Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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state of mind series, back on the beat tony schwartz, author of the way we re working isn t working. while this is in the same ballpark in content, something else is happening with him as he faces what could be existential pressure. well, i think he s a different person as we all are under what he experiences and in some way rightly as a survival threat. no question that his presidency and therefore his whole sense of himself is at tremendous risk now. i think as most people do but particularly those people who have a limited repertoire when we are under stress what we tend to do is double down. what worked for us in the past becomes a liability, becomes even in his case self-destructive. so aggression turns into insistence and demand and viciousness that ends up coming back on him. so that brings us to the real
president is bringing up in this country, then i m afraid the democrats are going to see some very dark days. i m joined now by friend of the beat and co-author of the art of the deal tony schwartz, and the author of the way we re working isn t working. nice to see you again. nice to see you, sir. how important is it to have someone in this national debate speaking at that level of breadth and depth in the context of the fbi literally telling us this stuff has consequences? well, i think it s why she got so much reaction. talking about marianne williamson. it s why she got so much reaction. i couldn t agree with it more. it s what is trump stirring up inside people by the way he behaves. and you know, to me, if you step back and you pull away from the policy for a moment, the big issue is what s the vision of america for our next president whether it s trump, we know that vision, or one of the democrats
signature. that alone could be illegal. but the relationship went on. eventually, donald trump s casinos defaulting on the bonds issued by, yes, deutsche bank. it was called a forgery that led to a disaster. deutsche bank also would conclude trump had exaggerated his net worth, surprise, by $2 billion. in 2005, though, they lent him another half a million. in 2016, trump was publicly bragging about all of this, take advantage of banks. i have taken advantage of the banks more than any human being on earth. i love banks, right? i love banks. and i love fighting with banks if i have to. tony schwartz, ceo of the energy project author of the way we re working isn t working. you got it! yes. nice to have you back. nice to be back. we re zeroing in on something that s specific that you re going to explain as part of our series tonight. people have heard about trump lying and about the media buying into it. that s all over here. but this idea was that he could go to the people
turn on him. what was the breaking point at which you decided to start telling the truth? helsinki, charlottesville, watching the daily destruction of our civility to one another. and i can only warn people, the more people that follow mr. trump, as i did blindly, are going to suffer the same consequences that i m suffering. tony schwartz, ceo of the energy project is the author of the way we re working isn t working. you got it. nice to have you back. thank you. build on what you were telling us here. i just had michael cohen evoke for me that experience of, i m going to just state it a slightly different way. you understand, tony, right? you understand? it was literally a wink, because he lived this public life, even when he wasn t really a public figure. which is, how s this going come