julie hershfield davis. it was surprising to see the president walk out of the white house last night and say the statement from north korea was nice, we want to talk to them, maybe the summit is back on for june 12th. what s your read? it seems very clear all along that president trump is very eager to have this meeting. but there doesn t seem to be a lot of the ground work laid for the meeting to be a success, which is why we saw the very public breakup yesterday. so, i mean, he still has not given up that instinct of wanting to have the meeting. i think that he very much wants to pursue this to still meet, without clarity on what we re meeting about or whether it will be a success. remember the chance of nobel, nobel in those remarks he gave at a rally last week, nobel peace prize, people are indicating if he could get a deal done. a tweet this morning, julie, from the president s son, don jr., i think we have it, as we
they say he did commit a i understand that. that s why we re here. that s why we re here. people don t get convicted based on accusations. people get convicted only when there is credible evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and in this case, i do not believe that the district attorney has that, nor i do believe that mr. weinstein has intentionally violated the law. thank you very much. the headline out of those statements from harvey weinstein s attorney benjamin brafman is that his client harvey weinstein will plead not guilty on all of the charges against him. let me bring in former u.s. attorney michael moore with me. there is so much to digest here. i will say let s remind people of the charges against harvey weinstein, because his attorney there talked about bad behavior, not being criminal behavior. this is a man, a hollywood mogul, charged with three counts, rape first degree, rape in the third degree, and criminal sexual act in the first degree. he, his line of defense s
industry, that is not what this is about. bad behavior is not on trial in this case. it s only if you intentionally kmil criminal act. and mr. weinstein vigorously denies that. they say that he did commit that. i understand that, that s why we re here. people don t get convicted based on accusations. people get convicted only when there is criminal evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and in this case i do not believe that the district attorney has that, nor do i believe that mr. weinstein has intentionally violated the law. thank you very much. you re saying a seven-month investigation you have been watching beckman brathman now leaving the courtroom in new york city after speaking with requirements after the arraignment of harvey weinstein. his defense, that weinstein didn t invent the casting couch culture in hollywood, that bad behavior is not what s on trial, adding that he s hoping to find a jury who is not as he put it,
message to the young girls who are in that room and watching at home. and to this country. let me just pivot to our panel. michael steele is here. michael, hillary clinton said this consequential election. as a republican, you ve watched this play out. your party now controls the house, the senate and donald trump is yeah, and i hope people don t get you know, enjoy the moment. it s always important. and to get that out of your system when you win, okay? we got that. but we have to realize that this party went through a very, very strong tear at its fabric. you had a lot of leaders in the party, a lot of republicans in the party, not only distance themselves, but refuse to accept the possibility of donald trump as president. now he has got to bring those people into his orbit, into his table. they ve got to figure out how to do that. because now it s time to govern. you have the senate, you have the house and the white house.
better ground game and better data operation because the problem is in the distension that people don t get, the democrats keep building operations for one candidate. we build operations for entire party so that everybody up and down that ballot whether you re running for city council, president of the united states sean, thank you. you have the data. sean spicer, thank you. now for a different perspective, eight years ago at this time david axelrod was the chief strategist for barack obama and on the verge of electing him president. thank you for coming out to play on a saturday. good to be here. you heard him say among other things, look, we think we re performing better than romney was four years ago the d s are underperforming as compared to barack obama. is it that simple? well, no. first of all, let me say i m here as senior commentator for cnn not as a surrogate for the democratic party. let me give you an objective view of someone who has been involved in this pro