them about his business dealing dealings, rudy giuliani insist to me that manafort was not telling lies about the presiden, and the contrast between paul manafort and michael cohen, according to rudy giuliani, manafort has nothing to lie abot regarding the president, and a cohen doesn t know what to lie about. i also asked rudy giuliani about that reference to political syny in the office of special counsel memo, he said he did not know what michael cohen was referring to, and michael cohen certainly did not talk to the president about that particular aspect of it. i also asked giuliani if he was worried at all about what might be contained in the redacted sections of the manafort memo, or the information that is under seal of the redacted section. he said the beginning and the end of those parts don t relate to us, so he is not concerned about it. he is also not worried about the field information. of the president s team and manafort s attorney have a joint defense agreement, the pre
in. we don t know the details but if anyone does know that, it s allen. cohen s plea in court was a devastating blow to a president already beset with legal and political problems. and it s cig cal na cohen had given up his last best hope ov escaping his fate. a presidential pardon from trump. even if he did pardon cohen. that wouldn t make the problems go away. it might make them get worse. this is starting to look like a problem that can t be solved. i will tell you from my reporting. cohen doesn t expect to get a pardon. he kind of matter of factually said, i can do time. i pled guilty. he surpassed the ambitions of college years. not in the way he would have wanted. his name is forever tied to donald trump. no matter what happens. michael cohen will be part of american history.
frank, how does the fbi if they want to sort of act out what is written about in the new york times op-ped, how do they operationalize a two-track government if the president of the united states wants to declassify documents from a secret court that put at risk our national security secrets? oh, boy, i wish i had the answer to that, nicolle. will you call them and tell them? are they working on it? are people trying to figure out in the agencies how to protect our national security from donald trump? i ve used the phrase, insider threat, before, on your show, nicolle, where i said the greatest threat to our nation is an insider threat and right now, it s the president, himself, and i truly believe that. but trying to operate with the notion, with sources, with allies, right, tremendous work is done with our allies and with human sources and technical sources and trying to think every moment of every day that this could be released because the white house wants it released an
trump is too persuasive for he is own good, right? it s very interesting timing that this poll comes out now as a way of saying, yeah, whatever the president s saying, you need to vote, forget the red wave stuff. maybe he clues in as well. he s a master at shaping this narrative. it is fascinating to me as somebody who covers him day to day to see how it s playing out in these numbers that people are believing him when he says, don t worry, we ve got this sewn up. there s an effect to that. i had a republican pollster say to me, i m not counting on trump because the trump voters doesn t like anybody in congress. when you have this conversation about a check on trump, they say, oh, trump is a check on the swamp. trump is a check on speaker pelosi, or speaker ryan. it also doesn t help you where most of these battlegrounds are, right? most of these battlegrounds are districts that are suburban, upscale districts, and more urban areas. the suburban the way the suburb suburban, colle
it showed that 71% said republicans would win. however 57% of trump supporters said they don t believe that they have a chance. democratic wave election with some describing the process as, quote, fake news. there is a balance between projecting confidence and luling people into a false sense of complacency. now republicans are scrambling to drive out the president s voter voters on election day. if you re the president s supporters, you were told he couldn t win and he won, so maybe that s why they re complacent? we ll be right back with more. r, but i m relentless too. mbc doesn t take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio-