friend paul ryan did this all in defense of the indefensible. i hope that works well for them moving forward. that s not really a story you want to tell your grandchildren. still ahead on morning joe, it s not just the actual content of that michael cohen tape you heard about that s troubling to the president, it s also the possibility that cohen could be close to flipping on the president. we re going to get the latest reporting from michael schmidt straight ahead. and how the president s week of walkbacks left the white house reeling. they re always reeling. they just went into overdrive this weekend. we ll be talking to a reporter about that piece. the washington post s phil rucker. plus, it s good to have allies, especially if you re threatening war against iran. but exactly how would nato feel about that after getting the trump treatment in brussels? we ll be talking to retired
for taping that conversation about a former playboy model s payoff. if cohen was on the fence about flipping, the president may have pushed him over for good. we ll talk about all of that and the consequences not only for the southern district of new york case against cohen and possibly the president, but also the mueller investigation coming up on morning joe. you re turning onto the street when you barely clip a passing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is gonna raise your rate after the other car got a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won t raise their rates because of their first accident.
vladimir putin. so phil, i want to ask you because you wrote the washington post published a great tick tock last week about the incredible week that was and the various backtrackings and attempts to apologize and not apologize happening over the course of the week. on this monday as the president over the weekend in his all caps way tried to i don t want turn the page is the wrong metaphor, try to put last week behind him and move on to other topics, where do we stand on this monday with respect to what i think was historic week last week in the annals of the trump presidency, is it in the rear-view mirror, the president is very ungamely in how he does it, are we going to be talking about a lot of the same topics and the fallout from last week again as we move forward into this week? i think this will linger for a while for a couple of reasons. first of all, we still don t know exactly what was discussed in that one-on-one meeting between president trump and president puti
many diversions he tried to throw up over the weekend where anything that s not discussion of russia and anything that s not a discussion of his sex life is in his view good for business. yeah. microsoft barnacle, speaking of russia, the lies just continued. again, i m talking about i know everybody goes, oh, we have to understand the trump voter. who is the trump voter. we can t be disrespectful of the trump voter. i know a lot of people who were trump voters got a lot of friends who are trump voters. got family members who are trump voters. but even they cannot believe the bald-faced lies, the obvious lies, the third grade level lies, the stupidity that come through in these tweets where the president has gone back this weekend and now said that putin didn t try to interfere in the
what do we know about michael cohen s part of it, which explains so much of the president basically becoming so unmoored this weekend. michael cohen in september of before the election, two months before the 2016 election, secretly record this conversation in which he talks to trump about essentially a second payment being made to ensure that this model does not speak out publicly. this is part of the stuff that the feds took from michael cohen s office and that the authorities in new york are looking at as part of this larger investigation into what michael cohen was doing and whether these payments violated any election laws. now, the question is, is that will the feds be able to hold on to this stuff? there s a question about whether there s attorney/client privilege. does not look like the president is going to assert that, so they ll allow the authorities to have this. the president s lawyers say this may be personally and