pleading guilty for things that actually have nothing to do with either collusion with russia or obstruction of justice. and so michael cohen has the sort of background and, again, some of this is by his own proud admission. this is what he proudly did for the president. he said i would take a bullet for the president or his family. that once you start looking into it, it s not going to be pretty, and it could entrap and turn over other people and other dealings with the trump organization, with the president s family that the president doesn t want to see the light of day and just might make him angry enough to disregard the advice of his lawyers, to disregard the advice of others in the west wing, and maybe set one of these firing dominoes in motion. joyce, you and i have talked a lot about michael avenatti. he was on the last word tonight. let s listen to that. when we filed this case about four or five weeks ago, you know, a lot of people mocked us. a lot of people mocked my
indeed they were. that as your paper reported, there s nothing imminent, but that this certainly is the closest the president s come to doing what i think a lot of news organizations have reported that he d like to do, which is to get rid of sessions and his deputy, rod rosenstein, who oversees the mueller investigation. yeah, that s exactly right. the president sort of like the rest of the country was glued to the television as this unfolded, watching the reports come in. and he was just getting, our understanding, increasingly angry, increasingly frustrated. he was sort of grousing about rod rosenstein, who he has never particularly liked. he was again fuming about sessions who, after that original sin of recusal, he s just been furious with. and he was asking, we understand, quite detailed questions about who would have made this decision to authorize this raid, and who was responsibility, and who was at fault. you played that footage of him in that cabinet meeting. when he was as
and so michael cohen has the sort of background and, again, some of this is by his own proud admission. this is what he proudly did for the president. he said i would take a bullet for the president or his family. that once you start looking into it, it s not going to be pretty, and it could entrap and turn over other people and other dealings with the trump organization, with the president s family that the president doesn t want to see the light of day and just might make him angry enough to disregard the advice of his lawyers, to disregard the advice of others in the west wing, and maybe set one of these firing dominoes in motion. joyce, you and i have talked a lot about michael avenatti. he was on the last word tonight.
house. this is something he has really looked forward to. he has wanted to be part of this white house and has been pretty clear about that, always kind of supporting this president. but they do not necessarily agree on a number of issues. and john bolton being a hawk on so many foreign policy issues happens to have very starkly different views about certain very key issues, including his position on russia, where the president tends to take a stance where he is very open to try to improve the relationship between the united states and russia. he s not as skeptical as a lot of the foreign policy advisers around him. and he even said today that while he called out russia over its support of the syrian regime, he doesn t necessarily go against doesn t rule out the idea of talking to russia. john bolton, of course, not on the same page as that. we re going to pick this up. i m sorry we didn t have more time. colonel jack jacobson and vivian salama, thank you so much. a quick break. mo
either collusion with russia or obstruction of justice. and so michael cohen has the sort of background and, again, some of this is by his own proud admission. this is what he proudly did for the president. he said i would take a bullet for the president or his family. that once you start looking into it, it s not going to be pretty, and it could entrap and turn over other people and other dealings with the trump organization, with the president s family that the president doesn t want to see the light of day and just might make him angry enough to disregard the advice of his lawyers, to disregard the advice of others in the west wing, and maybe set one of these firing dominoes in motion. joyce, you and i have talked a lot about michael avenatti. he was on the last word tonight. let s listen to that. when we filed this case about four or five weeks ago, you know, a lot of people mocked us. a lot of people mocked my client. i wonder if some of those people are laughing now.