wave away whatever s in that book. yeah, he doesn t read books that much, though, i don t know why he s worried about it. listen, this is a pattern from the president. i mean, he tweeted several untruths in the last two days. he tweeted out that a story from the conservative news outlet claiming hillary clinton s private e-mail server was hacked by chinese-owned company. an fbi official, okay, told cnn there is no such evidence. he also accused, trump did, google of promoting president obama s state of the union address but not his. google says that is not true. they have the receipts. they highlighted trump s speech on their home page. joan, does he suffer any consequences for just making stuff up? not with his base, don, but i think increasingly he does. i mean, we re starting to see a president who is losing it. i m starting to think of him, trump and the truth are like a vampire with the sun. he can t tolerate it. and it s all closing in on him.
many public jabs at his attorney general for recusing himself from the russia probe instead of staying in it and protecting the president. trump enlisted mcgahn s help in that effort but sessions recused himself, anyway, and, again, mcgahn could know a tremendous amount about the behind the scenes motivations and strategy in the white house. robert mueller. trump wanted mcgahn s help in having mueller fired. mcgahn refused, even threatening to quit if trump went through with the firing. which some in congress suggest would trigger a political tempest if not impeachment proceedings. the bottom line, don mcgahn talked with mueller s team for more than 230 hours. investigators rarely talk to anyone that long unless they re hearing something interesting. that s why the president should be worried. even as he says he s not. don? tom foreman, thank you so much. here to discuss, former u.s. attorney guy lewis and cnn legal analyst and defense attorney, shan wu. gentlemen, good evening to yo
on its own. the president s fudging comment makes no sense. you know, and it s a year-plus after he had a chance 15 months. to say, oh, he took me out of context but there s also the may 9th, 2017, letter in which president trump notified comey he was fired where he referenced i appreciate that you told me three different times that i wasn t under investigation, but i still agree with the justice department that you ve got to go. that s in a let e so i it s hard for the president to maintain at this point the investigation had nothing to do with comey s firing. joan, i got to ask you before we go, the new york times reporting that michael cohen and then-candidate trump came up with this potential plan to buy these catch and kill stories from the national enquirer that could prove damaging to trump and backs up a report that cnn, you remember we heard on tape yes. right, of them talking about, you know, our friend, david. david. gets hit by a bus truck.
we wonder what s in the the national enquirer sa safe. and he s going nuts on twitter in the morning. i mean, people think he s scared of that book. he thinks mueller is closing in and that s why he s getting, you know, more frantic. i have no evidence that you think he s going to read bob woodward s book? zwr no, i don t, i think he s going to watch you talk about it on tv and freak out. he s going to watch it dominate the news i predict for days. i think that book is going to have that much damaging information. yeah. he ll read it. so, michael l, in another tweet, trump tried to falsely argue where the interview where he admitted to firing james comey because of the russia investigation, he said it was somehow not accurate. he said, lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia. so that s not true. why is trump making this bogus excuse now? well, i think that he is
would not want to work for news organizations that the president says, oh, they re great, they say nice things about me. day never challenge me. i get great reviews. that would not be journalism. the purpose of us in the media, in the press, is to challenge authority and that s what s going on. in terms of all these different tweets and all these different directions, our colleague, maggie haberman, alluded to this in a tweet earlier today, about the new phrase, fake books. seems like it s timed in advance of the bob woodward book that s coming out. my washington post colleague. there are a lot of good books about president trump before and after he took office, but you can say, oh, this author is this or this author is that. president trump knows who bob woodward is. president trump likes tv and movies. he knows this is a guy he can t wave away as no one listens to bob woodward. i don t know what s in that book. he s worried he won t be able to