like this? you put out a tape of your client. you then may believe it says something it doesn t say. there were three other versions of this before he got to this one that were even worse. the transcript, if you have the patience to analyze it, and now he is saying give the ball to my client. laura: i don t mean to harp on the clinton connection here but it is interesting that cohen chooses the longtime confidant, booster, defender of the clintons. after everything that happened during the campaign, to represent him. you know how this deal goes. it was cohen trying to send some kind of message to the president? look out, here we come? you better watch out? it s an odd choice of lawyer in my view.
mormonism thinks their way is the way to god. and islam believes the same thing. so these pastors were expressive to their faith. i know both of them and i don t think they were trying to say anything denigrating about any religion. mark, what about that? it is their faith. it is their belief. they are entitled to their belief, but it is an odd choice to go to israel to stand in jerusalem and introduce a preacher and have him give words who says jews are going to hell and muslims are going to hell. in an area. there is a religious tension there and you stand in front of these people and say hey, these people are going to hell.
it is something that the pastor jeffress and hagge, it is their faith. it is their belief. they are entitled to their belief, but it is an odd choice to go to israel to stand in jerusalem and introduce a preacher and have him give words who says jews are going to hell and muslims are going to hell. in an area and a region where religious difference is being pushed by netanyahu and donald trump as the primary reason for this conflict. i would disagree. there is a religious tension there and you stand in front of these people and say hey, these people are going to hell. can you imagine if farrakhan had said jews were going to hell? donald trump would be leading the march on twitter to have him denounced. or jeremiah wright had gone there. he s able to bring in a base that s anti-symmetrical on the one hand and anti-zionist on the
would not have returned the name of this 37-year-old in the real estate business in new york. it just wouldn t have. having said that, this story adds to his troubles, certainly, and will probably add to the people questioning his viability and his job. there s no question, brian. i would say, in particular, to the degree that he has assumed a large foreign policy portfolio, he s all the more unqualified, frankly. and an odd choice for the role he has in the white house. his defenders will say he has the trust of the president and that s very important in diplomacy. there is something to be said for that. but generally speaking, this is somebody who knows very little about how national security and foreign policy works. people spend a looimp lifetime getting up to speed on she
estate business in new york. it just wouldn t have. having said that, this story adds to his troubles, certainly, and will probably add to the people questioning his viability and his job. there s no question, brian. i would say, in particular, to the degree that he has assumed a large foreign policy portfolio, he s all the more unqualified, frankly. and an odd choice for the role he has in the white house. his defenders will say he has the trust of the president and that s very important in diplomacy. there is something to be said for that. but generally speaking, this is somebody who knows very little about how national security and foreign policy works. people spend a life time getting up to speed on these issues. and it raises real problems. and as the washington post reported in their excellent story last night, officials in several major foreign governments were talking about the fact that they saw kushner as naive and inexperienced.