remember any conversations with michael cohen after the beginning of 2016 and that is what they told the special counsel. what is interesting is what we ve been batting around here and some of our reporters have said on the air all day today is an open question about whether this confusion is going to lead to robert mueller and his team asking for a follow-up question from the president and what giuliani said to me is, i m not worried about it, but if mueller does ask the question, we have told him no other answers, but the answer is really simple, the answer is, we don t know. we don t remember. meaning exactly when the last time the president and michael cohen talked about the trump tower project in moscow. just a side question f he feels like he s on a clarification tour and the president is irked by the confusion, does rudy giuliani think he s being clear? look, he said to me i m probably being too lawyerly about this. he s trying to be too specific about it.
out. she was only doing what the white house communications operation told her to do on those sunday talk shows. let s see how this plays out and i don t think that senator mccain has the support in his own republican senate caucus to launch a filibuster. quickly before i let you go, fascinating washington post article speculating on the future of secretary of state hillary clinton and talked about how she has remade american diplomacy by visiting countries she didn t have to visit and championing smaller initiatives as well and includes this quote, the answer to the question of whether hillary clinton will run for president in 2016, whether she will seek a job with the most power to do the most good of all is another question f whether she can keep herself from it. what do you think? craig, i have had the privilege of knowing the secretary for 35 years and the fact is that in the state department she is redefined the diplomacy of soft power and her travels have taken her to help
absolutely under no circumstances would agree to anything but a long-term deal after he first said he absolutely had to have a clean debt ceiling extension. in other words no big deal. he s made a lot of demands here. i think the people in congress are willing to say we work together on a lot of things. let s work this out. and even maybe, if it ends up being a two-step process rather than all at once. and how does he save face if that happens? he doesn t want to say i lost public they got everything they wanted? we ll try to help him find a way to get off of the limb he s out on if that is what it takes. we ve got to save money, not spending so much. extending the debt ceiling so our credit worthyness does not fall into question f you can t do it at once, then let s take it and bite-sized pieces where we can get the job done. this may take longer. thank you. thank you. and now the topic of the white house, what is going on behind the scenes there?
after he first said he absolutely had to have a clean debt ceiling extension. in other words no big deal. he s made a lot of demands here. i think the people in congress are willing to say we work together on a lot of things. let s work this out. and even maybe, if it ends up being a two-step process rather than all at once. and how does he save face if that happens? he doesn t want to say i lost public they got everything they wanted? we ll try to help him find a way to get off of the limb he s out on if that is what it takes. we ve got to save money, not spending so much. extending the debt ceiling so our credit worthyness does not fall into question f you can t do it at once, then let s take it and bite-sized pieces where we can get the job done. this may take longer. thank you. thank you. and now the topic of the white house, what is going on behind the scenes there? is politics in the equation?
washington. with fears growing about a worldwide double dip recession, the stock market had its worst week since october of 2008. joining us to talk about president obama s plans is white house senior adviser david phru. welcome back. thanks for having me. chris: i want to focus on what president obama has said and what he s doing. whether he s living up to his rhetoric. let s begin with what he said about raising taxes two years ago. the president: the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession. that would suck up take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. chris: question f the president still believes what he said on that two years ago why is he proposing huge tax increases in the midst of what is very close to a recession? let s first talk about what the president wants to do, cut taxes for everybody in america.