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What a major buzzkill it must be to find out your friends think everything you’ve been talking about for two years regarding President Donald Trump “won’t matter politically.” But that’s exactly what happened when MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked his friends about all the Cohen-Manafort news yesterday. He’s “impervious,” Hayes’ friends said. “Nothing that happens matters”:Chris Hayes ‏ Verified account @chrislhayes Follow Follow @chrislhayes More Interesting takeaway from discussing yesterday's news with friends who are not news/politics junkies: a pervasive sense that nothing that happens matters to the Trump's fortunes, that he's impervious, and that all this stuff won't matter politically....

“I think that it would be handled very beautifully by me,” he said on “Howard Stern Show” in 2005p> Following reports that there are recordings of Donald Trump using racial slurs on “The Apprentice,” a 2005 radio interview with Howard Stern has resurfaced where Trump proposed setting “nine blacks against nine whites” on the show. “There was a concept thrown out by some person… nine blacks against nine whites,” Trump said on “The Howard Stern Show.” “And it would be nine blacks against nine whites, all highly educated, very smart, strong, beautiful people right?” he continued, asking Stern if he...

Michael Cohen initially balked at the idea of buying the silence of a former adult-film star who says she had sex with Donald Trump, but he did an about-face after a video of Mr. Trump talking about groping women became public in October 2016. A day after the recording surfaced of outtakes of Mr. Trump speaking to a host of NBC’s “Access Hollywood,” Mr. Cohen, then Mr. Trump’s senior counsel, told a representative for the performer that he was open to a deal, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Within days, Stormy Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie...