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And visit coolsculpting.com today... for your chance to win a free treatment. in a lawsuit stormy daniels claims a contract paying her hush money to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the president was never signed by donald trump, then a candidate, and it should be voided. maggie haberman is back with us. how is this playing in the white house? >> as you can imagine. it's not a story line that you like. when you raise it, everybody gets freaked out and this is not something people are eager to discuss with the president. it is something they are not eager to discuss with the first lad...

Administration. that's really what they're left with at this point. >> you made a point of tweeting about it, you said several top people have declined to be interviewed by the president and the white house. so the best and the brightest don't want to go work in the white house? why? they think this will sort of career suicide or they don't like the chaos? why wouldn't someone want to go work in the white house? >> all of the above. typically speaking, workingality the white house can be, especially depending on your field, the pinnacle of your career, it can be the highlight. then you have a ...

Another witness, namely michael cohen, it sounds like. so are you looking into these leaks? >> again, we are. there's little we can do. all we can do is look at each other, look at our staff and say don't do this. it's probably illegal in some cases. it's unethical. it violates what many of us think is a trust within the committee, we do our work behind closed doors. there's a reason we don't do this before the cameras. we can do this more serious work, better work if we're not grandstanding for the cameras. every time i come on your channel and others, i have to think carefully, don't say thi...

Have something to run on. look on where our country is, look at the results of republican leadership, 3 million jobs, record unemployment, deregulation. 90% of americans are seeing bigger paychecks because of the tax cuts. so we're going to have something to run on. democrats right now are struggling to find a message. their only message is let's defeat president trump. we want to run against president trump, but they're not putting forward a vision for the american people. >> i would agree with you except for what we just saw in the last election which was driven by so much negativity and tha...

Chaos? the president has to know he's not going to win this one. there's too much counterfactual one. what is the play here? is it simple resistance? >> he doesn't laich when narratives are set by anybody but himself. he doesn't like reading what he would describe as negative reviews. he thinks he can say something and make it true. he's had success at doing that. he did during the campaign. he would say things that weren't true and people would believe him. he's trying it now. a lot of what he does is salesmanship. he's selling this idea that things are fine. things are not fine. there are ex...