joining us now is maggie haberman. the trump campaign calls this a warning shot but also somewhat therapeutic for the president. >> right. this is a president, i think it's important for everybody to remember when they look at how he handles himself in the white house, he was incredibly litigious over many decades as a real estate developer and private citizen. he liked deploying lawyers against his rival business partners who where things went south or people who he felt defamed him in some way but it was always a way for him to exert dominance and control and i think in this case i think it felt good to him as of monday. the plan had been for the campaign not to do and then on tuesday they were doing it because this president wants to engage and by engaging he is elevating omarosa's book. he is making sure more people see it. that's not the intent but you would think-the-would have been able to metabolize lessons of what happened with the michael wolff book. he is making a lot of claims in interviews that she doesn't

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will you please join me in welcoming maggie haberman. [applaus [applause] >> thank you for that introduction and thank you for having me today. i really appreciate the opportunity to talk about the current white house, to talk about the media dynamic because i think that from a distance it looks probably as it is and also different than it is. i don't have a slide presentation or statistics to share. what i do have is 18 months of covering the trump administration, plus, 18 months professional covering his campaign and so, i hope to be able to say a bit about how the trump white house and the press intersect. and where in some ways it's historical trends and in many other ways, he defies them. i should just say my background as a reporter is not a traditional white house reporter. i spent ten years at the new york post, which has a very extensive relationship with donald trump. it's still one of the first papers he reads in the morning. donald trump also has a nontraditional background as a president. so, it feels like everything works o

joining us now is maggie haberman. the trump campaign calls this a warning shot but also somewhat therapeutic for the president. >> right. this is a president, i think it's important for everybody to remember when they look at how he handles himself in the white house, he was incredibly litigious over many decades as a real estate developer and private citizen. he liked deploying lawyers against his rival business partners w

>> the one that -- i guess you did with maggie haberman or they wrote about you. clearly if you come over to the campaign we can't have it -- >> oh, no. >> so the only thing we have to consider when we're talking salary as you know everything is public and all the money that we raise and pays salaries is directly from donors, small dollar donors for the most part. so i know you were making $179,000 at the white house. and i think we can work something out that would keep you right along those lines. specifically, i haven't added up the numbers but we were talking about 15k a month, let's see what that adds up to, so yeah, that's $180,000. does that sound like a fair deal to you? in terms of your position pacifically i really feel like your commission requires you to be able to be flexible where you are. sometimes come to new york for occasional meetings but i would love if you could occasionally do speaking engagements and that sort of thing for us. i think you'd be awesome doing that. so it doesn't really matter where you are. when you're comfortable staying in d

haberman. how is this playing in the white house? too close to call but at the moment republicans seem to have hung on to at least ohio 12 that was so attention-getting. >> and because it is so narrow you're going to see the democrats and republicans claim a victory regardless of who wins it will be spun in one direction or another. you saw that with the president's tweet where he immediately put out a tweet congratulating the republican even though it hasn't been called yet, it's not done and making sure to note he endorsed him recently and went to ohio over the weekend. i think the president is going to take that he still has some -- not still, he continues to have sway among republican voters. i mean, that is important for him because if that base starts to erode, he does have a problem but he has a polarizing effect that also stirs up democrats and that is what you saw also in that ohio race, particularly among suburban voters. those are the voters we believed in 2016 were going to thwart t

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. >> in studio, maggie haberman, white house correspondent for the "new york times" and cnn political analyst, i want to get to your reporting but we're just learning that a 13th official, former defense secretary bob gates has signed on the this letter, he, of course, first came on under president bush, a holdover under president obama just signing on to this letter. this is not showing signs of slowing down. >> i don't think so and bob gates, it's worth noting, is somebody who wrote a book that expressed criticism of one of the presidents he served, president obama. it was not a glowing portrait, i don't think his security clearance was revoked. there's a legitimate conversation to have about security clearances and whether people should have them in perpetuity after serving at that level, this is not how you have the debate and i think the part that in the president's minds there's a variety of factors and one was changing the subject but one is also that he looked weak against omarosa. he couldn't control that situation and control and dominance and power are the three main ingred

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as we look at this, you wrote about this along with maggie haberman in the "times" and as we look at what's happening in arizona, nick late out what we've seen with martha mcsally and changing positions, the different narrative on her part going from asking the president to lay low to now saying hey, can you pug me, too? >> yeah, it kind of shows the evolution of the mainstream of the republican party from one of trump skepticism, unease, trying to gingerly handle the president to recognizing that he is really beloved by at least primary voters and that they have to link themselves to him in order to survive these primaries and maggie haberman and i write today that a few weeks ago mcsally and her allies were trying to get the president to endorse her outright, to effectively end the primary because this has become trump's party. he does bless these candidates in primaries, they tend to go on to win but erica the question is in a state like arizona which is red leaning but demographically is changing and becoming more competitive politically the question is, does embracing the presid

you have to be able to offer something of value. >> maggie haberman. thanks for sharing your reporting with us this morning. >> even though maggie says she's not on team berman. i'm on team maggie. i'm on team maggie because allegedly she's on vacation and all she's doing is like burping out scoop after scoop after scoop. some vacation. she's been on the byline -- >> i'm sure she appreciates that verb. >> despite the fact she has a misguided opinion about you. more than 175 former officials signed a new statement pub pickly condemning the decision to strip the security clearance, officials have already spoken out to say, quote, our signatures blow do not necessarily mean that we conquer with the opinions expressed by former director brennan or way he expressed them. what they do represent however, sour firm belief that the country will be weakened if there is a political litmus test applied before season experts are allowed to share their views. 250 officials have spoken out in three letters now against the president's decision to retaliate against bre

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. >> i want to bring in our political analyst maggie haberman, white house correspondent for "the new york times," david gergen who served in democratic and republican white houses alike back to richard nixon, who had a list of his own enemies of course famously, also legendary investigative reporter carl bernstein. so maggie, what do you make of president trump today? the backdated statement notwithstanding, how much is this about changing the subject? how much of this is having power against his critics or some combination thereof? >> i think it's a lot of things. i think the backdating of that statement was important. i don't think it was backdated. i think this is when they started looking at this. i think because there tends to be a keystone cops a speck about how serious things are executeded by this administration, that is what went out initially because it wasn't even looked at. it was just fired off. the white house has been really shaken up by the omarosa book. they have seemed unable to get their hands around it. i think the president has been bested by his own tricks. he d

white house correspondent maggie haberman tweeted, "trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. the thinking goes like this. this is something tangible, not a theoretical, and it didn't come from mueller. does not mean it will happen, but this has moved to a different stage in their minds." today when michael cohen pleaded guilty, the prosecutor and the judge made it clear that michael cohen will have to pay restitution for the damage he has done with his crimes. but how can michael cohen pay restitution to the 65 million people who voted for hillary clinton for president? or to some, some of the 62 million people who voted for donald trump but would not have if they had heard stormy daniels story about donald trump telling her that she reminded him of his daughter before he had sex with stormy daniels. how do you pay restitution to the 330 million people who now live in a country where the president was accused today in federal court of conspiring to commit two crimes for the principal purpose of influencing the election? there is no campaign finance violation in histor

>> the one that, the one that -- it was with maggie haberman, they wrote about you. it sounded a little like obviously there is something that got out. clearly if you come on the campaign, we can't have -- we got to -- oh, no. >> the only thing we have to consider when we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned is that as you know, everything is public. and all the money that we raise in the paid salaries is directly from donors, small dollar donors for the most part. so i know you were making 179 at the white house, and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines, specifically i haven't added up the numbers, but we're talking like 15k a month. let me see what that adds up to. yeah, that's 180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? in terms of your position specifically, i really feel like your position was required you to be able to be flexible in terms of where you are. sometimes, you know, come to new york for occasional meetings, but i would love if you could, you know, occasionally go do speaking engagements

let me get you something maggie haberman is just reporting of "the new york times." trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. the thinking goes like this. this is something tangible, not theoretical. and it didn't come from mueller. does not mean it will happen, but this has moved things into a different stage in their mind. she's speaking to the president's folks on all of this. should the president be more worried about impeachment than before because of what has happened today? >> oh, i think he should, and i think he is. i think when we see this investigation take steps forward, the president reacts with his tweets in kind. it's extraordinary. it's a little edgy. my concern is that the president reacts and begins beyond just obstructing the investigation. i think he starts talking more seriously about pardons. i think he starts talking more seriously, what did he say just yesterday, that he can take over this investigation. this is a president who did whatever he had to do to acquire power. why would anyone imagine he wouldn't do anything to mai

>> the one that, the one that -- i guess you didn't -- with maggie haberman, or they wrote about you. it sounded like there was something about to go out. clearly, on the campaign -- >> oh, god, no. >> everything positive, right? >> the only thing that we have to consider when we're talking salary on the campaign is concerned, as you know everything is public. and all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors, small-dollar donors for the most part. so i know you, you were making 179 at the white house and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines, specifically, let me see, i haven't even added up the numbers. we were talking like 15k a month. let me see what that adds up to. 12. yeah, that's 180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? in terms of your position specifically, i really feel like your position was required, you know, you be able to be flexible in terms of where you are. sometimes, you know, come to new york for occasional meetings, but i would love if you could, you know, occasionally go do speaking eng

., new york times white house correspondent maggie haberman talks about covering the trump white house. >> the relationship between this iste house and the president more or less what you see if you watch these press briefings, they are combative and they have transitioned from what has typicallyn a adversarial nature between the media covering government into something more openly hostile. >> watch on c-span and c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> also tonight on c-span, a senate homeland security meetiny adversarial nature between the media covering government into something more openly hostile. >> on protecting unaccompanied immigrant children from human trafficking and abuse. to watch the ad 9:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in a few weeks, the senate judiciary committee begins confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. chair chuckmmittee grassley says he expects the confirmation hearing to last three or four days. you can watch the hearings live online on and also c-span.org or listen live on the c-span radio app. former trump presidential

the confirmation hearing will begin september 4. 8:00 on c-span, maggie haberman talks about covering the white house. haberman: it is more or less they aresee, combative, and have transitioned from what has always

maggie haberman saying trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. the thinking goes like this, this is something tangible, not a theoretical, and it didn't come from mueller. it does not mean it will happen but this has moved to a different stage in their minds. >>> well, now to president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, who could face the rest of his life behind bars. the jury in his tax fraud trial has found him guilty on eight counts. it's the first prosecution by special counsel robert mueller's team. >> mrs. manafort, any response? >> reporter: the verdict for paul manafort came after four y on eight counts including tax evasion, bank fraud and failing to report a foreign bank. they were unable to reach a verdict on ten other counts. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts, however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial. >> reporter: the government argued that before manafort ran president trump's campaign, he stashed $60 milli

. >> it is interesting, we had maggie haberman here yesterday, let's listen to what giuliani said and then i have a question. >> we don't want it to run into the november elections, so back up to that, it should be over by september 1st. we have given him an answer, he should take a few days to consider it, but we should get it resolved. >> now it is interesting he is using the idea that the doj guidelines say you don't do any political a few days before the election. but what he really wants to do in august here is get this issue away from ms who really don't want it heading into the midterms. >> i think there is a political strategy here, right? he wants to do it two ways. seaming to drag it out. initially when giuliani came on board, he was brought in to perhaps negotiable a deal. here we are a month later in a conversation about whether or not the president is going to sit down on the special council and what are the terms of that. so yeah, he keeps going here. at some point as well he is talking about this. maybe if it drags on it would be a rallying cry for trump's base who sees

. >> reporter maggie haberman covers the white house for the new york times and cnn. she spoke at ohio state university about how the trump administration handles the media and how the president uses twitter and social media. this is just over an hour. >> maggie haberman is an american journalist who is a white house correspondent for the new york times and political analyst for cnn. she previously worked for politico and the new york daily use where she was a political

please join us in welcoming maggie haberman. [applause] maggie: thank you for having me. i really appreciate the opportunity to talk about the current white house and the media dynamic because from a distance, i think it looks different than it is. i do not have a slide presentation or statistics to share. but i have 18 months of covering the trump administration. and covering his campaign previously. thepe to be able to say at end of it how the trump white .ouse and press intersect background as a reporter is not traditional. i spent 10 years of the new york which has an extensive relationship with donald trump. has a nontraditional back rent is a president. it feels like everything works out. at least from a coverage perspective. i want to talk about a recent hire president trump has made. he hired bill shine who was a fox news executive. he is the fifth person to be announced as a communications director. that is not as technical title, but that is his job, by president trump in the last 18 months. he has never worked in government. he has always remained behind the sc

>> the one that, the one that, i guess it was with maggie haberman. it sounds a little obviously there is something that the -- can pull out. >> oh, god no. >> and the only thing that we have to consider when we are talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned. as you know, everything is public. and that all the money that we raise that pays salaries are from donors. i know you were making 179 at the white house. and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines specifically. talking about 15 k a month. let me see what that adds up to. yeah. 180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? >> does that sound good for you? omarosa chose to share several experts of a longer recording. lara trump responding with this statement. woman to woman i shared a connection with omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister and i am absolutely shocked of her betrayal. omarosa said she saw this as a way to buy her silence. >> i saw this as an attempt to buy my silence. to censer me and to pay me off $15,000 a month. >> you saw this

michael schmidt and maggie haberman wasted no time. they wrote, quote, president trump pushed his lawyers in recent days to try once again to reach an agreement with the special counsel's office flouting their advice that he should not answer investigators' questions. mr. trump has told advisors he's eager to meet with investigators to clear himself of wrongdoing. in effect, he believes he can convince the investigators for the special counsel, robert s. mueller, that this is a wish hunt. >> he's always been interested in testifying but it's us, including me, that have a lot of reservations. they sent us a proposal. we responded to their proposal. they took ten days and we got it back and now we're in the process of responding to their proposal. >> again, all of this comes as the president escalated his attack on the russia investigation. here's what he said in this particular tweet, this is a terrible situation and attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged wish hunt right now before he stains the country any further. bob

joining us now to discuss, new york times white house correspondent, maggie haberman. we have a number of things to discuss beyond the recording of the president on the phone with omarosa. i do want your reaction to this recording, fairly stunning to me at least that a former aide to the president was recording her former boss the day after she was fired. >> it's pretty remarkable, john. i think that the white house feels frustrated and i think to an extent betrayed that she -- more than to an extent. they feel betrayed that somebody who was working there was secretly taping, you know, the most powerful person in the country who brought her into that building in the first place. so i understand why they feel that way. i do think that it all goes back to the question of why was she there in the first place. why was she hired in the first place? she was hired over the objection of a number of staff who had -- were not trump loyalists but who had worked in washington for a long time. and questioned what she brought to the table and she had a reputation as being difficult

i guess you didn't - with maggie haberman, or they wrote about you. it sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you've got in the back pocket to pull out. clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can't have -- we got to - "omarosa manigault-newman: "oh, god, no."lara trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "everybody positive, right? so, the only thing that we have to consider, where we're talking salary, as far as the campaihign ing is public. um, and that all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors. small donor dollars for the most part."lara trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "so i know you were making 179 at the white house. and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines. um, specifically, let me see, i haven't even added up the numbers. but we were talking about, like, 15k a month. um, let me see what that adds up to. times 12. yes, that's $180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you?"lara trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "in

. >> let's bring in maggie haberman from the "new york times." she joins us now. life coaching from lindsey graham to the president of the united states. >> taking place all out in the hope. >> it's interesting to hear senator lindsey graham say that president trump brought it up about 20 times so it is beleveling hbelevel i -- bedevilling him. is this mostly because it's encroaching on don jr.? >> i know that's a meme right now or a theme or whatever word we use. i think it is certainly true that he is concerned that it will touch his son and i think that has become more concerning simply not because of some new fact set but because you had michael cohen making statements that are -- his lawyer making statements that i think became of concern to the president but i don't think it was because of some new piece of information or that mueller made some move toward don jr. that is not different. i don't think the president is in any different state of mind than he was a year ago. he might be talking about his son getting picked on but the president doesn't often say

michael schmidt, what a report you and maggie haberman had this weekend. tell us about it. >> basically it's unusual for lawyers in an on going investigation who have been advising a client to go in and meet so openly with investigators, but there's a lot of different factors that led to this happening. and don mcgahn has cooperated extensively with the mueller investigation. now, the president's lawyers say, like giuliani did there, that they have a full accounting of what they said and they fully understand that. that's not true. they don't know the extent of mcgahn's cooperation. we still don't know the extent of mcgahn's cooperation. but, it was not simply i'm going to go in and answer these questions truthfully. mcgahn realized he was in a precarious spot and needed to lean as hard as he could into mueller. there was a chance he could be indicted for conspireing to obstruct justice. there was a chance the president could try to pin this on him, and he needed to show mueller that he was going to be an open book and a cooperator in the sense of being as

there's a new article that came out from "the new york times" maggie haberman saying trump lawyers sudden realization. they don't know what done mcgahn told mueller's team. now this is a sunday headline that just dropped within the last couple of hours. this as a fall on to yesterday's article that came out also from "the new york times." also haberman and schmitt this about how the white house counsel don mcgahn had met extensively with the mueller team. he sat with them for some 30 hours and over the last nine months and sat with him specifically three times. today's new article that just came down which in a case that has gotten so many headlines is a big deal if you will only because that the personal lawyers of the president were unaware that they realize that don mcgahn, the chief white house or presidential lawyer had been speaking and they didn't know how much he was telling them. let's bring in nbc's charlie guile who joins us. he's been covering the manafort case at the courthouse and back with us, stephen cash. this just coming down. we've been talking about this. they're break

you saw the piece by maggie haberman, her colleagues in "the new york times," they were able to detail a list of people that ivanka and her folks wanted "the new york times" to talk to. i guess you can't consider the media the enemy of the people when you're handing them a list of people to call about how great you are. >> this is something i encountered when i was writing my book about the first family and ivanka in particular. they understand there is a way to manipulate the narrative if you're working with people who are willing to be playing that game. and so when you have someone ask a pointed question today, an up or down, is the media the enemy of the people, this is someone who is so media savvy, who is 37 years old and will spend the rest of her life either in politics or in business, and she needs the media on her side. for her to say no, the media is not the enemy of the people, was just a savvy business decision. she couched it, defending her father, without saying i'm defending my father, by saying i can understand how certain people feel targeted and they feel that way. b

. >> shepard: maggie haberman from "the new york times" reports that this agreement to plead guilty involves at least in part payments by michael cohen on behalf of president trump to stormy daniels and possibly others. >> right. this is the known direct link. that he was the fixer, that he likely did this in order to hide these revelations before the election in order to stave off some kind of political harm for president trump and president trump has not told the truth about whether he knew or didn't know. he said he didn't know about the payments and rudy guliani went on fox and told sean hannity that he did know. there's a lot of confusion about that. what i'm talking about with these other things, michael cohen -- this does not preclude him from telling robert mueller as he said six weeks ago, he might. not that he's a credible witness in every case here. but that the president was aware of the trump tower meeting before it took place. so just because he's not making a soup to nuts agreement that gets him out of prison time doesn't mean that in some way the overlapping and connections t

i guess you didn't -- with maggie haberman or they wrote about you. it sounds a little like -- all the money we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors. small donor dollars for the most part. i know you were making $179,000 at the white house. i think we can work something out to keep you a i long that line. we were talking about 15k a month. let's see what that adds to. so that's $180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? >> the new york times reporting that the white house is concerned that omarosa manigault-newman may have as many as 200 recordings all together. joining me now of our michael pacuto who was with the trump campaign. michael, listening to the tape there when you hear this job offer at $180,000 a year right after lara trump references her concern that manigault-newman has something in her back pocket that was the phrase she used, does that sound to you like a quick proquo? >> of course, not. it sounded that she's recruited for the campaign and they make sure she does not say anything bad. i remember talking to a y

i guess you -- it was with maggie haberman, they wrote about you. it sounded like something they were going to pull out. clearly, if you come over to the campaign, like, we can't have -- we got to -- >> oh, god, no. >> -- everything positive, right? so the only thing that we have to consider when we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned is that, as you know, that everything is public. and all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is dir t directly from donors, small dollar donors for the most part. so i know you were making 179 at the white house. and i think we could work something out where we keep you right along those lines, specifically, i haven't even add up the numbers, but we were talking about like 15k a month. let me see what that adds up to. times 12. yeah, so that's $180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? and in terms of your position specifically, i really feel like your position would require, you know, you to be able to be flexible in terms of where you are. sometimes, you know, come to new york fo

haberman or they wrote about you. it sounds a little like obviously that there are some things you've got in the back pocket -- >> oh, god, no. >> the only thing we have to consider talking salary and part of the campaign is as you know, everything is public. all the money we raise and the paid salary is directly from donor, small dollar donors for the most part. i know you're making $179 at the white house, and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines. specifically, let me see, i haven't even added up the numbers, but we're talking about 15k a month. let me see what that adds up to. 12. yes. that's $180,000. does that sound like a fair deal for you? >> tonight, the "new york times" reporting that the white house is concerned that omarosa manigault newman may have as many as 200 recordings all together. joining me now are cnn political commentary, michael sellers and michael, with the trump campaign in 2016. thanks to both of you for joining us. michael, listening to that tape there,

maggie haberman of "the new york times" tweeted trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. the thinking goes like this. this is something tangible. not hetheoretical. do you think that impeachment is likely at this point? >> i think we have to let it play out to see what prosecutors have directly corroborating what michael cohen said and linking the president in. but there's no question that the president's jeopardy is much higher this morning than it was 24 hours. that you have, after months of the president calling into question the credibility and the effectiveness of special counsel mueller's investigation, they've now added to their dozens of indictments and pleas with eight serious conviction accounts. you have michael cohen who is the president's longtime trusted adviser, whatever he may say about him this morning, directly implicating the president in not just wrongdoing, but crime, which nobody has done previously. and you also have this phenomenon of the president radio who said he was going to bring on the best people, being literally surrounded by people who ha

haberman in january saying that giuliani said we were going to wrap this up in two weeks in january. okay? they were down to the final negotiations. so all of this is a publicity stunt so they can say to the base the president wants to tell his story but the evil mueller, you know, made unreasonable demands on him. >> the president does want to talk. mueller wants to interview him. trump says he wants to be interviewed. if this doesn't happen before september 1st, this is trump's lawyer's fault. >> we'll have a whole discussion another day whether people will be subpoenaed. thank you all so much for that conversation. >>> we've got breaking news now, we have learned, speaking of russia, we have learned that the trump administration is planning to hit russia and vladimir putin with a new round of sanctions this time in direct response to the nerve agent attack against that exspy living in the uk. we have those details next. re. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? ho

haberman of the "new york times" writing inside the west wing aids to mr. trump numbed and desensitized by breathless news cycles blaring headlines about the president's behavior. said privately on tuesday afternoon they were having trouble assessing how devastating the day's legal events might be. just a day after michael cohen implicated trump in breaking campaign finance laws, the associated press was first to report this afternoon investigators in new york state issued a subpoena to cohen as investigation into the trump foundation. cohen reached out to the state's tax department. any state charges against cohen wouldn't be subject to a pardon by the president. even though we heard cohen's lawyer say cohen is not seeking and would not accept a pardon. >>> paul manafort's conviction hanging over the white house tonight. our own writes "his nightmare is just starting." 69-year-old already facing a lengthy prison sentence as he prepares for another and perhaps tougher trial in washington, d.c. he, of course, could change his mind and choose to cooperate at

i give maggie haberman for calling it out. between the president and ohio governor john kasich. this is the ohio 12th district. he hurt an ohio republican senate's campaign and kasich responds with this short clip of vladimir putin laughing. >> right. he didn't say the lovely john kasich i might say. >> he did not. handsome, the debonair. >> they don't like each other. i would have to point out that john kasich's approval rating in the state of ohio is somewhere above 50% and the president's somewhere in the mid-30s i guess. so, you know, kasich is pretty popular in his own state and he's been one of the republicans, quite frankly, when's been forthright and willing to take on donald trump on the issues. maybe that's because he doesn't serve in congress. who knows? but he is a governor. i think that, you know, trump -- if trump's candidate doesn't end up winning he wants to have someone to blame it on and that would be john kasich. >> 30 seconds. looking into your magic 8 ball -- >> huh oh. >> what do you think kasich's long-term plan is? >> i think some point he'll run. i think

joining us by phone from an undisclosed location, cnn political analyst maggie haberman. thank you for being with us. can you hear us? >> i can hear you, thanks for having me. >> good news already. based on what we heard from the president overnight, and we heard a bit where he told bloomberg he thinks it's an illegal investigation, based on the number of tweets he made in the last few day which is take on even a more harsh tone than we have heard or seen in the past, you know that aides are telling you the president's acting as if he is cornered. what do you mean by that? >> well, what i mean by that -- and what they mean by that -- is he is lashing out. you are seeing in the the tweets, i think there are nine tweets before 7:30 a.m. yesterday designed for the media. he's quieter today but when he feels cornered he tends to lash out. this is what he's doing. they don't necessarily know why he's doing it but they think he is doing it. >> maggie. >> the circles we've heard about robert mueller how he moves from the outside of an investigation and moves in, starting with th

in terms of all these different tweets and all these different directions, our colleague, maggie haberman, alluded to this in a tweet earlier today, about the new phrase, "fake books." seems like it's timed in advance of the bob woodward book that's coming out. my "washington post" colleague. there are a lot of good books about president trump before and after he took office, but you can say, oh, this author is this or this author is that. president trump knows who bob woodward is in the pantheon of journalists. president trump likes tv and movies. he knows robert redford played him in a movie. he knows this is a guy he can't wave away as no one listens to bob woodward. i don't know what's in that book. but i know that he's worried that he won't be able to wave away whatever's in that book. >> yeah. he doesn't read books that much. so i don't know why he's worried about it. listen, this is a pattern from the president. i mean, he tweeted several untruths in the last two days. he tweeted out that -- a story from the conservative news outlet claiming hillary clinton's private e-mail server

. >> well, josh dossey and maggie haberman reporting there could be dozens of recordings that omarosa said. josh said more than 100 tapes or recordings as conversations she had in the white house. that's a lot. i mean, forget the legal issues here. as a political matter now, this seems problematic potentially for the white house. >> it is because obviously regardless of the propriety of the taping itself, you want to know what's on -- what's on the tapes. think about what happened during the 2016 campaign with wikileaks. it was totally inappropriate for someone -- illegal indeed to hack john positidesta's e-mails once they existed in the world, everybody wanted to see them and discern whether there was any real news in them. >> we should point out maggie referencing reporting that she had with her colleague from a couple of months ago that there were recordings from other people who were not omarosa that they knew about. >> that's crazy. >> the fact it may not just be omarosa is fascinating. you alluded to the fact we were getting differing answers or lack of a definitive answer from