post-trump administration whenever that might come. last december, the new york times reported that before taking office, mr. trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode as a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. for entertainment value, this administration is a hit. look at this week. monday, we were introduced to the full nunberg. sam nunberg said on swrernlgsviv show that he would defy a request to testify. and then friday he would spend six hours testifying. tuesday, a porn star filed a complaint, she wants the court s permission to tell her story. and two hours after donald trump said everybody wants to work at the white house, gary cohn resigned. wednesday jeff sessions scolded california over immigration. thursday, we learned that trump had spoken to witnesses who had already appeared in front of mueller about their testimony. and the pre-inauguration era prince the blackwater founder led efforts to open a back channel communication
kc/d.c. on msnbc, where was it? it was so good last night. thank you. new york times reporter mata is with us and mike barn kal and national affairs analyst john heilemann is with us as well. joe is off this morning. we re going to start with the firing of former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. and president trump now raising doubts about whether mccabe kept personal notes about their oval office meetings. two people familiar with the case tell the washington post that mccabe memorialized his interactions with the president in memos which, if true, could become key pieces of evidence in robert mueller s russia probe. on sunday morning, the president lashed out at the report, tweeting, spent very little time with andrew mccabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. i don t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. can we call them fake memos? hours later a lawyer for andrew mccabe tweeted, we wil
role of defendant and potential victim. stormy daniels is suing him in this brand-new case, trump lawyer michael cohen still trying to squash allegations of this past relationship. her lawsuit states that she had an intimate relationship with the president. but let s not bother to be delica delicate. did she have a sexual relationship with the president? yes. it the new suit arguing daniels should be able to speak out about that alleged relationship, and it makes two arguments, one, free speech should allow discussion about the president. but two, trump didn t technically sign it. there s stacy peterson, stormy daniels real name and the signature on david denison, a is that an alias for donald trump? how do we know that? because i know that and i m telling you that right now and let someone claim that it s not an alias for donald trump. some confident lawyering. there is still amidst that confidence some bad news right here in this case. but legal experts do t
pension at risk. we ve also got the latest on new documents linking the trump organization to efforts to silence stormy daniels, the former adult film star, who claims she had an affair with the president a decade ago. those documents show another top trump lawyer was involved in trying to enforce a gag order against daniels. you re welcome, president trump claims the congressional victory in pennsylvania was all due to democrat connor lamb acting like the president. running like a republican. we ll dive into that. nbc news investigations reporter tom winter starts us off with the latest on the russia investigation. tom, when you see this legal fight that manafort is doing, it says to me, he s hunkering down for a fight, unlike his long-time aide, rick gates and others who pleaded guilty, who are cooperating with mueller. tell us what we know. well, chris, i think you re absolutely right. i think one of the best ways to fight a legal case is to ask for it to be tossed ou
they also said the president went so far as to say the white house counsel don mcgahn should deny trump asked him to fire mueller. mcgahn reportedly had to remind the president that yes, he did just that. we also have breaking news on the story of the president and the porn star. a phrase i never thought i would actually say until this white house. stormy daniels attorney claims she was threatened today by michael cohen, trump s long-time attorney, in an attempt to keep her quiet. which just makes you wonder what else she might know here. that s after the white house tried again and again today to dance around the questions about this tawdry mess, and whether the president knew about the $130,000 check his lawyer wrote. sarah sanders defaulting to what s becoming the favorite response of this white house. quote, not that i m aware of. sarah, you said repeatedly that we ve addressed our feelings on that situation, in regards to the stormy daniels payment. but specifically