joining me now is bloomberg s tim o brien, author of the book trump nation, the art of being the donald. tim, what a week, we are anticipating that donald trump is not looking forward to sunday when the 60 minutes interview airs. as a trump biographer and somebody who s known the man and dealt with him, what do you think is going on inside the mind of donald trump as he anticipates this stormy daniels interview that he s sued her to stop? i think he clearly feels under attack and he s someone who throughout his career weaponized the legal system. he learned that at the heels of roy cohn and he finds himself now mired in a series of different legal actions with very tenacious attorneys. michael avenatti on the stormy daniels side is clearly a bulldog. he clearly has evidence he thinks will support his client s case and he s not backing down and the real factor in this that
trump nation, the art of being the donald. tim, what a week, we are anticipating that donald trump is not looking forward to sunday when the 60 minutes interview airs. as a trump biographer and somebody who s known the man and dealt with him, what do you think is going on inside the mind of donald trump as he anticipates this stormy daniels interview that he s sued her to stop? i think he clearly feels under attack and he s someone who throughout his career weaponized the legal system. he learned that at the heels of roy cohn and he finds himself now mired in a series of different legal actions with very tenacious attorneys. michael avenatti on the stormy daniels side is clearly a bulldog. he clearly has evidence he thinks will support his client s case and he s not backing down and the real factor in this that we can t discount is robert
household. i can only imagine that it was. kate. you know you have the president and the first lady at mar-a-lago for the weekend, their son is with them. so the president as we know, he likes 60 minutes and likes to watch it. i can presume he ll watch t i don t know. this will be very difficult. will they be together when that program when that stormy daniels interview airs? well, they are not supposed to be, erin. the president is going to head back to washington as plands on sunday evening. scheduled to arrive, i believe, before 60 minutes airs. but the first lady is staying on at mar-a-lago, preplanned spring break where she will be there the entire week. so no they won t be together. but adding on, in many ways melania trump knew what she was getting into it. cheating on her with map elles which was public. but at the same time you know your husband is ladies man, the
what do you make of this lawyer s apparent arrogance on this whole case with stormy? given when the initial story came out about the payout completely denied that $130,000 payout had even happened, then had to eat his words when he denied it, his credibility is completely shot. he shouldn t be laughing at anything because basically the entire country is laughing at them. they are arguing she broke their agreement. if they re doing that now, what do you think they ll do once this 60 minutes interview airs? obviously, they re going to add to the lawsuit. i ve seen what they ve alleged
we ll speak again, perhaps, after this interview airs on sunday. alana evans, appreciate it. thank you. thank you. we have more. breaking news this afternoon on senator john mccain. putting president trump on blast after the president congratulated vladimir putin on his election victory. that russian election widely considered a sham. why is the president congratulating the man who meddled in the u.s. election? we ll go there next.