Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Nice to have you all. John dean, let me begin with you. You heard the president out there try to defend himself today. Did he do himself any favors . Every time he opens his mouth he seems to conflict with a prior statement so i dont think he did himself any favors. They have not developed a Clear Strategy or approach or answer or response to any of this. And it is reminiscent of others in high places that got themselves in trouble. Some of them kept a better message than trump has. David, to you, the defense from the president again and again is, you know, the payments didnt come out of the campaign. He said and i quote, they being the payments, came from me. If what he said on fox is true, that statement, then at the very least he admitted to a payment that was not disclosed on the Financial Disclosure forms, which very well may be illegal, but how does the court of Public Opinion see it ton
may have evidence that trump nguy knew in advance of the tower meeting. that would be very significant. we ll have to wait and see. looks to me increasingly we re going to have a rudy guiliani versus lanny davis fight in the air waves. you might be right about that. julie, today you were there in the briefing. when sarah sanders was asked if the president lied to the american people, she said that is a quote, ridiculous accusation. this for a president who the washington post fact checker says his presidency made false or misleading statements over 42 times. not in the context it was asked which as you pointed out earlier, we have video, i was on air force one the day we asked if he was aware of the payment michael cohen made to stormy daniels and he said no. now he changed that story, completely changed his story several times on the context payments were made, what his role was, and whether he knew