nick ackerman, thank you very much. natasha bertrand, thank you, and phil rucker. great job, phil. i ve been talking to you for more man the last 24 hours. not sure when you read the book, but you appreciate that you did. thanks, ali. much more on this breaking news, fresh revelations from james comey s book. so far, no reaction at all from the trump white house, or more importantly from donald trump s twitter feed. i ll talk to the lawmaker leading to push to protect bob mueller s investigation, congressman jerry nad ler is with me next. also, the feds investigating the links between trump s lawyer and the top brass at the national enquirer. what it has to do the salacious reports of yet another hush-money pay-out. i m ali velshi in for ari melber. you re watching the beat on msnbc. wer body,
her husband, of course, we are talking about is arnold schwarzenegger, the newly former governor of the state of california. here is now maria shriver s brief statement, and she says quote. this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. end quote. very short statement making it clear there that she would like some time away, and would not like to be bothered and not expected to hear much more from her any time soon. and no denying that you can sense the grief in those short words from maria shriverer, and let me bring in casey wian who has been on this story since it broke overnight. a lot of people thought, casey, or just wondered what was going on when they first heard of the separation in the first place. a lot of people shocked by that, and then you throw this shock on top of that one. yeah, absolutely.
forward talking about how he groped women on movie set, and he admitted to behaving badly, but shriver stood by him publicly basically saying that i have known this man for 25 years and he is a good man and don t believe the salacious reports, and there was a lot of speculation and sort of a dirty trick by democrats trying to undermine schwarzenegger at the time. and of course, apart from the marriage to schwarzenegger, it is a difficult period of late for maria shriver, as she lost both of her parents in the last year and imagine that on top of this. and casey, how in the world, because it is so hard for a politician to keep anything quiet and much less the fact that there is ostensibly a 10-year-old child running around out there that nobody in the world had anything about, and how in the world did he keep that quiet? well, apparently, governor schwarzenegger and former governor shartchwarzenegger wasy good of keeping the parts of his