of the dream team legal force here. you re right. in axios this morning, my newsletter, we say be smart. the president s legal team and his spokespeople can say anything they want but at the end what will matter is what trump says and he s shown he s willing to change on a dime with a win or with a tweet. what the story points out is that with this new team of lawyer, with ty cobb as special counsel on the inside, john dowd, formidable lawyer on the outside, you see signs that they want to lower the temperature, so you see ty cobb in an interview, saying he s worked with mueller, respects him. he sees signs of wanting to cooperate. you see the spokespeople no longer flatly denying people but saying denying things but saying more like the president had limited information or the president did nothing wrong or the president had a right to d this. and you ll hear a lot more of that. yes. but couldn t the countargument
damning this is for jeff sessions and the trump administration. this is a big deal. and jeff sessions could be in big trouble legally, because if it is true, you know, i thought the first time around that he had perjured himself because he had lied. but this is proof that if these meetings happened he willfully perjured himself before congress. i have a hard time believing a man like jeff sessions would willfully perjure himself in the way you re sitting here discussing. look, we sat here for months and have listened to people say the russians are bad, you can t trust the russians, the russians are all liars. tonight we hear we got to take this russian s word as the gospel when the story points out that sometimes they lie, sometimes they embellish. right now all we know is kislyak s word versus whatever the justice department s statement is, which they deny any wrongdoing in this conversation. you raise that point. and the other critical point you raised, anderson is there a big
they said why do we do 24 when we know what the outcome is? i said that s not what the story about, it s about the two guys. that s right. and what they did that nobody knew about. and you said it was a detective story. detective story that but the main thing, and i think you felt the same way, was the alchemy of the two guys, considering their differences. and one of the tough story points for me was how to deal with nixon. how do you portray someone so twisted on the inside and so straight-laced on the outside? richard nixon is now the guy who when you see photos of him even at his prime you cannot believe he was ever president of the united states. he seemed to me to be the kid in the schoolyard whom all the other kids picked on, and i identified with that. who was nixon? nixon. nixon was a party guy, an animal.
know the ending, so why should we do all the president s men ? they said why do we do 24 when we know what the outcome is? i said that s not what the story about, it s about the two guys. that s right. and what they did that nobody knew about. and you said it was a detective story. detective story that but the main thing, and i think you felt the same way, was the alchemy of the two guys, considering their differences. and one of the tough story points for me was how to deal with nixon. how do you portray someone so twisted on the inside and so straight-laced on the outside? richard nixon is now the guy who when you see photos of him even at his prime you cannot believe he was ever president of the united states. he seemed to me to be the kid in the schoolyard whom all the other kids picked on, and i identified with that. who was nixon?
intelligence community. i mean, look, if the intent here if the suspicion on the part of jared kushner and the trump folks was, hey, look, we need to set this thing up because u.s. intel is going to snoop in on this stuff and then it s going to get leaked out and it s going to look bad, that s also apparently what happened. exactly. look, until now we have thought that we ve had evidence of the russians seeking communications with the incoming trump administration. so a lot of attention was focused on the russian ambassador having these meetings. this puts it in a bit of a different spin. this is the campaign seeking opportunities or the incoming administration seeking opportunities with the russians. at the post story points out at the end, they eventually got this meeting. this equally weird meeting in the seychelles with erik prince and a person coming from putin s government. so the question mark is what were they discussing, and why all this effort to come up with these ways