seems to be from some to michael cohen in toronto. even if that amount of money is right. michael avenatti is not a reporter. he s a lawyer representing stormy daniels who has to appear before wood who might say enough of these reindeer games. tighten up your media game. show me what you re trying to do. daniel goldman is joining us to make sense of it. daniel, this doesn t pass any smell tests whatsoever. it seems unethical. is everything you ve heard illegal, the companies giving michael cohen s company essential consultants money for insight, access. this is how business consultants work. sleazy, but it is. there s not enough information now to determine whether anything is illegal or not. there is a people have called it a loophole. there s a very lenient standard to allow this kind of business
daniels quiet through other means. the restraining order over arbitration that she did not know about. i think stormy daniels and her lawyer are playing the media game. that doesn t mean it s false. we don t know. why is michael cohen, maybe to jeff s point. why is michael cohen so dead set in making sure she doesn t tell her story? the restraining order and all these others. to switch gears, the white house is struggling to explain why the president has backed away from his earlier position torsion purchase certain rifles, you have to be 21 years old.
this home. frustration is mounting here. there are massive, massive lines and people have been sleeping on the ground. many of them uncertain if they will be able to get off this island. bottom line, this is not a time to be pointing fingers, arguing, or playing the tired blame the media game, especially if you are the person in charge of saving lives skp s and rebui them. speaking of tweets, they never go away, yes, with especially when you are the president of the united states. the president deleted these tweets on luther strange after strange lost the alabama senate republican primary. as we told you earlier, the loss left the president, with according to a source, quote, pis r pissed and embarrassed and furious. the tweets he got rid of mentioned his support of strange, like this one. luther strange has been shooting up in the alabama polls since my endorsement. cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter is now here. memo to the president, you can delete your tweets, but t
said it s time to get back to business as usual and you said i want to scream at him. business as usual? business as usual? tell that to the mother of 16-year-old georgeiana someone slaughtered her most special thing the tiny baby she carried, birthed, equipped with all the things she could protect her from the world smiling at her loveliness as she became a young woman. you say it s business as usual in the dead never get to carry on as normal. did you go on to say the next time it could be my daughter, my child. why did you write that. i think, yeah, thank you for reading that. that column is daily mail.com. but i feel as a mother and that s really one of the truths i want to tell is i may work in the kind of media game but i am ultimately the mother of two little girls 12 and 11 and boy age 8. i knelt at the end of my bed yesterday morning and i wanted to be ill because of the news that i just heard, you know, and that s throughout the day. we then had little 8-year-old
they told their members the simple message this evening. trump is done. that means this issue that they have campaigned on cycle after cycle, year after year, obamacare repeal is not happening. not just now, not just in a couple weeks, it is not happening, period. and that is a jarring realizati realization, but it s the reality. now with health care off the table, now with the biggest failure by far of this administration sitting plainly in front of them, will they ever figure out a way to get together and work together. we ll see. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. phil mattingly has been all over this story. thanks for the reporting. winds of blame surely are blowing, but bernie sanders is saying washington missed the big picture, the need guaranteed health care for all americans regardless of income. here s what he had to say earlier to anderson cooper. not just a media game. nobody really cares that it s a failure of trump or a failure of