Speech that played like an extended airing of grievances. He mocked the media and the democratic party. Congresswoman Maxine Waters and senator john mccain and gorge h. W. Bush. The democratic senator and possible 2020 candidate, Elizabeth Warren and the me too movement. Say im debating poke hopt as. I promise you i will do this. You know the kits they sell on television for 2 . Learn your heritage. In the middle of the debate when she proclaims he is of Indian Heritage because her mother said she has high cleek bones. We will take that kit and we have to do it gently because we are in the me too generation. We have to be very gentle. We will gently take that kit and slowly toss it, hoping it doesnt hit her and injury her arm. We will say i will give you a Million Dollars to your Favorite Charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows you are an indian. Ahead of his trip to europe, trump took aim at American Allies vowing to demand more money from nato countries. I will see nato and tell nato, you have to start paying your bills. The United States is not going to take care of everything. They kill us with nato. They kill us. Germany pays 1 . 1 . And i said you know, angela, i cant guarantee it, but we are protecting and you it means a lot more to you than protecting us. I dont know how much we get for protecting you. They want to protect against russia, but pay billions to russia and we are the shmucks paying for the whole thing. There was no criticism when the topic turned to Vladimir Putin. Im meeting with president putin next week. They are going will President Trump be prepared, you know, president putin is kgb and this and that. You know what. Putin is fine. Hes fine. Were all fine. Were people. Trump also making no mention of Scott Pruitts ouster from the epa. According to the New York Times reporter it may not have been far from his mind. Trumps propertiation at the montana rally was steeped in grievance. People close to him believe he was angry about having to fire pruitt and lashed out at everyone except putin in his remarks. White house reporter from Bloomberg News and republican strategist. A democratic strategist. Shannon, to you first. A lot of what we heard from trump, its like the musician playing the greatest hits. These are the themes he has been pressing since a couple of years ago. There were some of the parts an extra edge to it. It was about pruitt . He mentioned he was in montana. The senator running for reelection and responsible for what happened with jackson. What do you think contributed to what we saw last night . We are starting to really see a shift towards Campaign Trump. This was obviously a campaign rally. He said he was there to hurt john testers reelection bid because he plames tester for the failed nomination of ronnie jackson. The Trump Campaign is off to a start. They are raising money and organizing rallies and they are more and more frequent. They are starting to test themes for 2020. I have been told he uses the rallies to see how crowds reaction. The Elizabeth Warren remark was testing out the crowd. This is Campaign Trump and what we saw on the campaign and he became a bit more president ial for a while talking about economic and tax plan and health care issues, but now we are definitely switching more to attack mode and campaign mode. What are did you make of this and not the first time hes gone after Elizabeth Warren. Is he trying to bait democrats and think this is the opponent he wants and trying to elevate her . What did you make of that . He has been attacking Elizabeth Warren for quite a while now. To the point made earlier, he gets instant gratification and reaction to that line of attack. For one thing, i think he uses the rallies to test run the divicive material and newest set of lies. The rallies are also used as a form of distraction. The things that donald trump is dumb. Donald trump is very strategic. He is not intellectually curious, but he knows how to push buttons and the buttons of his supporter who is we saw were eating up everything he said. Every vicious attack and offensive statement and new lie. They ate it up. Instant gratification and reaction. He knows what materials work best. I think he believes that his base is enough. If he can get his base out and keep them energized and riled up and continue to distract them from the fact that his policies are hurting many of them, he thinks thats his path to victory. In terms of the midterms, we have seen the energies there. I dont think there is any question. The question is will it be matched on the republican side or not. We have seen a lot of indications in the special elections and a lot of places it can be missing. Can he go out there and give speeches like this in the fall. Provoke reactions from democrats and pick targets like Elizabeth Warren and it will the attitude, me against the media. Me against the world. Me against the democrats. Could that get comparable energy . We have to go back and look at his Approval Ratings in the Republican Party. At 90 . No one is saying the reality is that the Republican Party shrank since he became president. Only the people who really love donald trump is staying. There is a reckoning am can be for the Republican Party. Its in the form of women. When we went off on me, too, that i was a fatal error. That attacks from wall street to main street and liberal and conservative. Republicans have always had a gender gap problem. We run for a midterm and its d plus 7 with women. Now we see poll where is its d plus 12. D plus 25 with women in quinnipiac. My pair went on fire. A lot of people tune out what he says and say its trump being trump, but when he hits me, too, my god. Democrats were smiling and popping champagne corks. I got asked and im asking because of what we watched in 2017. After the revelations of the access hollywood tape, democrats are popping the cork. I cant believe what the gap is going to be like with women right now. He did get elected. Is there a possibility we are missing something . There is not in my mind. We are seeing for the evidence, special elections in 2017 and 2018 as well as 2017. Look at what happened in virginia. How people organized. The womens march was the most dangerous thing to the Republican Party. It was the equivalent of the 53 party at the ballot box. We are seeing women independently organized. They might have the host of problems, but the grass rights organizations with the Virginia House of delegates. We are not winning as a party. There is a demographic problem. They have not addressed womens concerns and the one key group we are losing are the group we used to get the majority in the house and season. White married suburban women with kids. They are turning on trump and saying he is disgusting and his behavior is vile and time we make a change. There are 25 where republicans represent them and they voted for clinton and the line where they need 23 if you get the house. Thats a big place they will be looking. Trumps comments came on the same day that his white house announced the hiring of bill shine as the new assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff. The New York Times is describing the former copresident as well regarded for his ratings success for a news executive and carries the weight of accusations that he helped cover up scandals at the network. Shine was forced out over the handling of the scandals. The impetus to bring him into the white house. The role he is going to play and how this looks. What was the thinking in the white house . President trump really showed over and over again he doesnt concern himself too much with accusations about Sexual Misconduct by anyone from roger ales, bill oreilly who he defended. Rob porter and the staff secretary accused of domestic abuse. He was turning on rob porter. These allegations of abuse, there is never anything that stuck with the president that caused him to turn his opinion on anyone. Bill shine has been someone out there whose name has been around for a while as a possible Communications Director for him. Shaun h sean hannity worked out a deal to bring him on. What can he do for me and my administration, not the accusations that in the past with anyone else that never carried any weight. We are four months from today is Midterm Election day. The democrats need a net gain of 23 to pick up the house. You heard about the gender gap and we were talking about this thing and what trump says about me, too. We are looking at the districts that clinton won and democrats are targeting. Is this at a point if democrats dont win this thing in november, would that be a crisis for the party . I dont think so. I think there is a ton of energy out there. I worked in one of the districts being targeted. I worked on a campaign. Amongst suburban white women, there is a new kind of newfound angst around trump and a newfound concern around trump. The fact that he had all these people on his team who have been engaged in Sexual Assault and he himself has been accused by multiple women. The access hollywood tape, bill shine, all of this swirling around him is problematic. He has shown no interest in doing anything to address the issue. Instead he is embracing it by bringing people around him who covered up Sexual Assault or committed it. Thats not lost on voters and not lost on women, especially in the districts. Women in these affluent suburban districts are embarrassed by his behavior. Even those who lean to the right are embarrassed. It is manifesting itself in activism. New jersey, pennsylvania, northern california. We have the board fired up. We are talking about the exact question. Is that the difference for democrats. The suburban women in places like that. Thank you all for joining us. Coming up, President Trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen hires long time ally lanny davis as his new reporting. He no longer thinks the president has his back. 72 hours until President Trump announces his Supreme Court pick. Who is the frontrunner in the announcement . How is this for international diplomacy. President trump giving as a gift to kim jong un a cd of elton johns rocket man all while arguing that Vladimir Putin is just fine. Plenty more to get to with the round table. Where the is action is. Ngs like concert tickets or a new snowboard. Matt whoo whoo jen but that all changed when we bought a house. Matt voila jen matt started turning into his dad. Matt mm. 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The New York Times reports that cohen told allies he no longer wants to be the villain in mr. Trumps behavior. He is reporting that last week cohen said he did not believe trump would wipe his slate clean using the president ial pardon. His mind set is of someone operating under the assumption he is not getting that. Joined now by paul butler and legal analyst, political reporter with the New York Times. Ken, let me start with you. I think the name lanny davis is someone who has been around for a while. We know him as a clinton loyalist. A lobbyist and has come under criticism for activity there. Talk about who lanny davis is and what he could potentially do with somebody like Michael Cohen. Lanny davis is a real expert, steve. And navigating the washington scandal culture and the media political culture. He has done that going back to bill clinton and his impeachment scandal and more recently with others and has shown he doesnt necessarily have ideological rigidity that keeps him from working with folks on the other side or clients that may not fit with what one might consider a Traditional Democratic capital d sensibility. He is currently lobbying for a check defense contractor and in that capacity he is invited steve bannon, the former white house adviser to debate at a Forum Sponsored by this contractor and interestingly, steve bannon when he was in the white house and trying to advise donald trump on how to navigate the then unfolding mueller probe, he reached out to lanny davis to pick his brain about it. Lanny davis is a recognized expert and who has shown a willingness to work with people who are not necessarily on his partisan team. I think its an interesting question. The activity Michael Cohen has been under taking here in public recently, the abc news interview, changing his social media profile and now with lanny davis, i think there is a question about whether there is about a legal strategy or a public image strategy. Do you read lanny davis as somebody who can help him navigate the court of Public Opinion or the court of law more . So both. Lanny davis is kind of like Rudy Giuliani in that he can go into a full on attack dog mode. He loves to go on tv and defend his client. He could be that lawyer for Michael Cohen the way giuliani is for the president , but he has mad skills. Mad department of lab mad legal skills the way we havent seen from giuliani. Michael cohen claps back on President Trump. You see him ghost the president on social media. We hear him say his loyalty is to his family and country and not President Trump. He is either really sending a message to the president. Yo, if you are going to pardon me, you better do it fast and quick and in a hurry. More likely he is sending Smoke Signals to special counsel mueller, im ready to talk if you are. Give me a ring. The issue hereof lanny davis being so close to the clintons, in his latest book he argues that the fbis actions in 2016 effectively robbed Hillary Clinton of victory. An appearance on hardball, Julie Giuliani received leaks used to pressure james comey to reopen the investigation of clintons email, something he did days before the election. Lets watch. Fact, on the 25th of october, days before the comey letter, mr. Giuliani went on television and said ha ha, this is fox, somethings coming. On october 28th in the morning before the letter was written, he went on the huy hewlett show saying i heard from former and active agents something bad is coming. Giuliani and many of the agents have been identified as leaking to pressure james comey to reopen an investigation that turned out to be a nothing burger. What do you know about the state of his relationship with the clintons right now. With Hillary Clinton. Is it still close or the sort of thing he would discuss with them or cleared with them at all . Any sense of that . Not necessarily whether he would clear his potential representation of Michael Cohen with them, but the argument you heard him making. He wrote a book about the argument of comey the election for donald trump. Thats he did talk with the clintons about and the clintons told their allies they believe in. To the extent that he is still seen as a clinton surrogate or at least an ally, that could be helpful for Michael Cohen. You have Michael Cohen trying to shift the narrative about himself now to distance himself from trump and to establish himself as sort of an