financial boon to no offense but the cable news. especially a couple other networks. it s not moving america. the president was at 37% on election day when he won. if you believe the worst poll, he s at 45 today. and so what people focus in on is where is the economy and isn t it great that we are projected potentially 4% growth of gdp under donald trump. that s really what matters. laura: how many well-known people do you know who have demt with people who make allegations i don t know what happened. i do know when you are well known, you are a target. you were a target in other ways. you are a target and a lot of people are like, i don t want to deal with it. or maybe a made a mistake, get this off the table. just because someone says on tape doesn t mean they re guilty. laura: it happens all the
still with us phil rucker from the washington post, frank figliuzzi, michael steele still out there somewhere beautiful with us. joyce vance former u.s. attorney washington post columnist. eugene. emily has been in contact by phone throughout all this. and ken dilanian national security reporter. joyce, i ve now listen today that five or six times. i do not have any experience with the mafia. unlike rudy giuliani, i don t think it is at all clear that, that, that the information on this tape doesn t raise more questions about exactly how the trump campaign was using ami. i worked on campaigns. it was my job to put out to the press the annual financial disclosures. you had to put anyone who did anything. what about a meal for the staff? if they sent over doughnuts or bagels, it went on the campaign disclosure. they were using ami as a vendor to the campaign to help squash bad stories. they were so aware of it, they talked about buying that
that tape doesn t make her sound like a victim. well, you have to think it through a little bit more carefully. she thought this man is going to save my life. and is going to restore me to my family. quinn s mom also points out that investigators were never able to document the supposed affair between quinn and osmanovic. investigators admit they couldn t find a shred of evidence that the two had any relationship before that labor day weekend. does it give you any pause at all that there s no proof that those two knew each other before labor day weekend? you know, it does and it doesn t. we knew that their encounter was consensual. you can tell that from the tape? yes. regardless of when the relationship started, they knew each other and they were involved with each other. but the prosecutor in the
under new pressure to explain whether michael cohen is still even donald trump s lawyer and the leak of this tape not helping. i know you. i don t need your opportunity, you little [ bleep ]. i know exactly who you are and i know exactly what you do. and i know exactly the story you plan on writing. so i m warning you, tread very [ bleep ] lightly because what i m going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. do you understand me? don t think you re going to hide behind your pen because it s not going to happen. look i m more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel because mother[ bleep ] you re going to need it. cohen would say no issue is too big or sticky for him to handle. the new tape doesn t look isolated. listen to another example where college students tried to prank
inspector general thought. before we go deep, and we can go deep into the inspector general quote, which would make a great hollywood script. i defended rod rosenstein. i went to law school with him. he is asking about the deceit. do you think donald trump tells the truth most of the time, part of the time or most of the time not the truth? this is what happens when you come on a show like this. i m getting boxed right now, and what you guys want me to say is, oh, no, he s a liar. i know him for who he is. and his base knows him for who he is. there is an expression sometimes, it doesn t translate perfectly into english, but sometimes you let a story get embellished and the facts go a little bit away from the story. that s what the president has done. when the president talked about the trump tower in 1980, he had it as a scintillating, spectacular tower, and then it ended up on vogue avenue paris, and he s got big ideas and he s an entrepreneur. so what happens in the media, h