A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Could trumps own policies undermine the economic uptick. White house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. Healer in chief . Well talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. You elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Former new orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. There are now 100 days until the midterm elections and President Trump is dealing with two different realities, positive Economic News and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. Late saturday night, one of the president s current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an
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Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Change Michael Cohens calculus . What i also did say is
michael leaked that. so i m going to stay on the side of the president here. i m going to take the president at his word that he didn t know. i was in the campaign during that period of time. there was a major flurry of activity. you have to go back, jake, back to june of 2016 where one of the things that the campaign was worried about, and this is something paul manafort, frankly, was working on, is to make sure the president s electoral success state by state was going to be matched at the convention floor where we were counting delegates and we wanted to make sure there wasn t some kind of insurrection. so there was a massive amount of activity around that, very, very little activity away from that. you also have to remember, we were understaffed on that campaign, we were underfunded relative to secretary clinton s campaign as well. so to me it s very possible, and i take the president at his word, that he did not know about the meeting. but knowing what you know about president t
i was in the campaign during that period of time. there was a major flurry of activity. you have to go back, jake, back to june of 2016 where one of the things that the campaign was worried about, and this is something paul manafort, frankly, was working on, is to make sure the president s electoral success state by state was going to be matched at the convention floor where we were counting delegates and we wanted to make sure there wasn t some kind of insurrection. so there was a massive amount of activity around that, very, very little activity away from that. you also have to remember, we were understaffed on that campaign, we were underfunded relative to secretary clinton s campaign as well. so to me it s very possible, and i take the president at his word, that he did not know about the meeting. but knowing what you know about president trump and how he runs things, you really find it credible that donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort