pbs and the new york times are not the same. as you point out, the new york times is a dream job. most people end their careers at the new york times. they say, that's the thing i'm aspiring to. you were at newsday and then you were at usa today before going to the times, but still at a relatively young age, you got there in 2015. so you were still in your 20s when you got to the new york times. but then you leave the times. no one leaves the times. we love pbs, right? that's like, what are we doing here? but but but, that's not a job you leave. so what was it about new york times to pbs that made you make that change? - well you know, gwen ifill left the new york times. - correct, that's true, good point. check mate. - so if you're someone who's a student of gwen ifill and a student of, she was a mentor of mine, and we met because we had the same hairdresser because that's how that happens, and that's how the universe, so great. - that is, by the way, not how we met. - that is, by the way, not how we met. - so seeing that, and seeing that she left before there was a gwen ifill is

it is worth remembering that the new york times for most of his career as a developer in new york was a symbol of the elite who he felt rejected from, from the outer boroughs, not from manhattan, the theme of not being taken seriously. larges why the times so in his imagination. >> a new yorker headline from an interview you did for the publication last year, with maggie haberman, trump favorite foe.-- does he treat you differently behind the scenes that he does publicly on twitter? >> i would not discuss private conversations. the number of times i have interviewed him and spoken with him speaks for itself. >> does he dislike the media? >> no. i think he loves the media. he does not understand what a government devoted media is about. whether the business press, tabloids, gossip pages, whether he made himself a celebrity, he is not used to a press court not devoted to be called a personality. >> what are your thoughts about winning this award? >> it is a huge honor. i was stunned and overwhelmed by it as i said to somebody at the white house correspondents association. when they call

that is the main one. >> 90 haberman with the new york times. thank you and congratulations. 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 spe

but for, and i'll tell you this, let me tell you about the failing new york times, right. the failing new york times is doing great! (audience laughs) i'll tell you that. our readership is up 400,000 paid subscribers this year alone. - right. - stock prices up, i think 50%, something like that. the washington bureau where i work, the staff has gone up from around 70 people last year to 107, something like that, right now alone - [both men] just in the washington bureau alone. - it's a good time for us. - right, well then, that is real news, not fake news. i love that, okay. peter baker, thank you for being here, good to see you, great, thank you. (audience applauds) - [man] we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q and as with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. - we've hired two fact checkers in the washington bureau of the new york times this year. one, he does nothing basically but fact check the president of the united states. and the other one, by the way, is now fact

the president's long-time personal lawyer, michael cohen. in the process seizing records related to several topics. "the new york times" says including payments to a former porn film actress, stormy daniels. prosecutors in manhattan said this is again coming from "the new york times," obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel's office of robert mueller. they called to search a completely inappropriate unnecessa unnecessary. this is coming from mr. cohen i've own lawyer. so this was not necessary and a breach. they said the search did not appear to be directly related to mr. mueller's investigation even though he was apparently briefed on it but likely resulted from information that he uncovered and gave to prosecutors in new york. again, quoted from stephen ryan, his liar. the u.s. attorney's office from the certain district of new york execute add series of search warrants and seized privileged communications between michael cohen and his clients. i've been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part a referral by the office of the special counsel, robe

"the new york times" contests the accusations, saying this, "hypocrisy alert, dennis prager claims "i not a best seller list, i don't pay attention to it, though he lists "new york times" t best-selling author on his twitter bio and his own site." "the times" says it's best seller list is based on an analysis of book sales, very few retailers disclose sales of his new book, so they don't have the correct numbers. dennis prager upset about this, he's not laying down about it. dennis, what can be done about this? >> first, good to be with you, brian. i did not get the yellow tie memo as the previous guest did. >> brian: you can still have time to change.s i know that's a clip-on. [laughter] >> well done. i want to make something clear. it's not a christian book.is i'm a religious jew. it's a commentary, the first c volume of the five volume and call commentary of the first five volumes of the bible. it's great. >> brian: i know, you are on "fox & friends" talking about it. >> it's a rational bible. i want that to be clear because of what what was implied. okay. so here's the very quick

some type of ongoing litigation that could affect him. >> ryan, as i read this article from the "new york times," it made me feel bad for cohen. it sounds like he was treated horrible. but if trump truly did treat him as bad as "the new york times" is reporting, why has he been so loyal to trump? does it make sense to you? >> well, he's benefitted quite handsomely from his relationship with donald trump over the years. in the legal filings in the dispute over the warrants, for instance, it's noted that he won a $500,000 retainer with a law firm and his only job was to refer clients to a prominent lobbying firm. so, i think he's benefitted quite a bit from his relationship with trump, being loyal, going on tv with this sort of over-the-top praise for trump has made him, frankly, a very wealthy person. i think that's the easiest explanation there. as to the tweets, ana, there is so much to unpack in those three tweets, because he -- there's a sort of long-term, fraught relationship with three individuals mentioned in that tweet. the first is maggie haberman, generally considered one of the best r

publicly criticized you in the new york times. -- and the new york times. does that impact your reporting? >> no. many presidents have done it. many governors and mayors have done it. he may be doing it most exquisitely and with his own fingers on the twitter keyboard. it doesn't change how we do anything. but it is worth remembering that the new york times, for most of his career as a developer in new york, was a symbol of the elite. he felt rejected a somebody not from manhattan, from the outer boroughs, that theme of not being taken seriously. that is why the times looms so large in his imagination. >> the new 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 t

but it is worth remembering that the new york times, for most of his career as a developer in new yorkwas a symbol of the elite. he felt rejected a somebody not from manhattan, from the outer boroughs, that theme of not being taken seriously. that is why the times looms so large in his imagination. >> the new 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. when i saw that th

the time, the answer will be the same, floyd abrams. the name of floyd abrams is synonymous with the first amendment in a way that virtually no other name is. the new york times has rightly described mr. abrams as the titan of free speech jurisprudence. he earned his law degree from --yale. his rise to prominence began when he served as cocounsel to the new york times in the famous pentagon papers case. as you probably know, the nixon administration had asserted that national security interests required a prior restraint, an injunction, on the publication of government documents detailing how the u.s. found itself in the vietnam war. those documents had begun to be published. more publications were forthcoming, first at "the new york times" and later in "the washington post." but mr. abrams and his cocounsel litigated the case all the way to the supreme court, and ended up winning a historic victory there for both the new york times, the washington post, and ultimately for press freedom. it made it harder for the executive branch to suppress and sensor publication based on claims of national security. since that historic case, mr. abrams has argued more

's rise to prominence begins when he serves as cocounsel to the "new york times" in the famous pentagon papers case, so as you probably know the nixon administration had asserted that national security interests required a prior restraint and injunction on the publication of a government documents detailing how the us found itself in vietnam war. those documents have begun to be published and more publications were forthcoming, first in the "new york times" and a later the post, but the store abrams and his cocounsel litigated the case all the way to the supreme court and ended up winning a historic victory there for both the "new york times", "washington post" and ultimately for press freedom and it's made it harder even today for the executive branch to suppress and sensor publication based on claims of national security. since that historic case , mr. abrams has argued more first amendment and media law cases before the united states supreme court than any lawyer in her country's history. he successfully represented landmark communications in its case against the state of virginia an

it doesn't change how we do anything but it's worth remembering that the "new york times" for most of his career as a developer in new york was a symbol of the elites who he felt rejected him as somebody not from manhattan, from the outer boroughs, again, that theme of not being taken seriously. that's why "the times" looms so large in his imagination. >> a "new yorker" headline from an interview that you did with the publication last year, almost last year, "a conversation with maggie haberman, trump's favorite foe." does he behind the scenes treat you differently than he does publicly on twitter? >> i mean, i wouldn't discuss private conversations one way or the other. you know, i think the number of times that i've interviewed him and spoken with him and been in his presence i think speaks for itself. >> does he -- let me ask it this way. does he dislike the media, do you think? >> no. i think he loves the media. i think he understands what a government-devoted media is about. this is somebody for whom the media was very transactional when he was in new york, whether the business p

but the "new york times" based on three unnamed sources reported his former lawyer john dowd broached the subject of pardons for paul manafort and mike flynn. the white house is denying the story and dowd gave a flat discussion. as far as i know, no discussions. joining us, gail troasht. mara liasson, and jessica tarlov. so the "new york times" story would be significant if pardons were potentially being dangled in front of witnesses. how does it stack up against the

the new york times has a twitter account the new york times at war which focuses on their war do they had an article. the with cameras rolling careers leaders put a peaceful spin on propaganda the new york times that warhead there was the moment in which kim and mr moon stepped on the border was one of several images that displayed both. country's understanding of the propaganda value of political theater well this is a cautionary warning about peace from the new york times at war number two the fortune magazine fortune magazine south korea and north korea handshakes peace talks her u.s. defense stocks ok who's here isn't winning from the god forbid the five largest u.s. military industrial complex contractors lost ten point two billion dollars in one day who will cry when when peace occurs to lockheed martin northrop grumman general dynamics raytheon and boeing and last but not least i give you a reporter from the u.s. military stars and stripes newspaper bob reid he commented north and south korea agree on denuclearization of the peninsula but fall short of specifics which is

. >> the new york times published this story. let me read the first sentence. president trump's add visors have concluded that a wide ranging corruption investigation in new york, that's the case that was just referred to, posing a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel's investigation according to several people close to mr. trump. >> i think that's plainly clear. the president has been talking about the russia icnvestigation. we thought there was a low likelihood they would be able to close the loop on some of that information. there's stuff that happened as a result that the fbi was not able to keep an eye on anymore. the greater danger since the southern district of new york had its own investigation going on. we thought this is the investigation that has much bigger consequences, much bigger potential consequences. not only for michael cohen but for the president himself. the reason being you have a greater number of criminal laws that could apply here. in the mueller investigation he has a much narrower scope to loo

so that appears -- again, according to what stephen ryan has told "the new york times," and the southern district of new york, the u.s. attorney in manhattan is the one doing whatever investigation is into perhaps the hush payments, whether there is other violations. beyond the push payments, there could be some violation of election laws, if, for example, you did not declare these payments as a gift to the then candidate donald trump. again these payments were made just before the election and there is a way for you to reg gifts and if you don't do -- to register gifts and if you don't do it properly, it is a violation of federal election law. we don't know what the attorney's office in manhattan is doing, but based on what stephen ryan the attorney for michael cohen is describing, that appears to be what happened. mueller has kicked this over to -- to the u.s. attorney's office. >> thanks for that clearing that up. evan -- bill. >> i would say based on -- a little bit of knowledge of how these things work, if robert mueller asked the southern district not to do this now, they would hav

but it is worth remembering that the new york times, for most of his career as a developer in new york, was a symbol of the elite. who he felt rejected a somebody not from manhattan, from the outer boroughs, that theme of not being taken seriously. that is why the times looms so large in his imagination. >> the new yorker headline from an interview you did with the publication of must last year, a conversation with maggie haberman, trump's favorite foe. does he treat you differently behind the scenes than he does on twitter? maggie: 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 and then his presence speaks for itself. >> does he dislike the media, do you think? maggie: no. i think he loves the media. i don't think he understands that a media-devoted government is about. this is for someone for whom the meeting was very transactional, whether it was the tabloids or gossip pages. he is unused to a press corps that is not devoted to the cult of personality. >> final question on this -- what ar

he has publicly criticized you in the new york times does a impact your reporting. many presidents had done it. he might be doing it with his own fingers on the twitter keyboard. at the end of the date he is just trying impact coverage. the new york times for most of his career was a symbol of the elite so he felt like it rejected him. again of the theme of not being taken seriously. that's why it looms so large it has imagination. 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

times" reporting the story. that's a three hour meeting. they have the entire audio tapes. i'm reluctant to rely on "the new yorkappened because third "new york times" as part of the attack on football. i'm not surprised reading this story that no one looks good, no one looks like they have a real clue about what they should do because i think "the new york times" is invested in tearing down football, the nfl and particular. >> tucker: part of the story describes the story of the miami dolphins, this guy, ross, suggests a march on washington with nfl owners and players. what would that look like? >> i'm not sure, but in a meeting like this, i don't blame people for spit bowling ideas. as the first time you're having a meeting about this issue. again, i'm a bit sympathetic to nfl owners on this because they have a successful television show that they've been running for 50 or 60 years. they've got a curve ball thrown to them by colin kaepernick. i'm not surprised they didn't know how to handle it and they can't believe the way the media is rigged against them because you can't inject common sense into this discus

those documents had begun to be published in more publications were forthcoming first to the new york times and later in the washington post, but mr. abrams and his cocounsel litigated the case all the way to the supreme court and ended up winning a historic victory for both the new york times, the washington post and ultimately for press freedom. they made it harder today for the executive branch to suppress and censor publication based on claims of national security. since that case he has argued more first amendment and media law cases before the supreme court than any lawyer in our country's history. he successfully represented landmark medications in its case against the state of virginia and successfully establish the principle that the press may not be punished for printing the truth and how a public official performs as public duty. he has handled many important cases including libel, leaks, and the confidentiality of journalistic sources. in addition to the new york times abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, "time" magazine, businessweek. he represented the brooklyn museum of art when they decided

the willingness of nbc to stand by a story that is so ludicrous. it reminds me of a time in the past when the other networks stood by dan rather and when "the new yorkes" said that that bogus story was a fake but accurate. what's happened i think is there are people who are in the "newss business" who realized they are not really in the news businesss they are in the political business, and joy reid is an amazing political advocate. she is a lot of fans, she's very powerful. i want to read a tweet. i don't want to get the words wrong. this is from a clinton staffer who tweeted out today and then blocked me. "make sureoc you are evaluating the joy reid story through an intersectional lens. she is one of the most important black female voices on tv. thanks." >> tucker: [laughs] >> she's just lying! obviously no one went in the way back machine to 2006 to go, "one day, i know this person will be on cable tv, i'll get them now." it is nonsense! intersection malady, really? is it so bad? >> tucker: i wonder why -- most people if they work in the news organization, got caught doing something, they went to the boss and said come on let's make up a patently

the upcoming summit. >>> also new this morning, the day's other big story, president trump in a series of tweets pushing back on a new report on whether his personal lawyer michael cohen will flip. the "new york timessays michael has said he will take a bullet for trump. maybe not anymore. the times showing new details on how cohen's relationship with the president among the factors that may cause him to flip. the lawyer for stormy daniels says he is certain michael cohen will flip. here he is last night. >> michael cohen knows where almost all the bodies are buried and i think he is going to sing like a canary. i know he is going to fold. >> wow. >> here's the probable. when you have a fixer, you need two thing at least, you need a guy that's tough, and you need a guy that is smart. this guy is neither tough nor smart. >> let's bring in nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett with more on the president's reaction to that "new york times" report. what all is the president tweeting. he has been up and at them. >> he has, alex. good morning to you. look, if you thought like i did that the president might lay low today. might take it easy on twitter out of resepect for the funeral for former f

trump's twitter tirade targeting the "new york times" that's getting the most attention. after a paper ran a story suggesting the president's long-time personal attorney, michael cohen, might be willing to cooperate with federal investigators. the "new york times" and a third-rate reporter are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. >> statistically, a lot of people flip when they're confronted with the possibility of a federal sentence of many, many years. >> reporter: the fbi raided cohen's office and residences earlier this month, looking for evidence of crimes. partly in connection with payments cohen made to two women, each claiming affairs with mr. trump. the president dismisses the allegations and cohen denies any wrongdoing. >> in an effort to save himself and his family and a lot of heartache, he's going to turn on the president. >> reporter: now, the president is wrapping up his week-long stay in south florida today. he heads back to the white house later this afternoon. and to give you a sense o

the press. 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

generalized first amendment rights to freedom of the press honors reporters and news organizations for their work, the award winners is from the new york times she won the award for her coverage of president trump joining us from new york congratulations. >> thank you let's talk about your experience covering donald trump if you can before he was president when did you begin reporting on him? >> i spent 14 years for newspapers for very long time and working with a tabloid you invariably cover donald trump in same way one -- in some way he is omnipresent be showed up after 11 when he wanted to pitch a medium for the twin towers he was always there i didn't get to know him quite as well that when he made a huge splash with the political action committee and was roasted pretty memorably by obama at the white house correspondents association dinner in april 2011 shirley after he announced he was not running that but watching him and covering him learning how driven he is to be taken seriously that is what you saw going into his desire to win in 2016. >> did did you take him seriously when he said he would run? >> i took him seriously in 2011 whe

news to fill it with. the expulsion story was on the front page of the "new york times." it's all our allies doing the same thing. it raised questions that were duly covered whether president trump is getting tougher on vladimir putin. but it should be pointed out that it doesn't reduce the overall size of the russian mission. those 60 diplomats can be replaced with 6 other ones. howie: the president firing david shulkin by twitter. the story is this is chaos. everybody is getting fired. shulkin got himself in trouble with a lavish trip to europe and he accepted free wimbledon tickets. gayle: that should have been reported more. many of the stories don't go into it. the "new york times" said he was being replaced by trump's doctor. prior administration appointed ronny jackson as the presidential physician. he's a war veteran and he's an admiral. you can't say a navy admiral does not have credible management experience. jessica: i think you can if you look at the millions of people he'll have to manage. howie: ronny jackson praised the state of the president's health. take

the "new york times" says trump is more mor worried about -- more worry about the investigation betterfaster" by daft punk is heard throughout.) (sound of typing) (sound of exhaling) (sound of drilling) jimmy (shouting): james! brand vo: the world's largest workforce works for themselves. we work for them. quickbooks. backing you. howie: the fbi raid on michael cohen's home and hotel room was a dramatic move. president trump: they raid the office of a personal attorney early in the morning, and i think it's a disgrace. howie: the fbi going after michael cone in this dramatic fashion. an overaggressive move because he was cooperating. gillian: now there is a personal narrative of corruption on the part of president trump. but for the media there is some political juice to be gleaned from this. it's the left answer to the deep state conspiracy theory. you think the government is deeply entrenched and overrun by political actors. it sees into the comey accusations. howie: it may have cost bob mueller his interview with trump. but what gave the story rocket fuel is trump calling it a break

according to "the new york times," the president furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas the special counsel told advises are in no uncertain terms mr. mueller's investigation had to be shut down. and that report comes the same day that you sarah huckabee sanders said president trump has the power and right to fire mueller. for more i'm joined by anita cume mar with mcclatchy nooups, cornell belcher, political analyst and michael steele, also an msnbc political analyst. right down the road, this is a roundtable. i don't know what's going to happen. i have watched a lot of crime shows whatever it is, where the criminal knows everything that he or she did. they know it all. trump knows pretty much all that he's done. he doesn't know what's necessarily illegal, how bad it is. but he's done a lot of stuff. here's a guy looking for everything who is not stopping at anything. there's no red lines for muler. what do you do? it seems like a shakespearean conundrum. take up arms against a sea of troubles. this is hamlet stuff. is he going to fight for his life or not? >> this is t

the new york times has had running analysis of lies coming out of the white house. i think there's almost 4000 lies. that is utterly ridiculous. utterly ridiculous. trust?ho do you you mentioned the new york times. caller: i trust all of them. i watch right-wing, i even look at foreign publications. the reason for that is because it's news. it's news. it's news. for a conservative and let me also point this out historically speaking and mr. williams had an opportunity to do this. the reason why he was a republican and blacks were republicans is simply because his thrustcoln and in the civil war and his so-called emancipation of , i have relatives that are republican. host: we will let armstrong williams speak to why he is a republican. guest: my great great grandparents were republicans. soparents were my heroes and i embraced my parents values and i embrace the party of their choice. caller sayingious they don't trust anything, that caller when i asked him what news stations he trusts he said he read them all. that's the beauty of c-span. that's why i always come ba

>> in terms of how this is going to play out, obviously since your interview we've now seen the "new york times" and cnn report on details of allegations drink on the job. the "new york times" reporting the one trip admiral was passed out for a medical matter. cnn is reporting that he had an incident in which he loudly knocked on somebody's door in the middle of the night while intoxicated to the point that the secret service intervened. it sounds like from your interview and what we know about this situation, there may never be any written documentation of these incidents. it sounds like there wasn't a practice of documenting these things and reporting them. >> it does sound like a lot of the complaints were things that took place during presidential travel. when i spoke to senator tester, there were three buckets of complavenlts one was improperly prescribing drugs, and the other set of complaints was drinking on the job. both of those he said were primarily during the presidential travel the third set of complaints during a hostile work environment seems to be over arching beyond presidentia

the cnn news room. tonight, will the fixer flip? a "new york times" report that president trump's long time lawyer, michael cohen, could turp on him to avoid potential jail time has the president pushing back hard on twitter. the president slamming the paper before tweet iing this. michael is a business man known 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 michadoing t despite the horrible witch hunt and dishonest media. it was nearly two weeks ago that they raided -- related to the hush money. the porn star claiming she had an affair with trump. according to the "new york times," trump's lawyers and advisers has become resign to the idea that cohen, who has a wife and two children, could end up cooperating with investigators despite showing trump unflinching loyal thety in the past. cnn white house correspond boris sanchez joins us live from palm beach. in in the past, cohen has said he would take a

not demeaning "the new york times" in reporting it. is is michael cohen starting to lay the groundwork for why the ultimate loyalist might try to have to turn on his boss. >>> so, betsy, i want to ask you this question. it seems to me there was a story in "the new york times" a week ago that first hinted at the notion that not only was there an emerging view that the cohen case was more of a threat to trump than the mueller probe, but that trump and his people believe that to be true. so, i'm curious as to at the end a one week later given the developments of this week whether your sense is that is more true now than ever that people in the white house, around donald trump, are still worried about bob mueller, of course, but really looking at the michael cohen situation and going, we have a problem here. >> i think it is. and what happened today in court is really the key indicator. it crystallizes the extent to which it is true. michael cohen is probably going to have to go into a federal court and say he thinks he's about to be charge

. >> "the new york times" is underscoring how worried republicans are behind the scenes about losing control of the house and senate as a result of president trump. let's bring in julian manchester, reporter for "the hill" and liz goodwin from "the boston globe." thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> julia, i want to start with you, how did this fight with senator tester become so nasty? >> light. last week senator tester brought to light a lot of the allegations against former -- president trump's former v.a. nominee ronnie jackson that led to ronnie jackson tendering, basically stepping down from the nomination post. and rather than, you know, listen to the allegations, president trump is actually pushing back against them calling them a character assassination. and i think president trump has turned this around on senator tester using as a re-election threat. he's up for re-election in a deeply red state. and president trump is trying to rally up the base in montana to go against tester in that. and it's because of the allegations against jackson. >> and liz, to

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howie: i can see where everybody is positive -- just briefly, the "new york times" is laying out the dilemma saying the contrast between his man told chest thumping, and his convictions specially after 2001, american involvement in the middle east has cost us a lot in blood and treasure. this is part of his platform. i am going to disentangle us from the middle east. i don't believe in any of these wars. i think they are all a mistake. he has a lot of promises to fill. howie: gillian turner, thanks for doing double duty. after the break, paul ryan retiring as speaker and some pundits say that means the republicans will lose the house. maybe that's a bit premature. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. it has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. touch is how we communicate with those we love, but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. for people with moderate to severe psoriasis, up to 90% had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. with taltz,

the key line in this the "new york times" piece, it's not clear what role if any mr. cohen played, but the fact that they were seeking documents related to the tape is new information. >> he's been his right-hand man fixing problems that the president had, negotiating nondisclosure agreements with women who allege intimate relationships with the president. how could he tie into the "access hollywood" tape, the billy on the bush tape -- >> billy on the bus. >> yes. the president was saying that's not his voice on the tape, that the tape was tampered with. >> even though he apologized. >> he did subsequently apologize. i'm wondering did michael cohen get involved with some negotiations relating to that tape. there's got to be something there. if that tape is specifically mentioned in the federal search warrant, that means a federal judge heard evidence and had probable cause that something related to that tape was criminal in nature. now, it's totally speculative at this point but obviously it has something to do with cohen's role as a possible fixer for the trump admini

news hook so that cnn can leak the story about the prostitutes. but once comey is fired, he decides he's going to leak information to get to the new york times now thathe department of justice is looking at that leak of classified information. >> my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square, and so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter, didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel, and so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> jim, you're the head of the fbi. you told the president in that memo repeatedly, your memos, that the president wasn't under investigation. you get fired. now you need to put things in the public square to get a special counsel? why? your memo, the first one, was actually sent to the fbi, to mccabe and company, and since there clearly wasn't anything criminal in that memo, then what's with your hogwash about you need to get information into the public square to get a special counsel appointed. jim, it's so obvious. you're fired, and you're mad. you're a liar and you're a leaker