this instance is not only david schein but roy cohn. o was powerful at the time but not as powerful as he thought he was, did whatever he wealthy, spoililed child might , except t this one happppened toe occupyining a senate post,t, he called a set - -- the secretetaf thararmy and thrhreatened him, sayiying either vivid sche i is given a commission as a general, t tvatete, and posteded in penthouse of the walaldorf-astoa hotel in new york, cohn'n's royoy cohn andwe, joseseph mccthy,y, will go after the a ay and accucuse them of s secret gaya communist cabal. the army did not react well to this bizarre threat coming from , theative political nobody one with a connection of the leading demagogue of the day, joseph mccarthy. so the army pushed back it we have to remember that the president at the time was an army man, dwight eisenhower. he did not say much at the time, but behind the scenes, he did not like these accusations being leveled against his branch of the military. so what unfolds than is, i believe, the first instance of reality t

this is like roy cohn bad.y give out that image and i think that gives him a powerful image he's willing to go there and do the dirty tricks and get the job done and so far until now he's gotten away with it. >> look at him here. he looks - david, he looks like he's enjoying this. like i always thought nixon in some weird way liked all the attention of the watergate prosecution. in some sick way he liked the attention. you know what i mean like any narcissist would. >> we've all known for roger for many years and i think narcissist is a good word for him and it also applies to trump. maybe there's a bond there roy cohn was a dirty underhanded player who was trump's lawyer, also lawyer for the mob and trump loved him. he was a mentor in a lot of ways i think when roy left the scene, roger was a natural person to gravitate towards. he's a bit of a kook he put out a book saying bill clinton was tied to a series of murders. he's a conspiracy theorist who hangs out with alex jones and yet he was considered a vip, a

. >> reporter: it was in the 1980s when roy cohn mentored trump and roger stone, instilling in both acious baring they carry with them. >> roger subscribes to stone rules. if you look at trump, he has followed them. one of them that we have seen come up a lot in the mueller probe is admit nothing, deny everything, launch counter attack. >> reporter: from faking, roger stone teamed up with paul manafort in a lobbying firm which represented meurderous dictators. he had to leave bob dole's 1996 presidential campaign when a tabloid published a story on stone and his wife being swingers. >> roger is a very unique individual. he is a body building, pot smoking, dandy swinger. he very much is a libertarian who embrace s hedonism. >> roger stone is among that small group of americans who are unapologetic about subverting our democracy for the sake of their preferred candidates. they don't believe there's a role for morality in elections. >> reporter: analysts say what continues to be remarkable about the arc of roger stone is he was never exiled from the political world because of his roles i

>> being tutored by roy cohn and having decades of experience in lying about everything he would haveading the truth and practicing the dark arts of political manipulation, it would make it very difficult for him to have the level of credibility to produce anything useful. but having been here in washington for several decades and practicing law for 50 years now, i have a high threshold for surprise. so things could happen, but they would be surprising. >> now, stone is a richard nixon admirer. he has a nixon tattoo on his back. here he is flashing richard nixon's signature double "v" for victory there on the courthouse steps in florida on friday. with all the talking stone has done and how he's handling himself now after this indictment, does stone sound or look nixon-esque to you? >> i think he's going to have the opportunity to show that tattoo up close to certain people with whom he may share jail cells and incarceration. what he's done is what he's always done, is try to brave it out, push the envelope, take credit for things that he has no business taking credit for. he's the ki

. >> it all comes from roy cohn, they both learned from the same master. >> tiffany cross, thanks to both of you, appreciate it. congressman steve king is defending himself against racism claims. straight ahead what he told voters today at a town hall about his comments regarding white supremacy. later, another group of people caught in the middle of the shutdown and border wall battle. the dreamers. one woman joins us live to explain why she does not to be a bargaining chip. try alka-seltzer pm gummies. the only fast, powerful heartburn relief, plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. oh, what a relief it is! unwanted odors lingering too long in your car? try febreze car vent clips! just snap the clip and insert in the vent to eliminate lingering odors for up to 30 days. try febreze car vent clips, available in a range of light to bold scents. look at all those wet dishes to dry... ...if only there was a way to skip this. skip drying with finish jet dry. it dries 100% better versus detergent alone. finish jet dry. for cabinet-ready dishes, right out of your dishwasher. (clappi

-- they both learned at the -- both manafort and stone learned at the knee of richard nixon and roy cohn, sort of the dark, say tannic prince of that era. he was the icon of mccarthyism back in the '50s and often describes the essence of pure evil stone learned at his feet and they worked together in the early '80s and he's been a powerful, powerful influence on trump. >> you know it's interesting because one of the things this documentary kind of hints at is that, you know, that roger stone loves richard nixon and was sort of looking for another nixon got sort of bored with bob dole and didn't think was the right guy to do nixon one better sort of trump was his new nixon. is that what we're watching here, roger stone sort of dream of a perfect post-nixonian republican president just kind of blowing up in all our faces >> i don't think that roger stone is a deep fphilosophical thinker about politics, joy. i think we have to recognize a lot of these people are off their rockers and not incredibly bright roger stone has left an enormous paper trail he incriminated himself. he essentially s

political showman dark arts operative first introduced to donald trump decades ago by the infamous roy cohn became the sixth trump associate charge bid mueller in the investigation. roger stone, michael plan, paul manafort, rick gates, george papadopoulos and long-time personal lawyer, michael cohen. all six cited for lying under oath in the russia investigation. a stunning pattern of deception, and that's not all. mueller has also uncovered a wealth of contacts between russians and trump associates during the campaign and transition. look at this headline from "the new york times" detailing more than 100 contacts despite repeated and adamant denials from trump's team of any contacts at all, but here's what mueller has not revealed, any direct charge that president trump or anyone on his team conspired with russians to interfere in our elections. hence the president's mantra, no collusion. the big question now, is that how mueller's investigation will end? with overwhelming evidence that trump's team tried to cover up contacts with russia, but no prosecutions for conspireing with russia. is

stone met trump through his infamous lawyer, roy cohn, in the late '70s. to potus himself. >> there was a poll that came out that donald trump would be a great president, that a lot of people liked it. and all of a sudden, everybody said i was running for president. i never said i was running for president as you know. >> but you hired roger stone, a well known political consultant. >> no, i didn't hire. roger's a friend of mine. he's a good guy, and he looked at the possibility of it. >> "roger's a friend of mine." the president met manafort, who was partners with stone, through stone in the '80s. manafort then became part of this tight circle. >> roger's, you know, relationship with trump has been interconnected that it's hard to define what's roger and what's donald. while it will be clearly a trump presidency, i think it's influenced by a stone philosophy. >> the three amigos. the idea that trump wasn't close, didn't know, wasn't aware of anything about who these guys were, what they're capable of, it all strains credulity. so what? well, did the presi

this president said what he expects out of a sitting attorney that works for him is his own roy cohn. you've said on this show and others you expect a subpoena fight could be in the cards for the mueller probe. what does barr inherit on day one? >> that's the thing that sort of doesn't totally add up here is the biggest preoccupation or one of the biggest preoccupations donald trump had in the first years of his presidency was the fact that jeff sessions recused himself because he wanted someone to control the investigation. the barr who was out there today is not the person that trump would want in that sense. he's basically putting as much distance -- he actually even said that he agreed, you know, he said that sessions had done the right thing by recusing himself or agreed with the decision. so if you're trump and you didn't like what sessions did, then i don't know how you look at what barr did today and totally say, oh, that's really what i want. i mean, barr is basically, you know, saying the things that democrats wanted to hear about the investigation, which are things that don

the allegation was made on none other than roy cohn, who represented one of the owners of studio 54, who was the hatchet man for senator -- senator mccarthy. and donald trump's first political mentor. he went to our attorney general and represented one of the owners of studio 54, which was under tax evasion charges. with a hairtrigger allegation, all you needed was a very simple allegation, hardly any vetting, still, they felt compelled to appoint the special prosecutor. after clear 24 to zero interviews and investigations. here is the interesting thing that is topical today, this .nvestigation carried into 1980 after carter's reelection to ronald reagan. not once during the investigation did carter ever interfere with it, did he call it a witchhunt, call it a political effort, so, i know, kent, you percent did some attacks as well during your tenure. carter never did. that is a great tribute to it. we let it run its course. remarkably, his campaign manager was also accused of falsely charges. it had too much of a hairtrigger at the time. kent has problems of a different sort with th