and i want is now just become a personality tit for tat. and you re right. that s donald trump s comfort zone. the problem is nancy pelosi has generally had the upper hand because the president does personally like her, and he has been sort of confounded on how to deal with her. and i think when you get into the just throwing mud portion of our program, he s generally going to win that. so i just i m not sure where we go from here. there is also 800,000 people that s what i mean. we ve gotten away from the high ground about what is actually the impact of this shutdown and now it just looks like a tit for tat. admiral kirby, even if there was a way for senator pelosi to get on a flight to afghanistan, i guess for a security point the president has blown her cover. she is second in line to the presidency. she would have to have protective detail to say the least in afghanistan, a very large one, nothing to say of the military presence. so look, there is two things. yes, she c
right before they were about to leave. but it is all personal with this president. it s mostly personal. or at least it s about, look, this the last 48 hours has taken this away from being about how do we get the government reopened and how do we get to a deal, either from the president s perspective on a wall and from the democrats perspective on doing something that they would reopening the government or then getting something in exchange for that. some kind of border security money. and i want is now just become a personality tit for tat. and you re right. that s donald trump s comfort zone. the problem is nancy pelosi has generally had the upper hand because the president does personally like her, and he has been sort of confounded on how to deal with her. and i think when you get into the just throwing mud portion of our program, he s generally going to win that. so i just i m not sure where we go from here. there is also 800,000 people that s what i mean. we ve g
conspiracy point that jim mentioned earlier, the entire special counsel s theory of the case is that the russian influence effort was to was conspiracy to defraud the united states. and so anything that falls under the russian influence activities, that campaign personnel including the president may have been involved in would fall under that broad umbrella. carrie cordero, i appreciate it as well, jim schultz, robby mook. there is new reporting that donald trump claimed over and over the polls were rigged, his fixer was behind the scenes trying to rig polls. michael cohen says he did it as the direction of donald trump. details next. let s see, aleve is proven better on pain
cohen paid about $12,000 or $13,000 cash in a walmart bag and gave him a boxing bag that cohen said was worn by a brazilian mixed martial arts fighter. for some reason. cohen denied the bag thing and said he paid by check. in any event, cohen still owed the guy about $37,000, according to the journal. cohen was reimbursed for the full amount by trump, $50,000, but never paid the company what it was owed. joining me now usa today columnist kirsten powers and max boot, author of the corrosion of conservativism: why i left the right. max, a candidate repeatedly talking about polls as rigged now rigging online polls. i mean, online polls are meaningless. that anyone would take an online poll seriously. but the fact according to this reporting, he is paying for this. right. that s a sign of the fact that donald trump is deeply cynical about politics because he has engaged in deeply cynical manipulations over the years. what this really brings home to me, anderson, is that chris christie
senator hirono, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. okay. sure. two perspectives now on the trump/pelosi standoff and policy implications, what drives the two personalities involved. president trump as you know probably by now has been described as a counterpuncher. as for speaker pelosi, she seems to be renting space inside the president s head at the moment. here to talk about it cnn political analyst maggie haberman and retired navy rear admiral and pentagon spokesperson john kirby. maggie, you certainly covered the pentagon for a long time. does this seem straight out of his playbook? straight out of the new york political playbook. this reminds me of the kind of thing we would have seen mayor rudy giuliani do as opposed to current lawyer to the president rudy giuliani. this is a form of smashmouth politics that donald trump lived in for a long time, if not practicing himself. it was very predictable. the problem is it s different when you re president doing it, an