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Little too late? one thinks maybe not. getting in late, out of step with his party. news media thinks he's a joke. all that was true when he first ran for mayor of new york city as well. here with me now, contributing eder david friedlander. you write in that article how bloomberg's billionaire status didn't hurt his campaign way back in early 2000. isn't it safe to say the tide changed a little when it comes to billionaires in politics? >> maybe mot not at popular. not in the democratic party. running a republican in the general election in new york city and, of course, just the 8 million peo...

Assad's not a friend of ours. why are we protecting their land? and syria also has a relationship with the kurds. who, by the way, are no angels. okay? >> so you have a 22-mile strip that for many, many years turkey and in all fairness had a legitimate problem with it. they had terrorists, they had a lot of people in there they couldn't have. they've suffered a lot of loss of lives also, and they had to have it cleaned out. >> sometimes you have to let them fight. like two kids in a lot, you've got to let them fight and then you pull them apart. >> and contributing eder tore atlantic media def...

Play. she engaged in corrupt pay for play at the state department for personal enrichment. >> she tried to get $12 million from the king of morocco for an appearance, one appearance, more pay for play. that's why i'm proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government honest once again. it's time to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. >> well, let's bring in former federal prosecutor amimi rocco. charlie syke, contributing eder to to the weekly standard and an msnbc contributor. charlie, does this sound like the swamp the president railed about? >> this is the swampiest swamp we've ev...

Morocco his lobbyist friend helped arrange. this as two top pruitt aides quit the epa as the investigation heats up. joining me now, congressman ryan could steal costello, congressman in pennsylvania and charlie sykes, contributing eder to "the weekly standard" also an msnbc contributor. congressman costello, i want to start with you and talk a little about this breaking news we've talked about. the shake-up on the president's legal team. with cobb retiring, and emmet flood, of course, was bill clinton's impeachment lawyer coming in. there is quite a bit of focus, incluesing focus, on the idea...

This legal argument which suggests that although it could be a questionable practice under bar rules, it's not an illegal practice in the state of new york. so what matters here is the substance of these tapes, and in the context of what we now know to be the unfolding criminal investigation, there could be information avenatti is aware of on those tapes that would be damaging to cohen. >> i want to bring in charlie sikes. a contributing eder to the "weekly standard" and an msnbc contributor. thanks for your time here. i am not going to ask you to play lawyer, but let's talk about the politics...