congressional ally demands a briefing. trying to create stone a victim here. show of force to try to depict me as public enemy number one. an nbc report, russian hackers are using documents they claim to have stolen from robert mueller to try and discredit the special counsel s investigation. the art of the deal no more. fox conn apparently back pedaling on their plans to build a factory in wisconsin. this after receiving record tax breaks and a ringing endorsement from the president. this is a great day for america. the eighth wonder of the world. this is the eighth wonder of the world. and in the era of me too, is the fear of being accused of harassment or worse a fair excuse for male executives now saying they will avoid mentoring
we re down about 150 this morning. i want to point out something that you noticed on twitter. the president tweeted yesterday about the markets crossing the 25,000 mark, calling it tremendous news. here s the thing. i m pretty sure he said that already. yes, it was tremendous news a year ago, too, when he tweeted that. dow just crashed through 25,000. so pretty remarkable to me he has tweeted the same market milestone about the same time two years in a row. which basically shows you that markets have done nothing over the course of the last year, freaking out about trade wars, the rest of it. but it doesn t seem to matter to him. the question is do his followers even notice? maybe they celebrated twice too. there you go. i guess there s always a good reason to have a party. but pay attention to the markets. we went right back to where we were. ben, robert, thank you so much. coming up, the race for 2020 already heating up with many candidates and potential candidates trotting out v
personal attorney, michael cohen, as often as 20 times a day in the estimation of one confidant, and they frequently listen in silence knowing little they say will soothe him. trump gripes that he needs better tv lawyers to defend him on cable news and is impatient to halt the witch hunt that he says undermines his legitimacy as president. and he plots his battle plans with former new york mayor rudolph w. giuliani, his new legal consigliere. quote, we re on the same wavelength, giuliani said. we ve gone from defense to offense. and this is what the reporters write about the grand jury proceedings. quote, mueller, the 73-year-old former fbi director with a hangdog visage and rigid bearing looms over the investigation but is an intermittent presence in the windowless room in the e. barrett prettyman courthouse. grand jury witnesses arrive one by one at the windowless room at the courthouse on constitution avenue in downtown washington. they are struck first by how
of the united states? that will likely have been the focus for mueller and his team trying to determine whether cohen was freelancing or whether he was actually selling access to the president. and there s an interesting little bit of scircumstance swirling around this. if you set yourself up in a pay to play situation, you have to play me if you want to play with this administration, there has to be a threat that you can really carry out. so here we have a tweet that the president was tweeting out about american companies and there were financial repercussions for the companies when those tweets happened. it will be interesting to see how this all compares as cohen goes out and bids with people, tries to get them to hire him, was there twitter activity in any of these industries, did any of these companies believe from other circumstances that they
and that s kind of the spirit, and i m sure that s what s going on with mueller and his team. they re not paying attention to the room. and the other thing that struck me is about the grand jury, you know, the detail about them taking notes and listening attentively. this is what goes on in grand juries and in courtrooms all over the country. these are our fellow citizens. hundreds of times a day. i mean these are ordinary american citizens. so when you hear trump and his team talk about, you know, the witch hunt by the prosecutors who are out to get him, who all donated to hillary, well, guess what? the people who are really, you know, ultimately the ones who if there were an indictment of anyone would vote on that indictment and who get to ask questions and help direct the investigation, sure, it s the prosecutors. but grand jurors can ask for evidence. they can ask questions of the prosecutors, ask them. those are ordinary american citizens. so it really shows sort of the