get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
never put in his financials. because maybe he s not as rich as people think. but then it turned out i was much richer. now they re really screwed up. much richer. i did too well, that s the way, i cane be bought. well, in the midst of all that, in 2005, author tim o brien wrote his book trump nation. but trump actually wasn t a billionaire, as he had claimed to be. and people he had spoken to estimated trump s net worth at between $150 million and $2 gift million. still a lot of money but not a billion. habitual donald trump made the decision to sue o brien. trump, of course, lost, but in the process, made obrie one of the few people to see trump challenge on his lies under oath. more than 30 times in fact in a december 2007 deposition. tim o brien joins me now. he s senior executive editor of