guy overseeing mueller s investigation by some instigating allies of the president. the new revelation related to payments to people potentially to help the president. joining me now is msnbc legal analyst, kelsey and jonathan are back here, as well. let s set up what we are talking about relating to payments. the associated press reporting that a doorman was reportedly paid off by the parent company of the national inquirer. an outlet we talked about before to stay quiet about a salacious rumor related to donald trump writing parallel between the explaymate and the doorman s dealing raises new questions about the roles that they may have played in protecting trump s image during hard fought presidential election. what are legal challenges for michael cohen? the department of justice may
mcconnell has sort of aired on the side of protecting trump. what we re watching is not only a foreign policy standoff between the u.s. and russia but a foreign policy standoff between the president, the president-elect, and even some republicans in congress. and i think the dynamic especially people on the inside of trump s orbit, they re unhappy right now with the white house. i was speaking with some of them last night. they said, yes, they did start to act on foreign policy with regard to the u.n. resolution and israel and this is usually a quiet period for the president-elect but they have been wading into foreign policy but now they re unhappy with how the obama administration is moving forward with russia because as much as it gets joked about, trump really does see world order in a different way than russia in a starkly different way than most other republicans and democrats. part of this is yes, about punishing russia but the other half is about preparing for the next admi