people s equities are not aligned here. and trump can deliver as many votes as he needs in the senate. if pelosi and schumer can find a way to get the president involved, their leverage goes way up. i see chinese food and ice cream in the future, joe. what? chinese food and ice cream. i see it in the future. new year s prediction. let s move on to rudy giuliani. he s given this eyebrow raising, interesting interview to new york magazine. the reporter olivia newtsy. they went and drank bloody marys. this was december 8th, the day he returned from ukraine. everybody wanted to know what was he doing there this time around. she also asked him about his relationship with lev parnas and igor fruman. they look like miami people. i know a lot of miami people that look like that and are
came out that was written by maggie haberman just the day before and talked about the pivot pivotal, crucial role he played in the endorsement of bloomberg following rudy giuliani and now compare that to this train wreck of an interview. beautifully written by olivia, but it s kind of a really sad fall from grace. bianna, dana, thanks for joining us. joe, stick around. merry christmas. merry christmas, happy hanukkah to all. republicans in congress are holding the line, defending president trump s dealing with ukraine. a high-ranking republican lies and several times in just seconds to make his case. we re going to dig into that. we discuss, next. everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. expedia.
executives in trump tower at some peril. i can imagine ron agraph going in and testifying or weisselberg. this is not a good thing for anybody in the trump orbit. and it revives this whole smarmy element of trump s background with national enquirer, payoffs to women. this from a man who said he could do anything he wanted to women and get away with it. well, apparently he can t. olivia, will the president use this investigation politically as a way to rile up the base? his attorneys are saying that, it s a political hit job. right? right, yeah, if history is has told us anything, he will use anything that he can to try to rile up his base, and like i said, to try and claim victimhood. he, whether it s with the press or with robert mueller. he likes to do it, he does it consistently: he likes to have an enemy. i think he feels energized when he has someone that he feels like he is fighting against.
as part of hush money payment to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. the da wants to look at communication between the trump organization and representatives for the two women. joining me to discuss, john dean, olivia newtsy and michael d antonio. michael is the author of the truth about trump. good evening to you all. what is the da looking for, john? it s not clear, other than he may suspect that the records of the company have not been properly kept as a result of the payment. and that s the point that michael cohen made when he was testifying before the house. he said that he was paid by the organization by weisselberg and either don jr. or eric. he was not sure which signature was on the check. and so, that s what obviously they are looking at, how was that accounted for. this all comes after federal prosecutors announced a few weeks ago they had closed the investigation in to the same payments. why would state prosecutors now
doing his job, he is a horrible person who is on a political vendetta. there s politics involved with this, for sure. and they will fight it politically as well as legally. olivia, i think in the introduction, i said good evening gentlemen, it s been a long week. lady and gentlemen. thanks for bringing it up again, don. is this investigation politically motived? let s not forget, michael cohen is sitting in prison right now as a result of his role in this transaction. i was going to reach out to him for comment and i remembered that i was in prison and i could not do that. i don t think that we could say it s politically motivated. that is what the attorney for the trump organization is saying. i think he called it a political hit job. and that is certainly what the president will say, if this comes up for if he brings it up in front of the press or his supporters in the coming weeks and months. but as we go into 2020, every little development, any subpoena, anything that looks