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Trump had one overriding problem that dowd knew but couldn't bring himself to say to the president. you're a f-ing liar. joining our discussion now, harry litman, former u.s. attorney and deputy attorney general under president clinton and maya wiley who served as counsel to new york city mayor bill de blasio. she's an msnbc legal analyst. and maya, in the woodward book we're seeing that john dowd is calling the president a liar and the "new york times" reporting that robert mueller has partially given up on the idea of ever getting an interview with donald trump and is interested in possibly ...

Want the president to testify. "i'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot and you public that transcript because everything leaks in washington and the guys overseas are going to say, i told you he was an idiot, i told you he was a goddamn dumbbell.go what are we dealing with this idiot for?" after that meeting with robert mueller john dowd gave the president the following advice. "don't testify. it's either that or an orange jumpsuit." the president then said, "i'll be a real good witness. you are not a good witness, dowd replied. mr. president, i'm afraid i just can't help yo...

When he ran for the presidency exactly the same way. you were in the midst of that, john. you know what that was about. and the picture that's created n here is amply solidified and backed up by lots of other reporting.di with the additional factor that now you have bob woodward and the woodward method, which is he triangulates with sources, he backs things up with documents. he has tapes.so it's a different order of magnitude from any kind of reporter that trump has ever dealt with before. in the same way that the mueller investigation is of a different order of magnitude on the legal side.er...

Presidency, the woodward version. what bob woodward calls the best obtainable version of the truth. and so tonight bob woodward has tapes and the white house has press releases. the most damning quotes in the excerpts of bob woodward's book that were already released todaa from the president's former criminal defense lawyer john dowd.de bob woodward describes a rehearsal session with the president where john dowd pretended to be robert mueller asking the president questions. the "washington post" reports that in that rehearsal session donald trump's answers were "stumbles, contradictions, and ...

Father was such a high-ranking u.s. navy admiral. and then the book quotes james mattis as immediately correcting trump and saying, "no, mr. president, i think you've got it reversed." and the defense secretary then explained that mccain, who died on august 25th, had in fact turned down early release and was brutally tortured during his fine years at the hanoi hilton. to which trump says, "oh, okay." so tim, it seems that trump had been getting away with that lie around any other circle in the white house until jim mattis is sitting there and has to correct him because truly that isn't the fir...