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Week. even know as thee excerpts are coming out about these stunning revelations. we also know theres no clear defense strategy for the white house. this is a white house that has seen tell-all books before, two in the last nine months. that one by michael wolf and the other by the former staffer, omarosa. because there were questions about whether or not they were true, john, the white house had a little bit of cover to defend itself from those allegations. now, that doesnt seem to be the case ...

Said, she says i have e-mail exchanges, raising the spector that she will produce those as well. were waiting for the new book from bob woodward that will give us on more fact based glimpse here what was going on insides white house. how much has that changed it that we have that tape of her talking to john kelly in the situation room for instance, that there is evidence backing up a lot of what she has to say? >> i think that there is something to be said about omarosas strategy here which is t...

Who has the length of history working for donald trump in multiple capacities, right, not just as an attorney, but also connected to some of his business transactions, including working on trying to get trump moscow, right, the trump hotel in moscow. theres no question that thats going to relate to the mueller investigation. thats also clear that hes going -- all the documents that he had, not just the tapes, but also documents, e-mail exchanges are all going to be significantly important into t...

>> listen, clearly their focus here now because there is so much documentation as to these alleged crimes there are numerous e-mail exchanges. there was one that came up today where paul manafort e-mailed gates, saying wtf. of course we know what thats short for, saying he was blindsided by how big his tax bill was, this being paul manafort because he expected gates to have reduced that tax bill by doing all the alleged illegal things they were doing to reduce their tax exposure. you so much doc...

I didnt know anything. very unimportant. sounded like a very unimportant meeting. >> so we have that. but then, jim, as you mentioned, we also have so many conflicting narratives here. i want to go through a few things of what was said and what we know now. donald trump jr. first said that meeting in june 2016 at trump tower was about a relatively obscure adoption law that russia wanted done differently. okay. president trump dictated that initial response about adoption. that in and of itself i...

About the views of brett kavanaugh on the executive privilege and whether he can kill muellers investigation from the bench. here to break it down is a defense attorney and a contributor and a former assistant, watergate special prosecutor. great to have you with us. lets look at the list of evidence that mueller here is working with. e-mail exchanges with former ukrainian president, and statements from land rover, statements from mercedes-benz of alexandria. photos of the putting green and a ph...

Of the loss in a fraud-type case and here the guidelines would suggest hes looking at decades in prison so hell have a powerful incentive to cooperate and this new reporting indicate he is may have a significant piece of information for the mueller investigation that we havent been talking about this week. >> one other thing is that you get the texture of cohens loyalty to trump. theres one moment in the e-mail exchanges where cohen loses his mind that his relationship with mr. trump might be in...

Muellers investigation. back in february, the republicans released an information. which conveniently echoed administration claim at the time. and they released overgrave concerns about its accuracy. every one of them and there are more, raise questions that we will talk about tonight. joining us tonight is one of the two new york times correspondents on the russia lawyer/informant story. to admitting she is a russian informant? >> well i think what happened is that she was a little bit taken by...

>> are you worried about michael in? yea >> michael, i dont know -- >> im going to bring in a federal prosecutor who los hals expertise. does your lawyer think what youre doing is a good idea? >> i dont know. i think he may drop me. i know my father -- >> i think your father wants you home for thanksgiving and you should testify. >> do you know whats ridiculous in. >> it is so not ridiculous -- >> i talk to roger 15 times a day. >> if you have e-mail exchanges with him during the period that is ...

A lot of people have been in on the e-mail exchanges, but its technically not an indictment because they send a message. if you dont like me, im going to catch you. in the case of kushner, there was a meeting in 2016 in which they set up a meeting with three other russians that he was late to disclose. he ran the trump campaign analytics operation. we know the special counsel is looking at things the russians did with data, social media, matched them up to see how closely they compared with trum...