Indepth examinations of global issues, featuring interviews and roundtable discussions. Enemies. Now after meeting with jeanclaude, he says the eu and u. S. Obviously love one another. Seemingly bizarre sbun predictable behavior is part of a canny and wise strategy, that hes playing a fourdimensional chess, operating in space time. If so, hes getting badly beaten here on earth. In none of these situations has he actually been able to extract real concessions and there is a cost to this bluster and flip flopping. Trump is creating a reputation for the United States as erratic, unpredictable, unreliable and fundamentally hostile to the global order. Leader after leader in europe has made this clear. George osbourne told me when he was britains finance minister, you knew the United States president had your back. The most tangible data
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Things that are not truthful for donald trump. We dont have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from Michael Cohen. The only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he Wasnt Recording Him when he actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from Robert Mueller and he peddles an untrue story, hes going to get himself into a heap of trouble. On the other hand, President Trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Because the email said they were talking about a sealed indictment in a Russian Court about Hillary Clinton. Sealed indictments have been released in the past during campaigns. As you recall in 2004, there was a State Senator from illinois. He was a democrat. He was running against a republican who had a lot of money, and his so you dont see anything sleazy about the meeting . No. No. Do you think Rudy Giuliani is doing a good job representing the president in the Public Sphere . Yes. Because it seems to be hes made contradictly statements, confusing statements. Do you think thats part of his job to sort of muddy the
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. They could control the Trump Presidency have completely surrendered to the Trump Presidency. They all appear completely brainwashed now. We have never seen anything like this in american politics. And Today Is The Day that the president needed them to all be brainwashed. Senator ted cruz said absolutely nothing today, not one word, when donald trump had his fifth avenue moment, when donald trump publically obstructed justice today, which he did in more than one way, which we will get into a moment. Not one word from ted cruz about that today. And here is what that same ted cruz said about the president two years ago. This man is a pathological liar. He doesnt know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a
country any further. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. 17 angry democrats. They take value in the number 17. A potential sign. I hope he didnt use that number for them. He doesnt always use the number 17. I dont see that as being intentional. But who knows these days . But he has their interest. So what are they doing now . Well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. You saw what happened with jim acosta. If we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, youll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. Theyre even stalking Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. Why . Why go after Michael Avenatti . Because hes identified as one of trumps opponents. And they are now out to defend the president ial from their imagined array of opposition. And not a word from the white house about this. Actually, thats not true. Sarah sanders did say this today. Unfortunately, its now standard to abandon common sense ethical p