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Situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> were following breaking news on republican support for jeff sessions after the attorney general and the president took their feud to an ugly new level. tonight, the senate gop leader is expression total confidence in sessions as some other gop lawmakers are suggesting he may be gone soon. this, as mr. trump looks for new outlets to vent his anger and frustration after a week of stewing over the criminal convictions of michael cohen and ...

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Speaking to people in the white house. what has been their reaction to this? any nervousness behind the scenes? >> well, jim, this morning you saw a president fairly upbeat on another subject, about the economy. but behind the scenes, the president has been angry. hes been stewing about a series of stories that are quite negative about some potentially damaging legal troubles on the horizon. the michael cohen story continues to unfold, and the president has been watching, being briefed by his ad...

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Least think morning, presumably on television, given his tweet storm as peter mentioned. but to our knowledge, does anybody attempt to give this president a reality check? >> reporter: yeah, no, its a great question. apparently the mood was quite sour, quite unhappy on the plane on the way back. the president was stewing about all the negative coverage he had seen, you know, venting about the unfair fake news and so forth. no question, the aides understand the hole that he has dug for himself, a...

All. emily, because you are most steeped on a day-to-day basis with all things cohen and trump, im going to begin with you. why did this come out tonight? what else do you know about this and other recordings? >> whats interesting about the timing tonight is on friday night we knew about what was on the recording, the recording to rudy giuliani. and my sources in cohen world were already telling me at that point that this was not the true narrative in their mind. and i think over the weekend the...

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Lobbying for a foreign power. rick gates has been thinking about for a long time -- he talked about agonizing over that decision and not wanting to do this. but when he made that false statement to the fbi on february 1st, that appears to have started a collapse for him. that same day february 1st, his three lawyers at the time told the judge in his case they no longer wanted to represent him. a really unusual mood. at the time we didnt know why they suddenly wanted to withdrew from representing...

Case. the president was not happy about any of it. sources close to the white house tell nbc news that he found out about the raid after it was under way but before it broke on the news. those sources also say trump, quote, furious and stewing over what is being perceived as mueller forcing a provocative confrontation. one trump ally told me tonight that the president, quote, blew his top like a loon before walking into a meeting with his war cabinet to discuss americas response to the atrocity ...