one of the award winners is the new york times white house correspondent maggie haberman who one an award for coverage of the president. congratulations. >> thank you. >> let's talk about your extensive experience covering donald trump. it began before he was president. when did you begin reporting on him and where? >> i spent 14 years at new york city tabloids come his first read paper, for a long time, working within you covered donald trump. he was on the present. a spicy quote. he showed up after 9/11 when he wanted to pitch a revamped version of the twin towers. i did not get to know him as well until 2011 when he was considering running for president and made a huge splash and conservative political action committee and was roasted by president obama at -- at the white house dinner. of 2011,t was in april shortly after he was announcing he did not -- after he announced he was not running. covering him and learning how driven he is by a desire to be taken seriously, that is a lot of what you saw in his desire to run and 2016. >> did you take him seriously when he said he would run in

that's the main one. >> maggie haberman with the "new york times," white house correspondent. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. >>> by the way, the other winners for saturday night's dinner include winning the award for the merriman smith award for broadcast is cnn, honorable mention went to nbc news. taking home the award for print have politico. honorable mention there was "the washington blade" and the edgar a. p a.poe award goes to -- with honorable mention to cbs. >>> the leaders of north and south korea held historic talks and pledged complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula at an intercrone summit in south korea. the two leaders signed a joint peace deal which included bringing an end to the korean war and reuniting families divided by the war this. video is courtesy of the inter-korean press corps. president trump and north korean leader kim jong juan are schedule to have a summit this spring. a group of analysts gathered at a symposium to share their views on strategies and gave a perspective of previous u.s.-korean talks and what some of the drawb

one of this year's award winners new york times correspondent maggie haberman. she joins us from new york. first, congratulations. new york >> let's just talk about your extensive experience covering donald trump. it began before he was president. when did you begin reporting on him and where was that? >> i spent 14 years in new york city tabloids for a very long time. working for the tabloids, you invariably covered donald trum'r in some way. he was omnipresent. working for the tabloids, you invariably covered donald trump in some way. he was omnipresent. he was a spicy quote who would make a story better. very long time. he showed up after 9/11 when he to pitch -- when he wanted to of the revamped version twin towers. i did not see him until he made a huge splash at the conservative political action committee. he was roasted memorably by president obama at the white house correspondents association dinner in april 2011, shortly after he announced he was not running. i spent a lot of time watching him, covering him, learning about how driven he is by a desire t

that's the main one. >> maggie haberman with the new york times, white house correspondent. congratulations and thank you. maggie: thank you. >> by the way, the other winners for saturday night's dinner include winning the award for the merriman smith award for broadcasting is cnn. honorable mention went to nbc news. taking home the merriman smith award for print is politico. honorable mention with the washington blade. honorable mention to cbs news. c-span will be covering the dinner saturday live, coverage begins 9:30 p.m. eastern. you can watch it on c-span, c-span.org, or listen along free with that c-span radio app. >> before the correspondents dinner this weekend, we will have live coverage of president trump, holding a rally in michigan. that gets underway at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sunday night on "afterwards." "the trump white house: changing the rules of the game" author interviewed by liberty consulting. >> he is always very intentioned, bobbing and weaving, counterpunching. it is all an act. forterviewed his top aide 26 years. when she joined the org

haberman with the new york times. honorable mention went to msnbc news. mention to the washington blade. the edgar a poe award goes to cbs news. c-span will be covering the dinner saturday. p.m.ge begins at 9:30 eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen along with the free c-span radio app. c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. friday morning, the meeting between president trump and angela merkel. we will look at u.s. russia relations. the search for a new veterans affairs secretary. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. friday on the c-span networks, at 9:00 a.m. on c-span, the house returns to ofk on the reauthorization the federal aviation administration. on c-span2, we join the republican national lawyers association. and president trump and german chancellor angela merkel hold a joint news conference at the white house. on c-span3 at 9:45, israel's defense minister speaks at the washington institute on middle east security. and at noon, n

the "new york times" and the third rate reporter named maggie haberman known as a crooked age flunkie who i don't speak to and don't speak with are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope he will flip. michael is a fine person with a wonderful family. michael is a businessman for his own account slash businessman what i respect. sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible

that article cited six different sources that haberman says explained to her the president mistreated cohen over several years, likening the treatment of cohen to that of an animal. listen to this. haberman talking yesterday on cnn. >> michael cohen has over the years done all kinds of things at the president's urging because the president wanted them to, because he came to sort of intuit what he thought the president would want. it didn't always work out. sometimes those things were handled in a way that was either ham fisted or that came back to bite the president later. the stormy daniels case would be one of them. but cohen was basically trying to do right by his boss and was seeking his boss's approval, and trump, time after time, treated him -- trump is very fond of using the phrase, like a dog. he treated cohen quite poorly over a period of time. >> reporter: there we should also note in those tweets about this maggie haberman piece, the president specifically referred to someone that was mentioned in the piece as a drinker and a drug user. there's been rampant speculation onli

that's a hell of a story right there, maggie haberman of "the times." for years mr. trump treated cohen poorly, with dismissive insults and at least twice threat of being fired. according to interviews with half a dozen people familiar with their relationship. wow. as trump's former political adviser said on the record, donald goes out of his way to treat him, that would be michael cohen, garbage. that's pure stone talk by the way. i should point out stone accompanied trump and his future first lady back in 1999 on a "hardball" college tour there he is sitting next to melania back when trump was considering running the first time. furthermore, "the new york times" reports since the raid, mr. cohen has told associates he feels isolated. that doesn't bode well for the president if he is currenting on cohen to remain silent. responding to that story, the president said today most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying or making up stories. sorry, i don't see michael doing that, despite the horrible witch-hunt. actually, it's

and what he calls a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman.insists that she is someone who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with, but there they are in the oval office. she has interviewed him multiple times. to talk more about all of this, i want to welcome in my panel. the co-founder of foundry strategies and msnbc political analyst rick tyler. pulitzer prize winning white house reporter for the washington post and msnbc contributor my friend ashley parker. nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian and white house correspondent for pbs news hour and msnbc contributor yamiche alsindor. this is the first time i've seen you on the air since you won your pulitzer last week. congratulations to you and all of your colleagues. >> thank you. >> at the washington post. but we've talked a lot about this theme that the president is isolated and increasingly as time has worn on he seems to be more and more isolated. i think it certainly set into sharp relief for me the difference between that photograph where he was obviou

let's bring in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. how was your weekend? >> it was my daughter's birthday on saturday. >> was it? >> thanks for asking. >> that's so nice. i'm glad you had time and breathing room to celebrate that. amitsd the tweet storm that focused in part on you, in part on michael cohen. let me just read one of the president's 24 tweets this weekend. the one that relates to you. "the new york times" and a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman who i don't speak and have nothing to do with are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. they use nonexistent, quote, sources and a drunk drugged up loser who hates michael, a fine person -- >> that is not you. >> who is that? with a wonderful family. michael is a businessman for his own account lawyer huh who i have always liked and respected most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble even if it means lying or making up story. i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and dishonest m

but by far the most pointed attacks were for "the new york times" maggie haberman who report reported on trump and cohen. for years, mr. trump treated mr. cohen poorly with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and at least twice threats of being fired. that's according to interviews with half a dozen people. the times quotes presidential ally roger stone on the record saying, quote, donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage. and former trump aide sam nunberg also on the record as saying, quote, the softer side of the president genuinely has an affects for michael. however, the president has also taken michael for granted. whenever anyone complains to me about trump's screwing them over, my reflexive response is that person has nothing to complain about compared to michael. it's the kind of nuanced and well sourced reporting that earned haberman and her colleagues a pulitzer last week. that didn't stop the disparaging tweets. he wrote, quote, "the new york times" and the third rate report reporter named maggie haberman known as a crooked h flunky who i don't speak to, h

i had line from interview that you did with the publication last year a conversation with maggie haberman. i would not discuss private conversations one way or the other. i think the number of times i had interviewed him and spoken with him and ben and his presence had been that way. i think he loves the media. i think he doesn't understand what the government devoted media is all about. is unused to a press corps that is not devoted to the public personality. >> final question on this. what are your thoughts on winning this award. as i said to someone at the white house correspondent association. my immediate thought was i did not mess up a pool report recently so i'm not not sure why they are calling me. it was very gratifying and thrilling to be honored in this way. stay off twitter. thank you and congratulations. include winning the award for the merryman smith award. the honorable mention there was a washington blade. he goes to reuters. ansi spent will be covering the dinners on a saturday live. our coverage begins at 9:30 p.m. eastern time you can watch it on c-span, or listen alon

so i guess now he's treating hmm a haberman a flungie. that tweet is wrong in at least four different ways. he didn't even spell her name right. he called her a third-rate reporter, heck, she just would not a pulitzer, next weekend another award at the correspondents' dinner, showing a deep understanding of what makes president trump tick. that's what makes this tweet a lie. you know, sometimes covering the president is difficult to determine what is actually a lie, but this one is crystal clear. trump said, quote, i don't speak to her, appeared i have nothing to do with her. here they are in the oval office together. haberman has interviewed trump on the record more than a dozen times. by the way, she doubles as a political analyst here at cnn. i know she takes these attacks in stride, but i don't want to. lying is disrespectful. it's not disrespectful to haberman or the journalists, but to the public. we know he delivers talking points to the base, but it's also disrespectful. is he really -- does he really think that had is believers,

he calls maggie haberman third rate and a crooked h flunkey, saying she and her colleagues are going out of their way to destroy cohen whom he calls a fine person with a wonderful family. then a familiar trump refrain, witch hunt and dishonest media. let me get white house correspondent boris sanchez in here. he's not far from where president trump is spending the weekend at his south florida resort and this is "the new york times" article the president is most likely reacting to. it's been a week since the feds raid raided michael cohen's home and office. some believe this is really meant to send a message to michael cohen to stay loyal. what are you hearing from the administration? >> reporter: hey there, ana. nothing just yet. we've asked them for clarity on a couple of points on these tweets from the president. clearly, unhappy about this coverage regarding his personal relationship with attorney michael cohen. shedding some negative light on their relationship. maggie haberman citing six different sources that told her for a long time the president has treated his personal attor

one interesting nugget is haberman claimed the president is afraid of former adviser roger stone. why do you think the president would be afraid of roger stone? >> it's just that they go really far back. roger stone was a confidante to the president. he's someone that has really guided him through much of his career leading up to the white house. so it's just a question of what he knows about the president, how much he knows, and anyone who is that close to the president, obviously, when they start talking to the press, it's something, again, very troubling to the president. that one in particular really got under his skin. this is a president who takes the value of loyalty to another level and it's something we're hearing a lot about, again, with the james comey book coming out. it's something that he almost insists upon. so when you have these advisers going out and starting to speak to different people, it's something he really is troubled by. >> michael avenatti and stormy daniels, clearly they're not going away. she has a much higher profile now. is it simply about having tha

york times'" maggie haberman on another story from a ukrainian tycoon to president trump's foundatitow foundati foundation. and a decision that could come in hours or minutes on a possible military action against syria after this weekend's alleged gas attack. >>> also, to impeach or not talk about it? hear from the guy that's been buying all those tv ads calling for impeaching the president along with david axelrod saying the talk could be toxic to democrats. >>> first the very latest from michael cohen from gloria borger. gloria, talk big picture, everything we know about what went down, how these raids were conducted, what they were looking for. >> we know it's extraordinary. this, michael cohen is the president's personal attorney, he's also a longstanding friend of the president's who dined with him at mar-a-lago a week ago and today he awoke to discover that his office and his he to hotel room were searched by the fbi and took things you might expect like this phone, his personal compute ar and financi documents. they proceeded with this search, to r according to cohen's own attor

haberman has defended her reporting since then, fred. we've yet to see the president go any further, but we should note that the president in the past has not quite been as vocal about his confidence in michael cohen. >> boris sanchez, thank you so much. keep us posted. >>> jeremy herb is a cnn politics attorney, and we have a civil rights attorney, and we have a attorney for the southern district of florida. jeremy, you first. how damaging could a possibly cohen indictment be for the president? >> we learned last week the j justice department has been investigating michael cohen. we didn't learn specifics. the subject matter could determine whether or not this implicates the president. cnn reported some of the materials taken related to stormy daniels, something that could involve the president. the same time, there's financial information taken about his financials related to taxi medallions. trump and cohen's lawyers are in court right now fighting about whether some of the documents seized can be used by prosecuters. >> and then arev

for example, maggie haberman. remember that lunch at the trump grill.ou got the scoop on my presidential bid. i got the bacon cheeseburger. was it when i called you a hillary clunky? pretending your integrity, you work with bret stephens. there is only so much a recipe is simple can do. him and ieady lost can't lose you. congratulations to tonight's honorees. i look forward to locking you up in the coming years. [applause] gentlemen, please welcome correspondents association president margaret tollefson. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. to those of you in this room and watching across america, welcome to the white house correspondents dinner. in this room, we are republicans and democrats, people of all classes, races, religion, and gender self identifications. tollef is margaret am senior white house correspondent for bloomberg news, and a cbs contributor, i am proud to serve as your president of the white house correspondents association. before we get too far, i would like to thank our cartoon , and stephen colbert for getting us warmed up tonig

year's award winners is new york times white house correspondent maggie haberman and she wondering the award for her coverage of president trump she joins us from new . >> i spent 14 years with the new york post. working the tabloids, you would inevitably cover the president. when hed up after 9/11 wanted to pitch a revamped version of this -- of the twin towers. he was always there. i did not get to know him too well until 2011 when he was considering running for president. he made a huge splash and he was roasted pretty memorably by president obama at the white house correspondents dinner in april of 2011. shortly after he announced he was not running. but i spent a lot of time watching him, covering him, learning about how driven he was by a desire to be taken seriously. and that is a lot of what you saw go into his desire to run in 2016. >> did you taken seriously when he said he was going to run? >> i took him seriously in 2011 that he was going to run. when he announced during sweeps week that he would not be running for president, once we rolled around to 2015, one of his advise

maggie haberman inside scoop next. ♪ can i get some help. ♪ i'm so happy. ♪ whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. ♪ >>> president trump raging after the fbi raided the office and hotel room of his personal lawyer michael cohen. the president calling it, quote, disgraceful and calling the mueller probe an attack on our country. let's bring in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. she knows what's going on behind the scenes. maggie, i'm glad to have you here to share your reporting with us. big picture, tell us who michael cohen is to the president beyond their personal lawyer. they go back a long way. >> they go back over a decade. what michael cohen and we all talked about it, he's extremely loyal to the president. what that means is he has been the person who the president relied on in house, basically not just to solve problems, no

boris, that "new york times" article writen by maggie haberman and others is suggesting that michael cohen and others could wind up cooperating with investigators. you'll recall, cohen once said he'd take a bullet for this president. beyond these tweet,houb is the administration responding? >> reporter: well, ana, they are simply not. we reached out to the white house with a couple of questions about the nature of these tweets. if they would expand on what the president was saying, specifically one portion where the president talks about bogus sources and points to someone mentioned in the article as a drinker and a drug user. there is a lot of speculation online about who that may be. we're not going to get into that, but we did reach out to the white house to see if they would clarify who the president was talking about. they have yet to respond. i can tell you, though, that i chatted this morning with longtime trump adviser and confida confidant roger stone who said he does not believe these tweets are about him, although he wouldn't comment any further on the president's message

his eventful and rambling half hour long television interview this morning, described by maggie haberman has another installment of this president versus the presidency. it included trump's admission michael cohen represents him in the stormy daniels case and trump's threat that someday he won't stay away from the justice department. >>> and tonight there's also this. the leader of north korea became the first to cross into the south since the fighting stopped in the korean war when eisenhower was our president. "the 11th hour" on an eventful thursday night begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 462 of the trump administration, and the president stepped right into the legal battles surrounding his personal lawyer, michael cohen. in a let's call it freewheeling and at times rambling phone interview with "fox & friends," which took place right after his pick to run the va withdrew his nomination, president trump both distanced himself from cohen and for the first time admitted cohen represented him in connection with the adult film star

maggie haberman was one of the authors of the report. the president tweeted "new york times" and maggie haberman, known as a crooked h flunky, who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope he will flip. of course, jennifer, i don't think there is a reporter who has spoken to the president more than maggie haberman has, and in her formal position, has spoken to the president and interviewed him more than sean hannity has. >> yeah, that is quite a feat, isn't it. yes, he has. this is a typical trump outburst. he says something patently untrue, no one is supposed to mention it or catch him on it and he goes on these rants because he's upset. he doesn't dispute the underlying assertion, which is there is something to be flipped on. you don't flip on someone unless you have damaging information that could lead to an impeachable situation or an indictment. and by the way, i do agree with jill. i think right now mueller is going to have a hard time

yorker headline from an interview you did with the publication last year, a conversation with maggie haberman, trump's favorite photo -- trump's favorite foe. this heat treat you differently behind the scenes than he does on twitter? >> i would not discuss private conversations in one way or the other. there are a number of times that i have interviewed him and spoken with him. >> does he disliked the media, do you think? >> now. i think -- no. i think he loves the media. i don't think he understands that a media-devoted government is all about. he is unused to a press corps that is not devoted to the cult of personality. >> what are your thoughts on winning this award? what does it mean for you? >> it is a huge honor. i was really stunned and overwhelmed by it. saw that they were i wasn't sure why they were calling me. it was very gratifying. and overwhelming to be honored by my peers in this way. >> your advice for aspiring journalists>>? >> stay off twitter. [laughter] that's the main one. >> thank you and congratulations. way, the other winners for saturday night's dinner include winning

on one point, the fact that the rest rest is casting aspersions on maggie haberman. happen to know maggie. the president has in the past called maggie on her cell phone to help her with stories she is writing and of course she recently won a pulitzer prize for her work. the other thing capturing the president's attention is the fresh fallout over the newly released comey memos. now that these memos are the subject of a review over comey mishandled classified information when he shared those documents with a friend last year. this morning, the justice department is investigating james comey's handling of his newly disclosed memos. nbc confirming that at least two of the comey memos contain material now deemed classified. >> i created records after conversations. >> the memos offer a rare look into comey's private conversations with the president. >> my sense that he was focused most on the personal piece because he would bring it up with me repeatedly. >> reporter: inclusion an unsubstantiated claim that the russians had contains of mr. trump with prot stuts in a hote

maggie haberman and michael schmidt broke the story in "the new york times" this evening.ie joins us now by phone. so, maggie, explain what you've uncovered here. >> sure. thanks for having me. the special counsel is investigating by way of a subpoena a payment to the president to go into his private foundation for a 20-minute speech that he gave in september 2015 when he was already a candidate, to a yalta conference that was sponsored primarily by ukrainian oligarch named victor pinchuk. pinchuk also donated quite heavily to the clinton foundation. essentially, mueller is looking for payments to the president from non-u.s. people and the speech qualified. it has always been curious why the money went to the foundation in the first place as opposed to going directly to the president, but it is another instance of a deeper entanglement of the investigation into the president's finances and the first that i'm aware of of any kind of look at money involving the foundation which has raised its own questions over the last couple of years. >> so did then-candidate donald trump

back with us now, maggie haberman. well, he's not mincing words either.t as james comey did not in the book, that is very clear how the president feels. how do you read that tweet? is he calling for something bigger than just venting there? >> i don't know what else he could be calling for. >> prosecution. >> right. no. i think that he might do something that's sort of complaining about that, but i don't think realistically he's going to do anything behind the scenes to make hay with it. i do think that you have this ongoing question of whether he is going to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, or make a move against the special counsel, robert mueller. the mueller move seems extremely unlikely. rosenstein he's being almost baited by several supporters on television into firing. i'm told by white house officials that so far there is nothing there yet, but it obviously could get there. and that is where i think you will see his reaction. he is going to feel like he has to do something to reclaim the narrative and just tweeting is not going to

this is not the first time he's attacked haberman. he did so last month. in another tweet "the new york times" defended the reporter reminding readers that she recently won a pulitzer prize. >>> we are following a developing story out of sonoma county. police are searching for a teen-age suspect linked to a deadly stabbing. here is a photo of the suspect. investigators say he's the suspect in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old man just afternoon today. the suspect and victim got into a fight after a party and they say the suspect fled in a maroon bmw. he should be considered armed and dangerous. >>> six people were shot and one killed in a violent scene in san francisco. this happened after 11:00 last night on third street. investigators say when officers arrived, they found six people with gunshot wounds. one person, a 21-year-old man, died at the scene. police say all the victims are men ranging from 19 to 31 years old. their conditions have not been released. >>> thousands celebrated 420 for the first time under california's new laws allowing recreatio

( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) trump continued by saying that haberman and "the new york times "are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will 'flip.' they use..." "...non-existent 'sources' and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates michael, a fine person with a wonderful family." never doubt trump's commitment to end the opioid crisis, one drunk, drugged up loser at a time. raff laugh and it goes on: "michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who i have always liked and respected. most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble, even if..." "...it means lying or making up stories. sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and the dishonest media!" so, what trump is saying here is, "cohen's a good guy, and this is all a witch hunt. unless he flips-- in which case, he's a liar, and i've never met him." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) who is michael? have you got this guy? i don't know this michael. i don't know -- who is -- i -- i -- land the plane, let's brit in.

he tweeted ""the new york times" and third rate reporter named maggie haberman, known as a crooked hnky who i don't speak with are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope he le flip. if you're not familiar with maggie haberman, the third rate reporter trump doesn't speak to and has nothing to do with, there she is in the oval office. she is the one on the right. you can see she and the president aren't speaking. the thumb is up for get out of here, lady. the president tweeted a lot of weird stuff this weekend about michael cohen. he said that he likes and respects michael cohen, doesn't see him flipping on him, which of course warrants the question you don't see him flipping on you for what? what didn't you do that you trust he won't tell the prosecutors about. maybe that money he paid stormy daniels, $130,000, you knew nothing about. this stormy daniels story has a new twist. another porn star, a woman named jessica drake was at that golf tournament in lake tahoe. she says she, stormy and another starlet of the adult variety were in t

the word fear in fact was used in one of maggie haberman's stories today, that he's in a place of this investigation he's never been before. it is possible because he recognitions the implications of the feds having these computers and having the legal tools because this is a legitimate warrant that was served by a judge, by a magistrate that now whatever this cover up has been and is in the white house, presided over by the president of the united states and by cover-up, it doesn't mean necessarily that it's a conspiracy to obstruct justice, though there are plenty of suggests of that, but now this is unraveling to the way that gets to the heart of matters including possible collusion. >> i've got to run. carl, fascinating conversation. pleasure to have you. thank you, sir. >>> when we come back did james comey compare the president to a mob boss. and what did he mean by that? >>> did a former fbi director james comey compare president trump to a bob boss? well, that is suggestion in this promo clip for an interview set to air sunday with abc's george. >> how strange is it for you to

he bashed maggie haberman of "the new york times" who reported that mr. trump had verbally abused cohen for years, and the president's lawyers are concerned the behavior could lead to cohen flipping. "the new york times" and a third rate reporter named maggie haberman, who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. she has covered trump for years. >> i think that it was very hard for him to read that it is possible that michael cohen could flip and it is possible that he could have helped do something to make that happen. and to be clear, people don't flip unless there is something to flip on. >> the president also tweeted that cohen is someone who i have always liked and respected. and later that day he sent a random tweet about the possibility of pardoning a long dead boxer just days after pardoning scooter libby, chief of staff for former vice president dick cheney. >> he just out of the blue completely issued this pardon four days after th

tweeting a lot defending michael cohen and slamming the "new york times" maggie haberman.boxing jackson was convicted of taking his white girlfriend across state lines. the president tweeted this about him. others have looked at this over the years and most thought it would be done. but yes, i am considering a full pardon. keeping them honest given that the president has already gone outside the normal channels to pardon two others. is this a message to mr. cohen or others. other tweets contain further hints. -- are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. the president continues. they use nonexistence sources and a drunk drugged up loser who hates michael. m michael is a businessman. sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and the dishonest media. story over the weekend on the possibility of cohen flipping on the president may have touched a nerve. and few reporters are as well sourced as she is in the trump white house. the white house on two occasions today did not rule out

and more, maggie haberman -- we learn that cohen arranged another hush money. we saw michael cohen's attorney trying to block the justice department from reading documents. then we learned the president phoned his embattled lawyer today. she says she didn't know. >> is the president still associated with michael cohen? is he continued to consider michael cohen someone he holds in confidence? >> i know that the president has worked with him as a personal attorney. beyond that i don't have anything to add. >> there is that, and james comey. all that has left the president, pissed, and upset. another one says he is currently in lash out mode. which he did. james comey is a proven leaker and liar the president tweeted. everyone in washington should be fired for the terrible job he did. he lied to congress under oath. the president goes on to say he is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was as time has proven a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case. for lack of candor concerning the investigation. here was the president's t

maggie haberman trolling a little bit. he always said trump has been afraid of roger stone for years. he's about michael cohen who could flip on him. is it does feel like the walls could be closing in. >> definitely, and i think trump was just focused on getting into this office, but he wasn't thinking about all the responsibilities that come with the job of being the president of the united states, and i feel like his presidency so far -- at the end of donald trump's presidency, whenever that might be, we might all be unofficial lawyers. it's all like law school 101. he's not only giving us the legal system but the checks and balances on american political power and how strong they're going to hold up. and one thing i really want to quickly talk about is that if the secret, sealed indictment really does exist, i just want to say i have so much anxiety about what trump will do with mueller, but if the secret indictment does really exist, one thing is clear, we don't need to worry about mueller. even if he is fired, this in

quote, the "new york times" and a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman, known as a crooked h flunkieho i don't speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. he was asked whether a pardon is off the table. >> it was noticed by some that you didn't close the door one way or the other on the president pardoning michael cohen. what is your read on that right now? >> it's hard to close the door on something that hasn't taken place. i don't like to discuss or comment on hypothetical situations that may or may not ever happen. i would refer you to personal attorneys to comment on anything specific regarding that case, but we don't have anything at this point. >> we do, however. joining us are kirsten powers, david urban and carrie sellers. just from a legal standpoint, the president's power to pardon is pretty absolute. >> it is. executive power for the president, a pardon is one of the fundamental exec ty powers th -- executive powers that he has. we don't even know what michael cohen mi

he woet new york times and a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman that i don't talk to and haveh say michael cohen is going to flip. >> the way the president reresponded to jonathan carl, to you is it a sign that this has really zsh i mean, that this is still really bothering him. yes. and i think it's one of many signs this is bothering him. however many tweets it was, tweet storm over the weekend was part of it. he frustrated by questions like this. in fairness to him it's a hard question to answer, considering michael cohen has not been charged with anything yet. but i do think he hates these questions and this topic. i think it gets to a danger spot for him that he doesn't want to touch. >> he clearly hated the article that you wrote as well. i know you don't like being part of the story, but he obviously, you know, subjected you to his criticism saying basically he doesn't know you or never spends time with you, which is obviously not the case. but the -- do you think his reaction to that article is because -- i mean, as i read that artle kl, i thought the details were pret

twitter saturday attacking, among others, "the new york times" and one of its reporters, maggie haberman. the president taking exception to an article published on friday indicating he has a troubled relationship historically with his personal attorney michael cohen. the article suggests that cohen could potentially flip on president trump, something that sources have told cnn that legal experts have told the president he should prepare for. that is if michael cohen has any incriminating information about president trump, that he may imply with investigators in order to get a more lenient sentence. the president responding to those suggestions via twitter saying that he does not believe that cohen would do that, even going as far to say that other people in a similar situations have made up stories to investigators in order to get lighter sentences. the reporter behind that is standing by her reporting saying six different sources that historically president trump has treated his personal attorney like an animal. >> michael cohen, over the years has done all kinds of things at the presid

maggie haberman reported that and had dozens of sources and he went after her personally. do you think that's such a trigger for the president, this revelation that he treated michael cohen poorly? >> he's trying to put the horse back in the barn. the president realizes he's got huge potential liability, that michael cohen is the key and he's doing everything in his power to shore up that relationship to try to send a message to michael cohen that he has his back and these reports of disloyalty, et cetera, are wildly overblown. he's trying to shore up that relationship. he's very, very nervous about what michael cohen might do. i've got to believe that all the tweets in the world are not going to save the president if michael cohen decides to flip on the president and i believe that he will. >> you think there's going to be enough pressure on him criminally and legally to have to choose between going away for a long time or staying loyal to this president? >> there's no question about it. i've been saying it since april 45th pri 5th prior to the fbi raid. i've made a lot o

what do you -- you know, you were in the room with your colleagues, peter baker and maggie haberman. you guys pressed him on that red line. just tie owl thall that togethe president's own words about where his red line was, the incident in december that brought him to perhaps the verge of firing mueller, and what we've seen in the last 24 hours in terms of what the fbi may be in possession of now after that seize of michael cohen's home and his office. >> well, in terms of mueller and sessions and rosenstein, he's thought about firing them for a year. the thought of firing them is not new. this is something he has talked about openly. he talks to his friends about it. he talks to his advisers about it. he certainly thinks a lot about it. he's even sort of broached the subject publicly, even telling us in july he wouldn't have made sessions the attorney general if he knew he was going to recuse himself. obviously we don't know what the president's going to do. he's an unpredictable person. will he fire mueller? everyone in washington ask ths t question. who knows? what i do think we'l

in part by maggie haberman who has been on this network several times. she's a contributor.ten to what she says about the relationship between president trump and michael cohen. this is maggie with anderson cooper. >> michael cohen has, over the years, done all kinds of things at the president's urging because the president wanted them to because he came to sort of intuit what he thought the president would want. it doesn't always work out. sometimes those things were handled in a way that came back to bite the president later. the stormy daniels case would be one of them. but cohen was basically trying to do right by his boss and was seeking his boss' approval. and trump, time after time, treated him -- trump is very fond of using the phrase like a dog. he treated cohen quite poorly over a period of time. >> well, the president is at mar-a-lago this morning and in the last few minutes, he has now responded to that report and reporter tweeting this. "the new york times" and a third rate reporter named maggie haberman known as a crooked h flunky who i don't speak to and have