And that includes puerto rico. Actually, he didnt. James lee wit told us that assessment was for hurricanes harvey and irma. On the subject of his combative relationship with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. We are probably now, despite what we read, were probably now, i think, at least as far as im concerned, closer than ever before. And the relationship is very good. Were fighting for the same thing. You know who else the president says he has a Good Relationship with . Saets steve bannon. The same steve bannon who left the backed candidate running against trumps choice in the Alabama Senate race. The same steve bannon promising to wage war against the leaders of the gop, like Mitch Mcconnell. I have a very Good Relationship as you know with steve bannon. Steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. And trump also thinks he is doing much more for the families of Fallen Soldiers than his predecessor. If you look at president obama and other president s, mouf them didnt make calls. A lot of them didnt make calls. I like to call when i think its appropriate, when im able to do it. Thats not true either. Brum during his time in the white house wrote letters and made calls to families of fallen american troops, just as other president s have done. So lets discuss all of this now. I want to bring in now cnn senior political analyst mark preston, David Axelrod and plilt at analyst april ryan. Where do we start here, mark . Where do we start with this. Lets start with Mitch Mcconnell because it was a united front as you have seen with other leaders who have come out with him, everything is fine, saying they are closer than ever before. We know how they have been feuding. It has been on twitter. Its been going back and forth. Are you really buying this love fest . Well, i aum things. One is this is a classic donald trump stick and carrot proechl of the he beats you and then hell throw out a carrot in front of you. We saw that happen today within hours of where he was very critical of the United States senate, particularly republican senators forgetting his agenda through and he took no responsibility for it. At the same time he knows that he needs Mitch Mcconnell on the senate if hes going to have any kind of success. If hes going to get any kind of victories. He has an unhealthy obsession with his legacy, but it is so unhealthy so early in his term right now. And the fact is donald trump likes victories and he likes wince and without Mitch Mcconnell hes going to get none of those. He also has an unhealthy obsession with the former president. April, you called this News Conference with the president and the Senate Majority leader a hot mess. Why is that . Well, one, you know, those comments, james lee wit and also with president obama saying that the president never called or visited with any of those Fallen Soldiers, i couldnt believe that. And after sarah from cnn, the reporter from cnn asked that question the president said that, i leaned over and said thats not true. Because i was there. You know, i remember going to the hanger where the victims of been gaes game out, i remember being there. I remember the president going to Dover Air Force base. That was sacred for that president. Thats a sacred moment. And to Say Something like that was very tough. And then at the end with the issue, you know well, a couple of times. Reporters were asking questions some reporters got three questions. But john roberts from fox news asked i guess his third or fourth question, i guess the third or fourth round, really, he asked about the nfl, and thats when i got my chance to ask about Police Involved shootings. The actual reason why the nfl players are taking a knee, and the president kept saying its disrespect and i through that question out and he kept saying disrespect. Never discussing the issue, the reason why the players knelt. It was just when you listen to a president of the United States, words matter. And for us to hear that certain things didnt happen, it just leaves a lot to question his credibility and just what really is happening. Yeah. What was interesting is that he hasnt spoken out about this, david, and the president was also asked today about his public silence for nearly two weeks on the four green berets killed in niger. He said he hasnt spoken to the families yet but he has written letters that will be arriving soon. But its this comment that drew criticism. Watch this. The toughest calls i have to make are the calls where this happens, soldiers are killed. Its very difficult thing. Now, it gets to a point where, you know, you make four or five of them in one day, its a very, very tough day. For me thats by far theest. The traditional way if you look at president obama and other president s, most of them didnt make calls. And then he later back tracked, david, when questioned about his claim and he said he only knew what his generals told him. I heard a. I heard that. I dont know if thats true. Im paraphrasing that. Former obama staff wrote this on twitter. She said that is a i cant use the language lie saying president obama or past president s didnt call families of members of soldiers kia. Hes a deranged animal. You were at president obamas side. What was your reaction to thiz comments today . Well, i mean, it was outrageous. And not just about him but about previous president s as well. Any president feels as President Trump said what when he started speaking that those are the toughest calls you have to make, those are the toughest meetings you have. That is really when being commander in chief comes home to you because you have the responsibility for these young men. You send them into battle and you are moved when there is a loss. I was there, don, in october ofible it was 2009 when the president in the middle of the night flew out to dover to as april mentioned to receive 18 Service People who were coming back in coffins from afghanistan and met with the families of those Service People in the middle of the night for several hours, consoling them. And i remember how sober he was the next morning in reflecting on that experience. So, you know, i dont know why President Trump feels the need to throw those things out. He does it all the time. Why does he feel the need to claim credit for this outstanding job in puerto rico when puerto rico is in such distress right now . Any reasonable person would say mr. President dont say those things. But he does and he does and he does. I dont know why. I want to talk about puerto rico, but just to reeither what happened. Former white house photographer put this picture up on instagram showing president obama consoling the parents of Army Sergeant first class monday tee who was killed in afghanistan. So again this president did not have his facts right. I want to ask you about what david just talked about and that is a response to hurricane maria. 44 approved how the president is handling the hurricane response. That is a 20 point drop from just a few weeks ago. That was after harvey and irma hit the mainland. How damaging are these numbers for the white house. Theyre very damning. He might not be doing well with Puerto Ricans who have moved here to the mainland United States, but that is a reflection right now of his stewardship of the government. And im not saying that its very easy, a very easy job to be doing what he is doing, because it is very difficult and im sure david can speak to that. You are juggling multiple baults, but the fact of the matter is that President Trump continues to go out and say things that are false, misleading and flat out lies and also deciding to go to war with the mayor of san juan down in puerto rico. Why would you do that . Theres absolute no reason when we heard from our own correspondents right now that while supplies are getting to the port, theyre not getting out of the port. Why isnt President Trump more concerned about perhaps sending in the military or sending in more folks to try to start rebuilding that infrastructure and getting those supplies around . But, again, don, it all goes back to what we said at the top. President trump really, really is focused on his own legacy and hes focused on himself, and theres a bit of nar simple there that i think is really getting in the way of him really doing a solid yob as president right now. How frustrating is it to sit there as someone who has covered the white house for twhas it, 20 years now and knowing in real time that this president should be fact checked and then not always having the opportunity to do so . Its got to be frustrating for people who if this is your vocation. Yes, it is frustrating. You know, it was frustrating. I was trying to get a question in. I was smackdab right in froblt of him and he made it a point not to recognize me. But towards the end he did, and when he was saying these things, particularly when he talked about james lee wit, and i understand that he sometimes leaves other facts out or changes it a little bit, and i remember a conversation that he had with congressman Elijah Cummings at the very beginning of this conversation when he came out and said after that conversation, oh, Elijah Cummings said that im the greatest president ever. Thats not what he said. He would be the greatest president if you did such and such and such and such. So its always a part of the fact and Something Else with it. And thats unfortunate to say about an american president because words matter. And listening to him today, particularly when he talked about obama and prior president s, but george w. Bush and president clinton, and i was like thats not true. It is frustrating. But thats why were there. Were the first line of questioning an american president and we also have Institutional Knowledge and memories sometimes that will help correct the misstatements. David, i want to ask you about this one because i thought its important to point out here. The president also weighed in on Hillary Clinton supporting nfl players rights. I hope hillary runs. Hillary, please run again. Go ahead. Shes at odds with you over whether this is disrespecting the flag. Is she right or is she wrong . I think shes wrong. Look, when they take a knee, theres plenty of time to do niece and lots of other things. But when you take a knee well, thats why she lost the election. Thats why she lost. What do you think of that . Look, he would love to replay this election from now until the next election, you know. He lives in this world, this race with Hillary Clinton is the most i mean, think about whats going on in the world right now and that he wants to engage in that discussion. But i do want to go back to one thing, don, which is mcconnell. And, you know, trump ran as an antiestablishment candidate. Mccanal is the ultimate establishment man, as mark pointed out, he needs mcconnell to some degree. But he loves having steve bannon out there strutting around in his johnny cash outfit threatening to gun everyone down and calling mcconnell sees ar and calling for brute i says to step up and do away with him and so on. He knows that hes got a gun cocked at mcconnell, figure ra actively speaking. In this day and age i shouldnt use that language. But hes got this implicit threat that bannon represents. So if im mcconnell im standing up there feeling deeply uncomfortable with trump says bannon is a friend of mine and hes doing what he thinks is right because theres a game being run here and Mitch Mcconnell is caught in the vice. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Don ive got to go. Im sorry. Next time, april. Well see you soon. When we come back, an emotional john mccain joking up tonight as he blasts who would abandon americas leadership in the world nor the sake of what he calls half baked spurious nationalism. Theres more and its very powerful and youll see it next. S tries to get in my way . Watch me. Ive tried lots of things for my joint pain. Now . Watch me. Think id give up showing these guys how its done . Please. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are changing the way they fight it. Theyre moving forward with cosentyx®. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. 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The fear in the world we have organized and led for threequarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of International Leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some halfbaked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dog ma of the past that americans con signed to the ash heap of history. We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. What do you think . I thought it was strong. Its an extraordinary i really urge people to listen to or read the whole speech. Its extraordinary. Eloquent. He really tells it like it is. And you could tell it comes from the heart. And it really is i mean, one hates to plit size it, but it is a frontal attack on donald trump. And it is a frontal attack really on Donald Trumps essential world view. If you go back to trump the businessman, taking out ads in the New York Times in 1980s, it was all this very selfish, narrow view of america in the world. Were being tape advantage of by the japanese. Were being taken advantage of by our nato eye lies. And mccain is essentially frontalel assaulting him. What america has been about for the last 75 years is the opposite. It has been about a country that tries to uphold International Order, to try to create a word of peace and prosperty and rules. And if you think about its coming at the end of a week where trump is trying to pull out of the iran deal, where he has pulled out of the paris agreement, where hes pulled out of the transpacific partnership, where we learn nafta is on the brink of being of collapse. We are watching the foundations of that International Order that john mccain was praising. Were watching it crumble. Theres so much to talk about. First, lets talk about the blood and soil, because that was a direct reference to whats happened in charlottesville, those white supremacists. I think it was clearly tied to that. Its that idea of european nationalism, which has always been about blood and soil. And what he was contrasting it with was mirk, which has always been based on ideas and ideals, not blood and soil. In the last segment i was sitting there, asked april how frustrating it is because as i sit at home before i come in i watch these speeches before i come on, thats not true, thats okay, he has a point about that. But ive never had to fact check in my mind speeches or comments by a president of the United States ever. And people will say, oh, well, the news is just being antitrump. The news needs to point out that is our job to point out inaccuracies and false tiz and lies. And it happens so many in just one speech today. What is going on, fareed . Well, you even saw it as you know, ive always said that the problem with trump is there is no such thing as truth and lies. Hes just making this stuff up. Hes make tg up on the spur of the moment. Its almost like Performance Art and i i dont want to keep using the same word, but we all know what it is. You saw this moment where he looks down and he says, you know, james dewitt james lee wit has given me an a. Plus for our hurricane efforts, and he says james lee wit, director of fema and clinton. A man i know and respect. You know that thats nonsense, that he never heard of that guy before this moment. And he gave it to me for all the hurricanes, including puerto rico and it turns out that wasnt true. It was given for just the first two. Irma and harvey. So you think to yourself, theres something almost pathological about it. You know, he cant stop himself from just in that moment he feels like this will sound better. Why dont i say i know this guy really well. People kbel lish all the time, but when youre the leader of the free world, thats a whole another level. Really interesting question thats why i think its pathological. Why do it . It doesnt really give you much advantage. It ends up producing this firestorm of Fact Checking and criticism. Im not sure that he can stop himself. Yeah. The canadian man who was just rescued by the taliban in pakistan says that when he was told by his captures that donald trump is the american president , he thought they were joking. If someone told you five years ago that donald trump would be the next president , would you have believed them . No, of course not. Can you imagine that, though . Youve been captive for five years and then you come out rip van wink eland your Biggest Surprise is donald trump is president. Look, all of us were surprised. All of us got it wrong in that sense. But i think that the important, perhaps the part that im most surprised about i is i did think that trump would behave a little bit more like a conventional president in this sense, that he would try to broaden his coalition, hed try to appeal to the whole country, hed try to figure out a way to do the things that a majority of the country wanted rather than just his base. In that respect he has been more peculiar and again, somewhat self defeating. Im not quite sure did you think that or did you hope that, fareed . I hoped that, but i also thought, look, the guy hes an intelligent man, i assume. Hes a successful businessman. The obvious thing to do would be pivot to the center. Go for big infrastructure project. Unite the country. I still dont understand what exactly the game is. You know, for example, if youre trying to pass tax reform to belittle bob corker. Maybe theres a genius strategy there, i dont understand it. If youre trying to get a legislative passed and youre systematically insulting the senators who you need to pass that agenda, you know, again now, as he would say, hes president and were not, and so obviously there is some talent there, but yeah. Thank you. By the way, good to see you. By the way, the interview with Hillary Clinton was really great. Really great. Very interesting. Thank you. Responses that you got from her. So for anybody who missed that, make sure you check it out. Cnn. Com slash fareed. When we come back, the president standing side by side with senator mcconnell today despite very publicly calling him out multiple times throughout his presidency. But raets really behind their sudden show of unity . People would stare. Psoriasis does that. It was tough getting out there on stage. I wanted to be clear. I wanted it to last. So i kept on fighting. I found something that worked. And keeps on working. Now . They see me. See me. 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We will continue to work hard to get the health care completed. Im going to be surprising some people with an Economic Development bill later on, but i havent even told mitch because i want to focus on tax cuts and some other things right now. He hasnt told him, but theyre bffs. That is a tall order for a party at war with itself and facing what could be devastating midterms next year. Thank you gentlemen for joining us. Curt, you first. The president giving a big public show of support to the Senate Majority leader someone he has very publicly rebuke. This is just two weeks ago. He said the only problem i have with Mitch Mcconnell is after hearing repeal and replace for search years he failed. That should never have happened. So is this a mend of fences . Whats going on here. I think the operative word that you said was its a show. Its just for show. Theres no sincerity behind it. Mitch mcconnell certainly doesnt believe that donald trump is his friend. I think if anything maybe in that moment during that press Conference Donald Trump probably plooefd that he was Mitch Mcconnells guy. But we all that whether its tomorrow morning or over the weekend or a week from now hes going to end up criticizing Mitch Mcconnell. And he has these irreconcilable forces here. You cannot say on one hand steve bannon is a good friend of mine, i support what hes doing. I understand the frustration that he represents with members of the senate, who are Mitch Mcconnells colleagues and part of his caucus, and on the other hand try to say youre also Mitch Mcconnells best friend. It was just a few weeks ago that donald trump was in alabama next to Luther Strange trying to convince everybody that they didnt know who Mitch Mcconnell was. Lets talk about that because the president also voiced some frustration at the senates inability to push his agenda forward. Steve bannon was on the opposite side of him in that race, right. So here is what he has said publicly, bannon, about Mitch Mcconnell. Watch. Right now its a season of war against a gop establishment. Weve cut your oxygen off, mitch. So bannon has made no secret of the fact that he wants to purj as many Establishment Republicans as possible in the upcoming midterms. How can the president be aligned with bannon and mcconnell at the same time . Well, i dont know that thats possible. And i think you have competing interests here. I think for a while steve bannon and now President Trump came together to help get him elected president , but i dont think that their goals are the same. I think put wants to get a deal done. He wants to deliver on the Campaign Promises that he talked about, and i dont think he really cares about who is involved and what the deal looks like. He just wants to say he got it done. Steve bannon on the other hand has kind of aligned himself with trump, but i think hes using President Trump as a way to either destroy the Republican Party or remake the Republican Party into something he thinks it should be. I remember last cycle i was getting emails from Speaker Paul Ryan about speaker paul ryens challenger saying speaker ryan wanted to elect Hillary Clinton and he was for am necessaryty and he was clubbing baby seals and i thought they were from paul knee land, the challenger, but they were actually from breitbart. So i think theres competing interests here and thats what makes getting something done more difficult. Youre a numbers guy. I want to take a look at some of these numbers in the upcoming midterm about the current balance of power in the house. Republicans 241 to 194 majority. Your Analysis Shows that democrats likely are to pick up some seats there. Your projections show a lot more republican seats up for grab than democratic ones and you say there are 48 gop seats in play with only 14 zmt seats in play. The democrats would need a net gain of 24 seats for a majority. How likely does that seem to you . Well, history is on the democrats side. In 18 of the last 20 midterm elections the president s party has lost seats. And the average seat loss in those 18 elections is 33. And you mentioned democrats need 24. Democrats are recruiting i would say a strong crop of candidates and challengers of the one of the big unknowns right now in this cycle is traditionalel midterms are bad for the president because they become a referendum on the president. Right now most voters dont believe President Trump is the head of the Republican Party. Hes kind of his own entity, and so im not sure that even if voters dont like what the president is doing, if theyre going to take it out on republican incumbents. So, curt, a White House Reporter had some reporting about republicans in and out of the white house trying to let President Trump know if the democrats take the house, he could be facing impeachment. How realistic do you think that democratic majority is now . I think its incredibly possible. Think about this. Right now were just nine months, ten months into the presidency of donald trump. Imagine a year from now, how tired were all going to be of this daily charade. And you have to imagine that the American People at that point, especially if not much is happening in congress, will hold the president accountable for having this United Government of republicans in control and not being able to get anything done. And thats why republicans are so concerned right now with Donald Trumps fixation by driving these wedges with his own party. Ill at the you if democrats take control of congress they will have oversight authority. They can effectively crip pell the tram. We took control of the majority while we were working with dairl eye sa. We were able to successfully launch vefs after investigation and really get a lot of the white houses attention and slow down the obama presidency. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. President trump today blasting Sexual Assault allegations against him that surfaced during the campaign as fake news. Were learning today his campaign has been subpoenaed. Dploera all red, who represents one of trumps accusers, she joins me next. hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. 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As a matter of fact, this subpoena is in the court file lodged with the court in our lawsuit against President Trump. And in fact, along with the subpoena is a letter from the trump pence acknowledging the subpoena and agreeing that they will produce all documents after the Court Decides whether or not to grant their motion to dismiss our case. If the Court Decides to allow us to continue to litigate this case and deny trumps motion to dismiss, then they will have 30 days to produce all the documents that we requested. So this is about as real as it can be, and apparently trumps lawyers know that. The campaign knows that. But donald trump himself is the only one who thinks thats fake. What do you think the documents in the campaign, theyre going to be relevant to your lawsuit, gloria . Well, there are many documents. Of course, our lawsuit is a defamation lawsuit, because during the campaign, of course, we heard the access hollywood tapes and the billy bush on the bus tapes in which the president is alleged to have said or we heard his voice saying that he felt he could grab and kiss a woman because he was a star, that in fact he could grab them by he mentioned their genitals, and then when Anderson Cooper in the debate with then candidate trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton asked mr. Trump did you in fact do what we heard you say that you did on those tapes, the access hollywood tapes and the president said it was just locker room talk. He denied ever doing that. After that women began to come out and they came out to the New York Times. Then many of them came out with me at press conferences and accused the president of, in fact, doing some of what we heard him say on the tapes. After that president , then candidate trump at some point said theyre all liars, all the women are liars. What they said was fabrication and fiction. Im going to sue them all after the election. Well, he did not sue them all after the election. I called on him to retract his threat. I called on him to acknowledge that what summers had said was in fact true. He did not take the opportunity to retract or acknowledge. Therefore, three days before the inauguration i filed a lawsuit on behalf of summer, who is a real hero. And shes the only woman who did accuse donald trump who then went ahead and filed a lawsuit, because her reputation is important to her. Can i because truth matters, and she would like him to acknowledge what in fact is the truth, and she says that what she alleged about him is true. You heard the response from the President Trump. I dont need to play the sound bite. Listen, this is the attorneys for the president , also released a statement that i want to read for you. Misall red has served a far reaching subpoena on the Trump Campaign that seeks wholly irrelevant information intended solely to hairs the president. Indeed misall red herself has questioned how the president could run the country if faced with broad discovery. Whats your response. Well, first of all, everything that we requested in the subpoena is relevant. We want fafrm for example, we all documents concerning any woman who asserted donald trump touched them inappropriately. Any such women or woman fabricated or created or lied about her interactions with him or were motivated to come forward by fame or, quote, ten minutes of fame, end quote, money, politics or pressure from the clinton campaign. By the way, we also are asking, and this involves cnn, we say that were requesting all documents concerning david bossyys statement to jake tapper of cnn that there, quote, is not one shred of evidence, end quote, of any of the womens allegations that donald trump touched them inappropriately or his statement that these women are, quote, people who put out by gloria alred and the dnc and the clinton campaign, end quote. So all of this plus more we need in order to prepare our case against President Trump. Okay. And we believe that all is relevant. They think its far reaching. We would respectfully disagree, and were looking forward i need you to stand by, gloria. To receiving all the documents if as and when and were hopeful of this allowing us to proceed with our lawsuit. I need to get to the break. When we come back, Hillary Clinton slamming the president , comparing him to Harvey Weinstein. Well tell you what she said and more with gloria after the break. 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The Trump Campaign subpoena for documents by lawyers representing summer zbler bossy a former contestant on the apprentice. The president saying this today. All i can say is its totally fake news. Its just fake. Its fake. Its made up stuff, and its disgraceful what happens, but that happens in the world of politics. Summers lawyer gloria all red is back with me. And were joined by cnns chief legal analyst. Hello. Welcome to the panel. Gloria, welcome back. Jeffrey, how stopping of a case does she have against President Trump . Does she have a chance of getting anything . I dont know. I dont know the evidence at this point, don. But i do know that a sitting president can be sued, because that was established without question in the paula jones case where the United StatesSupreme Court said even though its potentially a distraction to a sitting president , people are entitle the to their day in court, so the lawsuit can proceed. Whether this lawsuit has any merit and whether a court will allow depositions to go forward, discovery to go forward, thats a separate question. Its a harder question. But jeffrey, you agree, jeffrey, i mean, youre smart enough to know, you agree that when someone threatens that theyve been harassed, doesnt have a suit and then files against a public person saying i was defamed, thats the kind of classic long shot play, right . And when gloria all red of all people runs out to do media, what we know is what the president is saying this is a publicity stunt meant to distract from the person weinstein, who is at the heart of actual assault. He admitted weinstein admitted, said its consensual hien wine has nothing to do with this. Its totally irrelevant. How can it not . Youre con naturing two issues. No. Harvey weinsteins case actually did not proceed the allegations about hes admitted hes admitted excuse me. The more realistic approach is its right. The president can in fact be sued, but the idea of fake news being one of semantics does not go very far in a dwangs allegation where you know that truth is the ultimate defense to it. And so it is certainly right. Appropriate for somebody to investigate before they have a defense or Harvey Weinstein is a separate matter. But the president also admitted to, as well, what is Sexual Assault saying that he can that came out of his own mouth. He described he was talking in a way as he said and others have agreed was kind of jockler and silly and all tat. Nematter what, you changed the subject from weinstein has admitted. This has nothing to do with Harvey Weinstein. This suit was after gloria, can you please take us through . Mr. Miller, the suit was filed on behalf of in january of this year. The allegations against mr. Weinstein did not surface publicly until just recently. One has nothing to do with the other. Youre doing a round of publicity with a subpoena trying to say as youve admitted, youre a political operative trying to hamper the president. Youre out there saying we want to tie up the president and make it difficult and have subpoenas. Im a lawyer, too. If you look closely its a case that is a long shot case thats done to cause trouble on a public official. Youve already said that. Its about making im glad you told me youre a lawyer because i wouldnt have guessed it from what youre saying. But thank you very much for your argument. Let me just share with you that this has nothing to do with that and your namecalling with what . Wait. Dont interpreter me. Lets be respectful. Your namecalling is what namecalling . Youre interrupting me again, which men do way toor often. Were waiting. Go ahead. What im saying is when you name call and you try to whats the name call . Knock it off. That you do not have a good argument on the merits, so thank you for letting me know you cant defend this. Look, gloria, this is a classic glor you all red move. When you dont have an argument you say other people offend you you just showed me you dont have a good argument. Gloria, youre interrupting. Moving on you can interrupt because you use the status of youre the fighter and everyone has to sit back and take it. Well, im not going to do that, gloria. Well, need to interrupt because we have to go to a break, and then you guys can interrupt on the other side. Well be right back. Jumpstart. Build attendance for an event. Help people find their way. Fastsigns designed new directional signage. And got them back on track. Get started at fastsigns. Com. And got them back on track. At Stanford Health care, we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. 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Clearly the underlying offense here, according to glorias client, is sexual harass lt. But because of the statute of limitations has lapsed theyve sort of manufactured a Defamation Case out of trump defending himself. Now, this was successful in massachusetts, that in the bill cosby case was allowed to are proceed. But im not sure every court will say that the same way. Do you think hell be deposed, jeffrey . Led to his impeachment. I think it will certainly be a while until he is deposed. The other discovery, first, Gloria Allred has filed a very numerous i think the judge will give some discovery in this case and then itll proceed to a motion for summery judgment. And if thats denied, i expect therell be a and its a woman judge. We had a male judge assigned to the case first. He recused himself for reasons we do not know. And thats fine. And then it was assigned to a woman judge in new york Supreme Court. And nearly a dozen women have accused donald trump of Sexual Assault or misconduct. You dont think any truth to those dozen or so women . One of the things phil s, my old boss used to talk about, when you run for high level, you learn a lot about how the game is played. If there was evidence, if glorias client or others had evidence of these kinds of things i think we would have a different kind of outcome. So at a certain point you have to say the president , when he says its fake news, i think what he means its politics he said that its politics at this level can i ask a question before we get onto Harvey Weinstein . Lots of people have run for president. How come donald trump is the only one that hes not the only one ronald reagan. What about george bush . I thought he had other allegations of affairs that he had. But, dont you guys agree that what about other president s who have not been accused like ronald reagan, like president obama. I thought you guys were pretty clear that everything in politics has changed and everything kind of conseeds that what are you talking about now . Can i answer the question . The answer to the question, don, is that after luwinsky became the center of politics, everything went down into the gutter so luwinsky, the president was impreaeached for and and the volume of your voice does not change your argument in anyway. When you continue to talk about Harvey Weinstein ore other cases you are very dismissive about the opportunity to have discovery simply because somebody has said that its fake, you would undermine any ability for any i agree with jeffrey toobin. Let me finish my point. You undermine the entire civil litigation system where people are entitled to discovery even if theyre saying there is in fact a falsehood. There is an people that File Lawsuits against public figures alleging as jeffrey toobin