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number one, i had you at number two on the list. >> so that's how it's been going this week for cliff sims. he's promoting his new book about working in the white house. "team of vipers". sims says he wants to pull back the curtain. he's painting the picture. sims is the latest former staffer to join the trump book club as we call it. that includes omarosa, sean spicer, and corey lewandowski. cliff sims is joining me live from our studios in new york. thank you for coming on the show. >> of course. thank you for having me. >> let me start with news of the day here. the trump campaign has threatened to see you. have you been served with a lawsuit yet or not? >> i haven't gotten anything. saw some tweets. that's about it at this point. >> do you have a legal team? >> of course. i mean, yeah. i have attorneys that if something like that happened, we'd be ready for that. we just haven't seen anything yet. >> do you expect to be sued? >> i don't know what to expect. we'll have to see what happens. >> the campaign says you violated an nda. did you sign a nondisclosure agreement or not? >> i assu

cliff sims joins us.s an assistant to the president in charge of the white house message strategy. that's interesting. >> it's a fun job. >> great to have you. it's a fascinating book, getting so much attention because you name names in there. you talk about the general vibe in the white house. you call it a team of vipers. >> mm-hmm. >> here's what you write. so many people, i think, particularly critics of president trump say why would anybody work there knowing all of this? >> right. >> here's what you start with. most of us came to washington convinced of the justice of our cause and our principles, certain our moral compasses were true. proximity to power changes that. donald trump changes that. the once clear lines between right and wrong, good and evil, light and darkness eroded. how does donald trump change that? >> i think one of the things i try to do in the book is walk through not only all the scenes we get from the white house but my personal journey and what it meant for me. one of the thing

the author cliff sims joins me now.g with us. >> thanks for having me. >> i've got a lot of questions for you. we've got a good amount of time. you -- in the book you write about how you sometimes drafted possible tweets for the president. did you ever expect that you would be on the receiving end of one of his tweets? >> definitely not when i was there. but you know, when you approach doing a book like this, especially if you want to do an honest book, which i tried to do, it certainly crosses your mind. you think there's the chance. because in history you see the way he's done this to others in the past. definitely thought going into the book that there was a chance that would happen. >> and just to be clear, do you know -- did you sign a no non-disparagement agreement, a non-disclosure agreement? >> i assume i signed whatever sean spicer did in the white house. i assume i signed whatever corey lewandowski and -- >> are you worried about being sued? >> no. at this point all it is is tweets. i haven't seen any -- i hav

the president seems to be a bit fixated this week on cliff sims' book.a low level staffer that i hardly knew named cliff sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. he pretended to be an insider when he was nothing but a goefer. he signed a nondisclosure agreement. he's a mess. well, that gofer joins me next. . no more excuses with cologuard. we all make excuses for the things we don't want to do. but when it comes to colon cancer screening... i'm not doin' that. i eat plenty of kale. ahem, as i was saying... ...with cologuard, you don't need an excuse... all that prep? no thanks. that drink tastes horrible! but...there's no prep with cologuard... i can't take the time off work. who has two days? and i feel fine - no symptoms! everybody, listen! all you need is a trip to the bathroom. if you're 50 or older and at average risk, cologuard is the noninvasive option that finds 92% of colon cancers. you just get the kit in the mail, go to the bathroom, collect your sample, then ship it to the lab! this is your year! own it! cologu

one bit. >> the campaign ceo tweeting that the trump campaign is preparing to file suit against cliff simsor violating our nda. sims said on the telephone that he will weather the storm through this. what keeps him strong is his faith. that and i suppose the reported million dollar advance he got for the book. that helps take the edge off, too. >> shepard: john roberts live at the white house. breaking this afternoon, an attack on one in the fox family. leaves one of our own sent to the hospital. a star of the hit show "empire", jesse smallette attacked. police investigating it as a possible hate crime. the latest coming up. touch shows how we really feel. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, the first and only treatment of its kind offering people with moderate to severe psoriasis a chance at 100% clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of people quickly saw a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections

the cliff sims book got written up in media accounts as the fire and fury sequel and it isn't. but the president is going to these these as anecdotes he would rather not have out there as lines of atach. christi book is describing lost opportunities and it's lost opportunities that christi was in charge of. but cliff sims didn't run for office so it's hard to see that being written about him. >> chris christie, not so much. >> i think he's talking about christi's interviews here. >> i do too. >> my parsing of it --. >> he was on cuomo last night. i suspect that that gets piped? >> and colbert where christi told -- >> yeah. >> colbert the president blew it on the shutdown. >> i think that -- i think that -- and that speaks to how i should have done. >> right. >> it piece of that tweet. but it's interesting that he's not naming him. >> the president's book club this morning. thank you very much, maggie haberman, appreciate you being here. we're going to read the help next week, the president's going it read the help. >>> millions of people across america are waking up to historic

one by trump ally chris christie, the other by former cliff aide, cliff sims.s' book carries the weighty title, "team of vipers." so frank, the former white house aide, cliff sims, chatted with anderson earlier tonight about his new book and said this about the president. watch this, gentlemen. >> so i think it's just like the great paradox of the trump presidency that you've got a guy who, you know, he's had more "washington post" pinocchios than every president combined, and yet at the same time as perhaps the most authentic person to ever hold the office, in a way. >> and how do you think he's authentic? >> just in the way that he basically looked at the american people and said, this is who i am, you know everything about me. he's pretty much exactly the same behind the scenes as he is out in public, and i think that resonates with some people. so even the things you hear about him that are bad, it's not like anyone's surprised. >> yeah. so, frank, you have some thoughts about this book. what strikes you? >> well, i do. obviously, there are these great scen

that tweet landing in the middle of sims' interview on cnn...cliff sims/ former trump aide:"my identity isn't wrapped up in being a trump staffer. my identity is wrapped up in who i am in my faith." (ken)that was kaitlin collins reporting.according to the congressional budget office -- the 35 day shutdown cost the u-s economy about 3 billion dollars. a live look outside right now... as we get our first look at the four zone forecast with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: a few rays of sunshine found the bay area in the afternoon. there were a few sprinkles that moved through early and doppler radar is still showing some light showers across the state. tonight will be partly cloudy with cool temperatures in the 40s and 50s. another storm off the coast will approach the bay area by the afternoon and showers will increase then. rain will be heavy at times tomorrow evening before showers on thursday. another storm will bring rain to the bay area on friday and it will be wet on an off through the weekend. weekend. coming up at six... teachers and their supporters on both

and white house officials tell politico that the president is angry at former white house aide cliff simsveals the chaotic inside account of the trump white house. they say sims' former colleagues are calling him a traitor. they referred to him as simply "the videographer." and michael cohen is just, you know -- >> being called a videographer is not quite as bad as being called a murderer, which is what the president called me. >> oh, right. >> and called mika as -- that scene is in the book. have you seen that? >> no, no. >> the president comes down when i would do videos with him in the morning, he gets off the morning he sent that tweet and sean spicer and i are standing there and the president comes off and says "have you seen it"? >> which tweet? the murderer? >> no, the bleeding from the face tweet. i said i think everyone's seen it. he said "what do you think?" and poor sean spicer says, "i think it was very aggressive." >> by the way, he lies -- "the washington post" needs to put that on as a lie. he watches every day. everybody close to him says he watches every day. >> did anyon

. >> juan: a lot of excitement about a new tell-all book from former white house staffer cliff sims.so much media attention, you can see here is sims. >> the president and i sitting just off the oval office in the private study and we are creating what amounts to an enemies list of people in the white house who i felt were basically disloyal to him. >> his penchant for putting two rival staff members in a room and letting them fight it out over issue does. some of this competitive aspect. it's already a tough place to work. >> did you ever leak? >> noel. i talked about everything i should have done differently and that's not one of them. i put my name on it. >> juan: president trump slamming sims, calling him " "a low level staffer that i hardly knew named cliff sims he was nothing more than a gofer. he is a mess!" let's go over the biggest review. he goes into a kellyanne cam ways office and you can -- all the reporters. she is saying that someone else who's leaking. kellyanne says this is nonsense. the leakers are the ones -- >> jedediah: he is not embarrassed. i don't understand p

team trump threating in to sue cliff sims. >> ohm rosa is in current arbitrage over the lawsuits.n you ask trump's team about these secret contracts, they often sounds pretty secret ti ive. >> i can tell you i've never seen one in this white house and never been asked to sign one in this white house. >> i'm not going to get into the back and forth about who has signed an nda here in the white house. >> did you sign an nda regard your experience. >> i think everybody did. >> did you? >> yes. i think everybody had to sign an nda. >>> reverend al that were ton is here. and larry grove, who has reported on the use of ndas a bit of nervousness there rev. >> i think the secrecy is out. we are talking about a president we are told spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tells mistresses to keep quiet, so secrecy is the way he operated. i think the most interesting thing for me, one book clearly talks about the disarray in the white house, and the disorganization, which is a real risk to the public, because we're not talking now about his private business, but when you have former governor

cliff sims is going to be our guest on monday, and i'm looking forward to it, because there's some juicee. a lot of the information in this book is upsetting and frightening. but luckily, some of it is just delightfully dumb, like this story. when representatives from disney went to the white house to capture trump's voice for his animatronic figure in the hall of presidents, trump had an unusual request. "trump wanted his robotic likeness to tell disney-goers that americans invented the skyscraper." how is that what you pick? for pete's sake, robot lincoln's talking about the emancipation proclamation, and you want your guy saying, "before america, there were no penthouses to offer vladimir putin and-- ( cheers and applause ) and, and-- and, look, giant gorillas had nothing to climb." disney had just one small note on that request, saying that americans hadn't actually invented the concept of a skyscraper. it's "just a taller building." (as trump ): "okay, but america did invent high-fives, cheese-in-crust pizza, hot dog-in-crust pizza, and pizza-in-crust hot dogs. ( laughter ) thank yo

looming as the president is lashing out latest tell-all book, former communications aide cliff sims as'a low level staffer' 'pretended to be an insider.' that tweet landing in the middle of sims' interview on cliff sims/ former trump aide: "my identity isn't wrapped up in being a trump staffer. my identity is who i am in my faith." (vicki) that was kaitlin collins reporting.(grant) according to the congressional budget office -- the 35 day shutdown cost the u-s economy about 3 billion dollars. (vicki) and despite some workers being optimistic as they head back to work... many of them faced a lot of hardships during the shutdown. the government employees who were not getting paid for those 35 days say it caused them a lot of stress and worry. they were forced to miss multiple paychecks due to the shutdown-- and it could take weeks for them to get their full amount of backpay. some of those workers had to make difficult decisions when money was tight. (jeffery david cox, national president, american federation of government employees) "we heard stories of people choosing between buying g

i know who cliff sims is.hink he received something, i read about, a million dollar advance to do a tell-all book. that kind of tells me all i need to know. he has a first amendment right to publish all the secrets he learned in meetings and that's the american way. i'll say as far as any implication on the white house communications team or on my wife specifically, i remain incredibly proud of her. i'm her biggest fan. i think she's done a lot of good in helping the president and his agenda and you'll not be surprised to know that i'm all for her in this. >> that's a good position to take matt schlapp. thanks for explaining how you as a conservative are feeling today. thanks. >> i thought he was going to stick to that, i don't know cliff sims. that was an interesting take right there. >>> now that the government is reopened, is there any chance democrats will budge on funding president trump's border wall? a key member of congress joins us next. -ah, the old crew! remember when we all used to go to the cafete

and cliff sims joins us now. for having me. >> kellyanne conway responded. the real leakers get much more positive press than i do. while it's rare, i prefer to knife people from the front so they can see it coming. >> i noticed in what kellyanne said there is what's conspicuously missing is a denial. the fact of the matter is, you can talk to anybody in washington, d.c., it's about the worst kept secret in town, really. so, you know, i wrote the truth about that, wrote the truth about many other things. wrote the truth about myself. one of the things i took away from your white house memoir was your willingness to be critical of yourself. that's one of the first things i set out to do in my book was to tellru a >> you do make a -- point out a lot of mistakes you believe you made. how about your relationship with the president? there's a lot of incoming coming from the white house. one of things we're hearing is that the president doesn't have strong memories of working with you. you weren't part of his inner cir

there's a new book out by former trump communications aide and crest white strips cautionary tale, cliff sims. is going to bt next week. what day? some day next week he will be here. i'll ask somebody who works here. sims' tell-all is called "team of vipers." so if you're writing your trump tell-all, that name is now taken. you'll have to go with "hive of vermin," "sack of weasels," or "subway car of business chimps hurling feces at each other." ( laughter ) ( applause ) his book-- ( applause ) hurling fees ease. >> jon: they're throwing it out there. be careful. >> stephen: the book is full of juicy details, including that sims regularly met trump at the private elevator of the residence and accompanied him to videotapings, carrying a can of tresemme tres two hair spray, extra hold, for the boss. so now we know where trump gets most of his ideas from: fumes. "cliff, just spray the rest in the bag and leave me alone." it also shed light on trump's relationship with paul ryan. for example, one time when ryan was in the oval office explaining the ins and outs of the republican healthcare bill t

. >> a shut down as the president is lashing out over the latest tell-all book dismissing cliff simser. that tweet landing in the middle of sims's intervu. >> my identity is wrapped up in who i am in my faith. >> now jake, after the president learned about his book he began questioning other aids and in recent days they tried to convince the president not to tweet about the book saying that it would drive publicity. after a string of television appearances the president could n n n't resist. >> the president seemed to respond in realtime. here is what sims said during his interview about the president's negotiating skills. >> i think there's probably a reason pelosi hasn't got a nickname yet. ly say it was a little bit out of character. i noticed that he is always looking for ways to increase his leverage, look for ways to invent leverage if he can and he seemed to be negotiating from a position of weakness. >> he calls that position a weakness. president trump didn't like that. the president called him a low level staffer and gopher. sounds like he hit a nerve. >> i am so triggered

cliff sims will be here tomorrow. a new book where he describe cans life inside the trump bubble. describing kelly ann conway as a relentless leaker. people working the white house don't normally leave and immediately trash the place. the are exceptions. i was present years ago between a debate of a histor wrn and speech writer. the speech writer said we owe our loyalty to the president we have come to serve. >>> "all in" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." roger stone faces justice as the president's intel chiefs face the senate. >> on the don met privately with vladimir putin and no one in the u.s. government has the full story about what wdiscussed. >> another revelation of another undiscussed trump meeting. >> they know that they have to take me down in order to take donald trump down. >>> and as 2020s democrats make their populous appeal, the billionaires fight back. >> that's not correct and that's not american can. >> i'm a little bit tired of listening to things that there pie in the sky. >>> not one but twenty-two big announcements for stacey abrams when "all in" s

. >> reporter: cliff sims says that mr. trump has a tendency to exaggerate. >> when you are around the president, everything seems bigger. that could be -- there could be good things about that. but there's this atmosphere that gets created. it's extremely cut throat. >> reporter: the president has had enough of white house tell alls tweeting about sims that he pretended to be an insider when he is not more than a gopher. he is a mess. >> there it is. >> reporter: there it s. tis. the trump campaign is ready to throw its book at the former aide. the campaign is preparing to file a lawsuit for violating the non-disclosure agreement. that seems to be the least of the president's problems these days. his top officials from the intelligence community were on capitol hill telling congress and the world that they don't see the world and the threats out there the same way their boss does. >> jim acosta, thank you very much. >>> now to the russia investigation. today's not guilty plea by roger stone. we're joined by sara murray and

former white house aide cliff sims says in his new book that mr.trump has a tendency to exaggerate.cliff sims, author "team of vipers": "when you are around the president everything seems bigger, everything seems grander. there could be good things about that. there's also this atmosphere that gets created that's extremely cut throat."the president appears to have had enough of white house "tell-alls" tweeting about sims that he pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer.he signed a non- disclosure agreement. he is a mess!natpop anchor: "he is a mess." cliff: "there it is." (pam) f-b-i has finished the investigation into the 2017 las vegas mass shooting. we hear from survivors who say... not enough was (ken) plus at 10:30.... equal protection is still not a guarantee for women in america... despite what many people believe. now.. a bay area lawmaker is among those kick-starting a new effort.. for ratification of the equal rights amendment. (pam) and after the break... a warning if you use facetime on your apple devices

. >> now in a new book "team of vipers" cliff sims depicts trump's innercircle of a snake pit all leakingh other. and in a lengthy excerpt, sims portray as kelly ann conway as the most prolific leaker of all. he has a episode where he was tasked with draft agonal statement and sims says kwoetd cell canny ann was sitting at her desk texting away and since her account was tied to both her and laptop i could see every conversation she was having. she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half dozen reporters, most from outlets the white house frequently trashed for publishing fake news. as i sat there trying to type, she bashed jared kushner, reince priebus, steve bannon and sean spicer, all by name and conway recounted private conversations she had with the president, during which she had convinced him to see things her way which is a challenge when you're dealing with someone so unpredictable. she was talking about him like he auz child. as damaging as that sounds, he reveals much more about the leaks out of the white house. he eludes to another source close to the pre

cliff sims will be here tomorrow. a new book where he describe cans life inside the trump bubble.ntless leaker. people working the white house don't normally leave and immediately trash the place. the are exceptions. i was present years ago between a debate of a histor wrn and speech writer. the speech writer said we owe our loyalty to the president we have come to serve. >>> "all in" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." roger stone faces justice as the president's intel chiefs face the senate. >> on the don met privately with vladimir putin and no one in the u.s. government has the full story about what wdiscussed. >> another revelation

cliff sims' book alleges that president trump himself is an anonymous source for reporters at times.aky as it was in the beginning of the presidency? >> no. for the first year and a half you got the sense that every single senior official thought they were the communications director and could go out and freelance a message that they felt was on behalf of the president and as cliff points out was relatively self serving. i haven't read those two books. i will but i've read the excerpts and reviews and interviews with the authors and one of the interesting things that comes out -- you alluded to it in your intro. they're not anti-trump directly. they don't question the way he leads. one of the questions i would have is if you're writing about how everyone around you in this white house was terrible, does that somehow reflect on the president's style? the president likes to pit people against each other. he said as much. to your point about the anonymous source, yeah, that confirms a lot of reporting from his new york days. there doesn't seem to be the next step which is why? why has t

there's a new book out by cliff sims who worked at the white house who quotes phil is as saying "i wouldhappy the if not a single refugee foot ever again touched american soil." >> well, i'm sure his ancestors would have been a different opinion of that. all of us came here from some place, so way someone allowed us to be a great experiment of democracy. that's all people are asking for. people come the wrong way the right reason and the wrong way for the wrong reason. we want to get rid of the people that came here for the wrong reason and are taking advantage of our society and a threat to our people but you have to have security on the border to keep them out. on the other hand, can't there be a pathway forward? look at the 2013 bill. it was a compromise bill between democrats and republicans that was a grand plan. it's the best thing on the table. we wouldn't be having this conversation. we would be working on many, many other challenges we have. >> do you think the president is being pulled in an anti-immigrant direction by advisers like stephen miller? >> i sure. do i absolutely do

he called former staff cliff sims, the author of the latest white house tell-all, nothing more than a gofer. he has set to weigh in on mar-a-lago. i'm going to talk to the author a little later on in the show. there it is right there. hat tip to "the washington post's" josh dawsey, who says sources have told him the president is complaining extensively about that sims book. but of course he's really mad at his own hand-picked intelligence chiefs. if you thought president trump would rise above that when they dare to publicly contradict him, you don't know donald trump. the president tweeting just today -- as usual tweeting -- that his own intel chiefs, quote, seem to be extremely passive and naive and adding "perhaps intelligence should go back to school." good one. sources telling cnn the president was seething and called out dni dan coats by name as he watched tv highlights of yesterday's testimony. so just imagine how the president's intelligence briefing went this morning. coats usually does that briefing by the way, and it's unclear whether he did today. a white house official sa

this time it's by former aide cliff sims. in it, here's what he describes after the inauguration.ere sitting in washington going, what is going on? he said the president was furious about the coverage of the crowd size, and in a rush, nobody fact checked the statement sean spicer made about the day after the inauguration. it seems like facts never mattered to this administration from day one. >> no. i think there's a relatively simple explanation here. donald trump is not a guy who is significantly invested in getting his facts right. again, we sound like a broken record, but the truth of the matter is he really has never been that guy. i would recommend a story in "the new york times" over the weekend by maggie haberman and russ buettner. the story essentially says donald trump's always been this guy, in his real estate life, prior to that, this is who he is. so why did sean spicer go out and do that? why don't they fact check? well, because number one, the principal, the boss man, doesn't care. he wants what he wants to be the version of facts. second, the way that you survive i

is a tell-all book called "team of vipers" by former white house director of message strategy, cliff simsescribes a president who's uninterested in the basic duties of his job like a meeting with former house speaker paul ryan out the gop legislative agenda. >> in earl2017, the speaker comes up to the white house with mike pence, the vice president, to explain how tax reform is going to work in all of its wonderful mechanistic detail. this does not interest the president very much. and after e conversation's gone on for a while, he literally gets up while paul ryan is in mid-description and wanders out of the oval office andown the hallway into a side room where one can hear the television being switched on. and eventually, mike pence gets up, goes down the hallgs the president back, and they finish the conversation. >> seth: oh, my god. we he a president who just wanders around the house in slow motion no matter what's going on around him. it's like we elected a roomba. [ laughter ] applause ] "yeah, that's very interesting. yeah. no, that's really cool.ll that's rcool." [ applause ] [ c

. >> we had on cliff sims. he was in the white house.the media strategy guy and has a tell-all book out. he said there is something about donald trump that changes the character of the people around him. he changes their moral compass. >> there is no question. >> how does he do that? >> i'm an example of it. i have been in penance for 30 years over it. he did this to me -- pulled me into something that violated my own values. his values violated mine. he does this. it makes it a depressing time. i find myself angrier moment to moment, day to day than i would have been two years ago if there were no trump. i think that's across the population. he disrupts you is what he does. >> how? >> because he is so relentless, number one. he comes at you and comes at you. you have described the variety of ways in which he does that. and he has no conscience. so he's willing to say anything, to lie, deceive, distort and not feel the slightest bit of guilt about it. he throws anybody off. so this is what you get -- i said this in 2016. i haven't used t

"vanity fair" has published another excerpt from cliff sims new book. team of vipers it's called.e's talking about kellyanne conway leaking to the press via text that he was able to see. here's what he said. over the course of 20 minutes or so, she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half dozen reporters, most of them from outlets the white house frequently trashed for publishing fake news. journalists from "the new york times," "the washington post," cnn, politico, and bloomberg. she bashed jared kushner, reince priebus, steve bannon, and sean spicer all by name. so you work in the white house. is the leaking like anything you have ever seen before, and what do you make of this report? >> um, well, i will go to what my source told me before we came on the air about this exact story. i said, you know, when it came to kellyanne, kellyanne was someone who was not originally in the president's camp. and so my source is believing it. this is a white house that they leak like a sieve. if it was really plumbing, we would be in a flood in that white house right now

cliff sims worked as a communications aide for the trump administration and also worked on mr.mp's campaign. his memoir, team of vipers is out this week. it's being described as a pro trump tell-all book that describes the president's inner circle as back stabbing, leaking, stubborn and selfish. sims appeared on "good morning america" today. >> play sports in college. tough environment, people usually come together. create this bunk room mentality where it's you against everyone else. that didn't happen in the white house. >> sims says he resigned. others in the white house say he was actually fired and called into question a purported job he was offered as special aide to secretary of state mike pompeo. >>> happening today, the man accused of beating an elderly woman in san francisco is expected to make another court appearance. 18-year-old keonte gathron faces 16 criminal charges for what police say was a crime spree that went on for more than a week. charges include attempted murder, robbery, elder abuse and child endangerment. 88-year-old yik oi huang is still recovering fr

written by former trump staffer, cliff sims, the "post" notes the scenes from lhis tell-all are consistent with news reporting from the time inside the white house. some of the color from the book according to the "post," "sims regularly met trump at the private elevate e the residence, accompanied him to videotapings, carrying a can of treseme hairspray extra hold for the boss. one such taping an hour after trump tweeted he saw msnbb host micah bra micah brezinski bleeding badly from the facelift. the president sought feedback." peter, elise, tim, eugene, are still here. that was actually something that caused a rift inside the west wing, inside the white house. some of the female staffers were mortified by the president's comments and noted privately in conversations i had then that he's someone who was pretty socialized to the idea of plastic surgery. >> well, what's really interesting about this book is it's not from somebody who at least presents himself as a reborn critic of the president, a disgruntled former adviser, but somebody who still expresses, you know, some admiration of wh

>> the book "team of vipers" comes out today, a tell-all about the trump white house written by cliff sims worked on trump's campaign. president trump has so far not tweeted about this. chris christie has a book called "let me finish." it's reportedly less scathing when it comes to criticizing trump. the "new york times" book review not that kind about the book saying it's "a superspishl and ungainly book, reading it is like watching an octopus try to play the bagpipes." i think an octopus probably could play the bagpipes pretty well. follow me on twitter, give me your opinion on books, occupii and whatnot. >>> super bowl hoopla is picking up, what was once media day now called opening night. last night kicked up five days of buildup involving the patriots and the rams. the bay area boys leading the defenses san mateo's tom brady and novato's jared goff. brady started his senior year at sarah high school when goff was born. last night they shared the stage and brady sounded a little like an older brother. >> what advice would you give this guy as he gets ready to take on the big, bad patri

cliff sims making the rounds this morning. >> off hair she would basically say i need to take a shower because she felt dirty working for donald trump. i'm watching as i'm supposed to be crafting a statement defending her against exactly what she's doing in this moment which is telling reporters, trashing her colleagues to reporters, talking about how the president -- she has to babysit the guy and whatever. >> she was writing that in that moment? >> in that moment as i'm supposed to be writing -- >> cleaning up her mess -- >> simms is out with a new book. we are going to have a lot to talk about when he joins us here at this table tomorrow. 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific here on msnbc. with venus, you're in charge of your skin. so, write your own rules. because no one gets an opinion on why you shave - or how you show your skin. their medicare options... before they're on medicare. come on in. you're turning 65 soon? yep. and you're retiring at 67? that's the plan! well, you've come to the right place. it's also a great time to learn about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insu

that one-time staffer cliff sims, author of "team of vipers"

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 using because the people at the airport, it might be the only impress they have the trump and the news of the day. it comes out the same day as chris christie's book. >> you've also got chris christie that same morning coming on "morning joe." >> it's a huge day for us. it interes

on the same morning, former west wing communications, aide cliff s sims. shultz will join us. he may have 2020 presidential aspirations. we'll ask him about that and a lot more. for now, we'll send it to hallie jackson to pick up our coverage. >> good thing there's nothing to talk about today, appreciate that. i'm in for stephanie ruhle who's on assignment. we start with that breaking news. former trump adviser roger stone now in federal custody. not a surprise. it is significant. here's the deal. early this morning, stone was arrested by the fbi at home in florida. he'll appear in court in fort ladder dale in two hours from now. cameras are not allowed in court but you can see we've got live coverage surrounding that building. stone faces seven criminal charges stemming from the mueller investigation including false statements, witness tampering and obstruction. the special counsel says stone lied about what he told congress.