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The supreme court. youre absolutely right. caitlyn, in the new bob woodward book, there is a dramatic moment described by bob woodward, whether the presidents lawyers felt there was no way the president should sit down with robert mueller. the presidents former lawyer, john dowd, told the president, quoting from the book, quote, dont testify. its either that or an orange jumpsuit. now today dowd is denying that. but what does it tell you about whats going on inside that white house? >> well, wev...

The president, dont testify. its either that or an orange jumpsuit. woodward writes that dowd believed something about trump that he couldnt say to the presidents face. quote, youre an fing liar. other attempts to manage trump, according to woodward, were even more drastic. he describes a scene where trumps former chief economic adviser, gary cohn, saw a letter on trumps desk that he thought was dangerous to national security, a letter which would have pulled the u.s. out of a critical trade agr...

Michael wolffs book called a dramatic rift between the president and his former chief strategist steve bannon. >> i suspect there will be. susan, according to woodward the presidents former attorney john dowd called the president a liar. also told him not to do an interview with the special counsel, robert mueller. he said this according to woodward, quote, dont testify. its either that or an orange jump suit. dowd issued a statement later in the day denying that claim but what do you think? >> ...

A response from the president to that at all. then he told the president -- and by the way, dont testify. because even if youre telling the truth theyre going to get you. >> he -- he apparently told the "wall street journal" reporter who broke the story that he estimated on a scale of 1 to 100 in terms of chances that michael cohen would remain loyal and not flip it was -- his number was a 1. >> right. >> it was that low. >> yeah, and he said to me people who face long prison term invariably bec...

Dont testify, sit here quietly in a corner, we got this. i think the same strategy needs to be employed. he needs to listen to his lawyers and not say a word. hes not going to help himself. thats my view. >> what do you think, michael? is mueller going to be successful in getting the president to answer questions? >> so the difference i think in this case versus what joey said which i agree with broadly speaking is that bob mueller has a grand jury and a grand jury subpoena that he can serve on ...

Worst job i have ever had. thats the chief of staff john kelly. now the defense secretary, james mattis, describing trump as having the understanding of, quote, a fifth or sixth grader. trumps former personal lawyer, john dowd, according to woodward described the president as a fing liar. those are his words. in an effort to convince trump not to talk to mueller said, quote, dont testify. it is either that or an orange jump suit. former chief economic adviser gary cohen, who woodward reports was...

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Dealing with this idiot for? mueller reportedly replying i understand. that is a rare peek inside the highest levels of negotiations in the mueller probe. the meetings mueller attends personally. woodward is staking his reputation on getting these reported details right. now, dowd and the white house are strongly denying these reports. well get into that. lets get into the prison warning though because woodward reports that by march, dowd was trying to find any way to get through to donald trump...

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Years never stands up. without exception he said he told the president. a person facing a prison term cooperates. and he said there wasnt much of a response from the president to that at all. thn he told the president -- and by the way, dont testify. because even if youre telling the truth theyre going to get you. >> he -- he apparently told the "wall street journal" reporter who broke the story that he estimated on a scale of 1 to 100 in terms of chances that michael cohen would remain loyal an...