MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview with Stormy Daniels failed to deliver pictures -- but still opens up new potential legal threats to President Donald Trump.
The "Morning Joe" host faulted CBS News' Anderson Cooper for failing to follow up on several important questions, and Scarborough wondered why he hadn't shown Daniels a photo lineup to identify the man she says threatened her infant daughter.
"I mean, it seems to me Anderson Cooper could have had two or three pictures he could have flashed up front of her face and said, was this the person would threatened you?" Scarborough said. "I think all of us around this table and just about everybody in Trump's orbit or in Washington, D.C. could come up with a lineup of three, four or five people that Anderson Cooper should have shown her if you have a threat that's out there like that. But that didn't happen."
Scarborough said CBS News and Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti failed to deliver the evidence they promised, which he said left open questions about the former porn actress' credibility.
"It seemed to me that of everything that happened last night, you know, the question of whether she was a credible witness, what pictures might be coming forward? What this, what that? wWen did they happen? What did they say? Where was he exactly perched on the bed -- all very salacious, all very irrelevant," Scarborough said.
He said the evidence shown so far strongly suggested the $130,000 hush money payout by Trump's attorney Michael Cohen was a violation of campaign law, and he said that gave special counsel Robert Mueller leverage over the president's longtime fixer.
"Doesn't that give Bob Mueller an awful lot of leverage to talk to Cohen and say, 'Hey, buddy, I've got you here already -- if you would like to give you the Manafort treatment and dig in the last 20 years of your work, I can do or you can cooperate with me now,'" Scarborough said.
