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A hole in the ground. a reminder, please don't miss anderson's show, full circle, a daily interactive broadcast on facebook, always great to watch. hand it over to chris cuomo, cuomo "prime time" starts now. welcome to prime time, we're having a day that this president will not want to remember. and it is one that we can never forget. the man charged with keeping our country safe, defense secretary jim mattis is out. not retiring as the president claims. he quit in protest of the president of the united states. a four-star general is here to help make sense of the moves. mattis exit comes on...

Who might be looking to reign him in or tamp him down. he is content to do things on his own timetable, in his own way, and he didn't feel the need to put a whole bunch of information into the public square in this memo, so i think both of those inferences are fairly drawn from these documents. >> matt, my first question for you is procedural. i just heard myself again using that word "backchannel to russia." that's inaccurate. what they were trying to set up, i believe, was a workaround. backchannel we have. it's the red phone. it was put in at the height of bad relations to keep things from ...

It was put in at the height of bad relations to keep things from boiling over. this was not that. and this was not a thing. this would have been something extraordinary that kushner was talking about. that's point one. point two, in your view, why should, to cynthia's point, the trump administration be so worried about this guy, general? >> i think on point one, the best way to think about what they were doing, they were trying to establish a secret channel with russia that no one in the u.s. government could overhear. they were trying to do it using, remember, russian equipment. i think they ...

Of a sudden get in front of an acting attorney general whitaker who might be looking to rein him in or tamp him down. he is content to do things on his own timetable, in his own way, and he didn't feel the need to put a whole bunch of information into the public square in this memo, so i think both of those inferences are fairly drawn from these documents. >> matt, my first question for you is procedural. i just heard myself again using that word "backchannel to russia." that's inaccurate. what they were trying to set up, i believe, was a workaround. backchannel we have. it's the red phone. it...

Is clearly very much on the president's mind. >> reporter: and that's right, wolf. the president seemed particularly fired up today about it taking to twitter to go after robert mueller and his team in a series of tweets. this coming in the wake of the president meeting with his legal team the past three days to go over robert mueller's questions. now, tonight it's unclear if there was a particular trigger for this tirade, but what is clear is that his anger over the probe is boiling over. president trump staying on message in front of the cameras today, working to quell criticism after skippi...