firsthand insight as the top executive at the trump organization for years. joining me for his take on tonight s toft is tony schwartz who wrote trump s memoir art of the deal and most recently contributor to the dangerous case of donald trump. you believe this is a historic moment. unequivocally. it kind of gives me a chill when i think i m old enough unfortunately to have been mr. tl when john dean testified before congress, when alexander butterfield revealed that nixon was doing tapes. and this is that moment. potentially. we don t know exactly what michael cohen s going to say. but he i mean, from what you know of michael cohen, he had access to a lot of information about yeah. and we already know that he s planning on accusing him of criminal activity, that he s going to accuse him of lying the wall street journal has reported that. right. so what we know is it s going to be an accusation that if true would demand that trump be
thousands of words that have come out of trump s mouth himself. now, trump s done very much the same kind of thing. in fact, he himself accused and threatened cohen s father-in-law. this is the way in which the trump administration does business because it s really like a kossa cosa nostra family. the american people are going to have to opportunity to see michael cohen probably talking in a way we ve never seen him talking before. because every tv appearance he s been on in the past, you know, he was the pitbull thug. thug defender of donald trump, like, you know, wannabe thug, pretend thug. you know, i ve been thinking to myself, i ve thought a lot about the issue of redemption, as you can imagine, having done the art of the deal with trump. i want to believe in the capacity for redemption. i m talking about myself. you really thought about that personally. endlessly. you feel like because you wrote the art of the deal you need to redeem yourself for that? without que
president of the united states of america. and here s the thing. the former cia director john brennan says that when it comes to russia, oftentimes, people don t even realize they re being played by putin. individuals who go along the treasonous path do not even realize they re along that path until it gets to be a bit too late. long paths, well, president trump has had a long history with russia. it goes all the way back to at least 1987 when moscow expressed interest in a deal with trump. trump actually wrote about it in art of the deal. so he writes about the year 1987, on july 4th i flew to moscow. it was an extraordinary experience. we toured a half dozen potential sites for a hotel including several near red square. we stayed in lenin s suite at the national hotel and impressed with the ambition of the soviet officials to make a deal. that was the trip, july 4th in moscow. when he returned, trump spent nearly $100,000, these are 1987
especially george w. bush who would plan his schedule months in advance. people were early for every meeting. under the trump presidency, totally different. very much a kind of by the seat of your pants, not particularly well organized or regimented. trump says this works for him and matches the leadership style he laid out in art of the deal wack to h back to his time in the private sector and way, way, way outside of the norm and causes a significant level of concern. jay, presidents in the past have taken long, long vacations in the distant pass. uncontactable, and some great presidents. winston churchill was drunk through most of the second world war. it isn t necessarily the case that just because your diary is full of scheduled meetings that it makes you a great president? absolutely. i covered george w. bush s presidency and yes, incredibly scheduled. they did everything in ten-minute ink cranmenincrement.
will it slip enough to really have a primary challenge if something like that to be realistic and right now he is in the driver s seats with the grassroots and the republican party. they re ominous because parties don t like to lose and the trump plan has gone from art of the deal to going to lose to the liberal and that s a problem for any political party and i hear all over the gop now whispers at this point. mike murphy, thanks so much and robert costa, thank you. and coming up, brewing dissension would a white house run from former starbucks ceo howard schultz could mean for 2020. you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc unpredictable crohn s symptoms following you? for adults with moderately to severely active crohn s disease, stelara® works differently. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections