that support him and want him to stay there but also people that feel like they were scapegoated by his answers on capitol hill and think he is abusing some of the power that he holds and that comes with the detriment of the taxpayers and also the policies. >> thank you very much. that's it for me. erin burnett out front starts right now. >> new demands tonight as trump shakes up his legal team adding clinton's impeachment lawyer. plus more legal problems for the president. trump accuser subpoenas unreleased footage from the apprentice. what is she looking for? and new questions after trump's doctors bombshell revelation, can we believe anything we have heard about the president's health? let's go out front.

>> his personal lawyer on the russia investigation rudy guiliani has a whole new list of demands from mueller and he's also saying he's worried about a perjury trap being set for the president by mueller. unless mueller is open to the possibility that comey lied about his interactions with trump the president will refuse to submit to a mueller interview. >> could they have an open mind to the fact that he may be telling the truth and that he lied. if they have an open mind to that then this is something that we can consider. >> we would be foolish to have them be in it. >> all of those questions that were leaked to the media categorically off the table. >> what would be acceptable permeameters for an interview. >> two hours. >> and topics. >> questions in advance.

relevant topics. >> which she continued to say probably wouldn't even include russia. guiliani's tough talk coming on another day of chaos for trump's legal team. his lead lawyer is out which was frankly a shocking development considering cobb gave an interview to abc news about whether trump will answer mueller's questions and here's what he said. >> people were working hard to make decisions and work towards an interview. >> it's clear they were on opposite side of this issue. cobb emphasizing diplomatically and giuliani claims to be open to an interview making pretty clear it won't be mueller's way. it's trump's way or the highway and rocobb is the one out of a b now.

he had been clashing with the president in recent weeks over his combative attitude toward the special council investigation. we were told by this source that he was uncomfortable with the mueller tweets. adding he was not going to be part of a mud slinging campaign. let's be clear, the mud slinging campaign here has been lead by the president of the united states. it's against the russia investigation and he has intensified his campaign just today trump tweeting, quote, there was no collusion. it is a hoax and there's no obstruction of justice. that is a setup and trap. witch hunt. let's take the last two words. witch hunt. since taking office the president of the united states called the investigation into russia a witch hunt 51 times. and twitter and interviews and speeches while taking questions. >> it's a total witch hunt for a long time. they have this witch hunt.

>> they have this witch hunt. that's all it is. >> they have phony witch hunts. >> it's a witch hunt. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> the president thinks that his way is working. just look at this poll this week. 6 points up in one month, all right? the american people up 6 points. people saying the investigation should end. that's an incredible increase in just one month and tonight trump thinks his way is working and he's ready for battle. ty cobb is out. flood is coming in. he's a powerful washington lawyer and represented bill clinton during his impeachment. and he says fasten your seat belts folks, it's war.

jeff is at the white house tonight and they have chaos. the president and giuliani openly taking on the special council and thumbing their nose at him in so many ways. a new hire and a guy kicked out or quitting, this new hire widely seen as a forced to be reckoned with. >> he is widely seen as a forced to be reckoned with and this is why. flood really worked on all sides of the legal matters at play here. consider this, as you said he worked as an impeachment lawyer for bill clinton. the next administration he worked inside the white house counsel's office. he also worked as a private lawyer for the vice president at the time in the chaney administration. so the reality here erin is this, he is a serious lawyer, a tough lawyer and this represents a change of strategy in every respect so the president calls it a witch hunt. he tried to dismiss it as a hoax

but today he did the thing that probably signals he's taking it as seriously as ever. he hired a new lawyer on top of other lawyers he hired in recent weeks of course. the president weighing in. he usually sends these messages in the morning on twitter. he sent an evening one a short time ago. it sort of potentially speaks to his state of mind. he says this, he's quoting a former member of his legal team 0 who is talking about this isn't some game. you're screwing with the work of the president of the united states. with north korea, china, the middle east, so much going on there's not much time to be thinking about this saying no collusion again. so sending a message again perhaps. requoting what john dowd said in the washington post. it's a fully engaged effort here. more so than we have seen before. the question will the president sit down and testify or will he go to court and fight it?

we'll find that out in the coming weeks. >> thank you. something that may influence how the president is going to fight the breaking news we have right now about mueller's investigation. this is pretty stunning. someone that just completed their interview today with the special councsel investigators says the focus is russian collusion. you just spoke to donald trump's former campaign aid. he was just interviewed by special counsel investigators today and wow he is telling you some pretty important things. >> he made it very clear that he believes they're still very much investigating russia collusion. he said to me it's clear they're still really focused on russia collusion and he talked about how they have their information. they are really digging people into this issue. he said they know more about the trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there and erin, he also said that they're fishing

as part of their investigation but the special counsel is spearphishing. what he meant to say is they know what they are aiming at and they are deadly accurate. those are his words. he believes that they're serious investigation going on and gotten a lot of information. and caputo himself has denied that there's any evidence of collusion. and he denied any wrong doing on his part. he is however a very close ally of roger stone. stone a long time friend of president trump. stone has been under scrutiny as part of this investigation because contacts he may have had with wikileaks. now caputo wouldn't come mebt abo -- come comment and made it clear that russia is still part

of the investigation. >> you have rudy giuliani saying russia shouldn't even be a relevant topic for part of the interview. and then you have michael caputo saying this. a stunning development. thank you. former deputy assistant attorney general. what's your reaction to this? michael caputo was with special council investigators today. they're still focused on russia collusion. >> they're focused on russia but i talked to lawyers because we can all talk to each other and yes, the fbi has anybody who is a republican that when to russia for any reason including someone i just heard the other day that went on a humanitarian reason and didn't get any money for it and it was questioned why didn't you charge anything?

but i have a different look. >> so you're saying okay, michael caputo, i don't see why he wouldn't. you're just saying they're wrong and they'll focus. >> they're asking about russia. i would assume caputo is telling you he doesn't know anything about russia collusion. unless he got out there and said yes i was participating in it. >> he's making it clear he didn't say that. >> that's what they're focused on. >> he said of special council they know more about the trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there. he continued to say the senate and the house are net fishing referring to their investigations. quote, the special council is spearphishing. they know what they are aiming at and they're deadly accurate.

>> it's a different kind of investigation. they're giving deference to the mueller investigation as far as anybody that was caught up in that investigation they didn't ask to interview. so it's a very different type. i've done both kinds. >> what about crucial lines here. i want to get at this. he says they know what they are aiming at. they're deadly accurate. they know more about the campaign than anyone that ever worked there. those are serious things. he's not saying that they're clueless or have a political agenda, he's saying they know what they're doing. >> well, i don't know that he knows what he is talking about. he's not a lawyer he's saying they know a lot about the campaign. i just told you they did. anybody that's a republican whether they worked on the campaign or not they have been questioned about anything that they have done. not only russia but ukraine, any

other country ever connected with russia they have been interviewed. that doesn't mean there's anything there, erin. >> so your take away is that it's deadly accurate. >> he's really paying high legal fees. $130,000 or whatever it is for a couple of earrings. we're not getting that. so i don't know. i don't know if he thoughs what he's talking about. >> if the change in trump's legal team do you think he's upping the aggression here going to war with mueller? cobb out, giuliani saying only sit for two hours? >> there's a time to sew and there's a time to harvest. for the first month of this investigation it was a time to cooperate and turn things over. everyone knew that this day would come when you had to

decide whether the president was going to sit down with mueller or fight a subpoena. this isn't any different. it's just because of the timing and all of these people pining about ty cobb and being mad and one day like he's upset or the other day he was kicked out, that's not true. i know these people. i have known ty for years. and these people all get along. they all have a high regard for each other and they just have different personalities in the way they express themselves. you cannot read into it. i know how these people feel about the issues and the subpoena and the testifying you cannot read into it. >> so are you saying that fighting a subpoena is the way to go. >> for me? >> these are restrictions that he's putting out there are out rage

rages you -- outrageous. i'm going to say that's absurd. >> these questions are all improper. number one, they violate the article 2 power of the presidency. he should not be questioned about who he hires or fires. he can hire and fire people for any reason whatsoever. no reason and he can change his mind about the reason. >> even if they're agents of the russian government -- >> who was a agent of the russian government? >> i don't know whether paul manafort was or general flynn was. >> flynn? >> these are issues being discussed right now. if that's what they were you don't think it's fair to ask the president about it. >> i guess he should have fired him then, right? how can he be questioned about exercising article 2 authority? do you know who tried to do this for bill clinton? do you remember the mark richt

pardon and his ex-wife gave him $450,000 for the foundation and $100,000 to hillary for her senate run and so jim comey opened up an investigation of bill clinton regarding the power and was questioning the pardon power. it is unfettered. just like the hiring and firing that's an improper question that they're asking. >> to your point on jim comey, rudy giuliani he said only if they're open to jim comey being the one that lied in this whole interaction with the president and the loyalty pledge, that whole back and forth. is there anyway? the point is what he's say as good we're going to take this to a subpoena and we're going to fight it. why would bob mueller say i'm open to that? why would he even respond to that in anyway, shape, or form? >> they're negotiating. people are negotiating and doing it more in the public. that's a good thing so the public can see the back and forth of what's going on but the public needs to know these questions are improper.

you cannot ask the president what process did he go through in order to fire michael flynn. that's executive privilege and there's case law in washington d.c. that says the president cannot be questioned. he is not readily available for questi questioning unless it's material to the matter and this is the important one, the evidence cannot be gotten elsewhere. >> all right. so let's just ask you a tienl question here, the 49 questions then if this is all part of a negotiation, somebody leaked them. the change on the legal team was rudy fwrgiuliani being in. he leaked them i assume. >> i have no idea. i want to make one comment about the witch hunt? do you know where the president got that phrase? >> it's an age old phrase. >> on meet the press when he was describing the independent

counsel against bill clinton. >> i can see and those are words that aear to have worked for this president thus far. thank you very much. >> and for bill clinton they worked. >> and they did. next, trump threatening his own justice department. the word he is using is one you will also recognize from this president. >> the process is rigged. these ols apolls are rigged. it's a rigged system. >> new questions about the president's health tonight. if trump dictated that glowing letter about his health, what else is he telling his doctors to say about him. an epa administrator scott pruitt, going on simultaneously. is support from evangelicals the reason he is surviving. touch is how we communicate

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nobody has been tougher to russia. >> no collusion which i knew anyway. no coordination, no nothing. >> new york times prosecutor and former federal prosecutor. patrick, let me start with you, you're reaction to this. michael caputo coming out as we said a long time supporter of roger stone in that inner circle there with trump. they're focused on russia collusion. they know more about the trump campaign than anyone that ever worked there. they're spearphishing, they're deadly accurate. >> this is significant because it goes to how careful and detailed mueller and his lawyers are being in terms of reconstructing who did what inside the trump campaign, who

would have been hyping information to donald trump about what they had during the course of the campaign both foreign and domestic and then also putting on the table that russia and campaign ties to russia are the centerpiece to this. for a long time we have been talking about obstruction of justice because there's so much as president actions that he himself took but the reality is and what's revealing about this is that the campaign that mueller is really understanding who did what and the contacts that could add up to collusion is a focus of this. we sometimes think maybe it's because of what trump is saying that collusion isn't so much a part of this. >> and that does seem to be very significant here right? it is true. the conversation had shifted to obstruction of justice and maybe they're looking at all of these other things still too but obstruction of justice had become a centerpiece of the conversation. what michael caputo is saying is

that a focus here is very much still russia collusion. what does that say to you? >> it makes sense. obstruction would be not the end game of a prudent prosecutor. that would be like if i just charge you with a speeding ticket and i ignore the crime you were trying to escape from. it was never intended to be the end game. but the object and focus is on the overall russian collusion. that's a cloud-like term and umbrella topic but it includes so many different facets. they're being thorough. they're sticking to the mandate and being comprehensive and they're direct and targeted in their focus. it's not a fishing expedition or a witch hunt. they know what they're looking for and they have done enough research and now they're honing in. >> they are being deadly accurate. he's not saying they don't know what they're doing. why are they focused on this? it seems to be exactly the

opposite. there's big changes in the president's legal team and the method they're taking here. you need to do whatever you can do to take it off the table and he was much more dramatic in his approach. what do you hear today when you have flood coming in and rudy giuliani that said we get questions in advanced it's only two hours and the relevant topics means russia may not be relevant any longer. >> two hours from the president is like three questions. one answer ran 14 pages to a deposition question. so the special counsel would be crazy to agree to those terms. >> i know him well and i work with him and actually sat next to him in the office next door for years.

he is a gem of a lawyer. he hit a home run with him. super experienced in all the relevant areas here. the key question however remains is the president going to listen to him. does he care what he has to say or is he going to continue the inhinged tweets we saw today and yesterday where he said obstruction can't be a crime but there's no underlying crime which is a preposterous statement of the law or attacking his own justice department as rigged. if he continues to do that and doesn't listen to sound counsel we're not going to see any change. >> what do you make of michael caputo's news coming out tonight. it flies in the face of everything the president tweeted today. this is not something they're going to want to hear. this is from their guy. >> yeah it certainly does undermine that loyalty pledge if there was ever one taken in this issue but it does show that people are understanding that mueller is probably not adhering to or falling for the antics of

the president's tweets. they're continuing to bar lel -- barrelling forward and they're interviewing people. it should give people the idea that the process is working. if you buy into the rudy to the rescue philosophy you would disappointed to see that it kept on going. >> this whole thing falls on to the department of justice. the president has been flirting with maybe i'll get involved. today on twitter hitting the doj again, a rigged system. they don't want to turnover documents to congress complaining about the doj and this is like witch hunt, collusion, please let me indulge myself. >> the process is rigged. this whole election is being rigged.

>> it's not just the political system that's rigged. it's the whole economy. >> i found out these polls are rigged. they were rigged. >> folks, it's a rigged system. >> there was even a time when he didn't get an emmy for his tv program three years in a rowand he started tweeting that the emmys were rigged. >> should have gotten it. >> sorry. the last one made it for me. but look those words like witch hunt appear to have been working for him. >> he's now in charge of it and the polls are rigged but he won. he uses these words because he knows it goes to a core feeling in the base that they have been screwed over by what america has become. that none of it is anyone's fault except this rigged system and it resinates with people who are hurting. it resinates with people that are economically frustrated and that's what he plays to but the reality is he's not even above throwing his own justice department under the bus time and time again. it is his strategy.

it is really sort of just degrading these places to make himself look strong. >> thank you all very much. and next, new questions about the president's health after his doctors revelation that trump himself was the one that dictated the letter saying that trump was the healthiest president in american history. what do we really know about the oldest person to hold the highest office in the land? and just coming into cnn, stormy daniels former manager that was key in brokering daniel's confidentiality agreement now cooperating with the fbi. we have new details ahead.

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trump dictated the letter he put out during the campaign saying he was healthy. of course trump is the one that he says dictated it. it referred to trump's blood pressure, 110 over 65. lab test results as astonishingly excellent and concluded if elected mr. trump will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. okay. it raises the question if trump dictated this letter how much do we know about his astonishingly excellent health or whatever else it might be. >> listening to president donald trump's doctors it would seem there's nothing to worry about when it comes to his health. >> he has incredibly good genes. >> then ronny jackson in january repeatedly praised trump's excellent health. >> i told the president he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old. >> the gushing over the top language we also heard from

trump's long time personal doctor during the campaign. now we know because he tells cnn that trump was dictated to hing what to say. at least in the letter declaring that trump will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. that raising new doubts about the subsequent assessment by dr. jackson that was just removed as trump's doctor. >> i'm even wondering if ronny jackson's great report on his health was written by trump too because he said things that were wrong. >> what he did say was that the president weighed 239 pounds. at 6'3" that's borderline obese on the bmi scale and other data release was that he has a common form of heart disease. >> we know what he eats. he's talked about this very publicly. we know he doesn't exercise. these are just bedrock principles in medicine. that sets you up for having a heart problem. >> weekend rounds at the golf course are trump's gym routine

and while he doesn't smoke or drink he's known to have a dozen diet cokes a day according to a new york times report. on the campaign trail aids said there were four major food groups, mcdonald's, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. >> one thing i'd like to lose weight. it's tough because of the way i live. but the one thing i would like to do is be able to drop 15 or 20 pounds. >> meanwhile he repeatedly went after hillary clinton for a lack of stamina and mocked her for an incident in which he nearly fainted. >> he can't make it 15 feet to her car. give me a break. >> there are new concerns tonight with the allegation that trump has influenced his doctors official reporting in the past about how much we actually know about the oldest person he elected to the presidency whose life style it's safe to say isn't the healthiest. >> as much as i worry about what was said, i also very much worry about what's not being said.

that might even be a bigger problem. >> when i spoke with him i asked him what else was in the medical files on trump. now remember he claims that those files were stolen from him in a raid by trump staffers. he did not say what was in the files. he was clearly hurt. he said he'd grown up near the trumps in queens and that for decades he never revealed that trump was his patient. he said that he was the most lawyer and he had complete loyalty. >> he left very abruptly without taking any questions. erin. >> alex, thank you very must have and i want to go now to the democratic strategist and political commentator and rob that's known the president for 15 years. you heard alex, i have to say on a human level he feels he has been discarded and treated horribly. he said he was the most loyal and showed complete loyalty. the president -- obviously he

does not feel that's being returned at all. >> is it me or does he look like he once toured with the grateful dead? >> i don't know what kind of doctor he snchts ois. >> one that's willing to let a patient dictate a letter with inaccuracy. that's a serious thing. >> it is and it isn't. it seems to be it's about style and not substance because trump's health is good. >> excellent. >> the best. his health is good. dr. jackson and the white house medical unit said that he is very good so he didn't change the results of anything and, you know, keith, everything in like a campaign goes through the prisms of communications and they want to make sure that they have the best possible spin on something which donald trump wanted personally but i don't see anything objectively wrong with the facts were the facts, the blood pressure was the blood pressure, how they spin it --

>> the test results weren't all positive. >> he didn't really give the test results. he just gave some vague generalities about how wonderful his health was, but the problem, rob, was that trump was elected on a fraud. this was fraud committed by the doctor and trump to mislead the american people about the oldest president to be elected and his health. and all the time -- it doesn't matter and all the time trump was complaining about hillary and how unstable she was and she wasn't healthy, everything trump was saying he was misdirecting our attention so we would focus on hillary instead of him and as a result no one thought trump would be elected so we vetted hillary far more than we vetted trump. >> no, she fell. everyone saw her fall down at the old world trade center site. we had a lot of questions. >> questions about that before she fell and who knows how many

times he has failllen but we dot know anything about his health. >> his doctor was willing to do something that a doctor should not do. a doctor should not be allowing a patient to dictate a letter if the doctor has no clue whether that's true. but the president surrounds himself with people that are willing to do and say these things regularly. here are three of them. >> his health is excellent. which works out just fine. >> every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to president trump. >> he's a man of great intellect, great inhibition and great abilities. >> that's a lot of loyalty. all three of these people have been cast off. >> but they have all done very well because of their relationship with donald trump. they have all done very, very well. >> so who cares if he's disloyal in casting them out. >> if they're going to ride the

coat tails and be rewarded. they have been. what was she before? >> why a former reality star from the apprentice? jared kushner and his daughter to be chief white house staff members. >> i'm not saying they were right. i'm just saying. >> those are three people he worked with is on some level so maybe they felt that's why they had to be but what about people that didn't know him? his cabinet members. they were willing to say things like this. >> the president, what an incredible honor it is to lead the department of health and human services at this pivotal time under your leadership. i can't thank you enough of the privilege that you have given me and the leadership you have shown. >> thank you for the honor to show the country. it's a great privilege you have given me. >> on behalf of the entire senior staff we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you have given us to serve

your agenda and the american people. >> well, that did not pay off. they're all gone. >> i want to thank you so much on behalf of the american people, i want to thank you for the honor of allowing me to be on your show tonight. >> it's a wonderful honor. you're the best host ever on cnn. no one can do it better than you. >> actually the guy is a bum. >> he didn't make them do it on camera. >> but they did. >> people in this room all had to go around and say this stuff. >> every time a surrogate went out for president obama or any president of course they're praising the president and pushing his agenda. >> but that's different than blessing and privilege. >> they have to bow down to president donald trump. >> bow down. >> he's not god. he's not a king. he's the president of the united states. >> people say these things even

when he then sells them out. why? >> depending on how long they have known him. if they know him a long time then they have that friendship. after he fires how many times has he retired or -- it's because of personal loyalty that they had built up. the michael cohens of the world and everyone else. >> and michael flynns of the world that he should never have hired in the first place. >> well, thank you. >> and next, new details just coming into cnn, stormy daniels former manager cooperating with the fbi. the breaking news on what the feds are looking for with this tonight and the focus of 11 ethics investigations still on going and yet, not going anywhere. is religion the secret to scott pruitt's survival?

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documents to the fbi. handing over records to the fbi. some of those records are pertaining to the $130,000 payment made through stormy daniels attorney from michael cohen and that essential consultants that he was using to pay the money and we're learning now that the fbi has those documents that gina rodriguez is fully cooperating and in some of those documents there is evidence of an earlier deal that began in october 10th, 2016, that deal fell through. according to our sources because michael cohen was unable to pay the money or did not pay the money in time and then of course we have all seen that deal that happened 18 days later on october 28th, 2016 just 11 days before the election where there was a deal signed between michael cohen who signed on essential consultants behalf and

storemy daniels otherwise known as stephanie clifford. we understand that gina rodriguez talked to the fbi a few weeks ago. >> thank you very must have and here with me now the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york where michael cohen is under criminal investigation for other things. let me ask you what you think the significance of this is that stormy daniels manager is cooperating with the fbi. >> it's significant for a couple of reasons. first it shows that the prosecutors and agents working in the southern district are not just going to wait for the search warrant documents to come in. they're going to look for information from any source and if documents reside with stormy daniels former manager that's where they're going to go. she was subject to a confidentiality agreement as well. the manager was but this was easily overcome through the service of a subpoena.

and they're hoping to find out why the payment was made and if it had something to do with the campaign. >> there's evidence she was shopping her story about her affair to other media outlets while she was negotiating with cohen. which came first could be crucial here. >> absolutely. the inference that one could draw from the states without seeing the e-mails and the communications is the election is only a few weeks away. >> she wants to seize her moment and gets paid while it's valuable because she thinks she would lose. >> exactly. >> michael cohen steps in. >> makes this payment and says it's from his own funds but is it a campaign contribution and what did president trump know about this? maybe michael cohen said something about these communications that have now been produced to indicate that donald trump did know about this. >> and does it matter if donald trump knew about this

specifically if he knew in general that michael cohen would do this sort of thing for him historically and had done so many times in the past? >> that would be good evidence for the government but the best evidence would be to know right now just before the election someone is helping out my campaign by making this payment. if it happens generally on going basis in the past it's still useful because you can try to show a pattern existed here and that president trump knew this was being done. >> thank you very much. >> next scott pruitt, new allegations, is is his faith what's keeping him in his job. >> it's been a couple of years just praying god, what do you want to do with me. >> republicans pushing for trump to get the nobel prize. next. all-business when i travel... even when i travel... for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges.

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tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: evangelicals have been a blessing for trump. scott pruitt is right up front. >> ernestly praying, asking the question, god what do you want to do with me. >> reporter: called him a magnificent christian leader. readily cites god's will. >> the biblical world view respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we have been blessed with. to truly bless our fell low mankind. >> reporter: but goes far beyond

that. there are scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution. fighting the science of climate change and fighting for gun control. >> this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on what the first amendment is about and has an objective to create religious sterility in the public square. >> reporter: appear to be replaying that loyalty by down-playing the growing allegations of improper conduct of pruitt. >> here is what we know about scott pruitt, actually been accomplishing the president's agenda in more than any other agency and that has some on the opposing political side upset. the president likes him.

good for business. >> reporter: despite everything else, four out of five white evangelicals in the country voted for donald trump. and still doing a good job. >> tom, thank you very much. and next. jeanne moos on the push for trump to win the nobel.

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>> donald trump noboel laureate. >> who, me? yes, him. dana carvey was already imagining the president's acceptance speech. 18 republican members of congress nominating him. but supporters already chanting the nomination. >> that's very nice. thank you. >> trump supporters chanting nobel? critics couldn't quite square the humanitarian prize with president trump's tough guy tactics. >> to totally destroy north

korea. little rocket man. with fire and fury. >> hardly peace prize material scoffed one tweet. from modesty to grandiosity. >> what do you think president trump had to do with? i tell you what, how about everything. >> >> i did get the nobel peace prize. >> what was that for? >> to be honest, i don't know. >> hairpiece, he said. >> there is one tweet that takes the prize for promoting hair growth naming president trump winner of the nobel propecia prize. >> i love the nobelians.

>> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thank you for joining us. and don't forget, you can watch "outfront" any time, go to cnn go. ac 360 starts right now. >> good evening, we begin with growing signs the white house is truly on war footing with robert mueller and the justice department. on news that could be another vacancy on the legal team. we know that tie cob was not just retiring at the end of the month having done a treerrific job. he had been clashing with the president for weeks. now he is leaving and flood is joining the legal team which