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>> how can cliff simms say he still supports the president if he thinks the president is unconstitutionally trying to quiet him and silence him and bully him? >> the way any number of people may have personal political allegiances or views similar to the particular person while not agreeing with the actions. i think part of what we are trying to flesh out here, a lot of the criticism was of the people the president surrounded himself with. i think part of the story here that we will find is how ...

Not the full extent in which donald trump personally instructed this action to be taken using his role, trying to straddle the line between private citizen and president of the united states. we will bring those details to light. >> one of the strangest things about this is that cliff simms is not really going after the president in his book. he is very critical of people around the president, but simms said he supports the presidents agenda. how can your client say he still supports the preside...

Trump campaign through president trump is trying to silence mr. simms is based off the campaign nda. the reason they will not bother trying to use the white house nda, this new additional thing, is because it would be unenforceable. unless it is classified information you cannot censor it which is why they havent bothered and why we didnt look into it any deeper. >> what do you hope happens and comes from this? >> i think we want toclarify and make sure that mr. simms can continue to disclose in...

Nondisclosure agreement to try to silence him. this is circumventing decades of precedent. >> simms said this morning that he is not going to be bullied. that perked up my ears and made me wonder if anyone from the white house thore campaign has communicated with him about his book outside of this arbitration. >> not to my knowledge. there has been no verbal threats that im aware of to him coming from the white house beyond the actions they have taken. this is donald j. trump in his capacity as ...

Trumps campaign and later in the white house as director of message strategy. tonight, he is suing trump saying the president wants to stop him from getting out his own message. >> he does not respond well to weakness that he only responds to strength. so i wanted to stand up and say im not going to be pushed into a corner, bullied on this and stand up for myself. >> trump is furious with simms over a tell-all book simms wrote with stories of chaos and deceit in the west wing. after simms went o...

Ami has to produce documents. and then if the southern district ends up tearing up the cooperation agreement, everything that theyve learned is admissible in court. its a really difficult position for ami. and remember, that were living in this time as this is being evaluated and and the question whether or not the president is involved or theres a political motivation where the president established a reputation as somebody who is willing to do almost anything to suppress bad stories. i mean, h...

By trump. remember, cliff simms, there was a story about him how everyone in the white house was angry at him for being disloyal. theres a wide network of people, a big list, of people who get this private schedules. in the hundreds, likely. and those people are career people who work in the white house. its not just trumpees who are in those jobs. >> daniel lippman, thanks so much. >> thank you. we now know when and where president trump will meet north korean leader kim jong-un. the presiden...

Social media, chatting with reporters, chatting with news commentators. he is not someone who is engaged in the business of running the country. and i think thats why you see the federal, you know, these federal offices are basically getting hollowed out, people are quitting. like i said, we had a shutdown that yielded absolutely nothing. and i think youre now seeing why. hes more -- its more important to him whats going on in this television screen right now than what federal officials are doin...

For his border wall at all. we are told tonights theme is "choosing greatness". the president, we are told, will try to strike a tone of unity and encourage both sides to come together. overnight, federal prosecutors subpoenaed president trumps inaugural committee for documents related to donors, finances. this greatly escalates a wide ranging inquiry how a record $107 million was raised and how it was spent. prosecutors are investigating a litany of potential crimes to conspiracy against the ...

Then, when i got home, i saw that hed made a donation to a local hospital in my name. he never even mentioned it. he also did my laundry. greg: that could have been worse. [laughter] so the media gets its injection of gossip, cliff simms was a low-level hack, but they can go even lower. i cant wait to see the next books, you know, grounds for impeachment as told by the white house gardener. [laughter] boiling over, i burned trumps steaks and 12 other chapters from the white house chef. [laughter...