offers a portrait of what he calls the forest fire that is the trump presidency. Im joined right now by the Washington Post phil rucker who wrote that the report who has read the book. Also julia ansley, reporter for nbc news, jill winebanks, former watergate prosecutor and legal contributor, robert costa, National Political reporter with the Washington Post and msnbc political analy
this is a basic no-no. it doesn t take a great lawyer. if you re donald trump and you live the lifestyle he apparently leads with a lot of what girlfriends, whatever, fairs, one night, whatever you want to call them, we don t deal on this, and you ve decided to run for president, how do you put them together? you have to have a michael cohen. you need a fixer. what was the guy nixon used to have, they used to have somebody in the clinton campaign? what was that called? bimbo expert. played by kath bates. the bimbo erupter person. you have the guy whose job it is to reconcile donald trump s lifestyle with his campaign for president which requires a lot of fixing. > a lot of fixing. it s not just the stuff we found out about now or it s not just the big stuff. there s a million little things. katie has the perfect example, the perfect metaphor of trying to put your fingers in the dam as everything is breaking. this is an incredible story. people say they like he s