damaging politically and publicly for the president. for the president's personal lawyer to accuse him of knowing about the meeting at trump tower before and approving it before his son and campaign manager and son-in-law met with russians connected to the russian government that, is a shocking accusation. although michael cohen has little credibility and rudy giuliani has little credibility and the president has little credibility, the fastball this is the topic of discussion along with michael cohen's playing of the tape shows that president trump probably knew about pay yofrz to his alleged mistress, "playboy" model. this is all exactly what the president doesn't want to focus on. so by putting out all of the tweets, he is trying to shift the conversation. he succeeding in that. ahead of the brand new news cycle, he is sending out marching orders to the allies in congress and in the media, don't look over here, look over here. don't talk about michael cohen and karen mcdougal, talk about angry democrats and the witchunt