investigation. and i think that s what you see coming through in some of the interview this week. matt miller, always good to have you with us. david ignatius, before we let you go, let s not forget that in the midst of all this this week, major developments in north korea. the fact that the cia director and the nominee to be secretary of state visited with the leader, kim jong-un, that the president has said again this week that he is prepared to meet with kim jong-un. and getting news yesterday from north korea that perhaps as part of any deal they would be willing to leave american troops in south korea along the border there. it s been a pretty historic week in that regard, as well. i think that the white house apparently through miake pompeo soon to be secretary of state if he is confirmed, has been preparing the way for serious negotiation in late may or june between president trump and kim jong-un, more than we realize. they ve now begun addressing what the korean peninsula
loyal to trump. they all think the new york investigation is a way to get to trump, and that none would be surprised if cohen did break the law. a source who has worked closely with cohen for ten years tells katy, michael might believe he won t flip on the president, but he will. it s one thing to be loyal when you re taking shots at the press. it s another to be loyal to a guy who hasn t been loyal to you when it s going to ruin your family. when asked if the white house is worried that cohen would flip, a staffer said, of course, just look how they re portraying him. trying to make him look like paul mafrnafort, some low-level staffer. people may debate whether cohen flips but no one says that cohen absolutely did not do anything wrong. cohen has not been charged with a crime and denies any wrongdoing. donny, you know michael cohen pretty well. we ve had this conversation about when the question is put to you, it s go to jail for 20 years or see your kids grow up? we speak regularl
their guy. you are trying to straddle people say the base is really pro-trump. there is really no one republican base. there are conservatives, religious conservatives, then a couple trump bases. some people their politics is defined by trump. when they re in the media you can see them and name them. that seems really craven. but people don t go around reading articles my paper is putting out. regular people are going to be more tribal in their politics. that s just the way it works. and the more they feel donald trump under attack the more intense their support gets for him. we ve seen polling this week again showing that. thanks so much. we ll look for the new issue of the economist. back if octobn on the, congressional investigators grilled michael cohen. a lot has changed since them. jim himes from the house intel
than it is an ideology. right? i ve been arguing for years that the republicans needed to become the populist party. i did not mean donald trump needed to be president. i meant they needed to use free market arguments to argue against corporate welfare. they needed to point out that the five richest counties in america are within commuting distance of washington. in that way, do some of the stuff, the draining the swamp stuff that trump has, but you could targets that toward something that says we need to target power towards local communities and less from the government because that s only enriching insiders. that could have been directed toward a conservative agenda. mitt romney said if you re in the bottom 47%, then you don t belong in our party. they tried to push the populism under water and it came up as this giant loch ness monster. do you think there is a red line? i would have thought the trump appointed director of the fbi, chris wray, could have pleaded with someone like
it s like the story of trump saying he met he had an interview with putin around 60 minutes when they weren t in the same room. it goes to the basic credibility of trump and he says to comey over and over, i never spent the night in moscow. it could never have happened. we now know because keith schuller has testified he spent one night during the miss universe pageant in that hotel room in moscow. just to the question of credibility. trump can t even remember whether he spent the night there. he also happens to lie gratuitously. one of the things that came out in the memo, at the beginning of his dinner, chief of staff priebus doesn t know you re here. oh, he knows you were here and can talk to him. for no reason did he have to lie but he just can t help himself. the president in these memos did say, i did not spend the night in russia. he said i came to the hotel room, took a shower, changed my clothes and we went to whatever the paggent was that night. that s contradicted by