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Thats highly critical of the president. heres that exchange. >> does everybody like the press? >> no! >> do you think the media is fair? >> no! >> i better not go any further. i better not go any further. >> in a statement the white house press secretary called omarosa, quote, sad and disgruntled and said the book is riddled with lies and false accusations, jon? jon: the president i know was very active on twitter today, lashing out at the former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. whats that all...

I mean the tv lawyers who only go on tv to talk about the cases and never actually do any real legal work for their clients. donald trumps tv lawyer is of course rudy giuliani whose only task is defending donald trump on tv. if president trump goes into court to fight a subpoena issue by robert mueller, it wont be rudy giuliani arguing the case. it will be a real lawyer who knows how to handle real courtroom situations, which rudy giuliani has not done in decades. same thing with lanny davis, wh...

Decades. same thing with lanny davis, who is michael cohens tv lawyer, whose job is simply to go on tv and try and defend michael cohen and speak to reporters on and off the record, trying to defend michael cohen. if michael cohen finds himself charged with federal crimes, it wont be lanny davis standing beside him in real legal proceedings in a real legal courtroom that will be guy petrillo, a real legal defense lawyer hired months ago. so when lanny davis, the guy michael cohen hired just to t...

Executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and dan alexander, i want to start with you and your extraordinary reporting on wilbur ross. being familiar with his business and his business history, i have been waiting since he was nominated to be the secretary of commerce for the dam to break on the multiple very swampy involvements and business history of wilbur ross. you seem to have done it with these interviews and the pattern of business he engaged in before becoming secretary and what hes done si...

Figure out the guy is essentially a fraud you figure out that anything he says really isnt quite correct. >> tim, quickly take us inside the head of donald trump tonight. hes watching chris collins charged with these crimes, along with his son. does he see the possible mirror of donald trump and donald trump jr. because chris collins son might be faced with the choice of do i testify against my father in order to stay out of prison? >> thats just a great observation, lawrence. i have to believe ...

An interest in, so he was taking a short to cancel out that interest. but he didnt have an interest in it so the short wasnt necessary. all of this stuff he said was the result of simple mistakes. but it is hard to believe that one of the most sophisticated investors in the country would make so many significant mistakes at so many companies. >> how could this have gone wrong for donald trump? he told his audience you dont want poor people doing this work. you want rich guys in congress who cant...

Extraordinary reporting on wilbur ross. being familiar with his business and his business history, i have been waiting since he was nominated to be the secretary of commerce for the dam to break on the multiple very swampy involvements and business history of wilbur ross. you seem to have done it with these interviews and the pattern of business he engaged in before becoming secretary and what hes done since becoming secretary. >> yeah. you know, there is a lot of rich guys who get sued for vari...

One of the most sophisticated investors in the country would make so many significant mistakes at so many companies. >> how could this have gone wrong for donald trump? he told his audience you dont want poor people doing this work. you want rich guys in congress who cant be corrupted like chris collins and wilber ross. >> we learned that trump did not drain the swamp. he just filled it with bigger alligators. and dans great reporting has really exposed just around the fact pattern everything th...

In trouble from state authorities. and as we know, he cannot be pardoned by the president of the united states for state crimes. so i think the time that he is going to have to start cooperating feverishly with the prosecutors is coming closer and closer. >> and of course michael cohen knew what weve been learning about the investigation. he knew that long before we did. and so we now have to look back at his behavior, with the knowledge that he had, that he was being investigated for bank fraud...

>> how long have you been working on the ross story? >> well, there have been many ross stories. but i first started covering him about a year ago when we were looking to see how much money he was worth. that was when we uncovered that although he had been claiming to us for years that he had billions of dollars, he, in fact, did not. once you figured that out, then all this other stuff startled unrivaling. one investor told me once you figure out the guy is essentially a fraud you figure out th...