The investigation. Hes a decorated vietnam veteran and former fbi director. Why does the president keep saying this . Well, hes attacking muellers team because this is a political fight. There is obviously some legal components to this, but in the end, this is a political fight. If you look at what the clinton team did with ken starr, james cargo came out and declared war on starr and the investigation and dick morris wrote an entire game plan for how they were going after ken starr. They went after al domada who was investigating whitewater at the time. These are political fights. If you look at whats gone on with what Rudy Giuliani has done in the last week, its clear theyve shifted to a stance to politically talk about this and try and play off it. Thats what the president said this morning, this is called me fighting back, and thats because in the end this is a political arena theyre fighting in, and he believes he can prove there are members of the team that have given the democrats and are therefore conflicted and this is a partisan witch hunt. Thats his message. Rick, did the clintons or the clinton team, did they send out false allegations about kenneth starr, or did they just say it was a political witch hunt . Because the crux of my question was about the president tweeting false information. Well, i think the difference here, and what the clinton folks were not exactly fighting marcus of queensbury rules every day. They were certainly able to shift people when they had to achieve their political ends. This president , however, has taken it much, much further. The clinton folks not even the clinton folks went out and said, oh, ken starr is part of a sinister kabal trying to destroy us and hes part of this gigantic conspiracy. Yes, they did. Not to the same degree as this where theyre just absolutely making statements of fact that are so disconnected from reality. But look, this is the president doing professional wrestling, this is the president doing hes talking to one narrow silo of his voters, the fox news, fox friends audience in the morning, making sure theyre revved up on this thing, that their hepped up on this thing. In the normal strategy, everybody is entertained. Donald trump has a unique, generous level of being a liar in chief like weve never seen before in any president in history. I know that you want to respond to that, mike. Julia, stand by. Mike, the people you mentioned were not the president of the United States. You were talking about carbal and others. Those were his associates doing that. Why is the president of the United States doing it . The president is tweeting things. He doesnt have his entire white house and surrogates outside the white house attacking the investigation the way clinton does. Of course he does. Really. Who is the james carval going after mueller and talking about the conflicts of interest isnt that giuliani . Youve got an entire organization in the white house invested in pushing this. Kellyanne conway does nothing else but serially lie on the position on mueller. They have an entire white house staff dedicated to one thing only. Theyre not talking about the business of the country, theyre talking about the business of protecting donald trump. You also have a lot of members of the house who have decided their oath to the constituents, the constitution, comes second to protecting donald trump. And oh, by the way, there is a Certain Television network that has dedicated 24 hours a day to running stories of the most lurid conspiracies and the most egregious statements of fact about folks like Robert Mueller and his investigative team. The president isnt standing alone holding his iphone in one hand tweeting violently against the hoard this is mike, let juliet go. This is a guy working for himself. I think all the president has left is the tweets. They are what they are. He doesnt have much of a legal defense. People are indicted, people are making plea arrangements with mueller. You have the whole mike cohen thing which is unfolding in ways that have got to be terrifying for trump, not just on the Stormy Daniels front but on the russian front. So in some ways this is all hes got left, and we should just tweet it as sort of the last lying statements of someone whose legal strategy is clearly unknown. The only legal strategy weve seen so far is a bunch of lawyers quitting. And so if he thinks he can win this way, its not just convincing mueller, its actually convincing judges who have these cases before them, grand juries who have already determined that dimindictments allowable, men who have voluntarily pled to testify against the president of the United States. Theyre not all going away because of tweets. Julia, you mentioned Michael Cohen. The Washington Post published an extensive story about Michael Cohen. It includes stiff royalty penalties, that includes doctors with whom he helped establish medical clinics and lawyers with which he worked, adding that he spent much of his personal and professional life with immigrants from russia and ukraine. What does that tell you . It tells me that the narrative of Michael Cohen as some innocent, sort of dufus guy who fell in love with trump is it a lie. Michael cohen has an enterprise that he actually was sort of the legal brains, in quotes, behind. What we have learned about Michael Cohen is that he willingly engaged in the kind of contact that is absolutely illegal, so this notion of him as a dupe is just ridiculous. Hes an adult male who should be judged that way. One other quick thing about Michael Cohen. We have been talking about Michael Cohen in the context of Stormy Daniels. I just want to remind viewers that Michael Cohen is mentioned four times in the steele dossier. The idea that Michael Cohen is a fixer on the Stormy Daniels front for trump but not in some ways implicated in the other stuff mueller is looking at is ridiculous. Hes a key player across both sides of all the troubles that are facing the trump white house. Okay, i want rick and mike to weigh in, but first, rick, im going to get you. This is from this is the wall street journal. This is a quote from them talking about preparing the president for a mueller interview. An informal fourhour practice session, mr. Trumps lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions given the frequent interruptions on National Security matters along with mr. Trumps loquac ir krrl. Mike, what do you think of that . The idea that donald trump has the Attention Span of a toddler on espresso does not surprise anyone. This is not a man who is able to focus on things for much longer than the ablock of fox friends in the morning. Im not convinced donald trump is trainable in terms of preparing him for testimony, which is why any attorney with any sense of reality wants him to stay as far away as he can from the grand jury, and as far away as he can from Robert Mueller, because they recognize the immediate peril which will occur as soon as donald trump opens his mouth. Mike, go ahead. Do you want to respond . I understand where his lawyers are coming from. They dont want him to sit down for that reason. Thats a far cry from saying, we dont want him to sit down because hes guilty of collusion with the russians and its going to come out if he sits down and answers these questions. Theres a huge difference there. It has been 14 months and going, and going at 17 million and going and going, and the real reason they dont want him to sit down is once you start talkinginvestigator, if you Say Something incorrect, even if it has nothing to do with what the investigation is about. He got confused about someone signing a lease on something and then he corrected himself. If mueller had him on something, that wouldnt be the direction they would go, they want to have him on something. They want him to talk and get in trouble from that, not from what the original purpose of the investigation was, which was russian collusion by the trump campaign. We have no way of knowing that. We have no way of knowing any of this, but we spend hours on here speculating as if President Trump is guilty, and someone tries to point out that maybe we dont know anything because hes not guilty. Julia, he was talking about during a deposition that it wasnt true whether he signed a lease or not. Your memory is not 100 . Memory, and chances are whoever the lawyers are at the time this conversation happens, his lawyers will go back and factcheck it. So the idea that the president is going to go to jail or be guilty of collusion based on some mistake or error, whether it was 1979 or 1986 when he signed the lease, is just absolutely ridiculous. I actually think people who supported donald trump should applaud bob mueller for wanting to interview the president. This is actually a really Serious Investigation that we have to remember was approved by Donald TrumpsJustice Department in terms of the mandate, and i think mueller is actually showing trump incredible respect in many ways to say, look, there are big accusations here. Already people who have pled to serious, serious things. We have indictments both here and in russia, and so tell us your story. Tell us what you knew. Because there is a lot of evidence out there that shows that whether its collusion or the Money Laundering or the sex or whatever it is, a lot of that information is getting very close to you, president of the United States. And so i dont get this whole idea that the trick notion of they just want to trick donald trump. Maybe theyre actually treating him like an adult and the president of the United States to say this is serious stuff, explain yourself, because we respect we respect the office, right . I think you should view it that way. I think its weird that you think that his silence in any way helps his office. Have him do written answers, then, so he doesnt have to sit down for an interview. Thank you, rick, thank you, julie, mike. I appreciate your time. The new York Attorney general quitting amid allegations of emotional and sexual abuse. David axelrod is going to talk to us about schneiders resignation. Plus explanation on Rudy Giuliani. So were committed to helping veterans through job training when their service ends. And to hiring 10,000 veterans and military spouses to be part of our workforce in the next 5 years. Because no matter where you serve. Or when you serve. Tmobile stands ready to serve you. So we provide halfoff on all family lines for military. With expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. This is bills yard. And bill has a noweeds, not in my yard policy. But with scotts turf builder weed feed, bill has nothing to worry about. It kills weeds and greens grass, guaranteed. This is a scotts yard. Heres breaking news tonight. New yorks attorney general resigning amid assault allegations. I want to bring in senior commentator david axelrod. David, thank you for joining us. Eric schneiderman has resigned after four women accused him of violence. They called for his resignation. Two of the women spoke on record saying he had hit and choked them. Both sought medical attention because of the alleged abuse. Two others asked to stay anonymous. In a statement schneiderman denied assaults to anyone. Its a developing story. Whats your reaction to this news . Well, he resigned, so obviously he felt that there was a problem here. You know, i read the new yorker account. It was pretty well reported. So i think he did the right thing by resigning, and i think others who call fed for his resignation did the right thing as well. You cant ride the white horse and then, you know, when the mud komd comes, it really shows up. These are terrible allegations against him, so i always believe people are due their day in court, but in the court of public opinion, its very hard to read this and not say, you who called yourself an ally of the me too movement should stay in office. Again, hes denying it, but he says allegations unrelated to my professional conductor the operations of the office. They will effectively prevent me from leading the office work at a critical time. Hes saying hes doing it because he wont be able to i guess there will be such a cloud over him. I understand that. Eric schneiderman is a battler. Hes a pugna cic pugnacio us gu. The president has been griping at associates that giuliani has failed to shut down the Stormy Daniels hush money saga, and he says his media appearances are raising more questions than they are answering. Has giuliani done anything other than make life more difficult for President Trump right now . Was that a job, don . Was he supposed to put out the Stormy Daniels fire . Because i think instead of grabbing the water tank, he grabbed the kerosene and he just heated the whole thing up. He has been a mitigating disaster for the president , and im sure that amid the president s legal team, among his white house staff, there is nothing but consternation. And i have to believe hes going to pull the plug on rudys show. He reviews these things, he throws people on tv and he sees how they play, and then he pulls this. This has a mooch feel to it. This feels like a scaramucci moment to me. They said nobody knows the Justice Department as well as him and the support on his side. Do you believe that to be the case with what happened last weekend and this weekend . I dont doubt hes knowledgeable about the Justice Department. He obviously knows about mueller. But he didnt look like a very proficient lawyer. Im not questioning his legal credentials, but i dont know any lawyer ive spoken to will do anything but mess his client up in the last five days. He went out to clean up the last round and he made more mistakes, made things more complicated. Even more. Sg so i think rudy was glad to be back in the fray. He had been kind of sent offer to t off to the side by trump, he wasnt given a job, and he wanted to make a splash. Instead he made a mess. The president is going to make a decision on the iran deal tomorrow, a few days ahead of the deadline. We know the president doesnt like that deal. Reading the tea leaves, do you think hell get out of this . I would be stunned if he didnt. We know that there were reports he was very frustrated with Rex Tillerson because tillerson didnt think he should pull out. We know the defense secretary has said much the same. You know, whats been clear about donald trump in the last few months is that hes pretty much decided to go it alone. He makes his own decisions whether its on north korea or trade, and hes indicated this is the thing that he wants to do, and hes going to do it. I think its driving a wedge between our alloies and its ony going to accelerate iran getting a nuclear weapon. I dont know if hes studied the details of the policy. This is something he promised was an obama achievement or viewed as such, and we know how he feels about that. I think hes going to take an ax to it. Lets draw down a little bit more on that. Talking about the implications of American Foreign policy and those alliances with other members of the deal if the president wont stay in this deal. Yeah. No, i think the french, the brits, the germans have all expressed themselves on this. We had two leaders come here to the United States to implore him not to pull out of the deal. You know, when you lock arm in arm with your allies on Something Like this and then just idly walk away from it, it creates doubt. It creates tension. It creates problems. And thats whats going to happen here. Its going to be interesting to see how they react, because he may exit the deal but they may not. So we will be on separate sides of this. Then of course we have to see how the iranians deal with it. Theyve indicated they may take it as an abrokwgation of the de and go back to working on their nuclear program. That remains to be seen. But i think this is being done for domestic political content, not as a means of securing, you know securing the nuclear potential of iran or capping it. I dont think thats what this is about at all. This was something that played well to the crowds when he was running for president , and now he wants to follow through on it. And the fact that it was associated with obama makes it a tempting target for him. David axelrod, always appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. All right, don. Good to see you. 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