the man who is the president s right-hand man for a decade. he s called his fixer. are both sides fuelling out of emotion now? is there a clear strategy that you can see? it is ironic, if you think about giuliani just a few months ago saying that cohen is an honorable honest layer and nwyew saying he s a liar repeatedly. in one sense, saying the other person is the liar is one of the only real strategies they have. someone has to be lying. and both have incentive to lie. okay. we re going to switch now to yesterday s both non-cohen big news. the new gdp numbers. just after these numbers were released. donald trump, jr. tweeted, incredible numbers. i remember when the experts laughed about breaking 3% just because obama never broke 2% doesn t mean someone with great policies can t let s keep it going. it seems john harwood plies with
so, i think what is of material significa significance, here, alex, we ve moved from the area to conspiracy. with the meeting hiding in plain sight when he admonished the russians to go ahead and get hillary clinton s e-mails. now with prior knowledge and intent, we re now beginning to inch into the territory of conspiracy. and what s the difference? well, collusion isn t a federal crime. conspiracy is. who do you think has more credibility right now, is it michael cohen or is it donald trump? well, i wouldn t want to have to rely on the credibility of either of them. but i m hard-pressed to understand why at this point mr. cohen would be lying. for me, the question is always, where are the incentives for behavior. and i don t see any incentive from mr. cohen at this stage of this whole sordid affair to be
in late-night. apparently cohen will record these calls and meetings on his iphone instead of taking notes because it s easier than taking notes to refer to is that. i m starting to think maybe trump doesn t hire all the best people. no i got no reaction. it s hard to hear. because the only thing that michael cohen is worse at than lawyering is sound recording. you know who is really annoyed about this? russia, they re like, why are we putting so much work on spying on these americans when they seem to be doing it to themselves. and they ve learned because it involved playboy, but i m only in it for the articles.
unprecedented scrutiny to the president s business dealings around the world. it probably would have taken almost heroic efforts to put all of these properties or assets in blind trusts so that the president was not actually personally been and his family was not personally benefitting. and i haven t seen any indication that that was done. and as pete williams reporting has shown us, i think this is exactly why the judge has allowed these suits to go forward and has denied the motion to dismiss that was filed by the department of justice, on the president s behalf. okay. switching gears here. of course, sources telling nbc news that michael cohen is willing to tell that the president knew in advance of the june 2016 trump tower meeting? did you see this coming. i would say i probably did see it coming. and here s why, we have now heard reporting that michael cohen can provide information to the government that president trump knew about the trump tower
election day this year. as you know, the presidential election cycle has gotten very long these days. and as soon as those results are in, you re going to see the 2020 contenders rev up and start running their campaigns. yeah, without even taking a breath it seems. you re 100% right on that. very interesting piece from you, not surprised, jennifer rubin. thank you. next, who do you believe? president trump battling his attorney michael cohen with both sides arguing over what the president knew and when he knew it. but first, why ivanka trump decided to shut down her clothing line more than a year after stepping away from the company. what do you have there?