violating his oath of office every day of his presidency in large and small ways. the oath pledges only two things. first i will faithfully execute the office of the presidency of the united states. he has never faithfully done his job as president. the other pledge in the presidential oath of office is to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. donald trump cannot preserve, protect or defend a constitution he has never read and does not understand. and so instead of defending the constitution, donald trump attacks the constitution which is for any president both a violation of the president s oath of office and a high crime. indeed, for the founders there would be no higher crime a president could commit than attacking the constitution he is supposed to defend. and that is what donald trump
so he submitted his affidavit as an expert in telecommunications and in federal law enforcement. and he said under oath that the trump justice department s interference with the merger, quote, was inconsistent with decades of settled anti-trust law and the department of justice s own internal mergen guidelines and bore no relationship to how the media and telecommunications market places actually function. he complained that the trump justice department would not, quote, engage in a meaningful discussion. he said that the trump justice department seemed to be taking legal action because of, quote, the president s prior public animus towards cnn and this merger. he said that the trump justice department s legal position was,
congress. and the question is who will take the fall for trump? and maybe less and less, fewer and fewer people will as the pressure mounts. gabe sherman, on hope hicks, what is your expectation of how she will handle herself in this? well, you know, she will still very loyal to the president, although she left the white house, she remains very loyal to donald trump and ivanka trump and the trump family. so i don t see really any scenario in which somehow unless she faces extreme legal jeopardy, a contempt vote, that she would not toe the white house line. there is no incentive for her to break ranks. you know, tim, you mentioned that donald trump got elected. everybody knew all of these negative things about him. i think there was a general picture of negativity that came out during the campaign, but when i look at the details both in michael wolfe s new book and i look into your book, where you
the moments with gabe revealing a prenup of wife number two in trump world that you have every right to now believe that eventually all it s all going to come out. the documents will eventually find their way to the surface. one can only hope. i think what we re getting obviously is the bookends of donald trump from 1993 and donald trump to the presidency and what happened in between. there was a lot of smoke and mirrors. you know, he not only was out of running out of money at the time they struck that prenup, he was almost personally bankrupt. he had to go to the family and ask them for money. and even his own siblings didn t want to give him a dime. they ended up forcing him to pledge his future share of fred s estate in order to get enough money to keep him from going bankrupt. and i think all of the documentation that s been coming
second wife with a one-time payout of only $1 million plus child support for their daughter, tiffany trump. the agreement specifies that financial support for tiffany trump would end immediately if she joined the military or the peace corps, the kind of thing no trump has ever even thought about doing. joining us now is gabe sherman of vanity fair, special correspondent and an msnbc contributor. also joining us, tim o brien, the executive editor of bloomberg opinion and an msnbc contributor. he was reported on donald trump for decades and written a book about him. ron klain is with us, former senior aide to vice president joe biden and president obama and a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee. gabe, let me begin with you and the prenuptial agreement. is that a document you re going to produce and make public? that s something i d have to discuss with my editors. the editors of vanity fair have seen it? oh, of course. it s been through all the