WOODWARD: And he actually has a practice session with the President on January 27th of this year in the White House, and the President goes ballistic. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s an inability to tell the truth in Dowd`s view? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So that`s what he mean by clearly disabled? WOODWARD: What Dowd concludes in the end is that President Trump can`t testify because he can`t tell the truth. As the book asserts, Trump`s former lawyer John Dowd ultimately concluded that the President can never testify before Robert Mueller because, in Dowd`s view, he is a liar. MATTHEWS: Well, according to Bob Woodward, not only has the President put national security in jeopardy, he has fundamentally unable to tell the truth. And the things, some of the things Trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. This has not been treated seriously enough. James Mattis says to him, we are doing this to prevent World War III. In one NSC meeting, a year after Trump was in office, the secretary of defense has to tell him - because the President is complaining about all this money we are spending on U.S. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Were you shocked by what you uncovered in this book?īOB WOODWARD, AUTHOR, FEAR: Well, I have never seen an instance when the President is so detached from the reality of what`s going on. So detached, in fact, that Woodward said the President has to be told that it`s his job to avoid World War III. On "the Today Show" just this morning Woodward said that after covering nine administrations, he has never reported on a President so detached from reality. He is battling the emerge in the image of himself that he is not just incompetent, but dangerous. Grappling with the explosive revelations from Woodward`s book, President Trump has now taken on a siege mentality. And finally that his top people see their role as protecting the country and the world from his clutches. That he cannot be trust today speak truthfully under pressure. His new book out tomorrow assaults the man in the White House with a trio of lethal blows. Bob Woodward who has taken down one President now confronts this one with the truth, a weapon that he, Donald Trump, cannot even grasp. Good evening, I`m Chris Mathews in Washington.ĭonald Trump now faces someone his own size. HARDBALL with Chris Mathews starts now.ĬHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: The case against Trump. I will see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. Show: HARDBALL Date: SeptemGuest: Vivian Salama, Rick Tyler, Victoria DeFrancescoĪRI MELBER, MSNBC HOST: We wanted to get that in because we think it`s important.Īnd that does it for us.
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