an aboutface on brexit. if we could play what the president had to say about that, again, seeming to take a very different posture than he did not so long ago when he gave the interview to the sun. take a listen. i also want to thank prime minister may for pursuing fair and resip reciprocal trade with the united states. once perhaps they leave the eu, whatever is okay with us, just make sure we can trade together. that s all that matters. david, what do you make of that? this was a president who started out in a cleanup mode, but in donald trump style, ended up creating more chaos. he undermined the integrity of the american free press, the
president is a liability for democrats running in the midterms. i just want to know where you think bill clinton stands now in u.s. politics given how much everything around him and society has changed and being in the midst of the me too movement. reporter: absolutely. i was thinking back to just late last year when democrats pushed outl franken from the senate because they didn t want to have that liability of sexual harassment and assault in their midst. they wanted to claim the moral high ground issue. bill clinton reemerging plays to the heart of what me too is, which is that all of this behavior that had gone on for so long has the country has now faced a reckoning on how we face this issue. if the president - if the former president was aiming to be in cleanup mode in that interview he did really the opposite of that. he had a long runway, really, to
now it s in cleanup mode. sometimes when you clean up you don t have a lot of good options. melissa: that would be the best option at this point, do you think, just totally shut up and move on? i think there s two separate things of the congressman before, i think, is con flated. the cohen investigation is separate from the mueller investigation. cohen is southern district of new york, it s run out of that office. the white house approach to that should be, look, we re not indicted, we re not involved, michael cohen was doing things. sure there may have been payments but we did everything according to what our lawyer, michael cohen, told us was appropriate. a legal defense strategy that says i relied on my lawyer may get the president out of trouble. melissa: hmm. and you said he s con flating two things. what was the other thing? they re not connected. mueller isn t driving the cohen investigation, there s different prosecutors, a different investigationive team, four differen
constantly in cleanup mode. yeah, that s the problem right there what you ve isolated which is that for donald trump words have always been cheap. he can say something, he throws it out there, it s inflammatory. it got him some attention here in new york. it worked for him when he was a real estate developer and a reality tv host. the problem when you re president you say things like we re pulling out of syria, you say things like we re going to slap $100 billion worth of tariffs because it feels good to him. i m going to send the national guard to the border without letting homeland security or the national guard know you re doing that. cheap words impact people s lives and that s why this is a problem that he doesn t get. he thinks this is still being the host of the apprentice or the real estate guy in new york city. the stakes are higher now and he doesn t seem to grasp that. so coming up, we have a lot more to get to. literally five separate stories about scott pruitt stacked
are being drawn in the russia investigation. for the first time president trump called out the man investigating his campaign by name, launching a twitter attack on special counsel bob mueller saying, quote, the mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion, no crime. it was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dosier paid for by crooked hillary, the dnc and used improperly for surveillance of my campaign and then, witch hunt. that s just one of several tweets. look at it for yourself. attacking the basis of the investigation and the multiple people involved. these tweets leading rank and file republicans to warn the president to keep his hands off mueller and forcing the president s own attorneys into cleanup mode. issuing a new statement overnight that the president has no plans to try to fire bob