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
care whether a foreign force, especially the russians, tried to hack and continue to try to hack into our voter system and not just what the russians are doing. what signal does it give to any other foreign power that if the united states of america, and i agree with the congressman, that congress needs to step up and do something to protect the integrity of our elections both on the foreign side, cyber warfare and also on the domestic side. since the help america vote act, we really have not made requisite investments into securing our system. i agree it is a big deal if they ve done that. it is a big deal. you know what? let s see what the mueller investigation proves. if they offer information. you know what we do know about the mueller investigation? nothing to do with collusion, nothing to do with the russians. lying about meetings with russia. hold on for a second. the mueller investigation, the first person to go to trial, paul manafort, the mueller team,
had it been president obama they would be running around like their hair is on fire. it s certainly a political double standard. all elected officials should care whether a foreign force, especially the russians, tried to hack and continue to try to hack into our voter system and not just what the russians are doing. what signal does it give to any other foreign power that if the united states of america, and i agree with the congressman, that congress needs to step up and do something to protect the integrity of our elections both on the foreign side, cyber warfare and also on the domestic side. since the help america vote act, we really have not made requisite investments into securing our system. i agree it is a big deal if they ve done that. it is a big deal. you know what? let s see what the mueller investigation proves. if they offer information. you know what we do know about the mueller investigation? nothing to do with collusion, nothing to do with the russians. lyin