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Fundamental ideas of american conservativism, individual rights, freedom, less government, more economic opportunities, all those things, those are superior ideas to the ideas to the left of collectivism, opportunity is a message that should resonate for all. and reagan -- in 1980 he got something like 43% of the hispanic vote. in '84 he repeated that. he was making overtures to the african-american community. that surely helped open the door with more moderate republicans. i think it's better to focus on the positive because donald trump has a lot of positive things to say about the american ...

Is that going to affect the president's behavior, relationship with putin? >> i would hope so, but unfortunately, what we've seen that hasn't been the case. you can't blame americans for not trusting russia. they just finished poisoning our allies in great britain. they downed a civilian airliner, a dutch civilian airliner over the ukraine. they're consistently trying to interfere with our elections. americans are naturally recognizing that russia is not our friend. it's our enemy. at the end of the day, we wish that president trump would actually feel the same way instead of trying to suck up...

Him doing press. there is also a sense, a belief by mr. cohen and people in cohen land that there is going to be an onslaught coming from people in the president's orbit. and so there is this window of time where he felt like i'm going to try and restore my reputation before this attack. >> harry, what's your sense of it? why do this interview now? >> i think that's exactly right. i agree 100% with dan that this is someone making overtures for cooperation, and i take it a step further. the first point here is guy petrillo, as dan says, is a total top-notch attorney. so you can put aside the no...

Is someone making overtures for cooperation, and i take it a step further. the first point here is guy petrillo, as dan says, is a total top-notch attorney. so you can put aside the normal assumptions in trump land that maybe he is doing something just stupid. petrillo has thought it through. my best guess is even this interview had the blessing of the u.s. attorney's office, and it served to kind of give cohen a chance to vindicate himself a little bit and maybe insulate himself from the charges that are coming. and what you'll see here after is his beginning to actually discuss things with t...

Counsel main mall to investigate the investigators are getting a big boost in it. doug mckelway has been tracking the russian progress late tonight. good evening, doug. >> good evening, ed. republicans have been making overtures that a second special counsel is needed to basically investigate investigators. today, those overtures became a request in the form of a letter to the justice department from the judiciary committee chuck grassley and lindsey graham. they write, "we have the utmost confidence in the inspector general's integrity, fairness, and impartiality. however, by statute, the ins...