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Good morning to you both. vivian, ill start with you here first. is all of this bluster from avenatti that we heard about? what would cohen have that would be most damaging to the president? >> its anyones guess at this point, alex, but really its a question of, you know, the secrecy behind that attorney-client privilege that has so angered and frustrated the president. were talking about a president who has based most of his communications, at least in his past life and during his campaign as a...

Trump thinks anytime anyone is talking about you, youre winning. so comey on that front is winning. people are talking about it. theyre not talking about taxes, the economy, the jobless rate. theyre not talking about what trump has done to create jobs, and theyre not going to talk about north korea in the same way because were talking about comey. and i think -- >> can i finish one thing, chris, which is that, you know, somebody said you get into a cage match with a dancing bear, and youre going...

More he dislike likes. but you see the institutions buckling and strange but not breaking under trumps antics and his fits and his bluster and threats. you are seeing the institutions holding on. and if a sessions were to leave, dont forget, this is a former senator. he can pick up the phone and call a bunch of people to his defense in the u.s. senate. so far the republican leadership has basically been quiet while trump acted this way. we dont like the tweets. but once you start wrecking instit...

Than elses pushing the presidents agenda forward. >> he is most trumpian of the trump team and yet the most despised and spat upon. thats the trump style. the closer you are to him the more he dislike likes. but you see the institutions buckling and strange but not breaking under trumps antics and his fits and his bluster and threats. you are seeing the institutions holding on. and if a sessions were to leave, dont forget, this is a former senator. he can pick up the phone and call a bunch of pe...

To tell. rudy giuliani is i think -- has bluster in saying he can close down this investigation in two weeks. i dont think everybody really believes thats a possibility. but these kind of crimes, these kinds of intent crimes, white collar crimes that you have to prove intent are hard to do. and they will try to use every level that they can to get the investigation against their client, in this case the president, closed down. >> well there is a long standing relationship going back to 9/11 betw...

Bluster. bluster they decided to, well, maybe thats not going to get us anywhere, maybe its time to sit town a down and recognize it. one fact to keep in mind is, at this moment, north korea still has its ballistic missiles, intercontinental missiles and bombs. they have not given those up yet. certainly, we want the see that these negotiations would result in all of that disappearing, not being there, and, of course, the verifications that it actually happened. >> i know you were not that long ...

Hes only the second american to meet with kim jong-un. dennis rodman the first several years ago. and now this sets the stage for the summit with the south korean president, president moon next week followed by a summit with president trump. these are all pretty significant developments, congressman. >> no doubt about it. and your rendition of the various activities that have taken place, keep in mind the election of a new president in south korea who parted from more than 60 years of what was t...

The economy, the jobless rate. theyre not talking about what trump has done to create jobs and not going to talk about north korea in the same way because were talking about comey. i think -- >> can i finish one thing which is that when somebody said you get into a cage match with a dancing bear. and youre going to lose a little bit. and thats the luster that came off comey this week the way it did when marco rubio talked about trumps hands and orange hair it, didnt hurt trump, it hurt rubio. yo...

Top name in the legal field. thats because top names in the legal field who are professional and in the area of white collar crime dont want to be associated with donald trump. thats a telling commentary. rudy giuliani he can bluster and keep and yell. its going to get him nowhere. is he going to put on the charm routine and then maybe try to -- >> he knows how to do it. >> he does. >> maybe he will bring it. >> but mueller has a job to do. >> right. >> i dont think screaming i dont know charm. ...

Enough on russia? >> theres a long list. it probably calls for a fact check. people around him say he does say this. whether he actually believes it or not, thats not clear to them. but there is a degree of bluster that he wants to be seen as talking tough. a lot of that, yes, is in reaction to the collusion probe, to the mueller investigation, that he feels like he needs to talk. well, im doing this even if the facts say otherwise, which is a lot of how he operates day to day. and the dust-up w...