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>> how can cliff simms say he still supports the president if he thinks the president is unconstitutionally trying to quiet him and silence him and bully him? >> the way any number of people may have personal political allegiances or views similar to the particular person while not agreeing with the actions. i think part of what we are trying to flesh out here, a lot of the criticism was of the people the president surrounded himself with. i think part of the story here that we will find is how much the president has once again been ill-served by those around him and those who may have advised...

Not the full extent in which donald trump personally instructed this action to be taken using his role, trying to straddle the line between private citizen and president of the united states. we will bring those details to light. >> one of the strangest things about this is that cliff simms is not really going after the president in his book. he is very critical of people around the president, but simms said he supports the president's agenda. how can your client say he still supports the president's agenda and supports the president when he is suing the president at the same time? >> because ...

Trump campaign through president trump is trying to silence mr. simms is based off the campaign nda. the reason they will not bother trying to use the white house nda, this new additional thing, is because it would be unenforceable. unless it is classified information you cannot censor it which is why they haven't bothered and why we didn't look into it any deeper. >> what do you hope happens and comes from this? >> i think we want toclarify and make sure that mr. simms can continue to disclose information, unclassified information about what he saw and inform the public about what he observed...

Nondisclosure agreement to try to silence him. this is circumventing decades of precedent. >> simms said this morning that he is not going to be bullied. that perked up my ears and made me wonder if anyone from the white house thore campaign has communicated with him about his book outside of this arbitration. >> not to my knowledge. there has been no verbal threats that i'm aware of to him coming from the white house beyond the actions they have taken. this is donald j. trump in his capacity as the president using his campaign as the cutout effectively doing through his campaign what he can't...

Trump's campaign and later in the white house as director of message strategy. tonight, he is suing trump saying the president wants to stop him from getting out his own message. >> he does not respond well to weakness that he only responds to strength. so i wanted to stand up and say i'm not going to be pushed into a corner, bullied on this and stand up for myself. >> trump is furious with simms over a tell-all book simms wrote with stories of chaos and deceit in the west wing. after simms went on a book tour trump said he was a low level staffer who pretended to be an insider when he was not...