john barren who first appeared in the early 80s on these new recordings with greenberg who helped launched the forbes 400 list and researching the wealthiest americans and in the tape you could hear trump and barren trying to convince greenberg that his wealth was far greater than it was believed to be, raising yet more questions about the president s casual relationship with the truth. what is your fairst name. john barren. one of the aliases president trump has been accused of using over the years to speak with reporters glowingly about himself. most of the assets have been consolidated because have you reporter: in this call from 1984, barren is claiming the assets of donald trump s wealthy father fred are in fact his. sew deserved a higher spot in the forbes 400 list. and it is well consolidated okay, so that is one point that you could now is that just the the
trump, as well as son, barren, n not here at the time. at this moment. they re in washington, d.c. that would be another question many would be concerned about. that the first lady as well as the first son might be back in d.c. but, excuse me, in new york, but they are in d.c. at the moment. we are hearing that the flames on this upper floor was a residential unit. we do not know which floor of this particular fire, but we know that the again, the president is aware of what happened as you saw on that tweet that i shared with you. it s a three alarm fire with one person seriously injured. and this is what the president said earlier. fire at trump tower is out. very confined. well built building. we have tom winter from nbc news investigative unit with more on that. tom, what are you hearing? so, at this point, the fire has been knocked down. just talked to a senior fire
she had been contemplating and thinking about for several months t leaving the white house but after her experience before the committee yesterday and the way her testimony was reported publically that was essentially the straw that broke if camel s back. she reached her breaking point. one of the things about hope that i think is interesting is of all of the characters in on planet trump, in many ways i think she s probably with the exception of melania and barren, probably the most sympathetic. i give her a little bit of credit. she s the only one that i remember, i can recall, admitting she lies to cover up the president s faults, even though we know they all do it. she is somebody who has not displayed the unseeming habit of promoting herself publically that so many others in the trump white house seem to do. my own personal experience with
yesterday and with the special prosecutor investigating, is it easy for you to believe that this is something that had been long planned and there s nothing sudden about it? lawrence, i think it s probably it s at least possible, maybe even likely that both things are true. she had been contemplating and thinking about for several months t leaving the white house but after her experience before the committee yesterday and the way her testimony was reported publically that was essentially the straw that broke if camel s back. she reached her breaking point. one of the things about hope that i think is interesting is of all of the characters in on planet trump, in many ways i think she s probably with the exception of melania and barren, probably the most sympathetic. i give her a little bit of credit. she s the only one that i remember, i can recall,
deportation. he s really going to do something about guns, he feels terrible. let s have lunch with the nra and forget about it. he can always play the hero. he wants to be the star. but he never has the guts to go against his party whacky base. he never has the nerve to stand up to people who he perceives as powerful. instead he surrounds himself by people who are powerful and misunderstands the notion of valor. remember james mattis had to talk him out of a policy of torture. he has no idea that soldiers are bound by the laws of war and the united states. he likes to be around police officers he told them go go ahead and rough up your suspects. he has no idea the vast majority of them take an oath and behave in exemplary fashion. so he s trying to be one of the guys, the hero, but he can t be because he s not made of the stuff. he s an empty damaged, soul. if he was a decent person i would care about it but frankly the only care is this behavior is damaging to the country and frankly