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And to what end? >> well, that's the thing. is it a legal strategy? is it a pr strategy? what we've seen in the past few months is a ratcheting up in the tension from the trump legal and public relations teams. we've seen the president use "witch hunt." far more than at any other point in his presidency. and we've seen giuliani throw all sorts of things at the special counsel. publicly. different allegations, seizing on the ig report about comey and fbi investigators, saying that mueller is out to get the president. and pushing different theories, at times would say conspiracy theories about t...

About it if the gentlemen are telling the truth. as a 50-year-old man, it is not a comfortable thing to come out and say another man sexually oh midwested me when i was in college. i have a hard time believing these men are lying. jim jordan needs to make a serious accounting for that. not to say it's a conspiracy to bring him down. kailee, you're a lawyer like myself. the law firm has a lot of interests. the question on the table is did jim jordan know and did he do anything to stop it? all objective evidence suggests he probably did know and didn't do anything to stop it. >> but he has state...

Been. i think there's from what i'm hearing, much more confidence in their behind-the-scenes team led by emmet flood, certainly inside the white house and the husband-and-wife team on the outside. but rudy giuliani has been a force unto himself and really has been viewed very conceptically from a lot of people inside the west wing. and that was the same with john doud, who was answering questions from reporters, without the team inside the white house having any clue about what he was doing and the paths down which he was walking. >> talk to us about jonathan, what you have dubbed the actions ...

Where judge kimba wood said look you have to stop this publicity four tour if you want to continue this this case. and you had steve ryan, michael cohen's attorney say his professional conduct i've never seen anything like it in my 30-some years of practicing law and you had the lawyer for donald trump piling on. >> what about the southern district of new york? >> they said we're not wading into this. and i think that's the point, right? this is a sideshow that people and michael cohen and his attorneys are very focused on because he's been out and in public and talking about this case. but wh...

Was given a choice yesterday in the courtroom, continue what the judge called his publicity tour, come on tv and talk about the case or represent your client in this courtroom. and he chose the publicity tour. is that right? >> sort of. the request was being held in abeyance anyway. so he wasn't going to be able to intervene right away. so i believe his explanation has been if we weren't going to be able to intervene anyway, let's drop my what they call the pro hok vice application. >> sew may come back around. >> if he feels like it serves his client best. >> what specifically was avenatti's ...