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Lawyer, ive never paid him a nickel, ask kim. if he never paid a nickel, is he his client? >> he said he has asked for legal advice. >> sure, you dont need to pay someone to be covered by the attorney-client privilege. if he is saying he wasnt my lawyer, he can waive those conversations. >> why would mr. cohen -- i dont know the guy. i cant quite figure him out. i thought that ben stiller had a take on him on saturday night that was pretty good. whats it mean when he says i only got three client...

Into effect in just about a month and during these hearings mark zuckerberg seemed to indicate some willingness to look at that as a possible model for what facebook could do internationally would that be a solution grace for facebook and the u.s. perhaps to take a leaf from europe space age i think that thats just a stopgap solution honestly i dont. im im skeptical whether they will be able to implement all of those changes in time but also that it begs the question why does europe get to decid...

Puzzled by that. because that waunt pasnt part plan. >> kevin, i know you want to jump in on this. is there a sense of who will eventually get this position? >> well, theres been some rumored names. we have tony seaga and then you have mercedes shlap. youve also got other folks and its been interesting to watch the jockeying around the folks supporting president trump here in new york about who they think should have that role. kellyanne conway of course another one. but, you know, i think hope ...

Chopping block? hes on the cover of "time" magazi magazine. you know what happens with this president -- >> what are we going to do spank somebody with the magazine? >> i will tell you, don -- >> i really want to hear from michael on this one. go ahead, michael. >> let me tell you. jeff sessions has had his run-ins with trump. no secret of that. trump likes to get rid of people when they get more attention than he does. let me put one plug in, though, for rod rosenstein. i dont always agree with...

Counsel robert mueller is going to wrap things up. its obviously weighing very heavily on the morale of a lot of the staffers. and the journalists, we could use one of those martinis, frankly. >> i was waiting for somebody to say that. the aimen chorus now. robert, youve seen a side of donald trump that i think a lot of members of the public, even the staff hasnt seen, a kind of private side, the leisure side of this guy. the side everyone says he misses about life, trump to youer in new yor -- ...

Donald trump that i think a lot of members of the public, even the staff hasnt seen, a kind of private side, the leisure side of this guy. the side everyone says he misses about life, trump tower in -- tower. he didnt have a crippling schedule or a chief of staff. are we to believe he may be the first president in modern history to go without it with a gate keeper, work flow supervisor, chief of staff in the west wing? >> its unusual, but its also not. you look back in history, president carter ...

Its obviously weighing very heavily on the morale of a lot of the staffers. and the journalists, we could use one of those martinis, frankly. >> i was waiting for somebody to say that. the amen chorus now. robert, youve seen a side of donald trump that i think a lot of members of the public, even the staff hasnt seen, a kind of private side, the leisure side of this guy. the side everyone says he misses about life, trump tower in -- tower. he didnt have a crippling schedule or a chief of staff. ...

Next day it is something else. and he lives in a kind of parallel universe where surpluses, trade surpluses are somehow deficits in his own mind and only his mind. so what could possibly go wrong when all of the competent people start heading for the exits and no one with any confidence or integ rit -- integrity will take a job in this white house. that is a recipe for disaster. >> the name of your book is "the gatekeepers" because that is the role that many of these chief of staff have played. ...

This is nothing to do with staffing, this was bad decision making and it is all on you, jared kushner. >> it was a rainy day at bedminster when the president couldnt golf and when he cant do something he gets agitate and jared kushner played on that and that was when the decision to get rid of james comey was made and that is going to be a decision that haunts anybody with the last name trump for a very long time. chris, the new book -- the rewrite of the "gate keeper" with the reince priebus is...

I voted against the tax cut because of an impact, it was definitely helping the country overall. i thought it was a plus for the economy. this could unfortunately take us in the opposite direction. >> congressman, very quickly before we move to other topics, you say theres still time. have you reached out to the president, lobbied him to change his mind before next week, when he says this is ultimately coming out? >> no. this came last night but i do intend to reach out to other members of congr...