let's turn to the associated press white house reporter zeke miller.inating day of twists and turns with a round of cable news interviews that really was, seen by many as a bit bizarre. what's your take on that. >> they said he was ultimately, going to cooperate with special counsel robert muler. it was reminiscent of president trump's call-ins with the cable news stations and throughout the campaign and before hand when he was a reality television star, dominating the news cycle. maybe not following through on some of those results. but there's an element that you can see how he, how the president and sam nunn berg worked together, there was common yaments there with the press. >> shepard: thening i found interesting, nunberg had been with him since 2011-2012. and was one of the people who was sort of intimately involved with the process leading up to the announcement that we he would run for president. is that reveltry of anything? >> it could be. but that doesn't seem to be what the special counsel is interested in from that subpoena, that sam nunn

bouie is the chief political and cbs news analyst, michael we'd leek to welcome to the program zeke millerhite house reporter for the associated press. and anne gearan is without correspondent for the "washington post." lots to talk about in the week that was. zeke, we saw some news this morning out of the white house the president had dismissed his legal counsel john dowd earlier in the week he said he was going to replace him now we're learning the president can't hire the person he wanted. what's going on? >> we're finding out that the trump legal team looks like the trump white house to a certain extent just not getting the is dotted and ts crossed. the legal team saying because his new attorneys represent others in that, that they are -- that's one of the things that they probably should have worked out before they got rid of john dowd. >> brennan: what happened. how did he get fired before there was new lawyer to replace him? >> it's not entirely clear like everything else around the trump legal team it is slap dash where they're not actually doing all the leg work, also it's the cha

. >>> with us for the next hour, zeke miller, abby livingston. we've seen china today come out and again threaten retaliation, and say if this actually happens, you know who is going to pay for it, those soybean farmers in red states that voted for donald trump and they're going to have to go to donald trump and explain whier this see unhappy. >> exactly right but this is what donald trump was elected on. that's the tension here. they elected this disruption, they elected somebody who is going to sort of say, who elected people, somebody who is going to say this is the cost of doing business, has been the cost of doing business with china for decades but we need to change that system and break that paradigm. for better or for worse and even trump voters acknowledge that some of the things he's doing won't necessarily help them. that's the tension there. the question is will he pay for that in the polls and will party pay for it in november, pay for it in 2020? maybe, maybe not. >> the markets are paying for it right now. look at the big board in