well, president trump s attorney said sunday that despite multiple denials during the campaign, his client, president trump, continued conversations about building a tower in moscow until november 2016. nobody missed that one for sure. now giuliani is trying to walk back those statements saying, quote, my recent statements about potential trump moscow project were hypothetical and not based on conversations i had with the president. my comments did not represent the actual timing of any such discussions. the point is the proposal was in the earliest stage and did not advance between a nonbinding letter of intent. however, speaking to the new york times on sunday, giuliani quoted what trump said to him, that the discussions were, quote, going on from the day i
suddenly both president trump and rudy guilliani are saying, well, everybody knew he was negotiating with russia during 2016. nobody knew he was negotiating with russia during 2016. that is a complete lie. the whole point was that this mysterious affection for vladimir putin that he was displaying throughout the campaign, everybody was going, like, where did this come from, why is he suddenly so slome l ss with vladimir putin, now everybody is saying he was negotiating about trump tower moscow in 2016. that is a fraud on the american people. the fact that he was not disclosing that he was negotiating with russia during this period and now he is suddenly admitting it, i don t know that in and of itself is not a crime, but the magnitude of the deception on the american people just on that corner of
seemed to disappoint them because they knew far more than i did. you were receptive to the notion of receiving dirt on hillary clinton prom this russia? we were receptive in may of 2016. nobody was talking about russia. nobody was alleging there were ties between the campaign and russia. our antenna didn t go up because whether it was a french canadian or hawaiian, we would have taken that call to see if it could be credible. nothing wrong in your mind with having a meeting with a russian promising dirt on hillary clinton? there s nothing wrong with having a meeting with someone who s not representing a foreign government for dirt on hillary clinton. it does seem as if all these months later a lot of people connect with the trump campaign did have contacts with russians and a lot of them have forgotten about it. you have forgotten about this contact and jeff sessions forgot
2016. nobody liked donald trump, his unfavorable numbers were truly horrible for a presidential candidate. yet he still won. can you put a lot of stock into poll numbers that are even this favorable? i think you have to look at the special elections and the elections of 2017 in virginia and alabama. a lot of local races, where frankly it was the president of the united states who was on the ballot, that s certainly going to be true in the midterm election. i think democrats have a challenge and one challenge is, getting the voters who don t like donald trump. we can go and get those. making sure we have a clear message for jobs and opportunity for the future, and giving people a reason to vote for democrats, and i think that we got it out there, the opportunity to win the house and senate. we shouldn t take it for granted. and we can t just rely on the fact that you have a whole bunch of people who want to have a referendum on the president. former florida congressman david jolly,
i discussed a cyber security unit doesn t mean i think it can happen. it can t, but a cease fire can and did. trump s reversal came after backlash from some top senate republicans. i am sure that vladimir putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he s doing the hacking. it s not the dumbest idea i ve heard, but it s close. tillerson and trump are ready to forgiver and forget when it comes to cyber attacks on the american election of 2016. nobody is saying mr. president, the russians changed the outcome. you won fair and square, but they did try to attack our election system. they were successful in many ways, and the more you do this, the more people are suspicious about you and russia. the panel is back with me now. mark, first to you. why did the president change his mind? that s an unfair question to ask. for us to actually get inside president trump s mind and try to figure out what he s doing