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Traitor. what are you hearing? >> jeff sessions hasnt won a race since 1996 when he first ran for the u.s. senate. a good number of his aides from his previous runs and his time in the senate still serve over the department of justice. others are in the white house like steven miller, and then you have others that are on the outs like rick deer born and cliff simms that are not in the good graces of the president. so jeff sessions is trying to figure out how to run this campaign, hes got $2.5 mi...

Appointees, whether youre talking about jeff sessions or talking about cliff simms who just wrote a book about him, or youre talking about michael cohen, he labels them rats and enemies. this is somebody who attacks the person that said something bad about him whether its true or not. in this case the enemy of the president is not the press, it is the truth. >> and were going to top find out when you guys cover like a blanket, the 2020 campaign to what extent is this setting the tone for even gr...

That starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern. up next, cliff simms, his new book details his time working in the white house and calls the people around the president a team of vipers. cliff simms joins me to explain why hes now taking legal action against the president. i think it will fit. want a performance car that actually fits your life? introducing the new 2019 ford edge st. capability meets power. in the first suv from the ford performance team. the new 2019 ford edge st lets see, aleve is than t...

Had to respond accordingly? >> yeah, well, mark could probably get at the legal side of that, but just having been around donald trump for a couple of years and i write a lot about this in my book, especially with regard to his relationship with congress, that he -- he does not respond well to weakness. that he will steamroll anyone who will allow themselves to be steamrolled. and i just, im not going to be bullied and so i feel like this is not necessarily something i wanted to do. ive never su...

Vipers: my extraordinary 500 days in the trump white house" is suing the president. the book details alleged infighting and leaking and chaos at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. now, simms alleges in his lawsuit that the president is trying to silence him as he promotes his book. this comes just days after the trump campaign filed an a arbitration against simms, accusing him of violating a nondisclosure agreement. when the book was released, trump attacked simms on twitter, calling him a low-level staf...

Silence mr. simms when it is really the powers of the presidency coming down upon a sole individual. have you heard anything from the white house about this? >> no, not yet. the only thing heard so far was the demand for arbitration in which was by the campaign tweet 20 minutes after president trump defamed mr. simms. former federal employees under long established judicial precedent have a constitutional right to disclose unclassified information regarding what they saw and observed. this is lo...

Book tour. he is going to continue the work he was doing before he joined the trump campaign in 2016. he had a career before that and will continue one without it. he supports the president personally. its neither here nor there for me. our view is to uphold the constitutional rights of this individual. if donald trump can do this to cliff simms, he can do it to anybody else. >> thanks for coming in. i really appreciate it. >> absolutely. >> well see what happens. beto orourke holds his own ra...

Is saying. i was backed into a corner by some legal action that the trump folks took. >> legal experts say if simms signed an nda as a white house employee, it probably wouldnt be enforceable because federal employees rights are protects. in his book, simms dishes about his time with the campaign. at one point writing about trumps hair care routine on the trail, saying, quote, if theres any hair out of place, somebody in the room better have the hair spray, extra hold. its those comments that co...

Presidency, ininstructing his campaign to bring mr. simms in for things that happened during his time in the white house. >> is there anything in the book that could be construed as being part of the campaign? >> im sure there are various pieces of the initial pages of the book. when we look through the demand for arbitration and to the statement of claims that the campaign submitted everything is about stuff from mr. simms time in the white house. >> this gets to the nda. simms says he doesnt k...

>> donald trump has a history some say an obsession with making people sign nda, both for his businesses and his private life. trumps lawyer drew up this nda between trump and stormy daniels who says she once had an affair with trump which he denied. trump has lashed out at former employees who he claimed violated an nda she signed with the 2016 campaign when she wrote a it will-all book. >> low life. shes a low life. >> a trump biographer says his preoccupation with ndas speaks volumes about th...