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How do you prepare for the blizzard of subpoenas they think theyll be getting. they havent seen what it can be like once the house committee chairman get their hands on this. emmet flood is somebody who is thought to be prepared for that. he was one of the lawyers who worked for president clinton on the outside during his impeachment in 1998 and 1999. he does have that experience. and hes already shown on the inside to a lot of people in this white house who have come to respect him as a voice f...

And the obama administration. hes also a former cia analyst and is a msnbc national security contributor. and david corn is back with us. and, ned, i want to get two things. your reaction to bob woodwards description of the national security tensions within this administration and theyre trying to prevent world war iii and donald trump souzaant sedoeo understand it. and this nbc news report about the possibility russians were behind whats happened to the diplomatic personnel in cuba. >> well, la...

The possibility russians were behind whats happened to the diplomatic personnel in cuba. >> well, lawrence, the tensions that we see in this administration to my mind at least are unlike any tensions weve seen in previous administrations. in previous administrations you have natural and sometimes logical cleavages between different factions and administrations, state department versus defense department, the intelligence community versus another element. in this case you have president trump ver...

Administrations was a very strong economy, and much stronger than it was on the eve of the crisis, and the much more stable economy with huge innovation, and so as a country today, we are a lucky country, because we were so effective in containing the risk of another great depression, and preventing the financials from collapsing, we have the ability to today to turn and try to avoid some of of the pre-date crisises that still contribute to the fortunes of the average american. >> and a lot of f...

Who left when he responded to spousal abuse. anecdotes in the book describe porter as being one of the officials who removed documents from donald trumps desk to avoid the president from making what they viewed as bad decisions. i will read some of that statement now. having now read bob woodwards fear, i am struck by the misleading portrait it paints of the president and his administration. as staff secretary i managed the flow of documents to and from the oval office and ensured anything the p...

Were back now with our political and legal analysts. over the course of the day, youve seen a number of trumps former advisers release statements, some not so explicitly worded in terms of their denials. but i want to focus on rob porter. in the woodward book, porter is talked about as taking papers off the presidents desk. gary cohn, as well. things they didnt want the president to make bad decisions. listen to porters statement here. he does call woodwards book selective and misleading. he goe...

In past administrations for various different reasons. but its not the actual act of it being taken away. its the reason behind the decision to decide to take it away. and that is concern that the president has taken the country off the rails, whether it be economically with trade policy or whether that be potentially going to war with north korea. so as you note in there, he doesnt necessarily say it didnt happen. he just tries to go into the jargon of bob woodward doesnt quite explain it how i...

So first of all, bob woodward is not omarosa when it comes to credibility. he has for many decades written books that have been pretty credible about many administrations in both parties and what he says and this is a narrative that weve heard a lot now, that the president is increasingly isolated, he is increasingly erratic in his behavior. do any of these reports coming out concern you about the washington you might be coming into, white house thats reportedly in chaos? >> john: as martian the...

Devastating that its going to be. learning from the mistakes of the past with some other administrations already acceding to governors to both the carolinas and virginia to declare an emergency declaration. it allows them to take steps that they wouldnt normally be able to take to try to get ahead of this thing. the president suggesting as well that he is ready and that this is going to be a bad one. listen here. >> we are sparing no expense, we are totally prepared. we are ready. we are as read...

Such spectacularly horrific attack without our government knowing about it and stopping it to the credit of the bush administration and subsequent administrations, that type of attack, the likelihood of it has been significantly diminished. but now as we have heard there from director wray its a new type of a symmetric attack virtually impossible to stop whether you have lone wolves and radicals people want to buy a gun and plow a car into people thats different than what we saw 17 years ago. >>...