Everything out linearly. If youre curious about where one person appears in the story and who else theyre connected to, you can sort the entire timeline by individual characters in the drama. Its the most useful thing that i have ever seen anybody lay out online about the whole story. You know what it is . Its a great homework device for Rachel Maddow viewers so they can stay right up to speed with where we are right now. It also helps you cheat on the test because thats where the teacher is learning stuff too. Thank you, rachel. Well, on this 210th day of the trump presidency, no one in the United States and possibly no one in the world was surprised when the president s response to an apparent terrorist attack in barcelona was to lie. The president is not president ial enough to step up to a microphone and Say Something articulate and supportive to and about the people of spain and barcelona, and so the president did what any child could do. He tweeted. Twitter is the least dignified form of president ial communication, and it is therefore this president s favorite form of communication. Nothing says, i dont really care about you enough to actually interrupt my vacation more clearly than a tweet. The president s first tweet was the laziest possible string of words an american president could ever come up with in reaction to such an event. He said, the United States condemns the terror attack in barcelona, spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help. E be tough and strong. We love you. His next tweet was a pathological lie. It was a lie he has been caught telling before. He was told publicly that it was a lie the first time he told this lie. But because his lying is pathological, because it cannot be controlled, he had the urge to tell this lie again today and so he did, and no one could stop him. Study what general pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years. Number one, general pershing was never in a war with islamic terrorism. He was in a war in the philippines where some of the people he was fighting against were muslim. Most soldiers in every 20th century war have been members of a religion. Most of the wars that they fought in had nothing to do with their religions. Here is donald trump in the full grip of his pathology, during the president ial campaign, telling his big lie about general pershing. The lie that he knows is a lie but that his pathology demands that he tell. Now, as you watch him, as you watch him telling this lie during the campaign, you can see that he has no control over himself, that this lie has control over donald trump. The lie controls him. He doesnt control the lies. That is the sickness that youre watching. That is the pathological condition that donald trump suffers from every day. And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men, and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said, you go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasnt a problem, okay . General kelly, the new white house chief of staff, knows that every word of that is a lie, but that new white house chief of staff could not stop the president of the United States from tweeting about that today. General pershing never did anything with pigs blood. The idea that the only thing you would have to do to stop muslim combatants in their tracks is expose them to pigs blood is the kind of infantile idea that takes up the space in Donald Trumps brain where facts are supposed to live. General pershing was fighting against people in the philippines who did not want the United States to rule the philippines, and they were willing to die in that fight against the United States. Only the childish mind of donald trump could believe that those fighters who were willing to die for what they believed in could have been stopped by pigs blood. We know donald trump is susceptible to lies like that that swirl around the internet. His weakness of mind leaves him open to that. It is identical to the weakness of mind that leaves people open to nazi lies on the internet and white supremacist lies on the internet. 13 people were killed in that attack today in barcelona when a van ran over people. Tonight, spanish authorities report that four suspects were killed in a raid, and one suspect was injured. Earlier today, two suspects were arrested. So the president of the United States advice to spain, his official president ial advice to spain today, was to use pigs blood on the suspects who have been apprehended by the authorities in spain, and that will stop all terrorist attacks in spain for 25 years. That is what came out of the sick mind of the president of the United States today. The world knows that we have a very sick man in the american presidency. It is impossible to hide that. The world knows it. Most people in america know it. Most republicans dont admit it. And because republicans control the house and the senate, we all know that only republicans have the power to take the steps necessary to limit and control this president and, if necessary, remove him. And they have already done some of that limiting and controlling. Mitch mcconnell made sure that this president would not be allowed to do any recess appointments during the senates august recess. The house and senate have passed a sanctions bill that they forced the president to sign that limits the president s ability to remove sanctions on russia. The Republican Senate refused to pass the Health Care Bill that donald trump supported no matter what donald trump said about it. And no matter what he said about the republican senators who opposed that bill. Republican senator jeff flake has not just said that his partys embrace of trumpism was a mistake, he has written a book about it. And today the republican chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee said this. The president has not yet has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. And we need for him to be successful. Our nation needs for him to be successful. Forget about the last line there about we need the president to be successful. Thats just something that politicians like senator corker say so that the trump voters wont think hes attacking the president too harshly. There was no republican senator who thought that they needed barack obama to be successful in the presidency. They never said that. This country doesnt need donald trump to be successful in the presidency. This country needs donald trump to be contained in the presidency, to be restricted in the presidency. That is what the sanctions bill did, and that is what Mitch Mcconnell did when he made sure that he left the senate technically in session during the august recess so there could be no recess appointments by the president , who the republican majority leader clearly does not trust or respect. And why should he . He is the only republican majority leader who has been attacked by a new republican president in that president s first six months. The important thing that senator corker said today is that this president does not have the stability to be president. Senator corker said it in the most polite way he possibly could, but he edged the Republican Party one tiny step closer to the 25th amendment, which provides for the removal of an unstable president. The hardest thing about working in government in washington is how much patience it takes. It took 45 years of patience to significantly expand government Subsidized Health insurance beyond medicare and medicaid, and it takes just a huge amount of patience to wait and wait for the Political Party in power in congress to recognize whats wrong with the president who is in that same Political Party. That takes so much patience. So what senator corker said today is a breakthrough. It is a major breakthrough. Donald trump doesnt have the stability or the competence to be president. Senator corker said that seven months into the trump presidency. He could have easily said it seven months into the trump president ial campaign or seven weeks into that campaign or seven days into the trump president ial campaign. He could have said it seven minutes into the trump president ial campaign. Heres donald trump in minute two of his campaign. When mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre not sending you. Theyre not sending you. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. Senator corker voted for trump for president. He voted for a man who he now admits does not have the stability or competence to be president. If you are waiting to hear bob corker say that about the president s stability, if you were waiting for that, you needed an awful lot of patience to get to this point where a supposedly reasonable man like bob corker finally stated the obvious. And the only reason it took this long is that bob corker is a republican. Thats the only thing that held him back from telling the truth about republican Donald Trumps instability and incompetence. When republican senators take a step like this, it may be that the best thing to do, the most encouraging thing to do is to just praise them for speaking the truth and encourage them to continue to tell the truth about this president. But some of us always have to wonder would we be here tonight, would donald trump be president if otherwise reasonable people like bob corker had not enabled the trump candidacy, the trump nomination . Would we be here tonight if republicans like senator bob corker had not allowed their partys apparatus to deliver donald trump to the white house . Politically the smartest thing for democrats to do when bob corker says Something Like this is to just privately thank him for speaking his mind and encourage him to continue to do so and never, ever remind him that he was part of the party that allowed this to happen to this country and to the world. Senator corker is a southern republican senator from tennessee who is troubled by Donald Trumps reaction to the murder of Heather Heyer in charlottesville that was encouraged by a white supremacist mob. He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today, and hes got to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that. And without the things that i just mentioned happening, our nation is going to go through great peril. Senator corker is a wise master of diplomatic language. He chooses his words more carefully than donald trump would ever be able to do. He just assigned to the president of the United States great peril. This presidency is a great peril to the United States, and at least one republican senator is now willing to say that publicly. And that is a very, very important moment in the timeline of the trump presidency. We got here because donald trump told the truth. We got here because donald trump spoke from his poisoned heart and told the world that he really does think that nazi White Supremacists and people protesting nazi White Supremacists are equally to blame for everything that happened in charlottesville. When donald trump lies, as he does every day about pigs blood or whatever hes lying about that day, he humiliates himself. He humiliates his family. He humiliates everyone working in his white house and in his administration. And when he tells the truth, he does even more damage to himself and his presidency because the more donald trump reveals about the truth of who he really is and what he really thinks, the more republicans like senator bob corker just cant stand him. And so were now at the point where every time donald trump opens his mouth, he moves one step closer to his own destruction either by lying or telling the truth about what he really thinks. Joining us now, john heilemann, National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, and ayesha rascoe, White House Correspondent for reuters, bob corker considered one of the reasonable men of the senate, especially on the republican side. This was, in senate terms, in washington political terms, a very big turn for bob corker. Certainly true, lawrence. You know, bob corker is someone who spent time with donald trump in 2016. There was some talk about the possibility of bob corker ending up in the Trump Administration in a cabinet position. People floated his name as a potential secretary of state for donald trump. They were chummy. They appeared together in tennessee and other places. Now hes saying these things which, by the older standards of the senate as you know well, the kinds of things that no senator would say about a sitting president of his own party except in very extreme circumstances. Its worth noting, not to take anything away from senator corker, but just to note the political reality. Senator corker is up for reelection in 2018. Theres talk he may run for the governorship of tennessee rather than seek reelection although i believe he has filed his papers to seek reelection in 2018. So he is one of those republican senators whose political future is to some extent tied up with donald trump. And i dont mean to say that hes making crude political calculations, but these are the kinds of senators, not just moderate, cautious ones, temper at ones we want to Pay Attention to, but he want to look at those who are going to be on the ballot in this midterm election. This is where were going to see the ice break and senator corkers words today i think are an important sign that the ice, which has already started to break, is breaking in more dramatic ways every day. Aisha, people have been asking me all year when are republicans going to start moving away from him . I always use the same word every time. You have to be patient. You have to be patient. You have to be patient. Time moves much more slowly for them than it does for the spectators out there who are watching this. And senator corker, as john mentioned, one of the people considered for secretary of state. He took himself hes one of the people who took himself out of consideration for that before the president could make any kind of decision on him. Hes the one who looked at this and said, i dont want to be a part of this. Well, yes. But he has been senator corker has been, for the most part, very supportive of the president. He has criticized him in the past, and even now hes saying hes still kind of leaving out this door. Maybe they could make some radical changes. Its time for selfreflection. But as you said with President Trump, it doesnt seem that hes the type of person that does a lot of selfreflection, and its not clear what changes could be made. They brought in general kelly. They thought that he was going to bring in discipline. But it seems like all of the people who are supposed to be moderating forces on President Trump have been unsuccessful. There was an idea that ivanka, jared, melania, that they would be moderating forces. None of that has happened. President trump has continued to be to do what he wants and to say what he wants, and it seems like thats what senator corker was trying to say today. What hes trying to come to terms with. And, of course, President Trump attacked Lindsey Graham again today. He doesnt seem to understand that these are the votes he needs for anything he actually wants to pass through congress. He didnt like what Lindsey Graham said about his comments on charlottesville, so the president tweeted, publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that i said there is moral equivalency between the kkk, neonazis, and White Supremacists and people like ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just cant forget his election trouncing. The people of South Carolina will remember Lindsey Graham, of course, showed the president how to conduct a dialogue in twitter if youre a United States senator or president. He said, mr. President , like most i seek to move our nation, my state, and our Party Forward toward the light, not back to the darkness. For the sake of our nation, as our president , please fix this. History is watching us all. And, john, its hard to imagine this toothpaste getting back in the tube. Someone like Lindsey Graham is making such a separation now from donald trump. Yeah. But on legislative agendas, hes still absolutely on board with the trump agenda, which is fundamentally a classic republican agenda. Well, its hard to know at this point what the trump agenda is because as far as anybody can tell, the white house is not doing very much on the legislative front. Theres still obviously some talk about tax reform. I think that for republicans in the senate, they are increasingly they want to get tax reform done because thats not part of the trump agenda. Thats been part of their agenda for a long time. They want to get Corporate Tax reform done. Theyve wanted that for years and decades to try to get that work done. Look, those people like bob corker and others who are up for reelection in 2018, they need to have something to run on regardless of whether what the fate of donald trump is, whether he ends up still being president at the end of 2018 or whether hes met some other fate. But apart from that, apart from the question of tax reform, which is not really tax reform anymore. No one thinks theres going to be tax reform. There might just be a tax cut. Apart from, that i dont think anyone in the Republican Party could tell you what the trump agenda is at this point because literally nothing is happening. I want to listen to another southern republican senator, richard burr, north carolina, speaking about how the president has handled the charlottesville situation. This was an horrific act. Its domestic terrorism. The United States shouldnt put up with White Supremacists or any group thats sole intent is to have a conflict and to produce harm on anybody. I think the president s misguided in his last statements. I think that the commander in chief should be very specific about our way forward, not embracing what they did or who did it at all. So i disagree with him on that. Ayesha, any other senators saying the president is misguided would have been tweet bombed by the senate. But in is the senator who overseeing the investigation of President Trump and his campaign. Yes. So he is i think that President Trump has been a bit more cautious with some members of congress. But he hasnt been very cautious about going against others. Lindsey graham, going against jeff flake, people like that, these are people who sit on the judiciary committee, so they could have a very big impact if impeachment proceedings ever come up. So right now, i think trump President Trump has held his fire on burr, but he could get very upset, and he hasnt shown really this idea of kind of selfpreservation to even try to be nice to the republicans in congress who hold his fate. He seems to lash out at anyone who really questions him. I think right now what youre seeing in the way that these republicans are coming at him is that this could be a turning point. This could be a point where people are actually saying, look, hes gone too far. Weve seen this before, and usually the republicans come back to him or say that, you know, he made a mistake, but well move ahead because we have these other agenda items. But this could be a point where people are really trying to separate themselves. Thank you both for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you. Coming up, bill moyers is a southerner who worked for a southern president and has a few things to say about Donald Trumps reaction to what happened in charlottesville and the special prosecutors investigation of possible russian collusion with the donald trump campaign. Bill moyers will join us for an exclusive interview next. Hey, is this our turn . Honey. Our turn . Yeah, we go left right here. woman vo Great Adventures are still out there. Well find them in our Subaru Outback. avo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 Subaru Outback models. Now through august 31. And lifes beautiful moments. Ns get between you flonase outperforms the 1 nondrowsy allergy pill. It helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. Pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. Flonase changes everything. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. 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This morning President Trump tweeted, sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You cant change history, but you can learn from it. Robert e. Lee, stonewall jackson, whos next . Washington, jefferson, so foolish. Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns, and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced. Of course, every confederate statue could be replaced by a statue to a soldier or a distinguished general who actually fought in battle for the United States of america instead of against the United States of america. There are hundreds of war heroes on the union side of the civil war or world war ii who have never been recognized with statues in the United States. Veteran Journalist Bill moyers is a son of the south. He was born in oklahoma and grew up in marshall, texas. He later worked in politics and government, serving both in the kennedy and johnson administrations. He was a special assistant to president Lyndon Johnson. When the president signed the Civil Rights Act in july of 1964. On the day donald trump was inaugurated, bill moyers said this about Donald Trumps original political lie, the lie about president obamas birth. He rode to power on the wings of a dark lie, one of the most malignant and ugly lies in american history. We must never forget it. Joining us now, bill moyers, peabody awardwinning journalist. He served as president johnsons press secretary from 1965 to 1967. Bill, there are so many things i want to cover with you, but i want to just start with youre someone who had that job, press secretary. You stood at that podium in that Briefing Room. What is it like for you when you watch what happens in that room now, that room that was a sacred place for you . Well, it was a sacred place, but we committed a lot of sins in that sacred place. We were not perfect. Now, i was not a Perfect Press secretary. Linden was not a perfect president when it came to disposing of the press. But he never asked me to lie. Sometimes i lied, im sure in contradicting something he had said or something i had said. But when i became press secretary against my will, my father sent me a telegram saying, bill, tell the truth if you can. But if you cant tell the truth, dont tell a lie. And thats what i tried to do. But as ive often jokes, our credibility was so bad, we couldnt believe our own leaks. Today i must say we were better than they were by any means, but we made an effort not to deliberately deceive the public. Now its just one lie coming out after another. I dont believe they have the capacity or the freedom under this president to speak the truth. You struggled with the first presidency in the modern age that was embattled in an unpopular war, which is what made all of your struggles in that Briefing Room were pretty much all about that. This is a different struggle that were seeing. This is a president who is the struggle. The white house staff struggle is with the president himself. You know, lawrence, during the Campaign Last year, i kept thinking that donald trump has given a big bullhorn to some of the most malfuries in life. Somebody said today he has to get away from him. He cant get away from himself. This man does not seem to be to have what we would normally think of as a soul. He has an open sore. Everything antagonizes him. Hes constantly at war with everybody, and he degrades everything around him. He is the malevolent fury that is attempting to provide a return to many of the practices and behaviors that we have spent 250 years overcoming. You worked for a southern president who signed the Civil Rights Act and knew politically when he was doing it and said privately to you, no doubt, what this would cost him. He said that evening, i think weve just delivered the south to the Republican Party for my lifetime and yours. What he meant by that is that for 100 years, the democrats had been the protector of slavery, the defender of slavery and of white power. Now with the vote coming, the democrats would move away from that, and the republicans would fill the gap. There would be a white flight to the Republican Party, and there was. The Republican Party became the party that promotes racism and white power in american politics today. The president went from a couple days ago saying, confederate monuments are a local decision. Local communities should decide whether they want them or not want them. Now, today, hes decided they are absolute national treasures. We must never touch them, and we can never possibly build any statues as beautiful as those again to replace them. The paradox is i mean weve done that at the university of tiexas. The confederate statues have been moved to a museum. But the paradox in what the president is saying is most of the statues were talking about were built constructed, erected after 1,900, around the time that jim crow laws, the laws of enforcing segregation were established. And the terrorism that became jim crow was beginning to be enace enae enacted against blacks. It was not to honor the soldiers of the civil war. It was to remind blacks and whites that the force of the state would still be used to subjugate them to a different form of slavery. All of those could come down without affecting history at all. You could put them in the museums where teachers could explain why they were put up in the early part of the 1900s. But just that e rat citizen many on his part from a couple days ago, its a local matter, which is kind of a relatively safe political thing to say, to now coming out to say and saying, oh, no, no. They must all be saved. I mean how is the country supposed to follow a president like that . By looking at the consistency of his inconsistency. This is a man who is unable to finish a sentence in the way he obviously intended it when he started. Lyndon johnson was a man of contradictions. Lyndon johnson could be as perplexing as donald trump was. But Lyndon Johnson knew what he was doing. He knew government. He loved government. He knew how to make it work, and he also knew that if you continually contradicted yourself the way trump is doing, as johnson would do later in vietnam, youre destroying yourself. I think thats whats happening with donald trump is hes destroying himself except with that onethird of the e electorate that thinks he can do no harm. I want to take a look at some stunning magazine covers that came out today from around the world. We have the economist, which shows donald trump basically blowing into a bullhorn that looks like a ku klux klan hood. Time magazine came out with one today that puts him in the position of giving sort of a hitler salute with the american flag. We have a couple of others. But these are things this is a kind of coverage we have never seen in this country. Right. The saddest part to me of charlottesville, other than the death and the injury that occurred, was the fact that theres in fact i saw this on nbc news last night, the nightly news. Theres a synagogue there, the beth israel synagogue. About 40 or 50 people come regularly to worship. And during the troubles down there last weekend, three men armed with automatic rifles stood across from the synagogue eyeing it suspiciously. Parades of young men came by with swastikas, and theyd say theres the synagogue. Seeg hiel. This comes from the rabbi zimmerman, who told this story on nbc last night. And they were carrying the swastika, the nazi flag, and i cannot understand how anyone today can march or salute march under or salute the nazi flag without recognizing what the nazi regime did to europe, to the world, and particularly to sixplus million jews who were rounded up, murdered, sent to concentration camps, starved to death, buried alive. Thats what that swastika flag means to those Jewish Congress regats in that synagogue who watched them come by, saluting adolf hitler. Before we go to this break, as a southerner to southerners about these confederate monuments, i mean they watch people like me, northerners from boston who couldnt care less about these monuments talk about them and warrant to see them be removed. What would you say as a southerner to southerners about these monuments and what they mean now . That is not your heritage. Your heritage is different from what happened under slavery. Your heritage now all of you are free. Lightweig white and black are free. You said it very well when you began this discussion. George washington risked his life to lead an army Whose Mission was to create the United States of america. Thomas jefferson risked his life by writing the declaration. Both were slave owners. George washington freed his slaves. Jefferson didnt. But they the statues are commemorating men who fought in and led armies designed to destroy the United States of america. And i would say to everybody today, the civil war failed. It did not destroy this union. But the losers kept fighting until theyre still fighting today. Let them go. You lost the war. Lets move on. Were going to be right back with more from bill moyers. Enou, we offer our price enou, match guarantee too. And if thats not enough. We should move. Our home team will help you every step of the way. Still not enough . Its smaller than id like. Well help you finance your dream home. Its perfect. 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Joining the discussion is stephen harper, creator of that timeline. Bill moyers is back with us. Stephen harper, please tell us how you went to work on assembling this timeline and why you did it. And i can just thank you right off the top. It is the greatest tool that we journalists have to work with every day as we stare at this story. Well, thanks, lawrence. And thanks for having me on. I have to tell you whether this started back in february as 24 entries, if you had told me six months later i was going to have more than 400, im not sure i would have continued it. But every week in terms ive gone about it, thats the way you have to go about it. You have to go about it with a laserlike focus, and i say that because what it really has become is an effort to try to create some sense of order out of the chaos that i dont have to tell you comes out of trump and his team on a minutebyminute basis. And every time we get to anything close to trump and russia, the chaos amplified. And ive believed from the very beginning, when i first did the first 24 entries in what became this massive timeline, that the key to a lot of this was thinking about it in a way that drew some links, that created some themes that i thought were getting lost in the daily chaos of at that time we were talking about crowd sizes at the inauguration for goodness sake. So thats sort of how thats how it got started, and it, in the process, has been anity rative process every week with an extraordinary staff that bill has and his team. I just kept at it, and i tried to do it in the same way as rachel said in the opening to your show, in the same way that as a trial lawyer, i would think about trying to synthesize and collect evidence, reliable evidence, verifiable evidence, and put it in some sort of way and see what came of it. And the facts tell the story. As rachel said at the beginning of the show, we really urge everyone to go to bill moyers website to take a look at this. Its an extraordinary piece of work. Theres going to be some new entries today. The New York Times reporting that they have that there is a ukrainian hacker who is now cooperating with the special prosecutors investigation. The times says it is the first known instance of a living witness emerging from the mass of technical detail that has developed so far. And so we have that. We have Dana Rohrabacher meeting with Julian Assange, Julian Assange insisting, oh, no, the russians had nothing to do with this. In those two stories, lawrence, youve really put the challenge in what the timeline hoped to accomplish. You know, i sort of think of it as micro, macro, and coverup. The micro is the almost daily deluge we get of different kinds of trump russia stories and you can drill down on any one of them, and they can become interesting in and of themselves. The problem is without some sort of framework ask this is what i referred to as sort of the macro view. If you dont draw back from time to time, you can lose the themes. But if youre able to drill down ask then occasionally back up and see where an event fits in the larger picture of the timeline, even though you may not learn about the facts relevant to that event until a month or a year later, then you have a way to think about it. Steve harper was one of the most accomplished litigators in the country until he retired and teaches at Northwestern Law School and has written a wonderful book about his fathers fight with jimmy hoffa. He came to me with this and we recognized immediately that this was unique. Today, an assistant prosecutor of watergate says this is the most useful timeline hes found. There are three reasons to Pay Attention to it. One of course we all know is the Propaganda Campaign the russians manipulated to influence the minds of voters in this country against hillary clinton. The second reason is the money trail, and its clear to both steve and me theres a powerful money trail here. The third reason people say to me, why are you so concerned about the russians . Heres the reason why. I worked at the white house as you said. To my knowledge, this is the first time that conspirators of a foreign country have penetrated the white house, gained an ally in a National Security adviser to the president , influenced the thinking of the Vice President , and made a fool out of the american president. I mean its important when russian conspirators can penetrate the white house that way. You see this coming clearer and clearer in steve harpers timeline. Bill moyers gets the last word on the timeline for tonight. Appreciate you being here. Steven harper, thank you for your work. Well all using it every day. Go to billmoyers. Com. Youre going to learn a lot. Coming up, the author of Donald Trumps art of the deal. 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As Tony Schwartz has recently watched the pressure close in on donald trump in what has become his lonely, dysfunctional presidency, Tony Schwartz has predicted that donald trump simply will not be able to survive four years in office like this. This week, Tony Schwartz tweeted, the circle is closing at blinding speed. Trump is going to resign and declare victory before mueller and Congress Leave him no choice. Trumps presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till the end of the year. More likely resigns by fall if not sooner. Trump must be isolated. Resistance every day. The end is near but must keep pressure high. Tony schwartz has also said that donald trump is capable of trying to launch a nuclear war with north korea in order to save himself from a special prosecutor. When we come back, is Tony Schwartz right about Donald Trumps inability to endure four years of this . Thats next. 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Tony schwartzs new theory that trump wont last the year might be encouraging to people in the resistance. What do you make of it . I would like to believe its true, but i dont think the time line is right. He posits that if the special prosecutor is down his throat, trump might leave before that, and that might be right, but i dont see Robert Mueller and his attorneys will be at that point in the next few weeks or months. That has to play out over time. I would also like to think that if the party ever unmasked, abandoned them, or they abandoned him, that would make a difference. I dont think it would. I think the normal things tha compel prosecutes to leave, the republicans who troupe to the white house to tell Richard Nixon was jig was up. Those wont affect someone like donald trump, and i think he will be faced with an ultimatum. Either some legal or financial peril or the presidency, and at that point, he will duck out, and as we know from his entire life, donald trump always ducks out. When the bankruptcy comes, he always slips away. When the lawsuit on his discriminatory practices in new york comes down his throat, eventually he settles. This man does not have a stomach for a real confrontation. He is a coward at heart, and hell abandon ship. The question is how fast that can happen and how much damage he is going to do in the meantime. That bragreatly concerns most o us, a lot of us. I dont know what to make about the predictions of how long donald trump can take this, but i believe Tony Schwartz has real insight into how much agony donald trump is going through every minute of the day in this job. Right. I do think so, and i think what we saw on tuesday and what we have seen in other instances and that he literally explodes. He emotionally explodes. Yes. He has no control over himself, and no matter what he has told people or what he said to an aide or an adviser five minutes or five seconds ago. When he gets the urge, he simply is out of control, and ma must be, in some sense, extremely scary for him. He knows that people at this point, dont like him. He obviously feels the weight of aggression. He convinces himself, this is the media. He convinces himself this isnt real, and at some point, because he keeps going back to the New York Times, and back to the media, he must understand how badly he is what a bad situation he is, and how badly he needs that personal approval he is no longer getting. Thank you for joining us tonight. Tonights last word is next. Theres nothing more important to me than my vacation. So when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy to find what i want. Booking. Com gets it. And with their price match, i know im getting the best price every time. Cmon, gary your vacation is very important. 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