at this point, we ll have three crumpled up pieces of paper and some cigar rings. none of that plays well for the trump lawyers, the trump organization lawyers and cohen s lawyer who s want to protect as much of this as possible from the eyes of investigators. p.s., a win for them today. as usual, trump becomes the worst client possible. what the lawyers need to do, trump doesn t need to take the fifth. they need to put him in the hannibal lecter mask and not let him out anymore. they tried to do that. you saw the reporting saying they didn t want him to do this interview. they have kept him under wraps. the last mainstream interview he did was lester hold almost a year ago. he got back from his play date with macron and was like i m trump again and felt really good about himself. we were talking about the back, so much of this is really about how mike cohen perceives what s happening to him. if he feels the deep sting of the bus, that s going to make him more likely to turn on t
earlier this month aboard air force one he claimed to have no knowledge of the hush money paid to daniels or where cohen got the $130,000. legally speaking the president possibly implicated himself in any wrongdoing associated with the case. with me elly mystal who wrote today the president went on tv and destroyed two legal cases and lisa green, attorney. good idea, bad idea, legally to do that interview? it was a pretty terrible idea. he sounded like a cross between my uncle may he rest in peace, he used to watch fox news nonstop and a caller to sports radio. donald from jamaica, what s on your mind. the level of anger and, of course, there s never a time i think when the president uses a dim min knewtive to talk about someone else in a flattering way. if your goal is to get cohen to stay in your camp and you start using words like teeny tiny, not a flattering look. you think it s bad you thought what he was doing was minimizing his relationship to michael cohen. right and i
always only goes to the same source. and it explains why his base is loyal but small and not growing. and you know, even in watching the interview and some of the clips you played today, the journalists sitting on that couch and the hosts sitting on that couch were not pushing back. they weren t suggesting that somehow president trump was saying things that weren t true even though he was. it was will as if they were sitting there listening to somebody leave a rambling voice mail message, almost like mr. president, at the tone, please give us your thoughts about michael cohen. senator boxer, do you think your former colleagues in the senate watch this sort of thing and what goes through their head? well, i watched it. and i ll tell you what went through my head. i think fox & friends should give up doing their version of the news. and instead, they should become online therapists. it s perfect. they can have people call in who are narcissistic, paranoid,
cohen under investigation, his papers have been seized. he s under a lot of pressure. but you know, some of the consequential wisdom is that trump might want cohen to feel alignment toward him, friendliness that was not accomplished during this interview. you said he destroyed two cases. first of all, he admits michael cohen is representing him and stormy daniels. we all kind of knew that. the biggest mistake he made today was he told the truth a couple of times. now that he s admitted it puts him right into michael avenatti s world which is not a world anybody wants to be in. now he is almost certainly going to have to testify in the stormy daniels thing now that he has admitted that michael cohen is representing him. so you think that was a final nail in the coffin. there is no chance for him to get out of avenatti s world. that s bad for trump. second case he destroyed was the minimization of michael cohen. he went on to say it s but about business. it s a teeny tiny bit of
invitation from kim jong un for the summit that president trump has agreed to. so president moon is in the driver s seat right now in many ways. this is his vision that is coming into fruition here. kim jong un of course the first north korean leader to cross the dmz since the korean war armistice in 1953. we don t know what the outcome of today s meeting will be. we don t know what the outcome of the summit will be, what the contours of it will be, how it will approach the many thorny issues between the two nations. but this is a remarkable moment on a peninsula that has been at war for 60-plus years.