potential problem for president trump is where did the money come from to try to pay the hush money to stormy daniels? what money was paid through american media to karen mcdougal? and what kind of threat was there? and that is much more dangerous to him than extramarital dalliance because let s be serious at this point, the evangelicals don t care, the trump supporters don t care. that s not what s doing to bring him down. we all remember the trump reaction and public statement about if mueller goes wants to know about my business that s crossing a line. michael avenatti has sent letters to the trump business crossing that line saying he wants to preserve all documents because he intends to subpoena documents from the trump organization about where that $130,000 came from. i think that s where this becomes very serious for him.
pretty clear. and how interesting is the way michael avenatti has played all of this. what s really perilous for donald trump is the self-inflicted wound that he created with his fixer, michael cohen, by trying to shut this down in his typical way. because now the problem potential problem, very serious potential problem for president trump is where did the money come from to try to pay the hush money to stormy daniels? what money was paid through american media to karen mcdougal? and what kind of threat was there? and that is much more dangerous to him than extramarital dalliance because let s be serious at this point, the evangelicals don t care, the trump supporters don t care. that s not what s doing to bring him down. we all remember the trump reaction and public statement about if mueller goes wants
right. i was hoping there it could be salvaged. josh mankiewicz: then, came the day in june 2003, when the cold, hard facts of her husband s affair could no longer be denied. jim moved out, telling jean that he needed a change of scenery for his music. jean knew better. i was like, they re going back to see peggy. i was like, go, get out. and don t ever come back again. and he didn t want to hear that. he still wanted me to be hanging on while he had peggy as well. josh mankiewicz: that moment of clarity, it turns out, was short lived. all th summer, while jim huden set up housekeeping with peggy and her two daughters out in las vegas, jean says her husband kept her dangling with promises that his dalliance with peggy thomas was over. he d soon be home, he told her. and for jean, that was a reason to believe. i thought there was some hope. i didn t want to let go. josh mankiewicz: and for a brief moment in september of 2003,
josh mankiewicz: then, came the day in june 2003, when the cold, hard facts of her husband s affair could no longer be denied. jim moved out, telling jean that he needed a change of scenery for his music. jean knew better. i was like, they re going back to see peggy. i was like, go, get out. and don t ever come back again. and he didn t want to hear that. he still wanted me to be hanging on while he had peggy as well. josh mankiewicz: that moment of clarity, it turns out, was short lived. all that summer, while jim huden set up housekeeping with peggy and her two daughters out in las vegas, jean says her husband kept her dangling with promises that his dalliance with peggy thomas was over. he d soon be home, he told her. and for jean, that was a reason to believe. i thought there was some hope. i didn t want to let go. josh mankiewicz: and for a brief moment in september of 2003, jean says it looked as if her perseverance would pay off.
of the attorney general herself, loretta lynch because he made the judgment she is compromised, i m going to step into the shoes of the justice department and say no prosecution. that was not his job. brian: you would think if someone wanted to get wanted to put an end to the russian investigation, you don t fire the fbi director and affect the investigation, you just get a new fbi director in there. the investigation goes forward. so, there is just enormous amount of shall i say smoke about the issue? but the investigation goes on. jim comey was not interviewing witnesses. brian: let s talk about your experience doing the investigation. do you have any regrets about how it was done? do you feel you got the right message out about what you were finding and revealing about the clintons. didn t get the message out at all. the message as translated to the american people through the political lens was it was all about a sexual dalliance. it was all about rule of law. but that was pa