this story of cliff simms is much more realistic. ideals and runs into conflict with other people with different ideas and different ideals and in the end, he finds himself swamped and then ejected from exactly the kind of situation that he was trying to get in to, disillusioned and sorry the president didn't do more to save him in the end. >> thank you so much, ron, for coming on and we're laying some of the stories about some of the so-called vipers, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> and stay with me. new details still coming in on how the white house is planning for the state of the union a week from today even though speaker pelosi still wants to postpone it and next, are white house press briefings officially dead? what cnn is learning about a prolonged power struggle within the white house communication team and why briefings have now ground to a complete halt. ate e ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned hum

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it shows you why cliff simms was able to get into the inner circle.e lives a public life communicating often more through twitter and phone calls than he does in face to face exchanges with advisers. cliff simms noticed the personality, made his way into that inner circle of president trump. throughout that whole 2017 when the white house was in chaos, simms is writing about reflecting what others have reported. there was a not team of vipers inside the white house always back biting and fighting. not sure where the president wanted to go. >> and one other thing that jives are the reporting we've done is on john kelly and his unhappiness. simms recounts that kelley, chief of staff at the time once confided to him in a moment of exasperation, this is the worst blank job i've ever had. people apparently think i care when they write i'd be fired. if that happened, it would be the best thing that happened. >> it's basically from john kelly was saying in public since the beginning of the job. cliff simms is not omarosa. this is someone who was loyal to the

tweeting yesterday, a low-level staffer that i hardly knew named cliff simms wrote yet another boring he pretended to be an insider when in fact he wassing in more than a gofer. he signed a nondisclosure agreement, he is a mess. trump's team is threatening to sue simms. >> every couple months we get this new book that's a bombshell, it's from a former staffer, everybody's supposed to scurry around. nobody's talking about it here. >> reporter: kellyanne conway comes in for sharp criticism in the book. simms describes her as a cartoon villain brought to life. simms left the white house in may 2018. he claims he resigned. but admits there were issues with his security clearance and he got in trouble for recording a cell phone video of the president. >> the last chapter of the book is titled "disposable." and the reason is, that i let my personal relationship with the president blind me to the one unfailing truth of trump world. if we didn't share his last name, we were all disposable. >> from deplorable to disposable. >> that's right. >> reporter: and yet simms says, for all the chaos an

daniel, my goodness, first how fun was that watching cliff simms reacting to being called a gopher by and now you have all this juicy detail in your piece about trump -- they were wrestling within the white house of how to respond. tell me -- tell me what some of the advisers were urging him to do or not do? >> they were telling him that they would take care of it, go run the world. don't worry about this guy who you barely remember and instead, president trump's tweet only makes cliff simms richer. more people will buy that book because of the president's tweet and so kind of backfiring with the president's reaction. >> so he's a go fer, according to the president, hardly knew him, referred to as just the videographer. in reading your piece, juxtapose those words and what did sarah huckabee sanders say about him? >> she said he was a valuable member of the team. they were sad to see him go and it was all, you know, nice and rosy back then, but once he wrote a book, then the knives are out for this guy. i think it's ironic that they're saying it's fiction, yet they're going to look at

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we're getting new insight into the white house from former white house aid cliff simms.s is what the washington post published. they published excerpts from his book and they write this. he said it's impossible to deny how absolutely out of control the white house staff, again, myself included, was at times. so you're at the white house almost every day. it lines up with all that has been reported about the dysfuncti dysfunction. how does the behind the scenes chaos contribute to how the shutdown is unfolding? and everything else? >> you know, chaos is too kind of a word. larry kudlow came out to the briefing room and we were talking about the severity of the shutdown, but he couldn't deny that there was, quote, hardship, he kept going back to but we have this wall issue. it just doesn't marry. when you have people that are hurting, and i talked to officials that even said that yes, the nation is vulnerable. i got that today, but yet it's all about a wall. everything is vulnerable. people are in hardship for this wall. it will only deal with a certain portion of the coun

former white house communication aide cliff simms writing in his book, give me their names, trump said, his eyes narrowing. i want these people out of here. i'm going to take care of this. we're going to get rid of all the snakes, even the bottom feeders. trump then writing down the names of 15 staffers, 10 of which he deemed could not be trusted. that list later spotted in his jacket pocket. as for the shutdown, president trump just tweeted moments ago saying, i will be making a major announcement concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border and the shutdown tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 p.m. live from the white house. press secretary sarah sanders says this is going to be live from the diplomatic reception room. she didn't want to go further, get ahead of the president. remember, the president recently has held high profile talks with reporters, making announcements in the oval office, rose garden and briefing room, talking about security at the border. really, just repeating talking points we have heard from him time and time again. it's unclear if tomorrow's announcement

"team of vipers," a young aide, cliff simms, he got more than a million dollar advantage in here. time. she saw something on "morning joe" and called cliff and said come to my office and she said help me write this statement. she handed him her laptop. cliff is starting to write a statement responding to what had been said on "morning joe" and the imessages are popping up on the screen. over at her desk, kellyanne conway is leaking to reporters from bloomberg, from cnn, from "the new york times." so cliff is trying to write this statement in realtime watching the leaking, writing a statement saying how loyal kellyanne conway is. kellyanne conway put out a statement yesterday after this posted saying when she stabs people, she likes to stab them in the front so she's owning it. >> and what did george conway say about that? >> that's the next book. >> george conway helped write that statement. so "a team of vipers" got it together. >> and what are your sources about how the president conceded scrapping the address? >> they talked about the senate chamber, they didn't like that, talke

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his hand on part of a back by -- the latest book by one of president trump's white house aides, cliff simmseard of him. he became close to the president in the campaign and recounts an extraordinary scene in which he's snuck in to the back of the president's private dining room and study while and the president writes were him an enemy list, all the white house staff, not including his family, asking cliff whether they are loyal or disloyal and the president has one of his cards with the white house stationary and his sharpy pen and his literally drawing a list, good and bad, which who kept in his coat pocket for many weeks after that. >> that sounds kind of vindictive. do we know if any of those people on the enemies list is still part of his administration? >> you have to remember, this is cliff's perception. my understanding is most people on the list fulp stop are out of the administration, whether they were perceived by cliff to be good or bad. cliff himself is out of the administration, some of his allies are out, some of the rnc allied people are also out of administration. i don't h

the former aide, his name is cliff simms wrote about it in a book that comes out next week called "team." simms writes about one particular day he was writing a statement on conway's laptop while she was texing on her phone. the two devices were connected and he writes for 20 minutes he could see the text conversations conway was having with at least a half-dozen reporters from all over the place she and president call fake news and she was trashing jared kushner, steve bannon, reince priebus. and talked about him like a child she had to set straight. we reached out to kellyanne conway for a reaction or statement, have not gotten a response. sam donaldson joins me now. sam, every white house has leakers as you know better than almost anyone. how often is such a prolific leaker in such a high level position? >> well, i've not seen anything like kellyanne conway. i mean, she and the president are symbiotic in their relationship. they look in a mirror and see each other. they're both narcissists. they both want all the media spotlight on them. they don't mind trashing anyone. she tries on

the former aide whose name is cliff simms wrote about all of it in a book that comes out next week calledhite house." "vanity fair" has published an excerpt. simms writes about one particular day he was writing an excerpt on her laptop. for 20 minutes he could see the text conversations conway was having with at least half a dozen reporters from all over the place she and the president call fake news, and that she was trashing jared kushner, reince priebus, steve kornacki and sean spicer. simms writes that conway also recounted private conversations she had with the president and talked about him like a child she had to set straight. we reached out to kellyanne conway for reaction for a statement, have not gotten a response. legendary reporter sam donaldson covered the white house for decades. he joins me now. sam, every white house has leaker, as you know better than almost anyone. how often is such a prolific leaker in such a high level position? >> well, i've not seen anything like kellyanne conway. i mean, she and the president are symbiotic in their relationship. they look in the mir

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. >>> former trump staffer cliff simms' new book "team of vipers" comes out next week but in an exclusiven "vanity fair" he discusses one vipir in particular, kellyanne conway, who he calls a cartoonville brought to life. he writes, her agenda, which was her survival over all others, including the president, became more and more transparent. once you figure that out, everything about her seems so calculated. she seems to be perennially cloaked in a invisible fur coat, casting an all-known smile as she collected 98 dalmatians with only three more to go. he describes an instance where he discovered her tendency to leak, a lot in his words. kelly ann was sitting at her dechg texting away. since their aye message account was tied to her phone and laptop, i could inadvertently see every conversation she was having. in 20 minutes or so she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half dozen reporters, most from the outlet the white house frequently trashed for publishing fake news. journalists from "the new york times," "the washington post," cnn, politico and bloomberg were a

tomorrow morning we'll be joined by white house aide cliff simms.at president trump relishes giving friends, acquaintances and strangers tours of the white house. this we know we had one ourselves making sure to point out the spot where -- oh, god, really? where all that monica lewinsky stuff happened simms the subject leads to lengthy often crass conversations. i can see him doing that he's obsessed. >> unfortunately that part of it -- all we saw, mika, we just saw all the pictures lined up of the crowds on inauguration day and he said look at the crowds from this angle. >> yes we were just given that tour of all the pictures of the large crowd. that have not that large trump also reportedly claims to his guests that his private dining room near the oval office was quote in rough shape and former president barack obama used it to watch sports. he just sat in there and watched basketball all day, trump recently told a tour group he loves giving tours. that's for sure. and talking repetitively about certain things matt miller, thank you very much up

cliff simms will be our guest on "morning joe" next week. who is cliff sims and why is he important to the white house? should we pay close attention to what he says? >> you should. he was with trump alone for over two years. if trump likes you, it doesn't really matter what your position is. and cliff sims has almost a cinematic eye. trump asked him specifically to come in through the back door so nobody could see him so he could compile an enemies list of people he suspected internally were leaking negative stuff about trump, and names were written on a piece of paper, sort of who's naughty and who is nice and trump kept it in his pocket so he could keep an eye on people. and he's watched trump watch fox news and watch it like he's a sports commentator. trump would talk to him about the importance and the beauty of the chyrons that you see at the bottom of "morning joe." most people watch this stuff with the volume off and the chyrons are all that matter. trump would tell his staff to call the networks and argue about the words they are us

we go, fox news john roberts reports that the trump campaign is preparing to file suit against cliff simmse wrote a new book titled team of vipers about his time in the campaign at the white house. the campaign claims that simms violated his nondisclosure agreement. all right let's get to pure politics. contemporary are pure politics if that wasn't. our next guest shopping world when he dropped out of the race for the presidency, and threw his support to president trump. well candidate trump at the time. chris christie did that, former republican governor of new jersey author of the new booklet me finish and he's with us in this studio right now. governor what a pleasure great for you to be with us. now you shocked everybody. and you know you did. so -- fast forward to the present what's your assessment of president trump and his presidency how's he doing? >> i would give him a b so far, about i say tax a reform big triumph regulatory reform big relief for business, the courts new judges with a circuit court with two supreme court justices, and new trade deal with canada and mexico. i thin