crimes with regard to the investigation. it s these side issues that pop up that can really take him down much more than the collusion and even obstruction angles of this. just a little about michael cohen that i thought was interesting. a friend sent this to me this morning. this is a washington post piece about when michael cohen ran for the city council in new york, cohen was drawn to politics first as a democrat volunteering for the 1998 presidential campaign of michael do y dukakis, and then losing a 2003 bid for city council. as for the other new york city accomplishments, cohen wrote that among his achievemented, he had hectored a local coffee shop into better managing its trash.
in our engagement with scl, which you say is related to cambridge analytica, in our engagement at no time did we ask them to do any kind of data mining. reporter: why don t you want to find out who they are and who their parent company is? it s not necessary. not my business to find out who are your business associates, is it? reporter: those business associates have such a terrible reputation in terms of negative campaigning, would you hire them again in 2022? no, i would not, not because of the reputation. i would not because i don t have time to be dealing with all these side issues. i have to deal with my core business and my core business is to run a campaign and win an election. reporter: the fallout of a cambridge analytica s tactics is far from over for this east african nation. and time will tell whether kenyans get the answers they re looking for. cnn, nairobi. thank you so much for the
first, god bless you and god bless america. trisha: thank you. yes, i believe they are taking it too far. this is history and it s important that we know our history. a lot of our youth don t even know history as is and so at least with these monuments and statutes around at least if a kid says hey, who is that you will be able to say that s robert e. lee or that s george washington and as far as chicago , the parks and the things that they want to change, you re worried about monuments and statutes when you have living, breathing children in our inner cities dying, going to prison, standing on a corner, selling drugs because they don t have jobs. trisha: clearly. i ve always said this. i mean in other words economic success, economic prosperity is freedom for all and that is absolutely what we need to get focused on. a lot of these things are side issues. that said a couple different
you re not doing the careful vetting we should be doing and could allow potential terrorists in. that s the question. at this stage, the question before the court is not really whether it s constitutional or legal. those are sort of, if you will, side issues right now. i mean, they ll get to that later. but right now the question is, do we leave this ban in place do we leave the stay in place that stops the government from enforcing the travel restrictions? nbc s pete williams in our washington bureau. thank you for joining me. now let s go over to bill crystal, he joins me here on set in new york. bill, let s first talk about what we are what we were just talking about with pete williams, which is that this ban is something that is getting a lot of negative attention out there. specifically from protesters around the country, but also from some people in donald trump s own party. who are hearing a lot of pushback against it. my question to you is, how much political capital is
the rank and file lawmakers. you don t like executive orders but are you tweeting against trump now and are you ready for a war with him? the base seems to love what he is doing on immigration and regulations and health care on these orders. if you pick a fight with him you got to be ready to wage the fight and a lot of them don t want to do that. let me say this really quickly. i agree with jeremy peters and this will be good chance to go back to that politico poll. his disapproval rating has been very low coming in but it s been low, in part, because he has been picking fights during the transition with merle streep, john lewis, et cetera. all of these side issues. you watch. jake sherman, i m not asking for your opinion. i know it s not your job to give it. but if you take the poll that you just showed us from the speech, i guarantee you those numbers are going to go up. talking about u.s. steel, talking about manufacturing. he just has to stay focused on