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This is a huge shift from march and april of 2017 when the freedom caucus was rightly seen as the biggest obstacle in trumps path to repeal and replace obamacare. he was calling out by name and it worked. he brought the freedom caucus. it is an ideologically philosophically based thing does not exist. it is an attack dog for donald trump. >> it is fascinating to hear you say that. you have the credibility. and it goes to how we understand these things. if the tea party and the freedom caucus wer...

Was his attack dog. lets remember, his constant traveling companion. the president really sort of grew fond of him there. remember, flynn was the first one who led the lock her up chant that came at the republican convention in cleveland that summer. >> thats a perfect place to hit pause because all of this information came out in the context of flynns sentencing where he is hoping not to be slo locked up himself. after the break, donald trump turns up the volume on his false claim he was spied ...

>> right. ron desantis made an image of himself, forged a political brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to sign this nda. so suddenly he kind of goes from this attack dog of the agency to a little more of a lap dog in kind of doing its bidding. when i asked him about i...

Desantis handling this? voters can sometimes have long memories. hes new to office. this kind of counters the public image he had crafted for himself in congress. >> right. ron desantis made an image of himself, forged a political brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to...

Brand in congress of being one of the number one critics of the fbi over the russia investigation in defense of president trump. he then gets in office, this information unfolds and the fbi kind of rolled him and said, look, well tell you the information but you got to sign this nda. so suddenly he kind of goes from this attack dog of the agency to a little more of a lap dog in kind of doing its bidding. when i asked him about it yesterday, he was none too pleased about it. he said, look, im fru...

That he has and what not. it is difficult for any press office to form around that. he has gone through about half a dozen kpl dozen communications directors. thats not even -- that is one critical vacancy but so many others within the administration right now. thats really telling of the difficulty of works under this particular one. >> and with your experience how did he try to shape coverage? >> one experience was he was there as you pointed out to be an attack dog against reporters and to tr...

Here and testify. they were blasting him. >> like every mafia trial ive been, to the cooperating witness is like youre a bum. youre a convicted criminal. and juries often wind up believing those sorts of insiders. i thought one of the most interesting moments came up a couple of times. it was during this hostile cross-examination from the republicans when cohen looked at the republicans and said i used to do just what youre doing. i used to be the attack dog that tried to discredit critics of tr...

Co-conspirator in the crimes for which cohen has already pleaded guilty. that to me is going to be the most interesting part of the testimony. >> and i think because we are so used to getting inundated by so many crazy who would have thunk it bits of information, as im listening to david and jeffrey and thinking about this coming week, think about if you had a time machine and went back and someone said michael cohen is going to be on capitol hill testifying against donald trump, we would have a...

And his judge argued strongly today that he should not be gagged in that way but it didnt fly with the judge. so it remains to be seen if he can control himself and maybe we will be a quistone. look at flynn. after he got in trouble, we didnt hear a peep from him for a year and stone is a very different character. but lets see if thats what we can see in the coming months. the next scheduled hearing is march 14th. so well see what happens until then. >> thank you for keeping us posted throughout...

Congress and the conservative news meed why offia were busy trying to flip the script on the federal law enforcement agencies and officials began the inquiry into his campaign." then we go to face four. muddy the waters. this effort really got going last spring when rudy giuliani became the go-to attack dog for the president in his war with the special counsel. giuliani also gave some time to some very memorable lines just like this one. please listen. >> when you tell me that he should testify ...