forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witchhunt he describes treating him and others like Paul Manafort unfairly. It could be that hes watching what the coverage of the Manafort Trial, thats getting to him. Could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house Special Counsel speaking to Robert Mueller and heard a lot about the fact Robert Mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to give himse
trump and for the benefit of president trump. they never charge presiden trump. we now know, because the u.s attorney at the time has spilled the beans about it he s written a book about it we now know that trump appointees at the department o justice ordered federa prosecutors to stop that investigation, to stop their inquiries relayed to that case after they charged michael cohen. according to former u.s. attorney jeffrey berman, the trump justice department repeatedly interfered in tha investigation after cohen wa convicted. jeff berman wrote a book about it dispels at all route. when bill barr took over his attorney in february 2019, h not only try to kill the ongoing investigations, bu incredibly suggested that mike the cohen s conviction o campaign finance charges b reversed barr summoned statewid officials to challenge the basis of cohen s plea as wel as the reason behind pursuin similar campaign finance charges against othe individuals.
since last spring. we actually don t have that sound. luckily i have a panel to explain it all to us, how his relationship has changed and now the man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump as a the president is a racist, a con man, and a cheat. that comes from his prepared statement. the final draft provided by his attorney lanny davis. the former fixer goes on to talk about those who might doubt he s telling the truth now. he says for those who question my motives being here today, i understand. i have lied. but i m not a liar. i have done bad things but i m not a bad man. i have fixed things but i am no longer your fixer, mr. trump. i have an extraordinary team to help me. garrett haake back on the hill, katy tur still with us, eddie glaug back with me and donny deutsch, a long time friend of mike cohen.
him as well as anybody. do you like donald trump. yes. do you think he s a slime bag. yes. i did not go to work for him and you even poor billy bush who ended up paying the ultimate price, he giggled at something that was disgusting. it s how voters felt about it, too. one other thing that s really important. my argument, i m not here to defend michael cohen. i find our president reprehensible and mike the cohen is one of the first dominos to fall. i don t think anybody should sympathize. it s the question is he credible. sympathy and credibility. i m not arguing like him. if they want to start saying he s not credible, if rudy guiliani wants to say that, i ve seen rudy with michael cohen. for me as a political operative, donald trump was a blunt instrument somebody able to change the narrative whether you liked or not, somebody to get through the noise.