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Were done. >> you can go back to the school of roy kohn with a little bit even further back to the school of fred trump, donalds dad, who told his sons to be killers at all costs. so donald grew up with that idea. it doesnt matter what you do, just win. >> so you say that, and like many of these types of stories, there is a part of it that is ridiculous to the point of bizarre and funny, and then theres a part that is very much not funny, and we are straddling that line. jay goldberg was trumps ...

Gun, very clear wrongdoing. >> you set this up exactly the way i hoped you would. we didnt clued here in that. >> you are welcome. >> the setup is just that, which is is it possible mueller, who is being such a boy scout here, is going to in hindsight have made a mistake by essentially playing by the rules because trump is using muellers integrity to basically handcuff him? >> im not surprised by any of this. donald trump fromming has viewed all law as fungible and as politically movable. >> he ...

They have ever been. in the 1950s, it was more scrutiny then than it had ever been. do you think they have anything with no cameras around, et cetera? >> there are people who say after 9/11 the united states overreacted in many ways just as they did in the 1950s. >> joe mccarthy and donald trump stand for very different things. but the techniques of joe mccarthy, the smearing, the disregard for the truth, thats similar. so when i wrote about that phenomenon, there were things that i wrote about ...

Giving the boss deniability and protection? >> he took care of a lot of things for mr. trump without mr. trump knowing about it. thats part of the overall structure, is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> reporter: michael cohen, a version of his long time mentor roy kohn, aggressive defender of all things trump no questions asked. after dantonio finished his book on trump, he got the cohen treatment in what turned out to be an empty threat. >> then he got mad and it was,...

Television, and be exposed. also, this guy is praising roger stone as his mentor. roger stone, you go back to roy kohn, joe mccarthy, richard nix on to donald trump thats the line of this politics. its not gaining system as the obama people talked about, this is flaunting the system and we need to see it. we also needed to see the pitiful people he has around him. >> i did think we learned some things about the mueller probe through nunbergs claims. not all of his claims may check out but we did...

Very hard for a communications person whose job is to deal with the media to be saying, well, yeah, i mean, i tell some things that arent true. its nothing substantive. >> how do we know what to believe? >> credibilitywise, youre left in a lurch. >> trump himself adheres to the roy kohn standard of always attack, never admit any wrongdoing. trump himself will never admit hes lied, never apologized, and he expects that from his staff too. >> april, this is your beat, what are you hearing? >> im h...

New report that the president didnt stop with telling jeff sessions to back off or telling comey to back off in the oval office. hes continued -- >> thats a great point. >> -- to different people in the government to try to shut down the investigation. >> he said, i wanted to ask all of you about this, he said in an interview with michael schmidt of "the new york times" at mar-a-lago, he said, i really like how eric holder protected president obama. no one ever suspected -- his whole mispercepti...

See -- >> fighting off your enemies. well it is, and its funny he would bring up the roy kohn story, i was mentioning before, i have a recollection when i was a young prosecutor working brook arraignment part, and he -- the courtroom was stunned when kohn who was very famous at the time and in his early 50s walked in accompanied bay young man that was 20 years old. wearing a leopard skin coat. and the guy in the leopard skin coat sat in the coat represented his client. he always knew how to make...

My view, he did the right thing. >> what do you think about this attitude according to to the "new york times" reporting that the president has that the attorney general should be there to protect him, referencing how attorney general eric holder, he thinks protected barack obama, how bobby kennedy protected jfk and mentioning roy kohn? >> i think he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the attorney general whos not there to protect the president, but to see to it that the constitut...

He understood newspaper deadlines, drop sisterly right before a deadline, because the reporters couldnt check it. he understood television, and ultimately the country ran out of patience with him. my best historical -- our best historical source for that is a common denominator between mccarthy and trump, roy kohn. roy kohn started out as joe mccarthys lawyer. kohn said what he believed brought mccarthy down. where the army said, have you no decency. but that the public got tired of the show, th...