Intentions, but the questions were very routinely answered by me. By me. And you submitted that the answer i havent submitted them. I just finished them. But if they were easy, and if theyre done, why hasnt he turned them over to Robert Mueller yet . The president s lawyer offers this clue in an interview with the Washington Post saying about the questions, quote, there are some that create more issues for us legally than others and adding some were unnecessary, some were b possible traps and we might consider some irrelevant. We dont know what questions the president and his lawyers chose to answer, but news accounts suggest the president answered some about russia related items and likely nothing relating to the obstruction of justice inquiry. We know from New York Times reporting earlier in the year that some of the questions Robert Mueller wants to ask the president involved his interactions with former aides who now work for Robert Mueller as cooperating witnesses. For example, from a list of questions reported by the times and shared with the president s lawyers, mueller wants to ask the president what tid you know about phone calls that mr. Flynn made with Russian Ambassador in 2016 and this one about whether trump was aware of his lawyers to dangle pardons in front of flynn after he was charged. Quote, after the resignations, what efforts were made to reach out to mr. Flynn about seeking immunity . The challenge for donald trump should he be tempted to lie as his lawyers seem to worry he will about his knowledge of flynns calls with the Russian Ambassador or if his lawyers conversations about pardon is that flynn now works for Robert Mueller. Heres another example. Mueller wants to ask the president what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your Campaign Including by paul manafort, to russia about potential assistance to the campaign. Now, manafort is also a cooperating witness in the Mueller Probe as is his deputy, rick gates. Finally, this one, about an interaction with his former fixer, michael cohen. From his list of questions, what do you know about a ukrainian peace proposal provided to cohen in 2017 . You guessed it, special counsel mueller is asking donald trump to detail an interaction with another cooperating witness. Now theres an easy way out of this for mr. Trump. Tell the truth. But the man who has wailed no collusion from the top of his lungs for many months now cant even tell the truth about being clearly agitated. Im not agitated. The whole thing was a hoax. So here now from the Washington Post, White House Bureau chief, phil walker. Joyce vance is a former u. S. Attorney and john, an executive producer of the circus. Phil, let me start with you. That appearance before the press pool today was stunning and for everyone who thinks that donald trump shows his hand every time, he certainly did so once again today. First of all, he said hes not agitated, but wrote in all caps on twitter yesterday. About the, the probe. And sort of an outburst on twitter. Thats clearly a sign of agitation. We know from reporting hes been spending all week with his lawyers preparing those answers. I thought it was interesting that the press availability earlier today, he said three separate times, i wrote my own answers, my lawyers did not write them. I dont lead lawyers to write my answers, but we know thats not true. The lawyers have been helping them draft those. Theyre being very careful so he does not perjure himself in the answers or create other legal problems for himself. Its one of the reasons why they havent submitted those back to the special counsel yet because theyre still under review and still putting them together. Joyce, you think the may have created additional exposure for himself . Explain. One of the reasons that you submit written answers to questions instead of showing up in person to talk to bob mueller is to create a little distance between yourself and the answers so if one of your answers turns out to be contradictory with evidence that mueller has managed to compile, you can say well that was the lawyers doing, not what i said, but trump has adopted these answers now and said theyre his own and if mueller can show theyre deceitful then the president may have new trouble to deal with. Matt miller, speak to this idea that Robert Mueller has such a complete picture of all these interactions that weapon first learned he wanted to ask the president about when the New York Times reported on the list of 49 questions they were sharing with the president s lawyers. We understand they took down the questions and went back to the president. We assume that some version of those were among the questions they sought to answer this week with the president. Took about the k exposure that the president has, not just on the substance, but the pe ill in offers interactions to individuals who are now cooperating witnesses for mr. Mueller. Its a good point and its beyond the list you mentioned of people who have pled guilty. His campaign manager. His Deputy Campaign manager. Its not just those people. Its all the other people who have either been grand jury to testify about interactions with the president. Let me put those up. Heres a list of the known mueller witnesses. Sure and in addition to those, the people youre putting on the screen now, who worked in the white house, reince priebus, his white House Counsel who sat like like 30 hours of interviews. So when the president answers these questions, hes answering them against a deep backdrop that mueller and his prosecutors have put together. So in many cases, they already know the answers to the questions theyre asking. But youve seen and heard others, where theyve sat across from the prosecutors and theyll answer a question. Theyll muellers team will supply a document or a piece of information that well, when you were in this meeting on x date, isnt it true you said this and theyll find out mueller knew, already knew the answer. I assume thats very much the case with the questions theyve asked the president and thats why you see him answering them in writing where they can just avoid answering some rather than put the president in the room where he could commit false statements. We know from reporting that the president s own comments, hes tweeted about Jeff Sessions. He should stop this rigged witch hunt. We know his treatment is under scruti scrutiny. Hes tweeted, he lied to the Vice President , hes tweeted about fighting back, trying to redefine b obstruction of justice as a trumpian approach to defending himself. What do you make of the stand off if you will between the president and his questions. I would strike over time listening to our friend from the New York Times talk about this being known for many months and this negotiation has dragged on for so long that the hold up here is clearly, not like the goal posts are moving. Got a new fax all the time. But the basic things have been these things hes been interested in for a long time. And suggest that the president to your point, he has an easy way out, which is tell the truth. Its true thats the easy way out if all youre trying to avoid perjury, but hes clearly not. If the facts are incriminating, he has no easy way out. He can lie or risk perjury charges or tell the truth and incriminate himself if the facts are incriminating. I think part of the reason why this negotiation has taken so long is theres been a lot of political games manship here. The president wanted to drag it out. Would republicans control the house or senate. Hes had a lot of interest to try to drag it out. Sorting dominance is the one place where the upper hand on mueller is the timing of this, the method of this, the scope of this, he has some leverage, right . So the president wants to push back. In every other way, mueller has him over a barrel for the reasons he said again. But it seems to me the reason is this is taking so long and the reason the president behaves this way is because he has caught in a bind. He places a terrible choice of other copping to bad facts or lying and therefore putting himself, making himself vulnerable to other kinds of charges. Phil, i spoke to a source today who said the president is irate by the proseccess. Your paper reported last week the very selection of Matt Whitaker to be the act aing attorney general had its roots and the president wanting someone there who was antisubpoena. Who if mueller came and said i have tried everything, i gave his lawyers the question. Questions 11 months ago. I met with him on mull princiti occasions. Ive done everything a reasonable investigator would do. What the president did in Matt Whitaker was and this is your reporting, two people close to whitaker said he does not plan to take himself off the russia case. They said hes deeply skeptical of any effort to force the president s testimony through a subpoena. Do you think the door is shut in the white houses view that by putting whitaker there, its my understandi ining hes not takee reigns yet. That the subpoena is off the table . Does the white house have that comfort and confidence . You know, i dont think they have the confidence that its completely off the table, they have more confidence than they did a couple of weeks ago and they feel like in whitaker, they have something of a safety blanket or at least a way to control the process more. And to make President Trump feel like hes in more control of whats going on. But they know that the investigations going to keep going. Theres no plan as far as i know for whitaker to stop the investigation. If it comes to an issue of a subpoena, its not clear that whitaker would oppose that despite the past statements hes made and despite what weve been reporting. Simply because he would be making that decision in a different context as the aktsing attorney general with much more visibility and so could potentially arrive at a different decision. But he, whitaker being in that job is giving the president and the people around him a lot more confidence about where this investigation is headed. I want both of you on this, too, its just a theory from my imagination, but this seems to me to be the fundamental test for Matt Whitaker. If hem wants to have a future i public life, he looks like a young man. If he come through the Justice Department after giving him a test 11 months ago, offering to accept written answers, if Robert Mueller asks for a subpoena, do you think its 100 certain that whitaker wont approve it . I dont think it is 100 certain and youre right. Whitaker has to consider his age and the fup of hture of his card whether he for all time wants to be tied to trump as the attorney general who failed to uphold the rule of law. You know, trump rosenberg likes to talk about the Gravitational Force that pulls on people understand theyre inside of the Justice Department. Its a strong force. Theres a history of institutional practice. Of cases where you have a conflict of interest. We saw that play out with Jeff Sessions. I think its likely that Matt Whitaker, a u. S. Attorney and served in the bush administration, was carried over and served for several months as an obama attorney. He will find it increasingly difficult to violate the guidance from ethics officials. He may well recuse. Whats the worst thing that can happen . Trump can fire him and that may be much better ultimately than tarnishing his career for all time. Its hard to explain this outside of the wonky right wing, who really cares any way, but inside the circles, theres a hot war going on. Youve got prominent conservatives like George Conway and others really banging the drum and Donald Trumps assault on the rule of law, his years long war with his Justice Department. Letting nunes run over the appointees at the fbi. I think the test for Matt Whitaker, its not just a test, as to whether or not he has nika rear in public life after this is whether or not if asked he does so. I think thats right. You just heard the optimistic view from joyce. I hope thats right. Let me give you the view, more on the side i land on. Whitaker is in this job for one reason. To prevent this investigation from getting too close to donald trump. I dont think that means hes going to reach in and fire bob mueller an dismiss indictments, but u on the close calls and subpoenaing the president can be a close call, hes going to side the president. Maybe well get lucky and hell do right thing, but i dont have any confidence in that. I dont think its a koicoincide that the president stalled on answering these questions for 11 months. He dragged the process out and now finally, the week after he put someone in place whos only real known qualification for the job is a publicly stated hostility to the investigation, who its been reported is skeptical of a subpoena is that now is when the president has decided to answer these questions. Youll see the questions on the ones where he has the most legal jeopardy. Where he cant answer the question without incriminating himself. Hell decline to answer those knowing or expegting and hoping the leverage that mueller has has probably been lifted. I will offer both joyce and matt a chance to call me and tell me if im wrong b about the thing im about to say. I believe it is the case, this is not a matter of whether Matt Whittaker wants to have a career in public life or a future in the Republican Party or anything else. He wants to stay out of jail and the reality is that again, weve all been schooled on what obstruction of justice is about. We dont know what promises have been made about he and donald trump to gelt this appointment, but the reality is that if Matt Whitaker is faced with a subpoena request on a variety of other fronts, if he acts with corrupt intent to try to protect donald trump, he becomes part of the obstruction of justice. And the statutes have i believe this is what ill ask my lawyer friends, have a fiveyear statute of limitations, which means if donald trump loses in 2020, a democratic attorney general under the next democratic president could walk in and indict Matt Whitaker if he b obstructs justice. Forget about all the other krss. The thing that makes me do the right thing is if you have nothing else, i could end up being charged with obstruction of justice and end up in jail. Its as good a place as many to sneak in our first break. Thank you so much. After the break, has Kellyanne Conways husband, George Conway k become the loudest never trump republican in the room or just the most surprising one . Also, a big defeat for the president where it hurts him the most, with jim acosta and in court. Also, the clap back heard around the world. My favorite political comeback of the year. All those stories are next. Litik of the year. All those stories are next comfort. What we deliver by delivering. Discover. O. I like your card, but im absolutely not paying an annual fee. Discover has no annual fees. Really . Yeah. We just dont believe in them. Oh nice. You would not believe how long ive been rehearsing that. No annual fee on any card. Only from discover. Means they wont hike your rates over one mistake. 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Conservative lawyer George Conway has not been shy about disagree with the president even though his wife Kellyanne Conway spends her days defending donald trump as one of the most senior advisers and one of the only people from the campaign other than the president s children to still be working in the white house. George conway himself had a brush with working in this administration. Yahoo news reports a star litigator for a new York Law Firm conway in the early days of trumps president was offered a top job at the Justice Department as chief of the civil division. A post that would have put nim charge of defending the administration in lawsuits throughout the country. But he pulled out of the running and explained why on yahoo news skullduggery podcast. Man, im thinking, im watching this thing, and you know, its like the administration is like a [ bleep ] show in a dumpster fire. And im like, i dont want to do that. I dont know. And then its like, then you got the comey firing. And then youve got him going on tv saying, i had russia on my mind. And its like, oh, no. And then its like, then, you know, im driving home one day from new york and its like, Robert Mueller appointed special counsel. And i realized this guy is going to be at war with the Justice Department. And im going to go on the hill and, you know, and do this and im the husband of the counselor of the president and got him elected basically. And hes going to be a and if i get this door prize, im going to be in the middle of a department hes at war with. Like, why would anybody want to do this . Joining us at the table, karine jeanpierre, michelle goldberg, for the New York Times, the rev al sharpton, host of politics nation, heilemann and matt miller are still with us. You were giggling. Heres the thing very good question. Why would anybody want to do this . Hes very wise. The significance of this, and its worth stating, this is an uncomfortable anybody thats worked in politics and has a Family Member or spouse that disagrees with the person they work for, its auk ward. I worked for george bush. Plenty of people in my family werent fans. George conway is giving voice to a critique thats existed for two, going on three years now about donald trump. And he its just stunning that hes so bothered that hes using his voice to make this argument. And he is whispering as hes talking, right . Like the tapes are rolling. Hes taking us through his thought process during that time. Look, George Conway is as conservative as they come. The two of us wouldnt even agree that today is friday. I mean, thats how far we are apart from each other. But hes 100 right. You know, hes not wrong. And it is bizarre that the reason were talking about it is because he is the husband to the counselor to the president. So i, you know, kudos to him for bringing voice to this. For using his platform to do this. I would not want to be at the dinner table in their house. I would. Maybe a fly on the wall. Heres the other reason that, to me, it matters is a political story. These are not small things. This was, i mean, what he just ticked through was the firing of comey with russia on his mind. To a lawyer that sounds like obstruction of justice. The appointment of mueller which to prosecutors they describe him, one former u. S. Attorney described him as a prosecutorial assassin. These are people that get brought in when the potential crimes are dire. And you see now that the white house is scrambling to bring in new people, new lawyers in because they are about to be flooded with subpoenas. And who would possibly want to go into this, you know, sort of i dont know if snake pit is the right word. Its a good word. Titanic . Snake pin assumes a level of competence, like a bumbling snake pit if that was a thing. But who wants to go into this disaster and try to fend off the best lawyers in the world who are both working on working for the justice working for Robert Mueller and also who are going to be scrambling to get on to all of these congressional committees. Its a good point, rev. When you look at conway, you look at who i believe is a true conservative. And who is embarrassed by what is happened to what hes believed in all of his life. And i think when you look at the fact that hes married to kellyanne, who he kind of jokingly whispers into the podcast, who had a lot to do with getting him elected. It shows the conflict in the right wing on the Republican Party. Those that will go along with trump and those that are saying, wait a minute. I stand for something and this guy is making mockery of everything i believed in. I think you see in the conway marriage where the whole house of the right wing is in conflict. Its such a good point. And to explain to our friends on the left how painful this divide. Its the annihilation of the Republican Party because if it stands for trump, it never stood for anything. I wonder if youre skeptical. Its interesting in this sense. Like you, having well, i have every administration ive covered except the Obama Administration had a major independent counsel or special prosecutor who investigated them. It wasnt like you were always able to find lawyers. That was a great job. Going to defend bill clinton against ken starr, he had a line of great democratic lawyers who wanted to be in that fight. Just as Scooter Libby had a line of great republican lawyers who wanted to defend him. Normally what you see, this is a highprofile case. You believe in the person, the member of your party so you want to be in that fight. And the fact theres a lot of subpoenas coming in doesnt scare you away. Whats interesting about this, George Conway and now this group of lawyers that hes summoned together earlier this week, theres especially in the legal community, its true a lot of republican politicos have thrown aside their principles and have just become trumpists. But there is, in the world of both legal theory, legal scholars and also in the high end of white shoe lawyering in washington, d. C. , the lawyers on the republican side who normally would love this kind of case are like, no, no, no because not just because they think trump may have done something wrong but they know hell be at war with the Justice Department, the fbi and theyre institutionalists. They dont want to be on the side of a president who is going to fight by attacking those institutions. Left me bring matt milner. There is a thing about the way men and women who have worked in the Justice Department talk about they refer to it as the department and talk about it with love. And its just a thing. Ive known enough people who served the department to have heard it, and there is a and maybe its different from the war with the Intelligence Community because theyre morpublic facing jobs. The president is more aware of them. Attacks them more frequently. Theres some reporting hes not that interested in Foreign Policy but the Justice Department theyre investigating him is in his mind, in his sights every day. Yeah, its true. There is a culture at the Justice Department of independence that really gets kind of i think they put it in the water in the fountains because it gets built into everyone that works there. Even for a short period of time, everyone at that department knows that the worst thing you can do is to bow to political will either from the president or anyone else who is trying to influence the administration of justice. And so i do think you see people that go into this department, you know, from the conservative side. And there have been a lot of respectable lawyers. Conservative lawyers. Members of the conservative bar who have joined this Justice Department who find themselves struggling how to do their jobs at the same time the president has put enormous pressure on the department. And its always trying to push them to do the right thing. Rod rosenstein who is most in the middle of that. All the time getting pressed to do things and sometimes bending and getting into the present things he shouldnt absolutely give. One of the questions we face, it was a hard enough place to work with pressure from the white house. What happens now that congress has flipped and there are i should say the house has flipped and the Justice Department is going to be the subject of deep, intense investigations from the house. Are there a lot of respectable lawyers who say, you know, it just isnt worth it to work here anymore. Im getting attacked from the president , from the left, often for legitimate reasons, sometimes illegitimate ones. Its time for me to leave. What happens if trump can back fill it with complete and utter cronies. The very cynical part of me wonders if Kellyanne Conway and her husband are just hedging their bets as a power couple because everybody who goes in, works in this administration, comes out disgraced and comes out, you know, with their reputation in tatters and their future prospects pretty bleak. One way to have your cake and eat it, too, to have one foot in the administration but also one foot among the never trump republicans is to kind of do this sort of, oh, well, we were really working against him the whole time when its goes down in flames. Let me its interesting because he doesnt just question the president s sort of treatment of the Justice Department. He questions his very stability. Lets listen. Do you think President Trump is fully stable . No comment on that. Really . Well, i mean certainly your tweets would certainly suggest you have some questions about the stability of this president. And the truthfulness of this president. By the way yes, sir. Yes, sir. The question is stability. Question is truthfulness. That sort of makes if thats the case, makes it pretty cynical. It does. George conway is a very smart man. He knew exactly what he was doing when doing this podcast. He knew we were going to talk about it and have discussions about it. I was talking about the timeline. He talks about james comey how it all first started. Thats one book end. I was thinking about the next book end. Look what happened last week, the day after election. Donald trump fires Jeff Sessions and put in puts in Matt Whitaker. I cant imagine for someone like George Conway, the way that how he sees the department of justice and he was going to potentially work for the department of justice, that hes thinking about it. How that must sit with him. This is a hard thing to sort of talk about publicly, but there is its not an ego but theres a pecking order at the Justice Department. Im guessing a lot of people of the caliber of Rod Rosenstein and others, there may be a little bit of a fence having to work with someone who is clearly sort of a political patron of donald trump. Yeah, you can say that. Look, this has been going on really since that story broke of, i think about a month, six weeks ago about Rod Rosenstein offering to wear a wire, either in jest or not in jest. On that same day, the Matt Whitaker had a conversation with the president s chief of staff about replacing Rod Rosenstein as the acting Deputy Attorney general. Of course, he got a better job than that at the end. That from what im told provoked extreme controversy inside the department. People see him not just as a hack but disloyal to other people in the department and i suspect the knives are out for him not just from the career people but among political appointees as well. Matt miller, thank you. After the break, hitting trump where it hurts in a battle with cnn in court. 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All you have to do to find it is get out. Here. As far as political and legal dramas go, this one is almost shakespearean. Today cnn, backed by a coalition of media companies, including fox news, defeated the white house in court. That was thanks to a ruling from a federal judge, wait for it, appointed by donald trump. The administration was ordered to immediately return jim acosta of cnns press pass after they revoked it last week without due process. That was following a contentious press conference. The white house tried to spin the decision by moving the goal post. This is Sarah Huckabee sanders. Today the court made clear that there is no absolute First Amendment right to access the white house. In response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the reporters hard pass. We will also develop further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly process conferences in the future. There must be decorum at the white house. Decorum at the white house. Really . Because if you were looking for one word to describe the trump white house, decorum would be it. Lets show you. On the other hand you had some that decided to lets stay away mike kaufman. Too bad, mike. Mia love gave me no love. And she lost. Too bad. Are you worried thats enough. Thats enough. Thats enough. I was going to ask you are a rude, terrible person. In jims defense ive traveled with him. Hes im not a fan of yours either. When you report fake news like cnn does. You are the enemy of the people. You call yourself a nationalist. Some see that as emboldening white nationalists thats such a racist question. Did someone Say Something about decorum . Who is going to define decorum, him . Well, they are. That was Sarah Huckabee sanders is. Donald trump knows anything about decorum. And those in his administration that would work for someone like that is on his face, absurd. But thats also why, as we were talking in the last segment about why people dont want to be his lawyer because he wants to be his lawyer. You cant control him. Hes his pr spokesperson, hes his lawyer. His fundraiser, hes everything. And that is why anyone that has any kind of real skills and selfpride doesnt want to work for him. Hes not going to let you work. Its just that simple. He didnt have kellyanne was not out there, nor was the spokeswoman out there doing this to reporters. He was. So when we talk about setting decorum, hes the one that broke decorum and did it himself. That was not a press secretary taking the mike from acosta. He commanded it to be done. And of all the things that people that love trump can say about him, not one of them can say he has decorum. Right. None of them. If anything, they like that, right . This is his whole thing. He discredits the messenger so that his small group of people dont believe the message. This is his thing and hell destroy, he will break norms. Hell destroy Democratic Institutions to do it. And its very selfish. Its all about him and what he wants. The one thing thats frightening is this isnt a total victory for the First Amendment. This was decided on fifth amendment first round grounds. There wasnt a process in place to take away jim acostas pass. Now theyll put a process in place and it will be really important to see whether that process is allowed to stand, right . If they are allowed to define the rules for how reporters address them. Thats actually pretty dangerous. Very. I worked in a white house, in the press shop. There were people that were the majority of people in the press room, the coverage was incredibly negative. I never participated in a conversation or was asked to examine the removal of anyone from the White House Press office. Look, there had been weve had various fakers, hoaxters who have gotten in because theyre not actual journalists. There are obviously things that could happen in the White House Press office where wed all agree that a reporter was behaving badly enough they should have their hard pass taken away. They could commit an act of violence. We can imagine things that a reporter could do that would merit them taking away their hard pass. Obviously, asking a question in a way that annoys the president is clearly not one of them. And i agree with michelle the question is going to be how broad are these guidelines that they establish the process. And then whats the opportunity to challenge it . I presume if they define it too broadly or define it in a way and then try to apply it in a way that seems out of bounds, theyll just be back in court again. Its obviously something to keep an eye on. What did we think was going to happen . You listen to the way the president talks about the press. This is the obvious next step to start stripping access to the white house. When you talk about rules and regulations, what do you mean . Decorum. You cant take three questions and four questions and just stand up and not sit down. You have to practice decorum. You were there. You understood and you understand. We want total freedom of the press. Its very important to me. Its more important to me than anybody would believe. But you have to act with respect. You are in the white house. And decorum. I like the way he says it like hes learned a new word. Someone taught him a new word. Doesnt know the definition of the word. Decorum. The definition of the word because right away, he comes with three or four questions at a time. Yamiche asked him one question about nationalism. White nationalism. So this whole thing with the i think what he meant was deference. Dont ask me anything that i dont want raised. Thats what he meant. Decorum to him is you defer to me and do not act like a journalist and ask any question that is uncomfortable. This is where this story is more than ironic that a trump appointed judge ruled for cnn and against him. This is where the story feels deadly serious. That is what an autocrat relies upon to destroy exactly right. That what you just described. Thats what putin requires of the press. So to me, this becomes sort of a, a friday story about a trump appointed judge ruling for cnn who trump hates more than life. Its a tool and a pathway toward aughtocracy. And that is autocracy. What hes really saying, youre in the white house. Youre in my house. And in my house, you act like i want you to act. He doesnt see this as the peoples house. Youre in my house. Im king. You bow or you dont have proper decorum. Youre out of here. Get him out of here. Take the mike. And i think that is dangerous for all of us on whatever side of the political aisle we may relate to. And it is clear, the insidious irony of it is that donald trump got elected by being the antidecorum candidate. 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Com today for your chance to win a free treatment. A reporter for the Washington Examiner tweeted this yesterday. And it wasnt the welcome to washington greeting newly elected congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez was expecting. It was a picture of her from behind and a caption that read, hill staffer sent me a pic of ocasiocortez they took just now. That jacket and coat dont look like a girl who struggles. To which she responded, quote, if i walked into Congress Wearing a sack, they would laugh and take a picture of my back side. If i walk in with my best sale rack clothes, they laugh and take a picture of my backside. Dark hates light. Thats why you tune it out. Shine light and keep it pushing. A good metto for the recordbreaking number of women that will walk the halls of Congress Next year. A good motto for every woman. And you dont have to be in public life. Every woman has felt that double standard that what we wear gets a lot more attention than what any guy wears. Right. Theres something so crazy about this idea that she calls herself working class. And yet she has a coat. Have you been to h m . Theres a fashion story, a sexism story and a stupidity story. And its also true that having to manage your appearance and peoples expectations of your appearance is one of the taxes that falls on women who are in any sort of public role. Then theres also this weird fixation that the right has on alexandria ocasiocortez. There is something about her that they find, i think, profoundly threatening because she is such a charismatic kind of messenger for progressivism. And there is really no analogue on the right. Who, charlie kirk . Like why is she such a target . Shes powerful. Has a following. Shes created this movement for herself. In her instagram, social media. She tweets something and it goes viral. Like wildfire. You know, there was after president obama was elected in 2008, there was this idea we were postracial america. And it was totally not true. It was completely opposite. And i think now we have elected over 100 amazing women, very diverse. Theres a sense we may be in this postsexist america. Sadly, i fear that is not true. Its just not true. This is what youll start seeing especially now that you have so many Diverse Voices thats going to be going into the house. I want to ask you about the stupidity part of this story, no offense. But there is expert i have a ph. D. In my own stupidity. Please go ahead. I saw this last night and a female political reporter tweeted it. There was something visceral about a woman seeing a male reporter from the right tweeting about her clothes and how much they cost. Staffers are taking pictures of you like and sending them its creepy. Its stalkerish. But let me ask you about whether the Political Press and the men in the Political Press specifically, are going to have to reeducate themselves about covering women without commenting on their clothes. Without commenting on their looks or commenting on their connections with other women. I can almost see the traps that without even intending to, male reporters could fall into if they cover a gaggle of newly elected congresswomen and want to Say Something about how theyre huddled like girlfriends. Thats a red line. Who is warning them not to cross it . I dont know who is going to warn them. Its a question of education. Were in a new world in which the composition of congress is now going to be much more diverse in a variety of ways. O its the case that the whole body because its all happening on the democratic side, more diverse body on a body of fronts both racial and gender. Male reporters got a lot to learn. Thats the first thing. I do think the challenge is something thats much more profound in a way than not saying stupid sexist stuff. Obviously they shouldnt do that, but the challenges you want to be able to talk about this phenomenon of how is capitol hill going to change . Are these newly elected women, are they going to act as a block . What are the different stripes of femmism and how is that going to affect the discussion . There are a whole bunch of interesting things to talk about if you can find a way to talk about that respectfully, not objectionation alley. Youll have to be smart, respectful and get some advice from women about how to do it. I think also youve got to look at the fact that theres not a mon owe lith with women. You have a Record Number of women in congress, but lets not act like they were all cut out of the same cloth. You have some that disagree even in the Democratic Caucus and i think the height of sexism is to act like theyre a block. No, theyre not. Theyre elected by two very different constituencies and they have Different Things to bring to the table. Your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. 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The president will be traveling to the state tomorrow. The number of People Killed now stands at 66 but overnight, the number of people unaccounted for skyrocketed to over 600. The largest of the fires which is still burning is now the deadliest wildfire in californias history. This drone footage captures the charred remains of paradise. Just about all of the town was destroyed. An estimated 52,000 people have been displaced. My thoughts and prayers go out to my home state. This is horrific and the president once again tone deaf. Yeah. A lot of these fires burned right up to the edges of where the house that i grew up in the San Fernando Valley and i know tons of people who have either been in a state of terror or driven out of their homes or in mandatory evacuation areas. I dont know right now that i say that i try to say this in a nonpartisan way. I dont know many people in Southern California that want people out there. The air is so horrific. Air alert warnings but to not have any compassion for the people that are suffering. You got to watch him. He is the president. Hes not talking about briefings, he got. He says i saw on Television People raking. This is the Intelligence Report the president of the United States has. Youre watching television and blaming management . The presidency is structured so that you never have to turn on a television. You have access to the very best information the information that tv reporters chase all day comes from the government he runs. He shouldnt he shouldnt go out there, particularly when he hasnt visited any of the troops, including the troops that he has sent to the border on this completely foolish p. R. Stunt that is now is ruining a lot of peoples thanksgiving. Hes both, you know, kind of not particularly wanted in california, but also he just poured salt on the wounds because he cant acknowledge this as a national tragedy. He cant acknowledge this as an unprecedented disaster. He can only find ways to score like the pettiest of partisan points. The departure from normal is striking. If he saw something on television that seemed related to forest management, he could have picked up the phone and called somebody and asked. Hes the president. Hes giving chris wallace, another television reporter, an analysis based on tv coverage. Its infuriating. He lacks that gene, the empathy gene, he just continues to prove how unfit he is for the most Important Office in the country, this the world arguably. The look on Chris Wallaces face. Theyre raking, theyre raking. Chris wallace is going, what are you talking about . He brings up Climate Change and he says that may have something to do with it, the rake and the bush. I call it a tree, but its a bush. Are we serious . The whole pettiness of this man is dont blame me on anything. You got to always find some where to put the blame because he knows he should not be sitting in the oval office. Theres such an uneven record for this president. He went to puerto rico and he threw paper towels. Hes been to some hurricanes and hes done better. I think the one from puerto rico is going to show up. He told us who hes going to be for tomorrow. He should not really not be going. A town is now gone. Hes just unfit. He just needs to stay home and go play golf. Let that be the last word today. My thanks to all of you. Be sure to catch him on politics nati politics nation this weekend at 35 p. 5 00 p. M. That does it for this hour. Just answer the questions, lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. This is the week when donald trump began to worry. He knows that the Mueller Probe on which all else rides is closing in. He said as much this afternoon. That the investigation is quote, ending now. The witch hunt as i call it should never have taken place, it continues to go on, i imagine its ending now from what i hear its ending and im sure itll be just fine. You know why its going to be just fine because theres no collusion. From what i hear its ending