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Stunning breaking news tonight. rudy giuliani says president trump repaid his fixer, michael cohen, $130,000 for that stormy daniels hush payment. i want to bring in michael de-antonio, the author of the truth about trump. and columnist for "usa today." frank, welcome good evening. this is his first interview as the lawyer right if. >> yeah, he seems to be enjoying the spotlight now. he's not bringing what disciplining may have had in the past into these interviews. that's one crazy interview. >> yeah. and your reaction when you heard it? >> well, it's like he put all of our brains into a ball...

He doesn't want any more bloodletting because it looks bad. and he presents the piece that oh we're great this is running well my team is great. but there is a problem within the team, the cogs are not coming together like they should always. >> yeah. and so -- he wants to show his power which he did, michael, with the impromptu press conference right outside of john kelly's door, right outside his office. the guy's whose primary job it appears keeping trump under control has been in the dog house ever since he said his immigration promises were, quote, uninformed. can kelly come back from tha...

So this is a very real issue. the president is not happy with the investigation. and it's getting closer to the inner circle. and he is not happy. and it's really rubbing him the wrong way. >> michael, we learned yesterday that the threat of two simple words may have saved our country from a constitutional crisis. and those words are "i quit." why do you think those two words carry so much weight with this president? >> well, i was thinking that the rule is when you're dealing with a big bully and you're a little guy you have to step up to him and punch him in the nose first. i think that's wh...

Analyst april ryan and michael de-antonio. the author of the trump biography, "the truth about trump. good evening, april you must have either the best sources in the white house or a crystal ball because i want to play this. this is from june of 2017. >> one of my sources reached out to me just before we went on air and they said there is mass hysteria in the west wing about this. we don't know if it's going to or what, we don't know. but what we do know if indeed the president does fire mueller it shows that he is impeding the process yet again. >> so the president tried to write the story o...

Hyperbole that it's almost constant lies. weather whether it's the littlest things. if you had 2,000 people at an event, he would say there were 5,000 people at an event. >> and he got away with it. >> there's no belief system. if it will work, i will say it. if it stops working, i'll say its opposite and i will not feel any compunction about saying it's opposite because i don't believe anything in the first place. seeing it from his perspective doesn't make a distinction between what's true and what's false. his only distinction is what will work and what will not work. >> what happens when h...