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Change michael cohen's calculus? >> what i also did say is that the isolation strategy of michael cohen -- i've said that a couple of times publicly, is probably not the best strategy either. i'm not on the president's legal term. so i don't know what they're legally allowed to do and not allowed to do and i'm not exactly sure what michael is being targeted for. the president is indicating in a tweet yesterday it might be related to the medallions and the taxi cab licenses that michael had. so me it's not clear what is absolutely going on. i think michael would probably say that he didn't leak...

People, jake, don't run for office is because they don't like every single thing they've done in their lives put on "state of the union." here we are now. my guess is this is a riff that will continue. i'm not sure what the criminality is here. to me it doesn't look like it's criminal. when i step back and try to look at it objectively. and i think the president is frustrated because he's got a great economic plan going. he's got great things going on whether it's in north korea, the potentiality of a deal with the eu now. so this is one of those sidetracking things that has to be frustrating....

>> the president spoke up about this program. he said it's the best way. was he lying about it the whole time, what he thought about it? i'm afraid so. >> i think it was a political decision. i don't think he ever bought into it. >> meanwhile this week, mora la -- more alarming news, the u.s. has brought fighters and tanks into syria, and after saying they were going to isolate russia after its invasion of ukraine, the white house administration is reaching -- >> i spoke to vladimir putin for the third time in less than a week. i made clear that russia's continued support for assad risked esca...

This program. he said it's the best way. was he lying about it the whole time, what he thought about it? i'm afraid so. >> i think it was a political decision. i don't think he ever bought into it. >> meanwhile this la -- more alarming news, the u.s. has brought fighters and tanks into syria, and after saying they were going to isolate russia after its invasion of ukraine, the white house administration is reaching -- >> i spoke to vladimir putin for the third time in less than a week. i made clear that russia's continued support for assad risked escalating the conflict. >> carl, a couple ques...

Obama's isolating putin will see tremendous solidarity of the allies but germany is not fully on board. it undercuts the strategy. >> germany's not fully on board. and i think american corporations are not fully on board. i'm not sure that isolation strategy can work. taking it back to syria when i was watching dr. nancy's report, think we're relying on russia to be our partner in peace talks on syria? russia is now rearming assad and not a partner for us on foreign policy. >> i was thinking a lot about cardinal dolan. i tweeted he points to the shrewd strategy of the pope, says by asking poin...