i wanted to put out my first book, disloyal, from the very beginning when we see people like jeffrey berman foolishly acknowledging he wase■ being pressured by maine justice to do what to go after michael cohen. you ll find as i ve said a thousand times, there was no tax evasion. i ve never been audited in my life, e■right? and there was no heloc violation. that s nonsense. i didn t takee1 out the heloc f i had the e■f■heloc on properti for almost 20 years. so, look, a lot of the things that they get clip bates on and the attacks on me,e■ it reallyf dreaming it was really hard for me to stayx■ focused and willing to participate in this. 23 times i have met with the district attorney s office all i can say is this is an important day for america and it s a very important day for the department of you know, for justice and also for accountability. w3■ichael,t(■don t go anywhe. it is just after 6 gí■y■in the east we are encroaching into ari melber s ho
laura: why did they do it? why the bad staff decision? we had jeff sessions on and ilie still like him, but he was not the right pick obviously for doj. mattis stabs the president inth, tell all. i think part of the issue is that the president is kind of caught up in the stars on the shoulders. laura: mad dog mattis. i don t think that he believed that he would do anything to subvert him.he wase, the stars in the eyes. laura: i want to talk about mattis s own credibility. let s put up this excerptof this is also in the book. this is what he said about what concerns him most. what concerns him most as a military man is not our external laboratories but our internal
respectable republicans to lead the ticket. you wrote that? no, sir. how about this, i ask you mr. trump, all due respect, step aside and allow someone else carrying the banner of principles, you wrote that again? no, sir. you are right again. when you were writing these e-mails in the heat of the campaign, you had a lot of good company on the side of the isle and now your an orphan, i wonder what changed? your opinion was hardly a striking one and hardly unusual especially of where you and i live, northern virginia, is that correct? yes, sir. so your sin of writing an e-mail criticizing the candidate trump and patriredicting he wase was not an isolated kind of opinion, is that correct?
they re out for blood. this is five significant powerful establishment forces that are lined up against this president, this is not a game,s they want to destroy him, delegitimize him and get him out if they can. they want him in prison, this is what they we need to understand. david brock and some of these organizations have already raised tens of millions of dollars for an impeachment process. they want jail to the chief, they need to understand that this is a war. we are so far beyond normal politics, we are in a very dangerous moment. while president trump is a very strong leader and a man of strong constitution, he wase abe to survive all of this during the campaign and get elected presidents. when you are president and you are faced with the kind of monolithic opposition you re talking about, plus a federal bureaucracy that is completely out to undermine him every day, the intelligence community that is engaged in some of this asel well that we have heard, i hope to god that he