to the alps on skiing vacations with her sons. excuse me. as a parent, could i ask you to respect my children s space? back then 20 years ago, people would be utterly appalled if they knew exactly what went on. prince william reflects on those times in a documentary on itv. i sadly remember most of the time that she ever cried about anything was to do with press intrusion. by letting the press into her private life, diana has opened pandora s box. it is spring, 1994, prince charles decides to go public with an authorized biography and interview. this is what happens when you get into a pr war. it s a race to the bottom.
example. you were responsible for putting together some of these readouts when you worked for president obama. so you know why we do this. you kind of explained it, but you re saying it really helps give everybody an idea of clearly what was talked about. and russia in this case can go about and nudge the pr war, right? they can manipulate the narrative. putin playing u.s. publicist is not a good thing for u.s. national security. as we look at the counter terrorism cooperation, that is overall something that we shouldn t shirk away from. president trump is not the first president to work with the russians on counter terrorism. president obama actually did as well. if we have intelligence for example about an impending attack in russia or any other country that could harm civilians, we should share that. but this whole notion of mutual areas of mutual interest or whatever should be clearly defined by the united states so that seeds of doubt about what was discussed are not fomented
that to congress. and that s the point about the other folks that the house would like to talk to and that they are closing in on. it would be harder for the house to get to them. but it is that testimony that really moves the ball forward, that really sort of allows the democrats to make a larger argument that would put pressure on the senate republicans. and, look, it s going to be very, very difficult for them, and all they really have right now in terms of stuff directly to the president is stuff from volker and sondland and a little bit from others. but a lot of the other stuff is sort of second-hand stuff, sort of atmospherics about what was going on inside the nsc or the state department. and i know that donald trump doesn t really care what happens inside the nsc, but he does care about the pr war, betsy. there is a lot of reporting that he s increasing the frustration. the washington post reports this. adding trump dictated much of a
what they ve always done is argue the political case, argue the court of public opinion. they ve really done a successful job of muddying the waters and questioning the validity of this report for a large s.w.a.t. of the republican base who just don t believe anything mueller produces is going to be true or real or any kind of evidence that would make impeaching the president possible. and so that means that the house as they move forward, and the senate, looking at this information at whatever is produced once they get their hands on it. and the additional information as well that they re still weighing in on what they ll release. that means they re going to have to figure out how far they re willing to go, what kind of case they can make that mueller didn t make and that s really the pr war that the president has waged here so far successfully. let me push you on what you just said about how far the senate and the congress they want to go. is it possible that when they
republican strategist, thank you for joining us. philip, i will start with you. your take on everything that went down with cohen and how it shakes out in terms of the collusion theory. it is two track. the republicans were happy because from the legal front and the collusion front there wasn t anything there plus they trapped cohen into possible perjury. the democratic side think they won the pr war, they exposed things republican supporters, the president, didn t want out there especially on the stormy daniels front. that was a big win for them because that s where the investigation is going. heather: your take on what went down? i kind of agree with the other guests. collusion was one thing. what we are finding now is probably much worse with financial crimes.