something as he heads into retirement. i just want to say before you go, just remind you go ahead, neal. i was just going to say, you know, i don t think this is really about senator orrin hatch. this is about donald trump. he is our nation s chief law enforcement officer. he takes an oath to uphold the constitution. he s the one the world looks to for leadership, for compliance with our most basic values, and this is what he s doing. this is not the way any president should behave. i m out of time but i want to remind folks, you mentioned earlier what you did with kellyanne conway s husband, george conway. you recently co-authored an op-ed responding to trump blaming democrats. you said, no, the criminal campaign finance violations were found by professional prosecutors in republican this is george conway writing this, in a republican controlled united states department of justice. it looks like a pretty good case. kudos to them. again, george conway, a republican and also k
criminal activity, accusing him as a candidate for office of directing his former personal lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, to pay hush money, to buy the silence of two women who claim to have had affairs with trump. prosecutors writing in the cohen document this. as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual-1. you know who prosecutors say is individual-1? they identify him as donald trump. the president lashing out at the accusations this morning in a tweet, misspelling by the way the word smoking. here s what he writes. he says, democrats can t find a smocking gun tying the trump campaign to russia after james comey s testimony. no smocking gun. no collusion. that s because there was no collusion. so now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,
not actual fake news. or when people catch me in a lie. i just want to play this is the president back in march, by the way. let s play this. so many people want to come in. i have the choice of anybody. i could take any position in the white house and i ll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position. everybody wants to be there. now we know that s really not the case, is it? no. it s definitely not the case. and i think you have to ask why does nobody want to work in this white house. and the fact of the matter is it s an incredibly chaotic place. it s a place where the president doesn t really want to have things under control but you do need to have somebody there to manage the staff. but once you take a job in this white house, very few people actually, if they can even do the job while they re there, by the time they leave they ve had their reputation completely destroyed. look at what s happened to john kelly right now. he s been humiliated rathe
that s up to you. a lot of pressure, but all of this will come down to you. this is not going to be about a criminal prosecution. i don t see it. if i m wrong, i ll be the first one to admit it. but impeachment is about an echo effect of the public sentiment on the same. there will be polls. there will be reporting. there will be chances for you to be heard on this. that s what will drive what happens next. thank you for watching us tonight. happy monday. so much news. let me get you right to don. cnn tonight starts now. he lied about the lies he lied about. he s like, let me tell you why i lied, and even in those statements, there is some factual errors in the statement as well. to me, i think it has been sort of accepted that this president lies and normalized in a way, and that is bothersome no matter who the president is. but that s just bothersome to me
i don t know why i hate that word. i have such an aversion to that word. said that ayers said no. right? and so he has no plan b. this is a testament to how chaotic this white house is. yeah. i actually think a lot of times when you hear officials quoted on background, senior administration official and they pooh-pooh something that then happens, i actually don t think that they re lying or trying to mislead. i think it is the nature of this white house that he, donald trump, changes his mind very quickly. often i would say in reaction to press coverage. and therefore this move, he will move on to something else and say this was always the plan. but make no mistake. on sunday night, this time yesterday, don, nick ayers was likely to be the guy. he takes himself out in a big surprise. it doesn t play out the way trump wants. the narrative is this guy walked away from me. he doesn t like that. that makes him mad. he ll move on to the next person. and as he tweeted out last night, this