peter baker and susan glasser, authors of this great, new book.w he's a garbage human being, a terrible president and threat to national and domestic security and they all go along with it. why? >> that's the enduring mystery, nicolle. the self-abasement of many of these folks has been pretty extraordinary and, of course, there would be no trump presidency to speak of without them, you know, one of the things that's very clear, right, donald trump without the lindsey grahams and the rest of the republican infrastructure that's supported him, he would have been another angry old dude shouting at the television in between golf games and, of course, it's this -- trump in the white house is the story of people like lindsey graham and, you know, there was a remarkable moment where he, you know, we ran into him on a washington street literally and he told us how he thought that, you know, trump was a lying mother f but he also said but he's a lot of fun to hang out with and graham seemed to be absolutely dazzled by this kind of access to power and celeb

peter baker will stick around. just within the last hour president biden wrapped up those labor day remarks in wisconsin that we brought you live. next he heads to pennsylvania, using the holiday to hit two key swing states in the mid-term elections. let's play a little bit of the president in milwaukee speaking about the importance american workers have had on his career. >> i wouldn't be here without unions. unions. electricians, iron workers, letter carriers, teamsters, laborers, bricklayers, transit workers, plumbers and pipe fitters, steel workers. i wouldn't be here without cops, firefighters, teachers, nurses. >> next the president will address members of the united steel workers of america in pennsylvania. this will be his third visit to the keystone state in the last week. let's bring in julia jester, covering the president in milwaukee. peter baker is still with us, and jeff mason joins us, white house correspondent for reuters. julia, what's the latest on the ground in milwaukee and how that speech hit?

your thoughts on reading what peter baker had to write and the legacy of queen elizabeth ii. let me show you the front pages of the british newspapers this morning. the london times this morning with a picture of a young queen, a life in service their headline this morning. moving on to the sun. we love to you, ma'am, their headline. the daily star. "you did your duty, ma'am." the daily express, "our beloved queen is dead." the mirror with a simple "thank you" on their cover. the daily mail, "our hearts are broken." the guardian with the same picture we are seeing in may newspapers. and the daily telegraph, grief is the price you pay for love. on c-span two this morning, the british house of commons is gathering, as you can see, and we have live coverage on c-span two as they will make tributes this morning to the queen. they look like they are in a moment of silence. let's watch. [video clip] >> before i call the prime minister, it is with the greatest sadness that i rise to say a few words in tribute to her late majesty, queen elizabeth. almost all of us in the house have e

join amy, peter baker, co-author of the new book -- joining me, peter baker, co-author of a new book, hugo lowell, vivian salama, and in studio, just the two of us, nancy cordes, the chief white house correspondent for pbs news -- cbs news. hugo, it's your first time on "washington week." i'm going to start with you, also because of your expertise. when you look at the legal problems former president trump is facing just this week, what are possibly the most serious now and in the long term? hugo: the two potential charges -- the charges that came up this week are significant with the new york state ag civil suit, but also the doj's into his -- investigation into his mishandling of classified documents which were stashed around mar-a-lago. they are equally potent. if you look at the state ag suit, that would end the trump organization in its current form. it would permanently barred from and his adult children from -- bar trump and his adult children from holding office in new york. there is a referral to the southern district of new york for potential federal charges. the fact that t

as promised, peter baker and susan glasser still with us.e of their new book, the divider, trump in the white house, 2017 to 2021. and tonight, it is number one on amazon bestseller list. susan, you both cover trump for four years. the world watched every twist and turn out of that white house. and by the end, nothing could surprise us. but you dug deep. what surprised you in writing this book? >> i have to say, we felt it was important for the historical record at this moment of incredible threat to american democracy, donald trump has done something that no president did beforehand. we will see if anyone does subsequently, refusing to accept a lawful result of an american reelection and we've never had anything like -- that we've decided to go back to report more after trump left office to try to find out what else do we need to know about this. i think the big takeaway -- he talked about my generals in the league in -- we were surprised at the extent and persistence of essentially the undermining of u.s. national security from the very be

in their new book "the divider" trump and the white house, 2017 to 2021 peter baker and susan glasser detail how the trump administration decided to rip thousands of children and infants out of their parents' arms as an immigration deterrent in 2018. they document how it was decided that would be official trump administration policy. they also explore why the white house walked it back. you might remember this infamous white house press briefing. where trump's second homeland security secretary stood at the podium trying to defend that policy. >> are the children being used as pawns for a wall can you say yes or no to that. >> the children are not being used as a pawn. we are trying to protect the children. >> how is this not specifically child abuse for these innocent children who are indeed being separated from their parents? >> so i want to be clear on a couple other things. the vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of hhs right now, 10,000 of the 12,000, were sent here alone by their parents. that's when they were separated. >> according to baker and g

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joining us now, peter baker. ife "the divider: trump in the white house 2017-2021." it debuted on the new york tombs best seller list this week. peter, we'll cover the book in just a minute. but first the contradiction of the special master she appointed. what is the reaction so far? >> yeah. rather extraordinary, right? ien into is a special master who was actually chosen by the trump team. this is one of their proposed candidates that the judge then accepted and went ahead and appointed and i think both the trump camp and this judge seemed to be surprised this judge -- this special master has not been what they expected. he has been much more skeptical of the trump team's claims. in effect he is daring them to prove the things they say out of court by proving it uncourt. they faus consequences if you provide false information unlike on television or interviews. i think that is, you know, that is surprising the trump camp. and what she is doing is slow things down again which is the point. that's what the trump t

peter baker, new york times chief white house correspondent and coauthor of the divider, trump in the white house, 2017 to 2021, which comes out tomorrow. peter, thank you for joining us tonight. >> tanks for having me. >> we have much more ahead this hour, following a particularly questionable moment during a trump rally this past weekend. we will take a look at how donald trump may be subtly or not so subtly courting followers of the extremist fringe qanon conspiracy. next, samantha power, one of america's top diplomats joins me live onset as world leaders convened for the first in-person un general assembly in three years. that is next. stay with us. us i would say that to me an important aspect is too... meta portal with smart sound. helps reduce your background noise. bring that sense of calm, really... so you come through, loud and clear. meta portal. the smart video calling device that makes work from home work for you. new salonpas lidocaine flex. a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts. an

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peter baker was talking about how american presidents, they really look forward to meeting the queen, is that your sense as well? >> absolutely. these big strong man with nuclear arsenals, will kind of go gurria round her. i think it was because, if you are the united states, by and large, you have an interest in history. and interest in power. you have an interest in durability remain a strongly public figure. presidents come and go. by constitutional design. and so, i think they were fascinated by, trying to figure out, what was her secret? she is in iconic figure, to truman, and even hoover. she went backwards. hoover, who lived in new york, she met hoover. symmetry, management eisenhower, schmidt kennedy. did not meet the johnson. and then all the way through, are more recent times. i think presidents enjoyed it. because in a way, i think just about anybody, would enjoy spending some time with her. i think if you want to understand why presidents enjoyed it, just think about whether you would or not, and what you would want to ask them. i think it was dina brown who wrote, in her

>> joining me now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." peter, you have just written your book with your spouse called "divided." you have lists of these investigations. in this book, you have chronicled trump's time in office. it's coming out today. this is a mammoth collection of 700 plus pages, from 300 interviews after mr. trump left office, including two with the former president himself. tell us how today's announcement fits into the framework of your reporting. >> it is of a piece. what you see in this lawsuit, what you see in the allegations is a person whose association with the truth is tenuous at best. truth is what he wants it to be, what he chooses to make it. if i say it is valued this, it's valued at that. it may be different on different occasions to suit his needs. that was true in his presidency as well. time after time he recast reality in order to suit his political gains, just as he did according to this, his financial gains. he told us again and again that he was the best president for african americans of any presiden

. >> let's bring in peter baker msnbc analyst and -- dinnertime good front was on our sunday. ow you interpret that response and you think there are discussions, do you know if there are, inside the white house about this very prospect? because it feels like it is getting closer. >> obviously. they are trying to walk a fine line here, not taking to clear position again on this subject. you're right it is an important subject and this is something that the president of vice president general would want to grapple. with but they may not want to grapple with it publicly. they do not want to be seen as putting the figure on the scale, here. what biden has said all along is that decisions like this will be made by the attorney general without political interference of the white house. even discussing this in an interview the vice president was asked to do something here that risk looking like you are weighing in. i think he was trying desperately to avoid doing something that would look like that. it is a big issue. just over the sake of argument if there were facts or to justify th

joining me now is british historian, andrew roberts, megan hayes and peter baker.that joe biden will be traveling in his own armored vehicle. >> i would assume so. the uk government and secret service work really well together. the president has enjoyed two trips there in his term and they've worked really well together so i imagine they will make an exception for him to live up to security protocols needed. >> peter baker, i know you've covered a lot of events over the years. a lot of big events. this is unlike anything any of us have seen. we showed the file footage of churchill. that was large and grand. they were honoring a pivotal figure in this country's history, but again, queen elizabeth is just a step above all of that. the queen mother had a pretty large funeral and turnout, but again, this is a step above it and all of these foreign dignitaries coming. so many of them, peter, that they've been asked just to bring one person. just their spouse because there's no room for anybody else. >> yeah, it's rather remarkable. we haven't seen anything like this in

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. barbara mcquade a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she worked with the doj during the biden transition and is a professor at the university of michigan's law school. and msnbc political contributor matthew dowd. he is also a former george w. bush's strategist and founder of country over party. barbara i'm gonna start with you. there could be many explanations for the empty folders with classified or other special markings. but this still looks bad for trump. doesn't it? >> it does jonathan. i mean i suppose the most generous explanation is that the documents were simply removed from the folders and strewn about among all the personal belongings in the documents and the worst-case scenario is that they are gone, even destroyed, or lost or in some other way dispose of. and that is really dangerous just red alert for the intelligence community to not know whether secrets have been lost. and to not have the documents, and not know w

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joining us now, susan glasser and peter baker.thors of the new book, there you see the cover, "the divider, trump in the white house." an amazing, wonderful new book. thank you for writing it. susan, as you know well, there's a very serious criminal investigation into the former president of the united states. i just want to play, once again, how he's talking about the classification of highly sensitive documents. listen to this. >> if you're the president. united states, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it. because you're sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you're sending it. when you send it, it's declassified. we -- i declassified everything. >> you conducted, susan, nearly 300 interviews to chronicle trump's time in office for your new book. does he think he can just wave a magic wand and make his problems go away? >> wolf, the list of things donald trump believes he had the absolute right, quote, unquote, to do when he was the president of the united states was a very, very long

. >>> stunning new reporting from our friends peter baker and susan glosser.elly actually purchased and consulted a book that concluded the ex-president was psychologically unfit for the job he held. the book says kelly used the book as a guide for how to deal with his boss. >>> later, ukraine's counteroffensive is pushing russians out of the country. it's revealing new depths russian brutality. they face a dire situation. we continue after a quick break. stay with us. ick break. stay with us ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. p

applause ) we're getting some new revelations about that last guy, in a book called "the divider" by peter bakerer. according to the book, the former president told jordan's king abdullah that he would give him the west bank. first of all, you can't promise to give away something you don't own. "hey, happy birthday, i got you your neighbor's truck. you're going to want to change the plates. and haul ass. here he comes!" here's the thing, the west bank is full of palestinians, and palestinians in jordan have repeatedly tried to overthrow the monarchy, so when he heard the offer, king abdullah was less than thrilled, saying, "i thought i was having a heart attack. i couldn't breathe. i was bent doubled-over." okay, sounds bad, or maybe that's just what happens when some people get a gift. we all remember that famous jewelry commercial: >> every kiss begins with... kaaahh!! my heart!! ( sound of falling ) well, she died happy. also-- ( applause ) there are also a couple revelations about the former president's one-time chief of staff john kelly, seen here too tired to punch himself in the face. ( l

let's get insight from susan glasser and peter baker. r are the authors of this great new book "the divider, trump in the white house 2017 through 2021" we'll talk about the book later in the program but you also have the privilege of working in moscow during your distinguished careers. let's start with that when you see the evidence of these protests. the question always is, putin tends to put these things down quickly, excerpts his power. what does it tell us about russian public opinion about the war. >> first of all, john, it shows you why vladimir putin resisted for months this very stuff of making a mobilization of russian society. in fact, he stopped short of a full mobilization. but even the partial possibpos mobilization that he ordered, the reason he didn't do it at the beginning of the war he feared a backlash inside of russian society. it's one thing when you have soldiers fighting the war now they're hitting middle class people, people in the cities of moscow and st. petersburg who might be 30 years old and last served in the

. >> and stephanie, let me ask you about the new book from peter baker and his wife susan glasser who is also a reporter. they say that melania trump slammed trump's handling of covid at one point telling him, according to their book, you're blowing this, it is going to be really bad and you need to take it more seriously. they write that he dismissed her concerns. and i'm wondering because you worked with the first lady during this administration, you were there during the first months of the pandemic, did you hear any of this? >> oh, yes. i mean, melania trump was the first in our administration to really come out and put videos out saying wear a mask. she was very responsible with covid. and our whole east wing was not working in the white house when everybody else was work in the with west wing. so i know she talked to him about taking it seriously and he said that it will be fine. i'm not sure about if she said you are blowing this, but it rings true to me. she was very, very cautious and nervous and worried about americans and staff and her family when covid was going on. >> and

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. >> i want to ask you about this new detail from the upcoming book, called the dividers by peter bakerer, where they describe another chief of staff, kelly by refeuding to lower the flag after john mccane's death, saying "if you don't support john mccain's funeral when you die, the republican will come to your grave and on it." . >> okay. what's your reaction. >> consistent with what we know about donald trump and kelly. kelly came in determined to impose his will and make the trains run on time and tell donald trump hard truths. i, like everyone else, he utterly failed to do it. and, you know, certainly jared kushner and ivanka were real enemies and helped to drive him out. the truth wuss that the longer trump's presidency went on, the less assertive his chief of staff became because mick mulvaney became a rubber stamp and ultimately he got the chief of staff that he always wanted in mark meadows. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> lining up for hours to see the queen one last time and we are learning president biden will meet with elizabeth when he is in london for the funeral. the

joining us, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker, "usa today"'s susan page, andl high even though gas prices are going down. food prices are going up and core inflation is bad. market reaction yesterday. so how much of a threat is inflation to the midterm hopes of democrats going forward? >> well, it's a pretty big threat, obviously. it's the number one issue for a lot of voters because it's so much about their about their po. we can argue about the 2020 election and the various investigation, but it hit everyday americans how much they are paying. disappointment in democrats doesn't help them keep up with the momentum they had otherwise fwn to build and maybe ease that dynamic. what president biden is trying to do is change the subject to topics he thinks is more advantageous. from the maga republicans. >> susan page, they don't want to be talking about abortion. really got into the middle of this with mitch mcconnell. house speaker nancy pelosi was asked about abortion, specifically about lindsey graham's abortion ban. let's watch. >> you'd have to ask the repu

journalist peter baker and susan glasser will join us to talk about that book.ill with us this hour as attorneys for the justice department, former president donald trump are set to appear before the court appointed special master in the mar-a-lago documents case. the hearing will take place at a federal courthouse in brooklyn before judge raymond dearie, where he currently serves as a senior u.s. district judge for the eastern district of new york. typically this kind of hearing is only procedural and establishes filing practices and timetables for the review of documents in the case, but just prior to today's hearing, attorneys for the former president stated in a filing last night they do not want to disclose to judge dearie which mar-a-lago documents they assert the former president may or may not have declassified. "the new york times" reports one time white house lawyer eric herschmann warned trump late last year he could be in legal trouble if he did not return those government documents, the ones he took with him when he left office. that's according to

. >> last night i had susan glasser and peter baker's book. it was a good read. you know what the book todayes? look, it's a thick one. >> 222 pages? >> 215 plus the table of contents. the book of the day is the people of the state of new york by letitia james, and it is a hot read. >> it is hot. >> it is hot. what do you think? >> causing a big stir. causing a big stir. causing some problems. >> we'll see what happens. but if you look at -- i was like someone putting all of this together and i can only imagine the lawyers reading this and being an attorney and trying to have to defend this page-by-page, number-by-number, asset-by-asset, property-by-property, so we'll see. >> that was a mouthful, don, you were absolutely right. enjoy yourself. >> see you later. >>> this is "don lemon tonight" and this really hasn't been a good 24 hours for donald trump. in large part because of this. but first off because of his hand picked special master basically told him to put up or shut up. now a federal appeals court is calling out his legal team for refusing to provide a s

. >> i want to ask you about this new details from the upcoming book called the dividers, have peter bakerbed a number of former chief of staff, that is john kelly, being fears at trump for refusing to lower the flag after john mccain's death. he reportedly said, quote here, if we don't support john mccain's funeral when you die, the public will come to your grave and on it. okay, what's your reaction? >> it's certainly consistent with everything we know about donald trump and john kelly kelly came in determined to impose his will and make the trains run on time and tell donald trump hard truths, like everyone else, he utterly failed to do it. i think -- certainly, jared kushner and ivanka were real enemies and out to drive him out, but the truth was that the longer that trump's presidency went on, the less assertive his chief of staff became because big mulvaney, again, became a rubberstamp. ultimately, he got the chief of, the sycophant he always wanted and mark meadows. >> thank you, sir, it's good to see you, chris. mourners and the uk lining up for hours to see the green one last time

according to the new book from journalist peter baker and susan glasser, trump not only repeatedly pressured his attorneys general to prosecute clinton, but told don mcgahn that if they win, he would prosecute her himself as president. and until the white house counsel that had to explain to trump that presidents, no, they cannot prosecute people. that's not how any of this works. donald trump campaigned on it. he tried to do it as president. and here we are, more than a year and a half after he left office and don't trump is still at it. after he's no good, very bad today of legal developments yesterday, trump went on sean hannity show to vent about all the ways in which he has been mistreated. and hear trump tell it last night -- with hillary clinton was accused of, having classified documents in her possession, was so bad, it might have been her emails the fbi was looking for when they swooped down on florida beach club last month. seriously, that is what he said. >> i pointed out hillary clinton, which is, i guess, the closest case in modern history, that this mirrors your case -- and it

this is all part of a book coming out next week written by peter baker of "the new york times" and susan the new yorker. >>> the pandemic death toll is a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels that is a conclusion of a new report established yesterday in a medical journal. to break down the findings let's talk about with chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. the coronavirus death toll is now at 6 million. what did the commission cite as the biggest missteps here? >> there was some significant criticisms as you might imagine. if you look at the numbers overall, globally more than 6 million people have died. in the united states you have 1 million of those 6 million. we're not even 5% of the world's population in the united states yet accounted for that proportion of deaths. there are all sorts of things the commission looked at. at what point did scientists, governments start using evidence that was coming in. were there adequate supplies of personal protective equipment. how quick was the response, even in terms of declaring this a pandemic. you may rem

that's not only a record that will likely never be broken, but as peter baker put it "the new york timesiplomatic fortitude. from harry truman, who she met before she was crowned, to joe biden who visited her last year, think of the different personalities of leaders that she encountered from the up start nation that had broken free of her's. she went to church with dwight d. eisenhower, later sent him a recipe. danced with gerald ford. rode horses with ronald reagan. went to a baltimore orioles game with george herbert walker bush. after she stopped traveling, the presidents went to visit her. obamas gave her an ipod. also had some show tunes. she had tea with donald and melania trump. the only president she never met was lbj because of tensions over the war in vietnam. so, how did she navigate all of that? joining me now is alvin, a presidential historian and former lecturer at the university of pennsylvania school of communication, his books include "the leaders we deserved and a few we didn't" rethinking the presidential rating game. al, it occurs to me the school where you taught at

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the divider, but journalist peter baker and susan glasser, dives in how donald trump presents a new threatploiting the anti democratic section of the gop. joining me to discuss is a congressional reporter at politico. the divider hits bookshelves tuesday. a lot of interesting nuggets have been released. according to axios, it reveals that lindsey graham called trump a lying mother -- f her, but a lot of fun to hang out with. he gave what can you do shrug. what can you say about what has become a mindset for so many gop enablers? >> what's become fascinating over the years, watching how they react to the thing that donald trump has said and done, his more erotic temp did see, he's testified it but if falling back on the policies that they as conservative republicans have long supported. i'm talking about things like appointing conservatives to the federal judiciary, of course the three individuals that donald trump appointed to the supreme court that were very swiftly confirmed by the republican controlled senate. this is what conservative republicans on capitol hill care about. they did it

let's also bring in peter baker, the chief white house correspondent with "the new york times." we often bring on to ask about global affairs and what it all means. peter, what are you watching for? >> well, i think i'm watching for how this affects actually the relationship with the united states in some ways. she was the glue in a lot of ways for this relationship. i'm writing today about how she met with 13 presidents from truman to biden. only exception, lbj. she was the constant of the relationship between the great imperial britain and the colonies that broke away. that's now over. that sense of commonality. that sense of shared mission and purpose in the world. that sense of you know r familial bonds, if you will. without her, that's now a very different scenario. i think that it's a loss because she sort of held together through republican, democrat, all these different politics and fraught moments. she kept that bond at center every time she met with a president here or over in britain. >> i wonder now that it's king charles iii, will we start seeing the return of the br

. >> last night i had susan glasser and peter baker's book. it was a good read.he table of contents. the book of the day is the people of the state of new york by letitia james, and it is a hot read. >> it is hot. >> it is hot. what do you think? >> causing a big stir. causing a big stir. causing some problems. >> we'll see what happens. but if you look at -- i was like someone putting all of this together and i can o

that said, when yamiche was talking about hyper partisanship, i want to point to something that peter bakerd in the "new york times" and essentially where we are in this country right now is combative in order to get a point across you have to be up for a debate. what does that say about where we are right now in this country and the president's strategy as well? >> well, for any democracy to work there has to be space for deliberation, for right hand debate, for disagreement, and that disagreement is predicated upon background conditions, that is to say we agree on some background conditions that allow us to disagree. i will probably never agree with liz cheney about the particulars of policy, but we agree on the background conditions that allow us to argue. so what president biden was doing -- remember, he announced at the beginning equality and democracy are under assault. that this has political implications but what he was doing was kind of laying bare the existential threat to the republic. so because of this hyper partisanship, and that's really a kind of genteel description of what'

also with, us new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker.ook, the divider, trump in the white house, is out september 20th. harry, i want to start with you, we'll be watching for as this battle over a special master heads back to the court tomorrow? >> two things. the first, alicia, remember how trump in the public sphere has talked to dan and again about this magic, cryptic the classification of all documents. if you're to make that claim tomorrow, it would be very straightforward because doj is saying, just give us 100 classified documents. so, it would be a perfectly joint battle for him to say their identity. but i don't think he will do it, because there are consequences for lying in court. not to put too fine a point on it, but this would be a lie. and his lawyers would have to get up and face serious sanctions. it's a real push comes to shove moment on this declassification claim. the second thing is the executive privilege review. so, trump, on friday when they talked about those two choices for a special master, said, i think you sh

gloria, cnn got a preview of this explosive new book from veteran journalists susan glasser and peter baker's presidency. the book claims that the former president's national security team including joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark milley feared that trump would ignite a conflict with iran in the final days of his presidency. "one administration official told trump before the 2020 election that if he lost he should strike iran's nuclear program," the authors report. "milley at the time told his staff it was a what the f are these guys talking about moment." they write, "now it seemed frighteningly possible." what do you make of this? >> i can't understand reading all these books, reading all these stories, why these people -- and this book says they considered it. didn't all get together and stand up there and tell the public what was going on and quick. i know the rationale was you have to have the guardrails, we have to be there to be the guardrails for the american public. but when this kind of stuff is going on, at a certain point don't you owe it to the public to say somethi

there's a big book and william leahy the big peter baker's book on james baker on jesus staff and i began to hear this. that's a manly job from manly man working from manly president and aren't all these guys great because there's such men like linebackers protecting a quarterback or like bouncers throwing a drunk son of a bar this damage. is then our view of edith because she has to be a woman. she has to be just first lady that she stepped in in the in the breach of a terrible tragedy and kept wilson's presidency going at least for a year. i think if she was a man she'd be admired for like you saying to she had been thomas woodrow wilson jr. that probably be great books about her right now. maybe we can sunday get past that idea that a chief of staff is a manly thing and we see it as a position of helping the president my last slide, please. this is a famous picture. i've always seen it but and when historians write critically about her that she was this lady macbeth behind the throne kind of telling the drooling woodrow wilson what to do. this is in her memoir. she was proud of this pi

. >> let's bring in peter baker, nbc analyst and correspondent for the new york times clearly somewhere for the labor day weekend. >> and joyce vance legal analyst and attorney for the university of alabama school of law and clint -- nbc national security analyst and distinguished research fellow at the fore and institute. >> thank you all for being here. clint, you may be away as well because i think that's a different backdrop. let's go to this, peter. before i get your reaction to donald trump speech last night, let's take a look at what form white house communications director stephanie grisham said about his remarks. >> i would imagine that we will see a lot more realities where he will feel he has got his voice and he will continue to be divisive and blame everybody and not take responsibility. i think -- he doesn't think anybody is following the legal aspects of it and then all he has to say is his version of the truth and the mega extreme right wing of the party will believe him. >> sadly, they will. >> peter, is how you interpret the former presidents messaging? to see his defi