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Dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc and improperly used in, capital letters, fisa court for surveillance of my campaign. witch hunting. he had a twitterific weekend here attacking the basis of the investigation and the many players involved. with me gloria borger and david prees, author of "the presidents book of secrets." guys, welcome to both of you. gloria, on the hiring of this lawyer, joe digenova, why is he now hadded to the fray. >> hes been around a long time. the president k...

Lets be even keel here. dont tweet against mueller. so i think what youre seeing is a ratcheting up perhaps of a strategy to the next level. >> okay. so, david, then that plays into my next question which is if hes going ballistic over twitter, he adds digenova to this list of lawyers, what is the presidents strategy in doing all of the above? >> i dont know which way its going. on the one hand this could be a trial balloon. this could be him trying to draw out the republicans who will say this ...

Youre seeing him just lash out. that seems to be whats going on here with the attack on mueller, whom if memory serves, he has not named before in his tweets. hes attacked it much more generally with the no collusion all caps tweets. >> this goes after mueller name checks him directly. its funny, david, you talk about maybe this brings out some republicans. i mean we are now getting names of some republicans. yes, you have the usual suspects on some of the sunday shows. >> a few. >> a few, yes. ...

Direction. he may continue unless his lawyers say to him its not in his self-interest. >> and he listens to his lawyer. >> but hes got a new lawyer, right? >> yes. >> the irony is he may be creating the very conditions hes trying to prevent. by pushing this forward, he may be creating that consensus in the senate that clearly wasnt there before, at least obvious in the public sphere it wasnt there before, he may be pushing some people on the fence not to be courageous and speak out publicly but ...

>> theyre leaving congress. >> yes, hello. a lot of these people. flake, corker, hatch, theyre leaving. easy for them. >> free to speak. >> easy for them to say. ryan put out a statement saying over the weekend, mcconnell ought to -- i mean mueller ought to stay there. but mcconnell and other republicans, i think theyre kind of waiting. i think theyre afraid. they dont want to do anything right now. these are not profiles in courage here. and i think youre right. if you had a vote, if you did ha...

Three times a week, and after donald trump explained why he did not receive the briefings on a daily basis saying this. >> i dont have to be told -- im a smart person, and i dont have to be told the same thing and the same words every day for the next eight years. >> david, as somebody who has been given daily briefings, what is your reaction to president-elects at toward toward them? >> theres a misunderstanding about the briefings, and its not to make up for a lack of intelligence in the polic...

That should be a bipartisan issue. >> joining me now is david prees, the author of "the presidents book of secrets. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> president obama sounds pretty convinced by these assessments regarding russian hack into the election, do you think he has seen tangible evidence, and what kind of evidence might exist. >> when the intelligence community puts forward a judgment in the daily brief and gives it to the president with that confidence, they ...