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The more they can muddy things up, the better for them. >> isnt it true also that rudy giuliani is just one piece, hes the public piece. jay sekulow is on the presidents legal team. theres a couple from florida on the legal team. emmet flood is involved. other people do the lawyering. >> rudy the clown. >> rudy is the fog machine, and that is the strategy. >> rudy is the public relations person. hes the person out there in front. >> but i think that we must -- >> can i make a quick point about -...

Presidents lauryn competence by design or is it just inco incompetence? youve got in mr. giuliani a guy who is constantly changing the story, and is that because he just doesnt know what hes talking about, or does that serve the interests deliberately serve the interests of the president to have this kind of fog machine out there, kind of throwing out smoke? >> i think there are moments where giuliani is more concerned about the public debate rather than perhaps being inside the private negotiat...

Going to be there in six months? will this house be complex actually support me in the ways i need? those are questions people are dealing with. they dont have time. they know ive been lied to and dont want to be lied to again. >> brittany is putting her finger on something important and essential to the presidents strategy. essentially, create like a fog machine. >> right. >> onstage. i mean, its incredibly difficult even for those in the news business to follow day by day, hour by hour every s...

It didnoesnt appear the presid of the united states objects to the way rudy giuliani defends him. remember during the stormy daniels payment story of a couple months ago giuliani told a couple different versions of that story. hes the kind of guy, new york guy that creates this fog machine that donald trump likes. >> right, exactly. its unclear whether theres any coordination going on outside of donald trump and giuliani. i think giuliani mentioned he had discussed this potential story leaking w...

>> and he reupped his harshest attacks on sunday. putting other things in the fog machine that rudy giuliani likes to dominate. but do you think theyll be able to put to bed this tease and dance about an interview? >> at some point, they would have to. it seems like every day rudy is ruling out things he can be asked about. what theyre using is the interview as a way to undermine the credibility itself. hes not going to sit down for an interview because this is not a legitimate investigation. an...

This handful of republican who is seem hell bent on getting everything they can out of us until we have got no more to give them. this is a survival mechanism. thats my theory. i believe its going to work, but at some point were going to see some demand made on the director of the fbi or on the department of justice that they simply cant comply with, whether its a human life in danger, whether theres something that would be wholly inappropriate to turn over. were going to see somebody saying no ...

Himself but hes also obstructing an investigation you could argue into russian meddling in our election which impacts our natiurity so if youre republican and you are deducing the politics of this, how do you end up on the si of the president? >> historically i dont think this is going to age that well. you also forgot another major news story because this is how this administration rolls, the new york attorney general and the trump foundation and criminal fraud using a charitable foundation. >>...

Political problems and so the problem gets worse and worse. government gets more demoralized, less able to orm ices for the country and we go down. its an unfortunate fact that good nations sometimes go bad. its thisth through history. the thing im struckwith, mike, is that its on us. democracy is the system of government where if theres something wrong, citizens get a chance to fix it. were gog to have a chance come november and its really going to be a test of the united states as a country, o...

All he did was turn on the fog machine, and say next question, right, while throwing a few elbows at the "new york times." >> right. >> if you try to pars it in logical terms his argument would be something like the "new york times" is fake news so its okafor me to lie to the "new york times." which is obviously ridiculous. >> lets go through it. >> there is that, obviously ridiculous. also, as we all know, when the president, or one of the middler of a investigation like this issues any stateme...

Matthews language, giuliani is principally donald trumps fog machine. hes out here to distract, to delegitimize. i remember my son when he was young, he found that toy that he fixated on. donald trump has fixated on the pardon because it actually reflects, right, the way in which he conceives of himself as the president and how he might exercise power. so all of this is almost like the theater of the absurd. you could imagine samuel beckett staging this in some ways. as he says try, try, try aga...