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Very hard for a communications person whose job is to deal with the media to be saying, well, yeah, i mean, i tell some things that aren't true. it's nothing substantive. >> how do we know what to believe? >> credibilitywise, you're left in a lurch. >> trump himself adheres to the roy kohn standard of always attack, never admit any wrongdoing. trump himself will never admit he's lied, never apologized, and he expects that from his staff too. >> april, this is your beat, what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing she was forced to resign, that she and general kelly -- yeah, i mean, no surprise. that ...

New report that the president didn't stop with telling jeff sessions to back off or telling comey to back off in the oval office. he's continued -- >> that's a great point. >> -- to different people in the government to try to shut down the investigation. >> he said, i wanted to ask all of you about this, he said in an interview with michael schmidt of "the new york times" at mar-a-lago, he said, i really like how eric holder protected president obama. no one ever suspected -- his whole misperception of what the justice department does seems to me to be a real vulnerability for him. >> absolut...

See -- >> fighting off your enemies. well it is, and it's funny he would bring up the roy kohn story, i was mentioning before, i have a recollection when i was a young prosecutor working brook arraignment part, and he -- the courtroom was stunned when kohn who was very famous at the time and in his early 50s walked in accompanied bay young man that was 20 years old. wearing a leopard skin coat. and the guy in the leopard skin coat sat in the coat represented his client. he always knew how to make an appearance. >> memorable character sounds like. >> paul the "new york times" is also reporting ...

My view, he did the right thing. >> what do you think about this attitude according to to the "new york times" reporting that the president has that the attorney general should be there to protect him, referencing how attorney general eric holder, he thinks protected barack obama, how bobby kennedy protected jfk and mentioning roy kohn? >> i think he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the attorney general who's not there to protect the president, but to see to it that the constitution is enforced lawfully, but he derives all of this from roy kohn. a lot don't remember roy kohn. ...

He understood newspaper deadlines, drop sisterly right before a deadline, because the reporters couldn't check it. he understood television, and ultimately the country ran out of patience with him. my best historical -- our best historical source for that is a common denominator between mccarthy and trump, roy kohn. roy kohn started out as joe mccarthy's lawyer. kohn said what he believed brought mccarthy down. where the army said, have you no decency. but that the public got tired of the show, they needed something new, they felt he had worn out his welcome. if you rise on being outrage ous. ...