the fifth? oh, that was a joke. that s what i thought was striking. in the way mueller quoted the text, the dog text; the movie reference, we re taking this serious as a heart attack. bob mueller is not finding those to be funny at this point. that s what we know from the indictment. amara and shelby, thanks to both of you. coming up, a big shake-up on late-breaking news on michael cohen s legal team. house intelligence committee member joins me, coming up. also, my live interview as promised with a key mueller witness, a critical player against stone. that s right here on the beat. you won t see it anywhere else tonight. and the actual cost of donald trump s lies and falsehoods in the shutdown, a blunder so epic, his supporters are crying foul. i m telling you how to get trump. he promised something for 18 months and he liked it. that s how you get trump. he just reversed himself. that s a victory for nancy pelosi. she has just whipped the president of the united states.
board. richard parsons resigning after four weeks as interim chairman. his health is the cause. in a statement, he said he felt the situation was manageable when he joined the board, but unanticipated complications presented challenges and his doctors advised him to cut back. the board member will replace him. this is the second big shake up at cbs. les moonves left this summer. mike myers is back and scarier than ever. earning the biggest debut for a horror film. halloween earned $77.5 million at the box office this weekend. that is the best opening ever for the slash er series. the film is a sequel to the 1978 classic. it was a hit with critics.
big shake-up for president trump s legal team. president announcing white house counsel mcgahn will leave his staff. we learned mcgahn has cooperated extensively with mueller s team and the power panel is back to talk about this. amos snead and jeanne zaino. thanks so much. let s talk about background on this. senate judiciary chair grassley doesn t want to see this happen, says you can t let this happen. there is report extensive amount of talking with mueller s team over the course of 30 hours, across many months. it looks like he s on his way out. jeanne zaino, what does it mean? mcgahn deserves credit for one of the best things and i say
lawyers are in instead. and mr. watch your back f-bomb guy may be back in the mix, as well. gabe sherman at vanity fair cites four sources tonight saying what set off this big shake-up in the president s legal defense is the president going through the roof about robert mueller s latest actions. robert mueller and prosecutors in the special counsel s office subpoenaing records set the president off in this new tizzy of changes. maybe he thinks this is the team he needs to fight the fight with mueller s prosecutors but if we re being honest here, let s get real. what he s putting together is not the team you put together to mount a legal defense for a president. in fact, to do any serious legal work at all. it appears that that part is over. what the president is putting together is the kind of team, a guy like him might put together to run a p.r. operation on tv
pre-interview? yes. not only that, you can learn some things. there also is an oath involved probably. you can also be in contempt of congress if you don t cooperate. there are all kinds of ways that there are repercussions that can be brought upon the witnesses. they can be brought into public session, and i would hope and expect that they would be after these private sessions. but more important than that, they too have rights. they have fifth amendment rights. it s understandable they might want to avoid a public glare, at least until they ve had an opportunity to say to the members of congress they ought to eventually publicly testify. but first let s see what they have to offer. i think that their rights need to be respected. when we come back, the big shake-up in the white house staffing. find out who s in, who s out, and what it means next.