is she just coming to watch? to send a jolt of electricity and get michael cohen off his game, create more of a spectacle and get inside donald trump s head. danny, i want to ask you this question, just spell it out. the president s legal jeopardy here is what? why is it exactly that this is potentially more of an existential threat to the president than the bob mueller inquiry? i think the answer to that question is why is the president fighting so hard to avoid review of these privileged documents by the government. that s what the fight is about today. it s not about whether the government ultimately gets to those documents, it s whose eyes get to see those sets of documents and decide whether they re privileged or not privileged? and why, then is president trump now an intervener in this case? why take such an interest? why not allow cohen s attorneys to fight that battle? it must be so important to the president that this search warrant, the documents seized, are reviewed by
so a report in the washington post claims white house officials tried to distract president trump from what james comey would say. administration officials say aides were so concerned about comey s book that they scheduled trump to be at his mar a la lar go estate to be with shinzo abe at the same time the book s release. comey was the target of six of the seven tweets president trump sent before heading out to golf. shows commitment to allies. we are going to use japan. in one tweet, trump claimed james comey states that polls where crooked hilly was leading were a factor of handling stupidly the clinton e-mail probe. in order, he was making decision based on the fact that he thought she was going to win and he wanted a job. slime ball. that s our president. what comey was referring to was his decision to reveal new
president. john heilemann, the elliottness pose is good. i mean, if i understand what he s saying there and i think a lot of americans would agree with that. certainly a lot of law enforcement officers would agree with that. at the same time, he seems to cheapen that argument by talking about donald trump s orange skin, the white globes around his eyes that come from a tanning bed. the medium size of his hands. mocking his hair. if you re going if you are going to put yourself on a higher moral plane, should you not avoid all these same petty fights that donald trump engages in. well, you could argue that for sure. the interesting thing about that is that comey comes into this moment as sort of a man without a country, right? democrats are unhappy in 2016 with taken the election away from hillary clinton.
james comey spoke more about his short and turbulent time as fbi director under president trump. before he was fired in may of 2017 for what the administration said of his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation but comey said he knew there was something else motivating the president, even before trump told lester holt he was thinking of, quote, this russia thing when he decided to terminate him. day after you were fired, president is meeting in the oval office with the russian foreign minister, calls you a nut job, says that the pressure on him has been relieved. what did you think when you saw that? wow was my reaction. first of all what are the russians doing in the oval office, one, as a counterintelligence person i m thinking that s crazy without any americans being present. one. and two, the pretense is melting away. the bit about you were fired because of how you handled the e-mail investigation is melting away. you were fired because of the russia investigation.
even vanity fair admits donald trump s strategy is paying off. if you are going to deal with crazy you have to talk crazy. sometimes it pays to be the psycho on the block screaming at clouds and rubbing dog poo in your hair. we have watched countries with extremist nut bags, but enough about berkeley. so we said with north korea, we ll talk your crazies and raise you triple crazy by electing donald trump. they didn t see that coming. it s too soon to rejoice. but what is the media s obsession now instead of this? it raised among many people the speculation those photographs might be intimate photographs of the president of the united states, and i ll hope