clinton s campaign in favor of donald trump. it s a lot to talk about. we have the people for it. let s bring in our leadoff panel for a friday night. matt apu zoe, new york times reporter, and a man who was just awarded his second pulitzer prize. vivian salama, nbc news national political reporter covering the white house, and daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. and since there are home team advantages around here, counselor, you get to go first. what does this report in the washington post about sessions mean to you? it really demonstrations the gravity of what would happen if rosenstein is fired. jeff sessions has been under attack by his own president, by the commander in chief, by the head of the executive branch since the very beginning of his tenure as we heard in the clip you played earlier. yet he has withstood all of the humiliation, all of the embarrassing attacks, and he has remained in his position.
nondisclosure agreements in terms of the way he did business in general. and so suddenly all of these communications, these so-called private communications are vulnerable. and so he s getting very nervous as a result. matt, i m going to list four threats to the president and the presidency. mueller, cohen, comey, stormy. any one of those names chief among equals? boy, i d have to rank them. i wouldn t put stormy up near the top although the wrinkle to that is for cohen, it becomes a problem because if you are facing the possibility of a criminal investigation, the last place you want to be is in civil court. yeah. so i can t imagine cohen we saw that he dropped his libel lawsuits against buzzfeed. you know, we see that he wants a delay in the stormy daniels case. the last place that cohen wants to be is in a civil courtroom
and ever since we saw it in the last couple of days obviously because jim comey released his book and has been doing a number of interviews. but even especially last week when michael cohen s offices and home were raided by the fbi and suddenly all of these communications with donald trump, the attorney-client privilege as he s put it out there, was vulnerable. it was out there for the world. and so donald trump is very, very nervous right now about what that means for him. this is a president who in his past life relied very heavily on nondisclosure agreements in terms of the way he did business in general. and so suddenly all of these communications, these so-called private communications are vulnerable. and so he s getting very nervous as a result. matt, i m going to list four threats to the president and the presidency. mueller, cohen, comey, stormy. any one of those names chief among equals?
in his testimony last year before congress both in march and in june after he was fired does he allege that the president asked him to do anything inappropriate. when you look at james comey, he has a real credibility problem. and the democratic national committee has launched a surprise legal attack on the president, fieling a multi-million dollar lawsuit in federal lawsuit saying the dnc was a conspiracy by the trump campaign, russian officials and wikileaks to disrupt hillary clinton s campaign in favor of donald trump. it s a lot to talk about. we have the people for it. let s bring in our leadoff panel for a friday night. matt apu zoe, new york times reporter, and a man who was just awarded his second pulitzer prize. vivian salama, nbc news national political reporter covering the white house, and daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. and since there are home team advantages around here, counselor, you get to go first. what does