represents to mr. trump. once the keeper of many of mr. trump s secrets, mr. cohen is now seen as increasingly willing to consider cooperating with prosecutors. you ll recall just last month, president trump was asked if cohen might flip. are you worried that michael cohen might flip? look, i did nothing wrong. you don t understand. i didn t nothing wrong. this stuff came out a long time. is he still your friend? i ve always liked michael. i haven t spoken to michael in a long time. is he still your lawyer? no, he is not my lawyer, but i always liked michael, and he is a good person. and excuse me, do you mind if i talk? you re asking me a question, i m trying to answer. i just want to know if you re worry head is going to cooperate with federal prosecutors. no, because i did nothing wrong. got it, nothing wrong. from there, let s also remember this moment. this was donald trump who knew something about what might be in his lawyer s office upon
hon it russian market for years. so whether it s man churian candidate or this financial conflict of interest, the end result is the same, vladimir putin has leverage over donald trump and he s going to exact that in any way he can. you re in touch on a daily basis with your former colleagues. you re out there at this conference with the entire national intelligence community, some of them in exile admittedly. what is morale like hin tratd of intelligence? well, it s a good question. because i think we focus far too much on the standing senior intelligence officials. will director co, it es go or won t he some i have been in touch with my former colleagues in the intelligence community and there is a profound sense of demoralization. just as i was trying to make sense of monday s press
the shiny objects are distracting. let s look in a different facet of this object and ask you what your knowledge is of the current trump/cohen relationship if indeed it it can be called that these days and how much should we make of this recording apparently cutting off? i m asking for those of us old enough to remember the name rosemary woods. that s a great question about why is this such a short recording. i don t know the answerer to that. the status of the trump cohen relationship is obviously a strained onality this point. my colleague maggie haberman reported that when trump was told by the way mr. president this tape exists, his response was why would michael do that to me? so he feels betrayed by the existence hof tape i think you heard from davis s comments here that they feel as if they are being betrayed by the
meddle going into the next round of elections. jill, let me ask this question a bit backwards. it s your reporting that he started out buoyant on the flight home from helsinki. that because he didn t come up in the game and is not aware of global norms or the u.s. president s duty to stress american exceptionalism, especially in that forum? i think that the president in some cases we just need to take him at his word and listen to the way that he is framing this. the president left nato saying that he had achieved this grand victory. everyone had snapped into gear because he had made these threats against magically they re now paying money and nato is stronger he proclaims as he goes to the next stop. the president has said again and again he believes better, stronger ties with russia are important, that together they ll create a safer world. this is the way he talks about it, and the way he has described it and the way people around him say is that he really felt like things had g
media coverage. how is that going to shake out? the otherer question is how deeply held are these views? how deep are these reactions? given the media coverage we ve seen, is this the kind of event that s going to linger with people. your trying to get at. another poll. new one. they gave votears third option. they said do you approve, disapprove or are are you not sure? and when they asked that question, look at what came up. approve of trump s performance. that actually gets plurality support 41%. that knocks the option nearly 1/4 chose that and the not sure option is coming from one place, it s those independents. this is the interesting thing. 1/3 of them choose the not sure option. we saw it sitting there in 60%.