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It feel this presidency is reaching a crisis point? what do you make of this? >> i think the core is donald trump pouts sometimes on weekends and on days where he doesnt have a lot to do and does all those crazy tweets. but i would separate what he did to john mccain the last few days as just disgusting. i mean john mccains an american profile in courage hero. hes in the theodore roosevelt tradition of public service, and heres trump who was a chicken hawk during the vietnam war using bone spurs...

Of women that recognize what this was? and millions of men whose wives are accomplished and active and respect them, too? it proves they are stuck in some ancient era where they dont respect anybody? >> meet the flintstones. >> "the washington post," the president, calling him a total loser, is a perfect example of the point i was trying to make. he cant concern himself with affairs of state, he is more concerned obje eed about what p saying about him and waging little battles with everyone and ...

Is president trump feeling the pressure from robert muellers impending report? hes lashing out ramping his attacks on senator john mccain who died in august. mike shield is here, and april ryan, the author of "under fire reporting from the front lines of the trump white house." dug douglas brinkley is with us as well mooch we dont play around here. i appreciate all of you joining us. douglas brinkley, i want to start with you. when you see the president attack everyone from senator john mccain t...

By calling him, what? the worst thing in the world. dont you think there are millions of american women who recognize what that was? and millions of men whose wives are accomplished and active and respect them, too. it just moved that theyre stuck in some ancient era where they dont offer respect for anybody. >> meet the flintstones. >> its unbelievable. >> all right. so, kelly told "the washington post" that the president calling him a total loser, laura, this is for you, is a perfect example o...

Over to the fbi, an associate of mccains gave it to at least one reporter, maybe more. the presidents saying it was mccain who gave it to the media. so i mean, just specifically -- >> hes reacting to a report, so hes -- and lashing out. and quite frankly he can find other things to talk about. hes got a great track record, great performance as president of this country in terms of the jobs, the economy, the trade -- >> but he doesnt tweet about that. >> he can talk about a ton of other things an...

There is this worry inside the white house, has been for two or three weeks that the mueller report is coming. for some reason it hasnt come yet. whats happening with the mueller report, whats happening on capitol hill, whats happening in new york, is, obviously, weighing on the president. he knows that theres more to come. theyve been bracing for it. they assume again it will come by the end of this week. probably wont since weve been wrong on all of this. people who talked to him over the week...

Waive attorney/client before i even went up, because he knew i was going to blow through it on a number of exceptions that are well known to that, crime, fraud, what have you. but the fact is, if somebody doesnt want to testify, they can invoke it. if you want to testify and provide the information, i dont know how a president could stop you, other than to go to court and try to get an injunction against you. and thats not very likely. so if mueller was called to testify and was inclined to do s...

Yes or no? >> theres no doubt the other poll is better worded and at the end of the day the reason the president probably tweeted 50 times over the weekend is that there is this worry at the white house, has been for two or three weeks, that the mueller report is coming. for some reason it hasnt come yet. whats happen with the mueller report, whats happening on capitol hill is obviously weighing on the president. people who talked to him over the weekend, its funny, like some said he seemed in p...

You know, the famous, when you talked about saying there was a cancer on the presidency. why were you allowed to testify about that? what happened to executive privilege there? >> well, first of all, he did waive attorney/client before i even went up, because he knew i was going to blow through it on a number of exceptions that are well known to that, crime, fraud, what have you. but the fact is, if somebody doesnt want to testify, they can invoke it. if you want to testify and provide the infor...

A very high opinion of president trump, anyway. even for me, i mean, the degree of sort of mental, i dont know what the right word is, instability or unhappiness or lashing out that the tweets show was really what struck me. >> let me add a word, bill, that i associate with hymns and that exhortation. our presidents have in the past exhorted us when we have troops in the field, maybe even the u.s. olympic team on a field of competition overseas. maybe its a community hit by natural disaster, or ...