each other down to gain advantage. three months since that april 9 raid, in fact. betsy, you read about this. what are your sources telling you? on the evening last week when the michael cohen audiotape was being rolled out and received wall-to-wall coverage across all three cable news networks, the president actually hurled expletives at the television because he was deeply frustrated to see this report come out, to see these news stories emerge. so what we can tell you without a doubt is this is something that is really disturbing and rattling to president trump and it s something he s very concerned about. what i can also tell you is that the president s outside allies hounded by rudy giuliani are engaged and prepared to ramp up their attacks on michael cohen. for them michael cohen s liability is a huge liability. we don t expect to see the attacks on michael cohen s
meetings with putin believing he needs to establish a personal report with this president and the counter part in russia will be the key to foreign policy relations going forward and really drawn to the pageantry. he liked how the event in singapore with kim jong-un was covered and the media blitz that for 24 hours it was wall to wall coverage. he wants that again here. yeah. what about russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he views will make this successful. bets betsey, take a listen to this. my ideal outcome would be to agree to engage all the channels on the issues that are divisive on the one hand trying to see whether we can get closer on those exact topics and also, on those issues where we now can usefully cooperate for the sake of interest of the two countries and for the sake of interest of
things happen is because there is no uprising against the groups that do it. no shaming, no sense that you ve crossed a line. the only people that blow the whistle are fox news and conservatives. i assure you, if it was done in reverse, for conservatively engaged in that behavior, the new york times, cbs, abc, they would all collectively blow a gasket because they want to draw a line about what acceptable and not acceptable. when so much of the media sits relatively silent about these types of behaviors, it only encourages them to keep doing it because nobody they care about is correcting them. so the path is open to them. laura: can you imagine, chris, mika and joe, as it ari said, the situation were reversed, and all members of some liberal group, their home phone numbers published, and we know where you live it would be intimidation, your intimidating people from speaking out, it would be wall-to-wall coverage, and they would basically say, it s a
groups that do it. no shaming, no sense that you ve crossed a line. the only people that blow the whistle are fox news and conservatives. i assure you, if it was done in reverse, if a conservative engaged in that behavior, the new york times, cbs, abc, they would all collectively blow a gasket because they want to draw a line about what acceptable and not acceptable. when so much of the media sits relatively silent about these types of behaviors, it only encourages them to keep doing it because nobody they care about is correcting them. so the path is open to them. laura: can you imagine, chris, mika and joe, as ari said, the situation were reversed, and all members of some liberal group, their home phone numbers published, and we know where you live it would be intimidation, you re intimidating people from speaking out, it would be wall-to-wall coverage, and they would basically say, it s a first amendment human rights
our country s biggest enemy, it was a reminder it s not just a silly thing that our president does sometimes, like the drunk uncle character from snl. i think it s easy to get trump fatigue, as we talked about on this show many times before. i think the different setting it creates this jucxtaposition which was high. what was your impression of the singapore coverage given the president still this morning on twitter is complaining he is not being given a fair shake? i thought it was beneficial for kim jong-un as well. it was wall to wall coverage. donald trump as he always does, dominated all political coverage. here is the thing. donald trump, one of the main reasons he was elected was he doesn t care about the rules. he sets an agenda in a way obama or bush or clinton or anybody else doesn t. the press covers him as if he