and he sees a potentially winning ticket there now as well. he has made himself very much the story here. even though he is not on the ballot, he is saying time and time again night after night in these rallies, turnout as if i were. vote for me. but of course, the president is trying to have it both ways. he is eager to take the credit for republican victories. myself and the colleagues at the associated press had an interview with him in the oval office this week. we asked would you share responsibility if you lose? his answer was no. i ve been enjoying your newsletter for the times, largely for your efforts to get out of the set of kind of echo chambers that so many americans leave in, especially along the coast. and we have a classic example tonight, the mainstream media will kind of shake their heads and tisk-tisk about the president joking about a now congressman assaulting a reporter back in 2017. but as they say in show business, from whence the
reporter back in 2017. but as they say in show business, from whence the president came, it killed in the room. look, that s the kind of thing that his supporters love. we know that about the trump supporters. they love this kind of macho, he s gonna not say what s politically correct kind of thing that the president does. it s also the thing that infuriates his critics, particularly democrats. so i think the thing to remember with all these rallies, yes, they are energizing for the president s base, assuming that all those people at the rallies actually go to the polls. but they re also energizing for the democrats. that when democratic activist ands voters and strategists tell me when the president goes to their state for one of these rallies, they see an outpouring of donations afterwards. they see more people coming into the campaign offices and offering to volunteer. so it s really going to be a contest of enthusiasm and where the enthusiasm is stronger. and it s also important
president joking about a now congressman assaulting a reporter back in 2017. but as they say in show business, from whence the president came, it killed in the room. look, that s the kind of thing that his supporters love. we know that about the trump supporters. they love this kind of macho, he s gonna not say what s politically correct kind of thing that the president does. it s also the thing that infuriates his critics, particularly democrats. so i think the thing to remember with all these rallies, yes, they are energizing for the president s base, assuming that all those people at the rallies actually go to the polls. but they re also energizing for the democrats. that when democratic activist ands voters and strategists tell me when the president goes to their state for one of these rallies, they see an outpouring of donations afterwards. they see more people coming into the campaign offices and offering to volunteer. so it s really going to be a contest of enthusiasm and wher
said. you can disregard so much of what s in fire and fury if you want to, but bannon was dead on there. i actually talked to a reporter back in march or april of 2017, and i asked who do you think is in the most legal jeopardy. his response, don junior. he knew about this meeting. none of us, though, knew he was in close with the trump campaign. he knew about the meeting. and if he knew about the meeting, you know mueller s team knew about the meeting. there is no doubt for over a year the mueller team has been looking at don junior and this meeting and the setting up of this meeting and how excited he was to have this meeting and considered him to be perhaps of all the people around donald trump, the person in the most legal jeopardy. joe, think about robert mueller s broader strategy as a prosecutor.
reporter back in 2015. take a listen. comey worked for the u.s. attorney s office and mueller worked under me in the justice department. he s got to have the discipline to put a stop to it or we re going to have to do everything we can including some things that i don t think we d want to talk about right now. i m warning you, tread very [ bleep ] lightly because what i m going to do to you is disgusting. okay. so the reporter did end up going ahead and publishing that story with cohen s comments there. do you think the president s team thinks this is going to be more successful with mueller this strategy that they re taking now or do you think this is giuliani straight up channelling president trump? well, it s really interesting seeing the impact that giuliani s words could have not just on the investigation, but the voters. i mean, his recent comments about stormy daniels and women considering that the republican party has so many issues with