Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You just heard his account of the tape. Did you actually hear the tape . I did. Did you miss this girl, did you read my book . A few other highlights from the book, she claims she walked in on President Trump and his lawyer, michael cohen, and the president was eating a piece of paper as if trying to hide it. She also says he had a tanning bed installed in the white house. The president himself has not commented on the book but his administration dismissed it out of hand saying in a statement yesterday, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. Eddie, let me start with you. Here we are talking about this book. How much import do you give this, what shes alleging in this book, the racist components to this presidency . Its just the latest evidence, but i wants just salacious talk. We shouldnt give omarosa toosm
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and ultimately i ll make a decision. michael avenatti speaking at a democratic party fund raiser in iowa last night as he considers a run for the oval office. democrats he says want a fighter to challenge president trump in 2020. i want to bring my panel back in here. christina, i m going to turn to you first. he says he wants a fighter. is that what the democratic party needs at this point? the democratic party needs a lot of things. michael avenatti is not one of them. okay? it would be ideal if michael avenatti were a republican, i would say, sure, force him to come to the table and talk about some issues. michael avenatti dipping his toes into the democratic party politics when we already know we ll have a very crowded field of qualified individuals, many of them are flawed, and we re going to have to sift through who the best representative will be to go against a tabloid president who already has an advantage as the incumbent sitting president. so the democrats already have