Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. This from cohen. He has been lying all week. He has been lying for years. Reporter lying for years, he says, which is strange because that means Michael Cohen must have been no less a liar when Rudy Giuliani was praising him for not being liar. So was mr. Giuliani lying in that clip you just heard, or lying in this one from just a couple of months ago . The man is an honest, honorable lawyer. It all becomes clear right now. Its confusing, to say the least. The honest honorable lawyer has also been deeply dishonest for years, or at least this week. Maybe its like truthful hyperbole or something. Or maybe like so much else these days is yet another thing that would be funny if it werent so serious. After all, the assertion by Michael Cohen if true casts serious down on the president s longtime claims of no collusion with russia. If true, what else would this be expect the candidate having knowledge or complicity in a form of premeditated collaboration or attempted collaboration with a hostile foreign power in the middle of its attack on american democracy. Youll remember the meeting was
scouring through the material. It was literally waste of 20 minutes, which was a shame. Nobody. I didnt know anything. Its very unimportant sound like a very unimportant meeting. The president has stated very clearly he was not aware of the meeting and did not attend the meeting. This is not a situation where the president was not involved in the meeting, was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting. When did the president learn that that meeting had taken place . I believe in the last couple of days. He did not learn about this meeting until a couple of days ago . He was not wear of the meeting, he was not involved, it sound unimportant. It was such a nothing. But keeping them honest, if it was such a nothing, why did everyone from the president on down start lying about it the moment it became known . First the meeting was billed primarily about adoption of russian children that was a lie. Then came more false statements about what was actually Response Form that bogus statement. I wasnt involved in the Statement Drafting at all, nor was the president. Im assuming that was between mr. Donald trump jr. , between don jr. And his lawyer. That was july 11th of last
else, which does not mean there was no news at the white house today, just the opposite. Cnns Abbey Phillip joins us now. Has the white house any official responsible this Trump Tower Meeting . They have not. The white house has not offered anything in the way of clarification about many of the comments you played there made from the podium by the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee sanders. And the president , as you just mentioned, left town without making any statements at all, leaving this as simply his word against his former lawyers. But the president tried this morning in a tweet to preempt questions from reporters by saying, denying the story, saying he did not know anything about this meeting with don jr. And those russians. But he does not want, clearly, to answer any questions from reporters about it at all, and that is not really how this works. The white house wont submit to any sort of inquiries at all from white house reporters about what they make of this new reporting and how that squares with all of those past statements, denying any knowledge whatsoever from the
president about that meeting, anderson. Do we have any idea what the mood of the president is right now amidst all of this . Well, he is clearly very angry. A white house source told us this week that he has been stewing for days about all of this reporting, watching the coverage on television, and he is angry not just with his former lawyer Michael Cohen, but also with reporters who continue to ask him about this at all these opportunities. They try to change the subject this morning at a Pretty Hastily Put Together Press Conference in the rose garden. The Press Reporters kept feet away from the president , against the president just turned and walked out of the room after. But those questions kept coming. And President Trump is clearly pretty annoyed about it. The tweets we have seen from President Trump this morning reflect pretty accurately where he is. He thinks these questions are a waste of his time and he doesnt want to talk about it. Hed rather talk about Anything Else. And abby, do i have my math right . Are we on day three now without any answers about lies exposed by the cohen tape . Thats exactly right. Three days of the president not saying anything about it, being asked about it. The white house also being asked about it, referring questions to the president s outside lawyers, and also, i should note, anderson, not having any White House Press briefings to answer any Press Briefings at all. Sarah sanders last briefing on monday. The white house has only had three Press Briefings all month. This is the white house retreating from inquiries about all of these controversies swirling around this president. They dont want to talk about it, and theyre not giving reporters opportunities to do it. When they are pressed on it, they are lashing out at reporters, as weve seen this week. The white house is really leaving this out in the open, allowing these questions to continue to swirl around this president. Three Press Briefings in a month, wow. Abby phillip, wow. The damage he could do and some of the other evidence he we can look to determine who is telling the truth here. Joining us for that is Carl Bernstein who shares the bylines from the scoop and has fwln before. And maggie haberman, and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. I mean, maggie, its, again, this odd situation where this is a story involving two people who are not known for their truth telling. Right. I think its interesting looking at that cascade of things, statements from Rudy Giuliani, who is the president s current lawyer. People who get around donald trump tend to take on his personality. This has been a habit that we have seen through the campaign. We have seen it through his career in business. I think when Michael Cohen was working for donald trump, he said things that were not true. I think you see Rudy Giuliani now saying things that are not true. Giuliani told us of that tape of Michael Cohen and donald trump, that it was, quote unquote, exculpatory. He described a series of events on this tape that did not quite play out once you heard the audio. And so i think that you are seeing giuliani try to pit trumps credibility against
Michael Cohens and suggest that trump will win. You cant there is a problem, and this was the issue for them during the campaign. The corrosive lying and the Corrosive Distorting and the corrosive lack of telling the truth, it does have an impact at a certain point. Right. And you cant just keep saying to people youre not hearing what youre hearing. Now, look, Michael Cohen contradicted himself, i think. I think he said something a little different to congress about the Trump Tower Meeting, and he will have to deal with that if he gets called by Robert Muellers investigators. I do think when you look at aggregate what this white house has said, the myriad of things. I never get over jay sekulow saying the president was involved in drafting the report. He may not have been told the truth. But this is the problem we hear over and over again. Well, this is the president saying or this is the client saying. Then quit or dont parrot it if
time he said no collusion, is a lie. So its not just sort of a random lie about the size of the inauguration crowd. Its lying about his involvement with the russian government in the campaign. And carl, if a meeting was squeaky clean with nothing improper, why have there been so many iterations to, you know, to who is there, who knew about it, what exactly took place, what the whole purpose was . Lets be clear about this meeting. This meeting was convened for the purposes of colluding. That was the invitation that was extended to donald trump jr. By mr. Goldstone on behalf of russian representatives to bring dirt to a meeting about Hillary Clinton at the behest of the russian government. It said in the letter of introduction, as it were. So this meeting is unique. It is hugely important, and thus far, from the moment we have learned about it, absolutely
every aspect of it has been attempted to be covered up by donald trump and those around him. He has been truthful about nothing having to do with this meeting. Why . Because, indeed, its indicative of collusion. Now, is this the one time perhaps now that mr. Cohen has said this that donald trump is telling the truth about this meeting and that he did not know of it in advance where he has lied about every other aspect of it almost . Its possible, i suppose. But you and others have run through the chronology of what occurred and what he said three days after the invitation was extended and his son knew about it. Yeah. Its very strange, all these coincidences. And its going to get sorted out. And i think thats one of the reasons were seeing donald trump, according to people around him in the white house, acting so desperately and unhinged in his fury. Maggie, the thing i keep
coming back to about this meeting, and probably will repeat this several times tonight is if were if they were to be believed, donald trump jr. Is informed that the kremlin is supporting his fathers campaign, and he chooses and even if Paul Manafort is in that meeting and kushner is in that meeting, he chooses not to tell his father either in advance or after that meeting, this pretty stunning idea, true or not, that the kremlin is supporting your campaign. For such a small organization, a Small Campaign at that point, its pretty hard to imagine. What im not clear so there is a couple of things i would say about that. Its not clear to me what whether cohen is going to say or is prepared to say or has told people that donald trump sr. Was briefed after this meeting or before this meeting took place. And there is a distinction in and heres why. I could see a world as knowing how people are around donald trump and afraid of incurring his wrath or accused of not being competent or any number of
things he says to his nearest and dearest. If you go and tell him that actually this thing did not result in anything, this didnt happen, you are going to get dismissed. So its possible that he was not briefed after. The question was whether he was briefed before. To me that is the big question mark, and i dont know the answer. I think that generally speaking, in that campaign, people did not do things without donald trump knowing. Not everything, but most times. But there is another very important fact that plays into what people knew when, which is Donald Trumps announcement that hes going give a big speech about Hillary Clintons misdeeds involving russia, among other countries. He gives that announcement of the speech when in the leadup to this meeting. Right. The meeting turns out to be a bust, and donald trump never gives this promised speech. How does donald trump decide to gave big speech on this subject
without knowing that the Trump Tower Meeting is taking place . And how does he decide to cancel the speech without knowing that the meeting is a bust . Thats a chronology thats very hard to explain. And certainly, carl, what we have seen of this president is hes not great about keeping his cards close to the chest. He does like to promo something. He does like to promote something in advance. Watch for some big things, revelation coming up or big news on a summit or whatever it may be. To jeffs point, its entirely possible that he knew about this meeting and decided to kind of give a little promo. Well, thats what it certainly would look like and appears a perfectly reasonable assumption from what he said. Let me add one more piece of information that i learned in the last few days, not from any source connected to cohen or cohens attorneys, but this is that there was a weekly Family Meeting convened by donald trump
at which he presided over through the whole campaign at which almost everything from what i gather of importance in the campaign was discussed. Now whether or not the meeting mr. Cohen is referring to, assuming that it existed in the way he is talking about it is a Family Meeting, i dont know. But there is a part of the whole Campaign Process in which the family was fully briefed and interacted with one another on all the major happenings in the campaign. Perhaps donald trump kept some things from his children. Thats possible, and from his soninlaw and vice versa. I suppose thats possible too. But we now have a picture of the Family Involvement around this one meeting thats starting to coalesce in a way that is very distressing. Okay. To Donald Trumps legal team and the people around him. Donald trump sr. Did not attend those meetings. It was always the children. The children just meeting with each other . Correct. And with some of the campaign you mean the Family Meeting . Correct. Thats an important distinction. If were talking about the history of the campaign, that is how that but it was a regular Family Meeting of just the kids . Just the kids and sometimes some campaign aides. I think its also worth mentioning another part of carls story that he wrote with jim sciutto yesterday on cnn. Com. According to cohen, there are other people present at the meeting where he found out that donald trump sr. Knew about the Trump Tower Meeting. Their testimony may be more important than anyone elses, because maybe their credibility is better than Donald Trumps or Michael Cohens. Corroboration is always indispensable when it comes to these swearing contests. Are there emails . Are there texts . Are there tapes or other witnesses who can confirm or refute what Michael Cohen says about this meeting . That may be more important than
cohens testimony itself, because his credibility is so damaged. There are a lot of wins for the president , for his Administration Just this week. North korea returning what seemed to be has to be confirmed, remains of u. S. Service members. Certainly economic numbers on gdp growth. All things are good for him, but also this week the cfo of the Trump Organization is subpoenaed and this tape emerged which seems to prove that the president lied about his knowledge about Karen Mcdougals deal with ami. There are two things going on and one is that the white house cannot tell a consistent story not just about these issues, but their own accomplishments. So that is one thing because the president will then tweet Something Like he did this morning. Its not these are distractions and i dont want to talk about this, the way weve seen other politicians do. But we have not talked about the Allen Weisselberg appearance before the grand jury that is pend, and this is related to the cohen case in the southern
district of new york, and that is a huge deal. Because he knows everything . Everything. He is synonymous with trumps money. So if you are looking at trying to unravel things that could be problematic for donald trump over decades, this is not just over the last year. He was working for Donald Trumps father . He worked for Donald Trumps father. He was involved in the trump foundation. He is involved in the Trump Organization. He is involved in trumps personal trust, the money that was moved over after he became president. And he reviewed the campaigns books at various points. He literally knows everything. I feel like that was the that is getting overshadowed about this talk about what cohen may or may not say. And in reality, the Allen Weisselberg call to a grand jury is an enormous deal. Maggie haberman, Carl Bernstein, jeff toobin, thanks. Ahead, American Politics and policy, Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters will have plenty to say about that when we come back. And late e2 attorneys with skin in the game clash. Michael avenatti and Alan Dershowitz tonight on 360. How do you win at business . Stay at laquinta. Where were changing with contemporary makeovers. Then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. Who has the upper hand now . Start winning today. Book now at lq. Com. Sharper vision, without limits. Days that go from sun up to sun down. A whole world in all its beauty. Three Innovative Technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. Together in a single lens. Essilor ultimate lens package. Purchase the Essilor Ultimate Lens Package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. Essilor. Better sight. Better life. Sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. Stadium pa all military members stand and be recognized. Sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. No matter where or when you served,
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lie that people want to believe. And during his campaign and right up to this day, and im sure in the future, trump has and will tell lies that people want to believe. Just today i had an exchange with a trump supporter, an educated man who spent much of his life working against the russians, and it is impossible to reason with him. He is immune to evidence. Its not just a lie, its a lie repeated over and over and over and over again. You know, it becomes almost a brand name sometimes, some of these lies or these tag lines. And its hard to fight against. Absolutely. First of all, when you have a plethora, a flood of lies, it does obscure the truth. You can suffocate the truth with lies. But also, again, repetition is very, very important. Any propagandist throughout history has recognized that. And trump, you know, our intelligentsia may mock his
repetition of deep state, witchhunt, crooked hillary, take your pick. Fake news, that sort of thing. Fake news, certainly. Fake news. But those simple binary combinations are easy to remember. Twoword combinations, most of them monosyllabic words. They have incredible staying power, and they are like the awful commercial jingles that you hate, but when you go into the store and say which one of the the thousands of rolls of toilett paper do i buy, and that Jingle Sticks in your head. Trump insinuates into your head. The other thing that strikes me with that meeting is in donald trump is informed that russia, the candidate wants donald trump to win, it just defies logic that donald trump jr. Would not Say Something to his own father. Yeah. Hey, you know what . I dont know if this is true or not, but were being told that russia actually wants you to win. Thats a stunning thing for any candidate. Yeah. And donald trump wants to be in the loop. His specialty actually has been
keeping other people out of the loop, letting them only slightly. He wants to be the master of information. So, again, it is utterly inconceivable to me that any member of trumps family would have scheduled, or any of this staff would have schedule such a meeting without getting not just telling him, but getting his blessing. You dont just roll on your own on stuff like this. Just lastly, putin said he has invited President Trump to moscow, which the white house says theyre open to. And putin said he is ready to come to washington, praised the president for fulfilling his campaign promises. I wonder what you make of this latest exchange here. Well, perhaps President Trump can visit some old girlfriends. But its, look, Putin Doesnt Want to come here because he knows it would be a spectacle. There is so much anger toward him and russia. But by inviting trump to moscow, he can lay on all the Military Parades that trump loves. He can give him literally the czarist royal treatment. And so i think its a smart move on putins point. And there is so much else involved in all this. But go back to something i said at the start of the show. The big lie repeated over and over again, the lie that people want to believe can beat the truth. And, you know, the Washington Post now on its mast head, it has a phrase, democracy dies in darkness. Thats not to really true. Democracy dies in broad daylight if good citizens do nothing. And too many of us are doing nothing in the age of trump. Colonel peter, i appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. Well, as the weekends, one of the biggest story lines of course has been the very public separation between the president and his once fixer, his personal attorney Michael Cohen. Coming up, ill talk with Michael Avenatti and Alan Dershowitz about who they believe amidst all the fire and fury, so to speak. 34. 90 more per month. Call or go online today. A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today the release of that audiotape between donald trump and his onetime personal lawyer Michael Cohen and cnns reporting from sources who claim cohen is reporting the president knew of the meeting has thrown the president s former fixer back squarely into the spotlight for what me may or may not say to Robert Mueller but also his onetime client President Trump. Subject of much debate which takes us to two attorneys who are no stronger for the spotlight themselves in the story. Michael avenatti, Stormy Daniels attorney and Alan Dershowitz, who as emerged as one of the president s defenders at times. He is the t author of the new book the case against impeaching trump. Michael, there the past youve called Michael Cohen, quote, an absolute criminal thug. You have called him in a coconspirator. Youre in a legal battle with him on the ongoing Stormy Daniels case. In terms of the Trump Tower Meeting, do you think he is telling the truth here . Well, its a good question, anderson. I dont know if hes telling the truth. I think he likely is telling the truth, but the guy has been all over the map for so many months and years that i think that as a witness, certainly there is questions as to his credibility. Professor dershowitz, if the reporting turns out to be true, and a big if, and the president did know about the meeting, there are others to corroborate Michael Cohens story, is that major problem for President Trump and donald trump jr. Who between with the two of them have denied the president s knowledge of the meeting nine times. Oh, its a political problem to be sure, but i dont think its a legal problem. Even if the president knew of the meeting, knew exactly the role of the woman who was there
that she was representing the russian government, and even knew that they were going to go to try to collect dirt that had already been gotten by the russians on Hillary Clinton, that would be a political sin, but it wouldnt be a federal crime. And i think if this is the best that cohen has to offer, i dont think hes going to be given immunity by the federal prosecutors. He may have to compose and not only sing to get that because this isnt very much from a legal point of view. Its a big deal from a political and Public Relations point of view, but legally its a 3 on a scale of 10 maybe. Whats also interesting about cohens story on this, and again, if it turns out to be true, he claims there are other people present who heard that as well. So if theyre under oath, i guess they could back up what cohen has to say. And if it turns out there are no other people, that will affect his credibility as well. Right. But i think the big picture
is that even if everything he says is true, its not a crime. You know, in my new book, case against impeaching trump, i set out a hypothetical based on this possibility, a hypothetical. Even if the president actively sought Material Dirt On Hillary Clinton, terrible thing, but even if he sought it, but the dirt had already been gathered, and he wasnt asking them to hack the dnc or do anything criminal, that would not be a crime. It would show, quote, perhaps collusion. But there is nothing in the federal code that makes collusion itself a crime. Well, professor, about those tapes, you tweeted yesterday, quote, i didnt say Michael Avenatti was wrong, but if he is right how did he access that confidential information. He implied there is more trump tapes. Giuliani says one with trumps voice and we will try to stand by that . Well, i dont want to get personal at all. But i think its hard to imagine how he could have lawfully gotten ahead of those tapes. He did, according to press reports, have a conversation
with mr. Cohen at a restaurant, and that raises some questions because, you know, youre not allowed to speak to somebody whose counseled, who has a lawyer and ask him do you want to Work Together to hurt trump. So i dont know whether that occurred. But if it did occur, i think michael has to do some explaining. Michael . Alan, let me say this. You keep saying you dont want the get personal with me, and you keep getting personal with me, including on fox the other night. The question. Im going to tell you, i dont appreciate it. Im willing to put up my track record over the last six months in this case up against yours in day of the week. I have been very, very accurate in my predictions, in the statements that ive made, and is the and the facts. And the fact of the matter is on sunday, you expressed considerable doubt as to whether i knew what i was talking about, and within 48 hours let me finish within 48 hours i was proven right. I said it was true. I said it was true what you were talking about. And thats why it needs some explanation. You did guarantee the american
public back in may that President Trump would resign. Were watching our watches and waiting to see if that prediction comes true. Thats the one prediction that you really staked your reputation on. So your reputation will turn on whether he does resign or not. Well, alan, let me tell you, im going to determine what my reputation turns on, not you. I have made many predictions that have been i will, too. Let me finish. Ive made many predictions that have turned out to be true. And we have two years left in this president s term. Despite the fact he thinks you write great books, were going to see what happens. Monday you said im awaiting an apology from Alan Dershowitz and others. I stated in late may during the pressure. There were multiple recordings and that was confirmed today. Unlike President Trump and others, i dont make statements that are false. The Washington Post did report there are about 100 recordings. We dont know the full nature of those recordings. Well, back on may, i think it was 29th, anderson, i stood in front of the federal courthouse
and i demanded the release of all of the trump tapes, and i stated at the time that there were multiple recordings, and we now know that indeed there are over 100 recordings that have been seized. I want to go back to something i said earlier. This information on the Trump Tower Meeting, thats not the best information Michael Cohen has. I can assure you of that. How do you know that . How do you know that, is my question . How can you assure us . Again, im not going to tell you how i know these things. But you know, what alan well, you may have the tell the Ethics Committee, then. You may have to tell that to the things committee. Alan if you had a conversation with a man and you didnt ask his lawyers permission and his lawyer is now evidently complaining about that. So you have to answer these questions, and it is not enough for you to say selectively i dont have to answer that question, but i will a answer that the question. Alan, alan, you really need to Start Talking only about things that you know about, as
opposed to things that you have no knowledge about. You have no knowledge of the communications that went on between me and Michael Cohens representatives long before that long before that no, you dont know what youre talk about, alan. It is in the press. Long before that restaurant meeting. You have no idea about the communications that went on relating to a particular or proposed level of communication. You need to go back let me finish. Let him finish. You need to go back and concentrate on what invites youre getting on Marthas Vineyard since that appears to be what youre really good at. Well, im about to head off to a party. So i have to leave in a minute. Good luck to that. Are you saying specifically that you were given permission by Michael Cohens lawyer to have that conversation with him in the restaurant . Thats a question you should answer specifically, because if you Werent Given Permission to have that conversation with Michael Cohen, you may have to answer to an Ethics Committee about that conversation, because i taught legal ethics for 35
years, and i know a lot about legal ethics. And the one thing i know is youre not allowed to have a conversation with somebody whose counseled without the specific approval of the client of the lawyer to have that conversation. I think you have to explain that meeting. Alan, alan, guess who gave Me Permission . Michael cohen. He gave Me Permission. Thats not enough. Thats not enough. Thats not enough under the rules of ethics. Alan, alan, alan. Yeah. Once again you dont know what youre talking about. You know what i want to know . I want to know about the relationship between you and donald trump. I think you ought to disclose the extent of the relationship. How did you get that positive book review . Why is that it you two happy to disclose it. Why is it that you two appear to be such Close Friends now . Ive met him three times in my life. All three times dealing with the middle east. I have no relationship with him. But you have to tell you, i do know legal ethics. And getting permission from a
counseled client youre wrong. Youre wrong. Is not enough. Ive been teaching legal ethics for a long time. About that, i am 100 . Michael, let me ask you, i want to ask you about the three additional women you say youre representing. You say theyre also paid hush money. You tell us any more when that hush money was allegedly paid or Anything Else about the alleged relationships and any proof that they happened . In 2015 and 2016, and i find it very interesting that we havent seen a denial from donald trump or Michael Cohen all day. I would think that if i was wrong, we would have seen a denial. And alan, i feel sorry for the students you taught legal ethics by the way, because you didnt teach them the truth. Well, theyve become justices of the Supreme Court, judges. Im sure. Some of the most important people in america. Im sure theyre very proud. I stand by my record of Teaching Ethics for a long, long
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trump does anything good, they want to say russia, russia, russia. I was watching twitter this morning when the president was having his Press Conference, and i was shocked, really shocked, the number of journalists and even news outlets, folks who i really respect and have a great deal of admiration for, while the president is up at the podium talking about the growth numbers, as you talked about, the best gdp numbers weve had in four years, that were just actively hitting the president on russia and cohen and mueller. And the president literally couldnt even get through that Press Conference with folks hitting him. Again, im not saying that the president and the white house are immune from criticism. Im not saying that they dont have days where they create some of the headaches for themselves. But it shocks me every time i see this where they literally wont let the president get up off the mat. Is part of the problem, though, jason, theyve only had three white house briefings in the last month, and this tape has come out which shows that the president lied and the campaign lied about knowing
about the deal with ami and karen mcdougal, and theyve not said anything about it on the record . Well, i think to the point about the Press Briefings, i mean the president s very accessible. I had said when i was on the other night that i think hes one of the most open president s weve ever had in the white house, whether it be the Cabinet Meetings or the different press he has. Obviously the one on wednesday got a little bit off the rails. I think thats probably an understatement. You cant say hes open when they kick out the pool reporter. I mean no, and i how can you say the most open. They threw out one of our colleagues because she did her job. The other problem i think that weve got to be able to face straight ahead is that when you have openness when you want to have it, thats not transparency. Its when youre able to stand up and take tough questions and be available. And you cant then say, listen, i want to be able to have a happy Press Conference about my happy topics and im going to be upset and throw a fit like a toddler because somebody asked me a hard question. Thats what were dealing with. I do want to say one more thing, though. Im surprised that conservatives are not more upset with whats going on in the economy. I remember when President Obama was in office. Because of deficits, we had the tea party marching all across the country. We now have massive deficits under trump, and no complaints at all. The conservatives attacked obama for bailing out the auto industry. Now you have trump bailing out american farmers, basically taking farmers and moving them from work to welfare because of his trade war, and not a peep. So, yes, theres good economic performance, but its based on massive deficit spending, which conservatives wont check, and a trade war which makes no sense. And bailouts which conservatives wont criticize. So there is something going on in the economy that im surprised. You talk about being shocked. Im shocked i dont hear people like you having more fidelity to your own conservative principles. Van, were looking at Unemployment Numbers that are at
a 50year low. You and i both know that the federal debt doubled under President Obama, that because we had a huge recession. If were ever going to but, again, we had the slowest growth. We had the slowest recovery since [ Overlapping Voices ] it was a slow recovery. So, van, what we needed is to go and jump start this economy and get it moving, and i think thats what President Trump has done. If we go back to the election of 2016, right after that election, you know as well as i do that every corporate leader in america thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win. And they were essentially thinking there were going to be higher taxes and higher regulation as a result of that. So when President Trump won, theyre almost playing with house money. They started investing in their companies, investing back in the economy. That started this rocket ship of growth. Then we got deregulation in 2017. We got this big tax cut. Now were going into the trade deals and fighting for american jobs. Van, this economy is a rocket ship, and now were going to go in and take on china, which is really the biggest economic competition over the next 50 years this. Is the big thing. Listen, all that sounds great. Very nice story. Heres the reality. The reality is all the numbers youre talking about were moving in the right direction under obama, and you guys said we were in hell. The numbers continue to move in the same direction at a slower pace, and now were in heaven. Thats because you read Bedtime Stories to your kids and think its real life. In real life, both president s deserve more credit than they get. Van, you sound like jan brady. Dont miss the Van Jones Show tomorrow night, 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cnn. Hell talk to carmelo anthony. Van also takes on the progressive movement. Also join us monday for our daily interactive newscast on facebook. You can watch full circle at 6 25 p. M. Eastern. Ill see you there monday. 360 continues tonight. Up next, the shifting
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