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This sort of work, that could say, listen, this guy is really damaging your legal interests right now. youre going to pay for this later if you dont get rid of him now. >> high end defense work is not steaks 21 club, not a panel on fox news and theres a reason that the lawyers who are really good at that stuff arent doing the stuff that he is doing day in and day out. what he does is try to solve one problem and goes right and creates a second problem. the second problem is created on at&t and s...

House with the most and history will prove this. with the most incompetent staff members around him in the white house in the history of the white house. >> youve got incompetence and in many cases questionable judgment corruption. when jeb bush said he would be a chaos president, its ad hoc on steroids. you have the wrong people. we talked about iran the minute ago. an idea that a decision would be taken without an meeting, without organized consideration approach, pros and cons the various con...

You would nip that in the bud immediately. no. this is dangerous. >> instead theyre saying have another. >> theyre digging in and letting him continue to add to just the myriad of issues that donald trump faces. and even from the michael cohen comment saying, oh, well they might have discussed the russian investigation, throwing them into that, its making everything worse. >> the problem is there are legal consequences to this. nick, this is not just them bumbling around about some political iss...

Why do they leak absolutely everything? >> your viewers, especially whos been watching this show for a long time, you learn more in a week in this presidency than you have in a year. so jonathan swann asked the prolific leakers why they leaked and they leaked why they leaked. a lot was about score settling, about going after people internally who didnt share their views, a lot was killing ideas they dont like. some of it was lets shape the narrative in a way thats positive for the administration...

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Im an expert on the process, on legislation. and theres some truth in that. its rare to get the hard core play of simply i have a relationship and if you want in, you should pay me. he ran around in this really hand fisted way. i remember hearing about it in 2017 and saying i have the presidents cell phone. im his friend. i can get to him. you dont usually see it that baldly stated. in one sense its refreshing to hear the proposition stated so clearly. on the other, it runs counter to the way th...

His face. its like theres a double teamed yin/yang thing going on that i think is part of the mental gamesmanship thats put trump on defense. i will say last week it was interesting to see trump stop attacking everybody last week, including bob mueller and let sort of normal white house coordinated strategy. im not saying i approve of this but to see pence, giuliani and kelly all making a concerted argument through normal media channels going on the "today" show and other places and saying the t...

I mean look at the people that you talked about last segment that are leaving the government. you have to work within the system to change the system. >> except for if your purpose is to destroy the system. so the way in which -- im fascinated the way in which these segments were tying in, what evan osnos were talking about and the way were talking about jared kushner, the notion there would be someone in the white house who would try to do another version of al gores reinventing government, tha...

Business as a conflict of interest when rejecting his offer and modified his approach to remind the company that he was, quote, the presidents lawyer. cohens overall pitch was blunt, telling prospective clients that they should fire whomever was advising them and saying i have the best relationship with the president on the outside and you need to hire me. according to a person familiar with cohens approach. >> so nick, this is not how business is usually done among lobbyists. i know people knoc...