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President trumps legal team. >> reporter: sex, money, and the audiotapes. nbc news confirming the presidents long-time lawyer, former fixer michael cohen, secretly record a conversation about then candidate trump about play boy model karen mcdougall who claimed she had a year-long affair with trump more than a decade ago. a source familiar with the presidents legal strategy says heard on that recording made just two months before the 2016 election, the men discussing whether to reimburse the nat...

The most important question in the presidents mind tonight about his new nominee for the supreme court, brett kavanaugh, is if confirmed how will the new justice rule on the case of trump versus mueller, the case in which president trump appeals a court order to comply with a subpoena from robert mueller to testify under oath to a grand jury. the presidents lawyers have no doubt told him that the supreme court ruled unanimously that president richard nixon had to comply with the special prosecut...

The most important question in the presidents mind tonight about his new nominee for the supreme court, brett kavanaugh, is if confirmed how will the new justice rule on the case of trump versus mueller, the case in which president trump appeals a court order to comply with a subpoena from robert mueller to testify under oath to a grand jury. the presidents lawyers have no doubt told him that the supreme court ruled unanimously that president richard nixon had to comply with the special prosecut...

Policy and solutions, its very hard to compete against pictures, audiotapes, and these very disturbing images that are now out there. and wire onere only going to se now. >> i take your point. i agree on the action. we have these polls. this struck me this week, some of the polling this week. i want to run this by the panel. the question here, as we said, when you poll the family separation, extremely unpopular. but when you poll the underlying policy, the trump administration has this zero tole...

Everything that happened in this debate after those voices emerged. everything. they were the most powerful voices of the would he can. >> absolutely. i can totally relate to the way that rachel maddow reacted to this way of tender age shelters. i sat on my couch and cried when listening to those audiotapes. one of the things that youve seen happen is people who support donald trump saying at the same time -- sometimes in the same sentence -- it isnt happening and those people deserved it. right...

Fight to block access to the tapes back then is now a law that applies to all presidents. its called the presidential records act. it requires presidents to materials.heir documentary and that includes papers, pamphlets, videotapes, audiotapes, maybe even a single post-it note, depending on the circumstances. he anything that the president touches. any rorgd of the presidents actions or behavior or notes. it all gets preserved. and the process for that is supposed to be orderly. it is supposed t...

They should call in the fbi and say we wish for the country dont go any further into this case, period. that was president richard nixon on june 23rd, 1972, trying to shut down the watergate investigation. that was him concocting a plot whereby the cia would go to the fbi and tell the fbi they needed to back off of watergate for some bogus made up national security reason that wasnt the real thing. that was the smoking gun tape. nixon fought tooth and nail to stop the public release of all the t...

If there are parts of that still outstanding, that would be a factor here. >> but he said that pardoning, which is a right of the president is itself obstructing? would he do that? >> thats a legal question i dont have the answer to, but its in play. also we keep waiting for republicans on the hill to finally say theres a red line. >> i think hes willing to do just about anything when it comes to his family or protecting himself from people like michael flynn or manafort who do know stuff. the r...

National committee he said, we cant say things we used to say. so there are audiotapes where he is describing how they use coded language to appeal to white voters, namely white men, trust me, it will be a fascinating segment. and hes considered the creme de la creme of political strategists. >> and its a way of using humor, that masks it or gives a level of cover to the lee atwater point and your point is taken there. but with regard to humor, what happened with roseanne barr and samantha bee. ...

George w. bush. >> absolutely. usually the second wife remodels. im surprised he didnt do a complete renovation, a gut. >> well, the state dinners -- >> i wonder why he disliked or talked so much and said such disparaging things about barack obama is because barack obama was a classy man and no matter how much money you have you cannot buy that. >> he is profoundly threatened by the example that barack obama set, absolutely. >> thank you both. when we come back, stunning audiotapes from presiden...