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Spoke to sam nunberg tonight, former u.s. attorney joyce advance and john heilemann, our msnbc analyst. jill, you spoke to him last. what can you report about what may or may not happen on friday? >> you had sam giving interview after interview after interview where he was really just charging, threatening not to participate in any of the mueller subpoena requests, saying he wasn't going to show up on friday, threatening to arrest him if they wanted to. but in my conversation with him after he finished all his cable news shows, he was in a much more somber mood. he said i'm really frustrated, ...

I assume the same happened to you, friends, family saying some version of the question who is this guy? mr. rucker, who is this guy? >> that's a great question, brian. sam nunberg was sort of the keeper of trump's political operation, to the extent he had a political manager in those years in the run up to the campaign, it was sam nunberg. he worked really closely were roger stone, who he said was his mentor. and sam would arrange his schedule, his campaign appearances and so forth around the country before he launched his campaign. then when he launched his campaign in 2015, nunberg very soon...

Close. what does this say about the people drawn to the orbit of donald trump? >> yeah. sam is one of the people who was there in the very early days, roger stone, too. what really struck me today was when you watch sam doing his whole cable news show after show, how much it felt like roger stone and donald trump, who used to call in from one cable show to the next. you weren't sure as a reporter where you were going to find him on television. talking to him tonight, sam really kind of seemed proud of himself saying look at me, like what i've done tonight, nobody has seen anything like this, h...

>> anti-depressants. is that okay? >> that was kind of an incredible exchange. for anyone who might have found today entertaining, it was equal parts troubling as well. >> it came up as soon as sam got off the air with katie, it was the beginning of this, people started raising questions about whether or not he'd been drinking and i jokingly said today i'm familiar with people who drink at 3 in the afternoon. he didn't seem drunk to me. i've talked to sam a lot over a number of years. he did not come off today, as much as people wanted to say he seemed unhinged or crazy or drunk or in some way...