Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Immunity in the federal investigation into trumps former Attorney Michael Cohen in exchange for providing information on hush money deals. Now, according to sources pecker told federal prosecutors what seems obvious to most of us. Trump knew all along of cohens payments to women who had alleged sexual encounters with him. Pecker also provided investigators with details about the payments that cohen made for the women. So lets get the white house reaction to this and a lot more. Counselor to the president , Kellyanne Conway, good to have you back. Welcome to washington. Hi. You literally just whisked in here as the show started. The president sends his greetings. Send him my best. I hope hes watching. And he said he always liked your mother and she liked him. Well, ive got that going for me. Dont embarrass her tonight. Ill try. She likes you too. So you follow the same advice. Let me ask you this. Let
very trumpy. and his kowtowing to someone like marjorie taylor greene, you could look at that as sort of a broad c incident, to ho he and so much of th republican caucus is holding t donald j trump, even as weak history has now, as there never been in his recent political career trump is still regularly on th phone with power players in th house republican fields, talking to them about, what ar you willing to do an early 2023, giving them suggestions on wha they should do it very investigations, whether that s into the january six committee as well or to hunter biden he still trying to call the shots and they, from mccarthy on down, they re still letting him, eve though a lot of them agree wit mitch mcconnell we in th incredibly private corners o their lives that they were shaken move on from the sky. but they re still beholden t
one of george santos, who then subsequently said i m no jewish, i m jewish which is like a 50 year ol kick of a joke you ve got the mccarthy allies trying to leverage their own strength, they ve amped up public shows of support, compiling a 40 54 only kevin house gop endorsements, that steve scalise right now, he s short of the votes, and something has to, give right absolutely. look, just to be clear viewers i guess i partial identify a jew-ish. setting that aside for i moment, as he bends over backwards again and again for some lik marjorie taylor greene and that flank of the party. it s undeniable where he think the power centers lion in th modern republican party, particularly in the house an not the senate, we are guess it s a bit different and we re less representative of the current republican party base, which is of course still very, very trumpy. and his kowtowing to someone like marjorie taylor greene, you could look at that as sort
venture, and i have been thinking about that. more to come, i m sure. but here s the president of china saying that putin, the russian president, is my best, most intimate friend. very trumpy. yeah, but we better worry about that alliance that exists now. that henry kissinger kept his life trying to keep them from forming an alliance, and now in his own words, he has. stunning. bob woodward and peter baker, bob, thank you so much for coming on this morning, and you re going to be back at 9:00 a.m. as well for our coverage of french president emmanuel macron s state visit at the white house. there s a receiving ceremony. and still ahead on morning joe, more on the looming railroad strike, and what congress is doing about it. senators dick durbin, tammy baldwin, and gary peters will be our guests this morning. plus, former president barack obama heads to georgia today to rally for senator
michigan, twitter dixon and the arizona republican for governor and secretary of state, kari lake, mark finchem. out of all of them, kari lake in arizona came the closest. she is a longtime local news anchor, the most charismatic at the bunch. also, i think the most dangerous. she ran a very trumpy campaign, filled with lies, threats and conspiracies. she told the press that she would teach them how to do their jobs when she got elected, but she did lose, which brings us to the other main concern around these midterms. after the 2020 election, donald trump annihilated the norm in american politics, loser concedes after an election defeat. that s an important ritual, it signals functionally the end of the campaign. it s looking for legitimacy more so than any quorum initiated process. the ex president never conceded in 2020, he still has not. i assume he never will. so this time around, people were concerned that those