Here. Stormy daniels is under Cross Examination by Donald Trumps Defense Attorneys right now. It is day two of the Nasty Storytelling Sex Film Worker who the prosecution picked even though she has no direct involvement exactly with what the case is about. Her salacious testimony against the former president has some legal experts in fact saying she is now hurting the prosecutions case. Not a problem for trump. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. On tuesday the defense got Stormy Daniels to admit that she hates the former president. Trumps attorneys are now pressing her on her motivations to sell her story and the timeline of her decisions. Intense backlash to what many have called a description of her alleged romantic encounter but the judge said she went too far but not enough to declare the mistrial. The testimony of Stormy Daniels that was salacious, that was the point of it. Listen, there is no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been celibate al
single day, and as we know, americans drive a lot more than europeans do, you really feel it if you are a working class american. you re really feeling this. that s hard when it s a war that s so far away. and ann, it is it s a distance, and it s also, you know, we ve struggled in this country to sustain a conversation about our own democracy and about our own very real threats to protecting and honoring our most sacred democratic traditions, namely the peaceful transfer of power, which one of the two parties annihilated, obliterated, and save for liz cheney and adam kinzinger, isn t interested in restoring. i wonder if you can just speak to both ron s comments about the disgusting he used the word disgusting about donald trump speaking in a tv interview directly to vladimir putin to continue the effort of sullying donald trump s political adversaries but of sustaining our country s attention on the alliance, not just with our ally, ukraine, but with the democracy in this fight.
dimension of the way he interacts with people. i would point out that in 2004 bush won 90% of the people who said the economy was excellent or good. in 2012, obama won 90% of the people who said the economy was excellent or good. 40% of the people who say the economy is excellent or good say they disapprove of donald trump. there is a cost to his behavior. that s a good counterfactual. the behavior is reinforcing because he has driven away so many of the people he should have on the economy i believe by the way he s behaved. he has no choice but to gin up for turnout. that s why he wants to sully this is why, you know, to bring up ukraine. this is why sullying joe biden and his family is so important to him because if you put them together when you when maybe voters will vote on character which is something we talked about. you lose character vote to donald trump you ve got bigger
you know him better than most. what do you think he is thinking right now? well, i think i don t need to interpret what he is thinking. and i wouldn t presume to speak for him. but, you know, he s someone who, a., believes in the institutions of our democracy, so the sullying and sundering of those institutions would be of great concern to him. and he s someone who ran for office on the premise that we share values and we share interests in each other as americans. and tried not to exploit but rather to build bridges between americans. and that s clearly not the policy of this president. and, of course, what is the policy of this president is trying to undo every policy that barack obama tried to implement as president. so whether it s the affordable care act or action to deal with climate change or any number of other things, the guiding
agencies to devin nunes over to the white house. so that s what you think this is about. you don t think that this is about investigating, you think it s about feeding information to the white house. why? i thought it was that for a long time. we saw that with the midnight run months and months ago. it s the same racket that s been going on. so you think that what you re saying, basically, is that devin nunes is an instrument of president trump s defense and his sullying of the criminal justice system and the department of justice? yeah, unfortunately, congressman nunes has played that role now for a while. i don t know exactly why or when he decided to do that but it s clear that he s been doing that for a while. and so why do you think in that case the fbi director chris wray and dan coats are going along with opening these files