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-- republican strategist, thank you for joining us. philip, i will start with you. your take on everything that went down with cohen and how it shakes out in terms of the collusion theory. >> it is two track. the republicans were happy because from the legal front and the collusion front there wasnt anything there plus they trapped cohen into possible perjury. the democratic side think they won the pr war, they exposed things republican supporters, the president, didnt want out there especially ...

Been running interviews all morning is there are people out there, goth employees who cant pay their mortgages and put food in the fridges. speaking to multiple white house officials earlier this week they are really putting a lot of energy into winning this pr war. i talked with the white house official who said that vice president pence was the person who was tasked with leading the charge on changing peoples -- republican lawmakers on the hill rhetoric toward humanitarian crisis. thats a term...

He will wage a pr war. you have this speech tomorrow night, then he will dispatch senior administration o if i recalls to the hill on wednesday and then he will follow it up we dont expect the president to declare a national emergency until tomorrow. were getting that from a white house official, but because there is no deal on the horizon and you have a pressure point on friday, friday is the day these 080,000 affected workers will miss their first federal paycheck, that is why youre seeing the...

It goes on and on with this guy. look. >> the steel wall thats 100 feet long, people want to come into this country will walk around that wall. >> theyll figure it out. >> theyre not going to climb over a wall that is a couple hundred feet. thats the craziest thing i ever heard of. a 100 in the wall. there is multi-hundred mile border. >> the most people quoted mr. reagan, mr. goes, tear down this wall. now we are trying to build a wall. the reason were building a wall, we dont want people not w...

Him to do it, anyway. >> thats false. this man, youll ever know what the truth is. he lies to fit the situation hes in. its not a crime, george. paying $130,000 to stormy whatever, and paying 130 to another is not a crime. >> is this more of a pr war than anything else, and who do you think wins the court of public opinion? >> its definitely a pr war. youre seeing rudy giuliani and trump allies try to discredit michael cohen and others involved in the russia investigation. but i saw president tr...

Giuliani, have been waging a pr war, basically, against muellers team for months. trying to undercut public confidence in the investigation before any final report comes out. now that he sees that manafort is cooperating and had already been found guilty by a jury on eight counts in august and the public is feeling better about the mueller probe, i think that has to have president trump worried. >> kevin, to you, what does it say in the end that manafort ended up trusting mueller over the presid...

Both of them really, both sides are clearly seeing for whatever reason a public relations necessity to keep ratcheting it up and in public. i think it seems to be more of a pr strategy here. >> it is. >> than a legal strategy. its hard to imagine when it comes to michael cohens legal defense that it is a good thing to put this tape out there. >> yeah. >> this is about the pr war. >> i think its a pr strategy. look, michael cohen feels that the president has kind of left him in the dust. and that...

Bob mueller operates. >> because hes a professional. and hes an adult. were not dealing with a professional or an adult in trump or guiliani. and so as gloria said, trump is playing the court of public opinion. so weve already seen 45% of americans now are saying, well, maybe bob mueller is taking too long or maybe he doesnt have anything. because trump can just throw something out there and then for the 24 or 48-hour news cycle well phenomenfollow that. so he loves saying, some people say or ma...

Others who have bashed the justice department for allowing the investigation. so republicans have had the upper hand in the pr war here. they have been going hard at this thing for monthsnd months and months. its actually a tribute that lers numbers are that high with republicans. >> even though its going in that direction you think its amazing that hes not under water essentially? >> yeah. look, he is not able to defend himself. and so its -- its kind of a one-side pr bted approximately the so,...

>> excuse me. as a parent, could i ask you to respect my childrens space? >> but then 20 years ago people would be utterly appalled if they knew exactly what went on. >> prince william reflects on those times in a new documentary on i-tv. >> i sadly remember most of the time that she ever cried about anything was to do with press treatment. >> by letting the press into her private life, diana has opened pandoras box. it is spring 1994. prince charles decides to go public with an authorized biogr...