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The president's former fixer michael cohen pleads guilty to eight criminal counts on the same day paul manafort is convicted of eight financial crimes. remember when donald trump said he was the law and order candidate? joining me now to discuss is mike shields, the former chief of staff at the rnc and rick wilson, the author of the book, everything trump touches dies. gentlemen, good evening. my sources are telling cnn white house staffers were stunned and rattled by these legal bombshells and the president has been stewing. what's your reaction to what we saw today? >> well, it's obviously n...

Paul manafort or michael cohen pleading guilty to these felonies. a source close to the president admitting today was, quote, a bad day for the home team. and that the president has been, quote, stewing all day. let's talk about this because it was a big day. outfront, paul begala, former white house counsel to president clinton and jason, the former senior communications adviser for the trump campaign. important day to have you both. jason you worked so closely with the president, with this team. how bad of a day was it for him? >> well, this is obviously a pretty bad day for the team, but al...

Stewing, is that why we see jay and rudy all over the airwaves. >> they're keeping the press as cup as much as possible and trying to hold him back. >> he would be doing more? >> they've shown time and time again xwn that failure as he continues to tweet about it and talk about it in ways that pretty much everyone in the legal community says are damaging. why would he continue talk about such sensitive matters that relate directly to his own conduct and he continues to do it. so look, i think the president gets very upset a lot and it gets reported a lot in the press. he has to look at this an...

Perch as manafort's right-hand man but he's there through the rest of the campaign. the convention is mentioned. he was a role on the inaugural committee. through president trump he was deeply involved in the day-to-day business of the white house, spotted on those 16 or 18 acres. really, as you said, up until the day he was indicted. this is another reminder of how deep the tentacles of mueller's probe potentially go and how much we don't know. and so while there's not a ton of concern at least yet in the west wing of manafort flipping, there is more concern about, a, gates has already flippe...

To say. >> well did trump ask that question? he must have mentioned that about 20 times. so i told the president, i know you don't like it. i know you feel put upon. you just got to ride it out. >> joining me now is "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. you heard what senator graham there said. the president is clearly -- well, i don't want to say stewing, but certainly focused on the mueller investigation in private. he has been unusually quiet about it on twitter just in the last 48 hours since this 20trum tower meeting tweet. >> i think his mind has been incredibly occ...