Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You just heard his account of the tape. Did you actually hear the tape . I did. Did you miss this girl, did you read my book . A few other highlights from the book, she claims she walked in on President Trump and his lawyer, michael cohen, and the president was eating a piece of paper as if trying to hide it. She also says he had a tanning bed installed in the white house. The president himself has not commented on the book but his administration dismissed it out of hand saying in a statement yesterday, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. Eddie, let me start with you. Here we are talking about this book. How much import do you give this, what shes alleging in this book, the racist components to this presidency . Its just the latest evidence, but i wants just salacious talk. We shouldnt give omarosa toosm
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role. this story is growing and not dying. legs of the story are longer and stronger than ever. the trump story. yeah, and the funny thing is, where did donald trump, the persona of donald trump start? it starts in the new york city tabloids. so basically the national enquirer is those tabloids but it strayed from the roots. it is in every single supermarket across this country and donald trump couldn t have had a better ally, not just ally, but an adjunct of his campaign and they admit so a tabloid personality becomes a tabloid president with the help of america s leading tabloid. and following up another string here, mimi, access hollywood when he said i would get away with any misbehavior sh the grossef thi the grossests leads to the payments of two women. people say, the front-runner of the movie with gary hart, not talking about people s sex lives
and ultimately i ll make a decision. michael avenatti speaking at a democratic party fund raiser in iowa last night as he considers a run for the oval office. democrats he says want a fighter to challenge president trump in 2020. i want to bring my panel back in here. christina, i m going to turn to you first. he says he wants a fighter. is that what the democratic party needs at this point? the democratic party needs a lot of things. michael avenatti is not one of them. okay? it would be ideal if michael avenatti were a republican, i would say, sure, force him to come to the table and talk about some issues. michael avenatti dipping his toes into the democratic party politics when we already know we ll have a very crowded field of qualified individuals, many of them are flawed, and we re going to have to sift through who the best representative will be to go against a tabloid president who already has an advantage as the incumbent sitting president. so the democrats already have
president. we ve asked this question over and over again, does stormy daniels have more than what we heard on the 60 minutes interview? is there some secret or something she s not disclosed that donald trump is afraid of. the way he s behaved of her, demanding $20 million for having violated the nda, all of the stuff in the legal realm suggest that he very much is afraid of her and did not want her to tell her story. there s something there. and what he s seemed to have done, we have a tabloid president and requires a tabloid lawyer. i m going to be on cable news just like donald trump plays the game on twitter and cable news, i m going to play the game on twitter and cable news and take it to donald trump every single day. as i said earlier, the way donald trump took it to his opponents in the republican nomination fight and the way he took it to hillary clinton. right now it seems to be working. i think she is on to something
are we surprised that has brought so much silence to us, to the tabloid president is being done at the hands of an adult film actress. this is the reality tv show presidency and the white house. and so i think subsequently, what we re seeing is a clamping down on the part of, you know, the staff surrounding donald trump saying right now, your silence is golden in more ways than one. but of course, i think, you know, if donald trump were to speak, and were to speak out quite loudly, whether it be on twitter, whether it be with reporters, it opens up the door for all kinds of questions, and right now we have a woman, stormy daniels who will not be sile silenced. and in donald trump s world, that s an effective opponent. the sound of donald trump s silence is not something we re familiar with, and by his own estimation, listen to donald