it s a con. it s a con, karen. it s a total con job. it s a shell game. he s saying, i listened to the very first part of that speech he s saying you have the freedom to be poor and we have the freedom to withhold any kind of funding to help you, but women, we love you women, but we don t trust you. you don t have the freedom to make decisions about your own body and we think that s good law. i mean that is the freedom they re offering. karen is right, this is a fraud. they are selling a fraud. it is. and understand what mitt romney is doing and i have to say that he s gotten away with it up to now. they are now marketing specifically particularly to suburban white women. yes. and trying to zero in on them and saying this is the softer mitt romney. i care about you, but i want to make sure you re home in time for dinner and that s my think being equal pay. i don t care about that. i want to make sure that the state again, he is willing to clear the way for the most ra
happen in late may or early june. for the first time on twitter addressing stormy daniels allegation that she had been threatened. the president saying it s a total con job. andrea. we ll be talking to you dp again. thank you much. joining me is tim kaine. thanks senator for being with us today. absolutely. your reaction to the fact that mike pompeo went secretly to north korea over easter weekend to meet with kim jong-un. my first reaction was i was heartened by it. it s lot better than just tweeting out insults at a foreign leader. dialogue does not guarantee success but the absence of dialogue usually guarantees failure. if there s high level discussions that are going on, i
the sketch years later about a non-existent man, a total con job. playing the fake news media for fools. and then in parentheses, but they know it. this lawsuit takes issue with this tweet saying the president s tweet defamed stormy daniels, essentially calling her a liar. and then the lawsuit goes on to say that by calling the incident a con job, mr. trump s statement would be understood to state that ms. clifford, that stormy daniels was fabricating the crime and the assailant, both prohibited under new york state law as well as other states here. and wolf, the lawsuit here seeks about $75,000 in damages. all right. shiman, thank you for that reporting. we ll bring in our criminal defense attorney, the cnn legal analyst, joey jackson. joey, what do you think, do they have a case? wolf, there s a 0.0% chance
the president responding to the sketch stormy daniels released yesterday of the man who allegedly threatened her on trump s behalf. in response trump tweeting, quote, a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job as stormy daniels s attorney michael avenatti pointed out, that tweelt could land trump in another legal battle, this time over defamation. perhaps the most consequential white house mistake over the last 24 hours centers on the administration s decision to throw nikki haley under the bus as they walk back her announcement of new sanctions on russia sunday. economic advisor larry kudlow suggested haley was suffering from some, quote, momentary confusion. her response, the mic drop heard around the world. she replied, quote, with all due respect, i don t get confused. joining us now from the washington post white house bureau chief and pulitzer prize winning reporter phil rucker. congratulations. we got to mush all over ashley