there that donald trump s first wife accused him in the divorce proceedings of marital rape. of feeling violated and then it had been retracted after a settlement but it had been a matter of fact that had not been raised in some time. in the course of that, michael cohen explained to our reporter tim mack that if anything was reported of this nature, that what he would do to him would be f-ing disgusting, that he would effectively bankrupt him personally as well as his news organization and ruin him. in terms of such that referring to other things he d done to other people who made claims or accusations against donald trump in the past. this i think was a big reveal. this was just a few weeks after the campaign began, of the way that organization was used to treating the media, which was simultaneously craving the media s attention but attacking it and trying to intimidate journal it ses from doing any reporting with threats of legal violence. you have to understand, that
stance against donald trump, they called him names at the end of every article. so in that sense i m sorry, i just heard something. oh, my goodness, john avlon. we had to show this picture. long time. we ve been friends for a long time. life. discussing. 2020, that something you still want to do? kanye, are you considering no comment about your meeting with the president-elect, nothing to say? i just want to take a picture right now. are you going to run for president, kanye? you take care of yourself, i ll see you soon, all right? cool, cool. so we just interrupted an impassioned speech by john avlon to show a picture of kanye west appearing with the president-elect of the united states.
deafening. that s just not so. it was donald trump in 2014 who bashed president obama for rumors, rumors that he wasn t fully reading the briefings. sally. donald trump s really smart so it s okay, right? sally, look, there is defend it, please. presidents as former cia director james woolsey has said, presidents take these briefings in different fashions. president clinton yes, but they take them, jeffrey. president clinton did not do them in person. he read them and he still took jeffrey, he still took the information on a daily basis. do you understand? what your president is saying is he s not even going to take the information. let s let jeffrey finish. sally, if i am going to tell you the sun is hot, do i need to tell you tomorrow? or the next day? or the next day? or the next day? again, the glibness only in trump s world, the glibness
virtues of trump s pick. hi, matthew. reporter: hi, carol. that s right. carter paige is a former advisor to mr. trump. he s been making his rounds in russia. he was an unknown figure before his name was dropped by donald trump in the presidential campaign. he s since been dropped by the trump campaign. he still sort of comes to russia as part of the organization he s founded which does business here to talk about policy issues. and he s been meeting the local press here over the past couple of days. you know, there s a sense in which they believe he s got some kind of incite into what donald trump is thinking about russia. because there s such an appetite here in russia for anything donald trump has to say for any sort of possible change in policy towards his country, he s getting extremely large audience. carter paige very positive on the appointments of rex
fact-based intelligence agency. when the report came out i was disappointed that mr. trump s first reaction was to defend russia instead of the cia and fact-based intelligence gathering like i would think any american president would. what would you say, mr. trump says this whole thing with russia has become politicized. it s just a push to delegitimize his election. what do you say to that? that s not my point. i m interested in facts and whether or not a foreign government intruded on our elections, undermined our elections and/or picked a favorite for their own benefit, they re not doing it necessarily for mr. trump or anyone else they may have been involved with. i think they re doing it for their benefit which is a danger to our national security. so as far as i know, you were the lone republican pushing for this. have you talked to other republicans in the electoral college? i have conversations daily since the op ed came out monday of last week. i ve had several people