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attorney may have implicated one of his current attorneys, perhaps the president himself in a serious crime, the breaking news hit hard late today and frankly it's still playing out tonight. newly released testimony of michael cohen telling a house committee saying that jay sekulow knew that his testimony was false. that news landed just as a d.c. district court judge gave the president's accounting firm seven days to hand over years of his financial records to the house oversight committee. the judge refusing to stay the order pending appeal writing, i'm quoting here, the president is subject to the same legal standards as any other litigant, which speaks to several other stories which could fill the hour not to mention a court docket or two. signs the president may be getting ready to issue more pardons. this time to at least two and possibly more alleged war criminals. and the white house directing former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a subpoena. to appear tomorrow before the house judiciary committee. president trump on his way to a rally in central pennsylvania

was defiant if not entirely accurate. >> i think we've been the most transparent administration in the history of our country. we just went through two years of bob mueller with 18 people that hated donald trump, they were angry democrats as i call them. we've been through it for two years. they spent almost $40 million on it. we had i think 500 people testify. we had 1.4 or 1.5 million documents. at the end of all of that he said there's no collusion. now what happens is the democrats want a redo and we've had enough and the country's had enough. there has never been ever before an administration that's been so open and transparent. >> okay. so that's not true. keeping him honest, it wasn't true when the president's advisors were stonewalling congress, refusing to answer questions, even deciding to assert executive privilege. wasn't true when he himself was refusing to sit down with robert

mueller or when he refused to give house investigators anything at all or when he refused to answer written questions about the obstruction of justice. he and his lawyers have don'ted open resistance to house oversight. now to be sure, the president has, as all presidents do, no small amount of legitimate power. the executive is, after all, co-equal branch of government. that's not the issue. whether it's pardoning criminals or defying judges, dangling pardons in front of witnesses against him, defying congressional subpoenas, stalling court ordered action and more is how he chooses to exercise the enormous power any president has. the other issue is whether he's seeking in all he does to expand that power in ways no president has or at least that none has gotten away with. that depends on what the other co-equal branches can and will do about it. first, the courts and the rulings on the financial records.

we are joined with the latest on that. what are the key points of this ruling? obviously it's a setback for the president? >> reporter: that's right, anderson. it's a big setback for the president. the judge is saying they must turn over the accounting records back to 2011 pursuant to a subpoena by the house oversight committee. the judge is rejecting the arguments from trump's legal team saying that they had no legislative purpose and only wanted the documents to harass the president. in his 41-page opinion the judge conclusively goes by point by point by the trump team saying congress has complete authority to do this because of the issue of the two branches of government and co-equal branches of government. the judge ruling decidedly in the house favor. these documents, trump's documents will end up before the committee as soon as seven days. >> even if they appeal, the judge is refusing to stay his decision or their decision until an appeal?

>> reporter: that's right. so there was an agreement that they would not turn over the records until seven days after the judge's initial opinion. the judge is saying that because he does not believe that this case would win on the merits, that he would not grant this stay pending appeal. now it is possible that an appeals court could step in in the meantime and say that they will stay it, but at this point these records could end up in the hands of lawmakers within seven days. >> and the judge went so far as to cite watergate as far as congress's duty to investigate which is a huge precedent and a huge third rail of politicians. of both parties. >> reporter: it is. the judge goes through history citing not just watergate but the whitewater and the tea pot dome scandal as saying that congress does have this authority as a co-equal branch of government. i'm going to read a line from his opinion where he says that history has shown that congressionally exposed criminal conduct by the president or high ranking executive branch official can lead to legislation. this goes to the key point in

here where trump's team is saying that congress doesn't have a legislative purpose and the judge is saying he doesn't have to decide what the legislation's going to be, he just has to see that it's something that congress could legislate about. >> thanks very much. i want to bring in cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin from our new 36 0 world headquarters here. high atop manhattan's hudson yards, john dean. how big a deal is this? >> this is a big deal for one particular reason. the accountants don't work for donald trump. they are not part of the government. so if there's a court ruling requiring them to turn over documents, they're probably going to turn over documents. the president can't order them the way he can order parts of the government to keep appealing, to be found in contempt. they really are going to produce these -- these documents if there's no stay entered by the court of appeals. >> and what is the likelihood that there would be a stay entered by the court of appeals. >> i don't think there -- this

is a very tough case. some of these issues are complicated. we'll talk about the don mcgahn issues. those are difficult legal issues. i think judges could go either way. the idea that congress simply doesn't have the right to get these documents i think is an almost frivolous argument. the idea that congress doesn't have a legislative interest in these. no judge has held that kind of -- made a ruling on those grounds for decades so i just don't think there is much grounds for the president's people to appeal on this one. >> john, this is clearly a significant win for democrats on the house oversight committee or at least potentially. it's interesting that the judge cited the watergate investigation as kara just laid out. i'm wondering what you made of this? do you agree that it's a big deal? >> i do agree with jeff. in fact, it's a very well reasoned opinion. the judge kind of interestingly, he lays out an overview in the first few pages of what he's

going to do and i kept saying, where is the law for this? but as you get into the opinion, you see he's really backed up what he's saying and it's very solid law he's relying on. i think they're having a lot of trouble appealing this or getting a stay and this looks like the oversight committee's going to get their documents. >> what's the next step in this? >> well, the next step is trump's lawyers will go to the court of appeals and ask for a stay. if they don't get a stay there -- >> and that can happen immediately? >> they can do that right away. since this seven day clock is running, i'm sure they will do that right away. if the stay is denied there, they could ask the u.s. supreme court for a stay. that's very unlikely. then the accountants will have to decide whether they want to go into contempt and as a private party, i just find it very unlikely they would be willing -- >> do we know how much information these accountants have?

>> presumably it's all the tax returns. accountants keep copies of tax returns. the irony here is this whole big fight is over tax returns that every other president has already released since the 1970s, but it's something, you know, donald trump has fought for ages to keep secret. but that's really what this case is about. >> would -- would the accountants -- would it be clear in those documents whether or not the president was actually being audited? >> i -- probably, but not definitely. i don't know. >> that would be interesting if he had been lying about that the whole time, too. >> i mean, i would have to look at the wording of the subpoena, but i think the wording of the subpoena just calls for the returns themselves. >> john, i mean, in terms of the white house blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from testifying with his memo from the justice department, in your opinion does the legal argument hold water? as jeff was saying, it is a complex issue. >> i don't know quite how they're going to do it.

mcgahn has got to be willing not to testify. he's got to be willing to be in contempt of congress potentially. they have no other -- they have really no leverage over him. it's mcgahn's call. while the president doesn't want him to testify, what -- what is left out of the opinion by the department of justice is the so-called fraud crime exception where there is a criminal activity, and that's what the congress is most interested in. and they don't even address that issue in their memo. >> it's interesting, jeff. i mean, if it's up to mcgahn, i guess part of it feels -- is how mcgahn feels about the president because the president has been bad mouthing mcgahn. >> that's the fascinating wild card because if you read the legal opinion, congress can't force don mcgahn to testify but it doesn't address the question at all of what if don mcgahn wants to testify. i asked john, how did he testify

in the face of these issues? and he just said, i showed up and testified. now don mcgahn may show up and testify. >> you asked for a subpoena? >> i did ask for a subpoena. >> but -- but the white house couldn't stop you. i mean, they -- they wouldn't -- didn't want you to testify, did they? >> they did not, but we wanted to test -- we wanted a subpoena so that it was required i be there and hopefully set a precedent that if you get a subpoena, you've got to honor it, even if the white house doesn't want you there. >> mcgahn is a loyal republican. he's loyal to the conservative cause if not to trump in particular so i doubt he's going to show up -- he's going to show up tomorrow, at least until this plays out a little more. but, you know, he is risking contempt and, you know, as a lawyer, as a serious person, he probably does not want to be held in contempt, but that's his only choice. >> but he could essentially play

it out with the white house, let them kind of run their legal arguments. >> right. and let it go before a court and have a court force him to testify as opposed to going in voluntarily. i think that's more likely to -- how it will play out. so i don't think anything is going to happen in the immediate future with mcgahn. >> right. >> there is a measure of mystery of what he is going to do. >> certainly the tax documents are the most fascinating thing. >> i think that's an easy legal issue. the mcgahn stuff is harder. >> how much detail will be in those documents will be fascinating. jeff toobin, thank you. john dean as well. coming up next, more breaking news. we mentioned at the top michael cohen telling a house committee about being offered a presidential pardon and how clearly he said the president's lawyer jay sekulow spelled out what it was for. see what it could, and i say could, say about the president's no obstruction claim. it's amazing what you can uncover with your

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this is a scotts yard. we have more breaking news tonight and it goes straight to the question of whether the president or the people around him obstructed justice. specifically we're talking possible pardons. just the latest in potentially most explosive detail to emerge in roughly 400 pages of newly revealed house testimony. evan perez joins us. evan, you've been pouring through these documents. what have you learned? >> one of the explosive charges that michael cohen makes is surrounding this issue of pardons and he says that the white house raised the issue of pardons and specifically because they wanted to essentially shut down the russia investigation. i'll read you just a part of the exchange that happened in the 15 hours of testimony that michael cohen gave to the house. he said, quote -- the question to michael cohen is, is it your testimony that whatever discussions that jay sekulow had regarding pardons was done with the knowledge and authority of the president? cohen said, i believe so.

jay sekulow is the president's personal attorney who was handling a lot of these inquiries, anderson. there's a second part of this where the question goes, was it something that you sought from the white house or they raised with you? cohen said they raised the topic and what they were doing, including publicly, they were dangling the concept of pardons and the purpose, of course, was to keep everybody in the joint defense team. this was a joint defense team that was essentially only verbal. there was no written language to support the idea that there was a joint defense agreement between cohen and some of the other people, of course, who were part of this investigation. >> so specifically what did he say about jay sekulow? because jay sekulow was one of the president's attorneys. >> right. exactly. he says that in particular jay sekulow had a lot of these conversations with him and one of the accusations that he makes is that jay sekulow suggested to him that he give false testimony

in particular about the trump tower moscow project. you remember that michael cohen falsely testified that all of those discussions ended in january of 2016 as a way to essentially get away from the presidential campaign. it turns out those discussions happened way into the year, much longer than michael cohen had first testified, so according to his newer testimony he says that jay sekulow helped coordinate that false testimony. now if you believe sekulow and the white house, they say that of course michael cohen cannot be believed and the reason why they gave the january 2016 date, anderson, is because that's all of the documentation they had. from looking at the documents, that's the last they ever saw any mention of the trump tower project in moscow. >> i mean, these are pretty explosive allegations obviously against sekulow. does cohen have any proof? >> he does not. he has very little to

corroborate what he is saying here. again, that's the weakness of some of this testimony. he makes a lot of allegations and a lot of it is either him inferring, if you see that exchange about what he believes the president would have known simply because he says sekulow would have been talking to the president. now he doesn't know what those conversations were and so he's making a lot of leaps in some of this testimony and, again, i think the white house believes that you can't -- the fact that michael cohen is now in prison in part for lying to congress they say is proof that he should not be believed. >> evan perez, thank you. elliott williams and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. elliott, how does this transcript reconcile with the trail already laid out in the mueller report and the president's tweets about the trump tower moscow? >> in a normal world we would have every reason to disbelieve michael cohen as a not particularly credible witness because he's already pled guilty.

to a lying offense. the problem is we now have a long pattern laid out in section two of the mueller report of the president engaging in largely similar conduct, of trying to get people to at best be cute with their stories and at worst lie and we've seen it again and again and again and it's sort of happened multiple times. to some extent michael cohen's statements are at least supported and at best corroborated by sections of the mueller report. so he, again, you know, this is piggybacking on something evan had said. he's not a wonderful witness, to put it charitably, but again, we've just seen this pattern from the president once again and it should surprise no one. >> jeff, there's a difference between the president and jay sekulow. jay sekulow is an attorney. he's very smart about what he can, should or should not say legally. he did publicly say something that was not true. he said he was given -- he had the wrong information when he said the president did not dictate the response about the russian meeting on air force one.

that turned out to be not true. this one is essentially putting jay sekulow -- i mean, again, there's no direct evidence of it, but if it's true, it's a pretty big allegation. >> but it is similar to the other situation that you just described in that sekulow is dealing with information given to him by his client. jay sekulow doesn't have independent knowledge of when the trump tower moscow negotiations ended in 2016. he seems to be trying to convince michael cohen to line up his story with donald trump, but that doesn't mean that he knew the story was false. and as for the issue of pardons, i mean, it sounds to me -- i mean, i read the testimony, too. it's sufficiently general that it does not seem like it's an outright promise, but the falsehoods here seem to come more from donald trump. than from jay sekulow. sekulow does not seem to be engaging in any improper conduct.

>> elliott, in one of the transcripts that was released cohen testified that, quote, virtually all my conversations were referred back to the client. jay wasn't going to speak on behalf of the president. he was relaying messages back and forth. so if sekulow isn't giving counsel but instead acting as a mouthpiece, i assume he's still protected by attorney-client privilege? >> he is. now the question is attorney-client privilege can't be a total shield for criminality if in fact he is concealing criminal conduct. the question is, what did he know? this is what we're talking about. was he aware he was directing an individual to tell an untruth on behalf of the president of the united states. this piggybacks on what jeffrey said. there's a lot of speaking in generalities that we've seen in the mueller report but also in a pattern of behavior from the president of the united states. so the generalities and the winks and the nods that seem to characterize so much of the behavior from the president of the united states.

so, again, there's a lot of conduct that we're seeing once again, you know, in this testimony tonight that steps up to the line of propriety, maybe doesn't step over it, perhaps can't be charged, probably can't. again, is it appropriate conduct for the president of the united states? again, i'm saying president of the united states. his attorney is acting as his agent so i don't want to suggest that sekulow's hands are entirely clean with respect to misconduct if he is in fact acting as an agent of the president. >> isn't all of this stuff that mueller would have seen? >> yes. basically the story that michael cohen is telling here is consistent with the mueller report. >> right. >> one, this is -- this whole area is one of the areas of possible obstruction of justice. this just underlines why it's important to have live witnesses and actual testimony about these things rather than just the mueller report itself. people -- it's all based on mueller's conclusions, but if the witnesses come forward,

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neither president trump, the head of the republican party nor primary challenge will deter senator amash. president trump called him a loser and a total light weight. a michigan state lawmaker, state rep jim lawer said in a statement that amash was out of touch. and had united with radical liberals. none of that appears to have affected amash. today the congressman was back at it. he spent ten tweets knocking down the most common rationale cited by the president's allies for why there is no case. for instance, he wrote, if an underlying crime were required, then prosecutors could charge obstruction of justice if it unsuccessful in completely obstructing the investigation. this would make no sense. moments ago reporters caught up with congressman amash. they asked him a range of questions about his republican colleagues and the impeachment process. here's a sample.

>> mccarthy saying that you work with nancy pelosi. >> i think everyone knows he's lying. that's typical kevin. >> when you say you're going to review impeachment proceedings as a process, what do you definitely mean by that? >> well, it's a process. it's not like the resolution is just drawn up overnight. it's a process. you have to come to the right conclusions about how to draft something. >> but you would like to see them start at some point? >> i think it's appropriate to do so. >> soon? >> speaker pelosi is in charge of that, not me. >> primary, now you're running after your tweets about the impeachment. >> it's not serious. >> so you feel like you're safe for two more years after this? >> i feel very confident in my district. >> joining me now, usa today columnist, kirsten powers and former trump campaign aide michael kaputo. kirsten, what do you think the congressman's political calculus is here and do you think this could give other republicans

cover to do the same thing although no one seems to be standing up at this point? >> i don't think you can read too much into what justin amash has done in terms of what other republicans will do. he's always kind of stood alone. he's conservative but he's a libertarian, he's very principled and he's willing to buck the party. he's criticized trump before in a party where nobody criticizes president trump. so i think that he -- i don't think he's honestly really worried about the political calculus. i've interviewed him before and i've talked to him about his district and he feels like he has a great relationship with people in his district. it's half and half, republican and democrats. he's used to navigating the waters of people who think differently. and he's -- he has always felt very confident. i assume based on what we saw he feels confident in his relationship with voters. >> michael is it realistic to

think that any other republicans would break with the president here? >> i think we have a lot of independent minded people in the house and senate but justin amash is entirely different. he's never supported the president. i talked to -- you know, he came in on the tea party wave in 2010. ever since 2010 he's got one bill with his name on it. he renamed the post office. he's not really done much. michigan 3, the president won 52-42 in 2016. i think it's important to realize i haven't seen the president's victory map in the campaign headquarters for 2020, but certainly michigan is on one or another of the versions of it. and he needs michigan 3. that grand rapids area is very pro trump. michigan 3 he won 52-42. i think representative lower has a good shot at unseating him but i think amash has something else in mind. >> what do you mean? >> i think he plans to run against the president as a libertarian, as a third party candidate.

we know the host of never trump republicans who, you know, lost their magazine and weekly standard have been meeting on a regular basis trying to find a third party person to come in and ross perot the president this time around and i think amash is doing a tryout now. >> kirsten, over the weekend a michigan state representative said that these tweets launched him to -- sitting republicans criticizing the president can be the downfall of their careers. you saw senator flake and corker forced into retirement. do you believe this contesting the water as some sort of challenge to the president? >> it could be but it's not really new for justin amash to be doing things like this. he has a long history of being independent minded and criticize his party. and being willing to criticize donald trump. kevin mccarthy criticized him but what he left out is often when justin amash wasn't voting with him, it wasn't because he was liberal, he was coming at him with a conservative standpoint.

saying we're spending too much money on this, not cutting enough back. he's a member of the house freedom caucus. he's actually quite conservative and, by the way, just as a matter of fact, he votes more with republicans than he does with democrats. he's a person who has a history of doing this. if he was going to run against trump, that could be another factor but i honestly think he would do this regardless of that because he has such a long history of doing things like this. >> michael, the congressman did actually read the mueller report. he said few members of congress have read it, the unredacted version that their minds were made up. based on their partisan affiliation. does that seem like a fair point to you? shouldn't members of congress actually read the entire 448 plus pages? >> well, they should, in fact, and now it's out in a couple of different paper back versions, too. so there's no reason not to read it. i think painting justin amash as a member in good standing as a member of the freedom caucus is

a miscalculation. i talked to michael johns, one of the founders of the tea party in 2009, 2010 who campaigned on behalf of justin amash in the tea party wave, he said it's united among all tea party leaders now that they want the freedom caucus to throw justin amash out. >> why? why, michael? >> because he's not conservative. >> because he's criticizing donald trump. >> he voted in favor -- well, no, he voted in favor of funding for planned parenthood. he voted against the wall. he voted against the state of emergency. >> >> he has a reason. i disagree with him on a lot of things. i don't want to be the defender of justin amash. the reason he voted that way, he doesn't think you should be singling out planned parenthood. if you want to make a defunding of health care services across the board, fine. constitutionally speaking he doesn't think you can single out a single entity. it's just a constitutional

argument. it's not really even about abortion. >> understood. he's a chapter and verse defender of the constitution. he knows it well. he's a university of michigan law school grad. the freedom caucus was against the funding of planned parenthood. he should be drummed out of the freedom caucus. i think we'll see that fairly quickly. >> democratic leaders in congress continue to be skeptical when it comes to initiating impeachment proceedings. it's unlikely one republican would move the needle. on that. >> definitely not. like i said, we cannot read anything into justin amash's behavior. into the broader republican party because i just don't think -- i mean, we've seen how reticent people are to criticize donald trump and he's had no problem doing that and he's, you know, gone his different ways on various things even -- but even if you were to get a handful more republicans, it would take more than that, i think. i think right now what the democrats are doing, they're going through the investigation and trying to, you know, build the case that that's the direction that it's going to go and that's really all they can

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returning to our breaking news. one of the things that michael cohen told the house intelligence committee behind closed doors was one of president trump's attorneys

raised the possibility of pardons for cohen. if true those -- joining me is former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, cnn legal analyst preet bharara. the president of the u.s. was, according to cohen, effectively offering up pardons to close down the investigation. a, if true, is that obstruction? b, does it matter given he's the president? >> well, those are two very good questions much as i often say on this program, the devil's in the details. it depends how it was said. it depends on the exact words used. it depends on the intentions of the people making the statement and it depends on what the understanding was of the person who received the statement. you can have a suggestion that's kind of cute, say, look, as i saw from some of the transcript that was released today before i walked in here, look, everything's going to be okay. the president likes you.

that's not as explicit as, look, if you tell this thing that is not true and that you and i both know is not true, i can guarantee you that there will be a pardon at the end of the ordeal for you, that's one end of the spectrum, which is much more severe and much more obviously a thing you need to be worried about criminally, i think. i don't know that we have that here. >> if the allegation is true though and cohen is obviously an admitted liar, the president's lawyer was somehow involved in cohen's false testimony to congress about trump tower moscow, what would that mean for sekulow? obviously those are a lot of ifs and i mean if sekulow is just a messenger sending messages that he doesn't know whether they're true or not, does that matter? >> yeah. i mean, obviously when you're trying to make an allegation about anyone, whether it's a criminal allegation or an ethical allegation or some other kind of allegation of impropriety, especially against

a lawyer, it's important to know what was in that person's mind, what that person's intent was. and as happens in other circumstances, both with lawyers and with spokespeople, and you can fault them for this, for not getting the real truth, but they only know what the clients tell them. if it's the case that a lawyer like jay sekulow or someone else just didn't have the knowledge, then i don't think it means that much. as a practical matter it doesn't mean that much for him because the person who has looked at all of this and was going to make a determination of all of this fell straight into the wheel house and the heartland of what bob mueller was looking at and he chose not to take action. part of that was because he had trouble talking to the lawyers because of the attorney-client privilege. separate from all of that, what i had read both in the washington post report and based on some of the testimony, with respect to the issue of the trump tower deal, you know, it could be argued that jay sekulow was somewhat suggestive but i think, you know, we're getting really ahead of ourselves to say he did something approaching

something unlawful especially when you know that michael cohen, you know, has credibility problems, which is not to say that michael cohen has not told a lot of things that are truthful. i believe a lot of things that he said. if you take the step of the allegation, you need more than i've seen. >> based on this judge's ruling that this accounting firm has to release the president's financial documents within seven days, it's very likely obviously the president is going to appeal it. do you think these documents will get out before any kind of appeal is filed or ruled on? >> that seems unlikely, although the judge didn't issue a stay so i have to go back and read it again. i will suggest to the audience though, i read it quickly on the plane when i was coming down here, it's a good opinion. it sets a very good bedrock framework for how all of these

squirmishes and how they're going to go. the president's lawyer takes an extreme view going back to president buchanan in 1880 saying the congress has no role in investigating anything whatsoever. seems to repudiate the idea that whitewater was lawful or inappropriate or the committee to investigate watergate was unlawful. or appropriate. that's obviously not the case. that's not how the constitution works and it's not how i think judges who are appointed by either democrats or republicans are going to view it. i don't know that we'll see it in the next few days. the other thing that's heartening that i've been wrong about is that some of these things are going to get through the courts quickly. the judge in d.c. heard the matter quickly, had a proceeding quickly, wrote a 41 page opinion very, very quickly. i think this will get up to the appeals and maybe the supreme court very soon. >> preet, appreciate it. democratic candidate does a town hall on fox news. the president doesn't like it, like not at all. that's on the ridiculist coming up.

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island sound? >> i will forgive the dig. this is believed to be a hatchery near mono-talk. we have been seeing juvenile white sharks for years. a quick one, you want to play. i'll eat up your time. there was a boil of bait. we were fishing on it. there was an explosion. we thought it was a thrasher shark. they smack bait and eat it. this came flying out of the water. it was about five feet long. >> okay. i'm sorry. i lost you. listen. i understand you met up with don lemon this weekend on the waters. we have photographs. >> is that holding my catch. >> here's his version of the even events. we met up for a sunset cruise. he's a terrible boat captain. he almost rammed my boat. >> that's better than i give him credit for. in terps of accuracy and

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does that sound like a jealous 15 year-old boy to you snap chatting his besty late at night. unsure of what he's feeling? it's hard to believe she's wasting time on pete. or peter. as chris calls him. oh the betrayal. with the net work you love and rely on for advice and support gives a plat frm to someone else. and standing ovation. someone young and national road scholar. somebody who went to war. a veteran. ugh. the president how could they. he continued the mean boy texting to his best friend. he never speaks well of me. i like mike wallace better. he'll never be president. he he. giggling after he writes. mike wallace the late great 60 minutes legend. passed in 2012. and unable for interview. his response would be come on, that was his favorite response.

when someone said something absurd. he's a fine journalist in his own right. and the newman bit that he's doing. comparing pete buttigieg to a fictional cartoon character from 1956. with a gap tooth. only under scores the president's stockpile of nickname nuggets seems to be running as low as his credit line with anyone other than dutch bank. he'll be making references to dors day. he thought it would be a good idea to appear on a fox weekend show. airing opposite the game of thrones final le. she was on air this weekend doing her best impression of the am track seat mate you cannot get away from. >> grab your popcorn or jr. mints. the real show is about to begin.

this will be true reality tv. no script no reher shall. just a gang of criminals pointing fingers at each other. to save their hides. a version of true crime and the reality show survivor. >> wow. who wrote that? biting. talk about a way to turn me off jr. mints. anyway. judge thinks real life is like survivor. which is interesting her show is like law and order when a suspect represents herself at trial and punches the bailiff in the throat. it's hard to believe the president will boycott fox news though. he will be on the phone with hannity soon. if there's anything that calms angry trump it's fed like a bird by fox news prime time on the ridiculist. hand it over to chris for cuomo "prime time." >>