Were inside the courtroom today . Im sorry, inside the courtroom yesterday. And tracking donald trump behavior today, how did trump seem to be handling hearing this testimony from Stormy Daniels that had to have been quite embarrassing yeah. Today, he was as invested as weve seen him throughout the course of this trial yesterday, too long time Trump Organization employees testified to some potentially critical evidence. For the most part, trump has leaned back in his chair, eyes closed, but today, as for me, daniels was on the stand who is leaning it . He was watching hurt either directly or on his screen. Heres prompting his Defense Attorney to make objections. He was clearly actively involved in his defense, and jayyab think it paid off when they came back from lunch. I use clearly agitated as they left for the midday break, but when they came back, his lawyers move for mistrial they didnt win that, but the judge conceded that yeah, at times, some of the things Stormy Daniels said we
chief of staff. general kelly s crowning achievement. what do you think it is? i think that one of his achievements, i think for a very short amount of time was that he was able to kind of bring some type of stability. people on the hill felt comfortable with him there. the one thing he lacked was understanding donald trump. he had a complete lack of understanding of how trump worked and how very, very shaky he could be. volatile. and he failed at brokering a true relationship with him. and he also had some big issues like the rob porter issue where he stood by rob porter when he was accused of domestic violence when he attacked representative wilson, when he went after people who he thought were causing trump to actually break down, but they were actually providing emotional comfort for donald trump. for instance, keith shilling who he got rid of early.
particularly intelligent. he likes to refer to him as mr. magoo. and that s caught several advisers of his by surprise. you know, to have conversations with him where he s referring to his attorney general as mr mr. magoo. i always thought mr. magoo was kind of sweet. anyway, that s just my personal remembrance of him. i don t think president trump thinks jeff sessions is very sweet. i guess he doesn t like mr. magoo either. thanks very much. thanks for having me. when it comes to political investigative reporting, bob woodward and carl bernstein set the standard. their work for the washington post during the watergate scandal played a huge role in the downfall of president nixon. their reporting worn the pulitzer prize and their landmark book became a landmark movie. on this night of a great deal of breaking news, i m very happy to have both of them with me in washington. thanks for being with us. first of all, what do you make of the washington post report that the spec
mueller s interest regarding attorney general sessions and president trump? right. so special counsel mueller has shown intense interest in a period this summer in late july where president trump was publicly shaming jeff sessions, saying that he was disappointing him. he was calling him beleaguered on twitter, and behind the scenes he was frequently fuming about the russia investigation and the attorney general. what special counsel mueller s investigation is trying to discern is whether in those conversations he was trying to fire jeff sessions or push jeff sessions out so he could exert more control over the investigation. as we ve reported and others have countless times, the president is very upset that jeff sessions recused himself. he wanted an attorney general who was more loyal, to not think he should have recuses himself. and in these efforts, the special counsel wants to know was he trying to fire jeff sessions so he could put someone in who would handle the investigation
that grow with your business. at&t, not so much. get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call 1-800-501-6000. well it s another one of those nights. more breaking news. the washington post reporting that special counsel robert mueller is taking a look at the time last summer when president trump seemed to determine to fire attorney general jeff sessions, publicly humiliating him as he did today. did that amount to a potential obstruction of justice? i ve spoken to a washington post-reporter josh dossey right before we went on air. what can you tell us about