time is too value bable. . i m going the cut a break here. we don t want to be coming back a year from are now and this isn t isn t done. is it a delay tactic or is it the president s worried about what s in them or wants to see them? do we know which? almost definitely the president is worried about what s in them. you can bet your bottom doll r l on that one. if the president finds out he was taped, again, this group before they became the administration, if the new trump administration, what they used to do in business was tape everyone and what if cohen has taped the president and the tape and the president finds out he is taped and there s incriminating evidence on something. there within lies the problem in
identified are not there, but i m sure there s others. so you know there s leaking. there s always leaking. that s a way the world works. it s unfair. there s a certain type of leakinging that s totally appropriate. policy leaking, personal floaters, but this sort of stuff where someone s leaking this information on a private conversation that the president is having with his chief of staff is unfair to the president and it s unfair to the chief of staff. even if it s making the chief and certainly it is really bad if it is making him look bad. are you talking to the president now? this is the nonsense in the white house. are you talking to the president now? are you talking to him about ronny jackson. the last time i talked to him, was maybe ten-days ago. i am not one of the guys who
so they re not prosecuted, i think it s disgraceful. april yes. made it clear how he feels about it. it s stunning. when it fits his situation, you don t hear a tweet, anything from sarah huckabee sanders, anything from raj, from anyone. but you know, it s amazing how it can get you caught up and get you in trouble for a situation that basically mirrors what you were talk iing about. this president is very concerned about this situation. and that s system some of the reasons, too, he s very close to wanting to find out what is actually in, what they ve seized in that raid. the president wants to find out. he wants him to take the fifth because the president himself could wind up being implicated in this. so the best thipg for him to do is keep his mouth shutten and
when we are parepare to announc it, we re going to announce it. first of all, you may never choose to do so. but you re not close to announcing. i actually think we are a lot closer today than we ve been at any stage in the process, but we are certainly not prepared to state that right now. all right. michael, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. and tonight on cnn, don t miss a special live town hall with james comey at the top of the hour. 8:00. anderson there. james comey there. you see the crowd gathered. next, president trump meeting with ronny jackson in the west wing today for an hour. as aides are preparing for jackson to withdraw. a man who worked in the west wing is my guest next. plus this. like a departure. sean spicer. back repping the trumps. or is he? feel the clarity of
flipped on and you get asked about a hypothetical. and once i answered that hypothetical, i said he would not flip. and the reason is because i think michael is of good character and he is close to the president and a loyal guy. no reason to flip. i don t think he has done anything wrong. i pray for his family. in the neighborhood i grew up in, we run towards our friends when they are in trouble. we don t run away from. and you know what, god forbid it happened to one of your brothers or sisters, you don t know what happens in life. i have seen drug overdoses and gang fights. i know the difficulty of this stuff. before we go, president trump and kanye tweeting each other