Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. But hes not a commentator anymore. Hes the president of the United States. So theres a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. Theres an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. A federal government whose Justice System he described yesterday as a Laughing Stock and a joke. Well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any
pronouncements. This is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. Its an improvisational act. Theres
strike me as per ses basis. i think it has to do with candor, if he is not truthful on the forms. and second if there is something from an adversary nation where they have derogatory information or some reason to have some control over the individual, that somehow the government doesn t know about. and i m speculating, but it will not be a garden variety financial entanglement. and i think that it is a very high bar for the bureaucracy to deny the president s hand picked person. particularly a family member. i mean, it is almost like how stunning is this that the president hasn t been able to get the cia to back down? fairly unusual. i mean, a director of an agency, a president, if there is someone on their team, someone close to them, someone who is iz advisine cia and intelligence community wants the president to have the benefit of the advisers that they choose. if they are so worried that that person cannot be trusted with this information, it will be
it s really mystifying because, you know, this is a pretty dramatic thing. you are proposing a meeting between the candidate and head of an adversary nation. and the story is jeff sessions nixed it and said we re going to move on. but to me, the real question is who within the trump campaign knew that george papadopoulos had been offered dirt on hillary clinton and thousands of e-mails. did sam clovis, the campaign supervisor know who is not going forward as agriculture chief scientist? did jeff sessions, the head of this national security committee know? that s what presumably members of congress are going to ask him. ken, stay with us for the rest of the conversation. let me bring in mike lotter, mike pence s press secretary, a post he left in september, just in time. what do you know or are hearing from your former colleagues about the ripple effect that ken dilanian described upon learning that papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to the fbi this summer
you could argue he should have told his father, if he didn t. if it was potentially promising, you wouldn t out of sheer excitement? i am going to share this with my dad, this is what may be coming later. we heard the president say, next week or monday, i ve got something big for you but then nothing comes from that. all too unusual and suspicious. maybe the candidate, donald trump, senior, says we don t want any part of this. this is a foreign government, an adversary nation. it is his decision in the end. we ll see what happens and what comes out. we still to know a lot more. michael allen, david rhodes. thanks so much. the president and vice-president are working the phones to bolster support for their obamacare replacement as senate republicans are only one vote away from the revised health care bill collapsing. details next. experience unparalleled luxury at the lexus golden opportunity sales event
people. it is easy for these things to slip through the crack. it is customary to amend these things. 100 names. when you hear that, what does that say to you? well, to me, i ve held a top secret clearance for almost a quarter of a century. let me tell you something. the sf 86, not a document. a computer program. that you fill out where you have to put all of those names of contacts. for the most part, that is just designed to give investigators a framework of what your life is like and who you make contact with. to go back and amend it because the media has identified that you have met with foreign nationals from an adversary nation, then that document becomes a perjury trap. because anything that you said before that you now say is different, you know, you may be able to amend it. usually for any other person by now, the clearance would have been pulled. it would be out have their hands