Likely the influence of the new Chief Of Staff here, Retired General john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. That hes not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. But will we see this over the course of time . That remains to be seen. Weve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. I think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously hes been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just dont seem that afraid of him. Thats why you have Lisa Murkowski saying im going to vote against you in the health care fight. How does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done . The reality may be that theyre looking at tax cuts, because they dont have that big, broad
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reince priebus also lied about it to the american public. but i have talked to general flynn. none of that came up. the subject matter of sanctions or the actions taken by the obama administration did not come up in the conversation. in fact, it was the sports team that was in an unfortunate plane accident. so there was no challenge of american policy currently by mr. flynn with the russian none. no, sir. no, sir, no, sir. none. no challenge to the american policy currently by mr. flynn with the russian ambassador. nope, no, sir, none. that was not true. and reince priebus had been looped in on communications during the transition, specifically about flynn talking to the russians about sanctions. while they were happening. so while he is maintaining to the public no, no, no, i checked with flynn, he definitely didn t do that, reince priebus had been in on those conversations, had been looped into those communications about the fact that flynn was in fact talking
accident. so there was no challenge of american policy currently by mr. flynn with the russian none. no, sir. no, sir, no, sir. none. no challenge to the american policy currently by mr. flynn with the russian ambassador. nope, no, sir, none. that was not true. and reince priebus had been looped in on communications during the transition, specifically about flynn talking to the russians about sanctions. while they were happening. so while he is maintaining to the public no, no, no, i checked with flynn, he definitely didn t do that, reince priebus had been in on those conversations, had been looped into those communications about the fact that flynn was in fact talking to the russia and about that. and so was sean spicer and so was tom bossert, and so was k.t. mcfarland and so were other people in the transition. they all knew while flynn lied about it publicly. they all knew while flynn got in trouble for lying about it publicly. they all told their onleys about it publicly. a
on the sunday version of meet the press. can you tell me about the reports that the president was involved in the initial response that donald trump, jr. gave the new york times ? so i read those reports as well. and the president was not did not draft the response. the response was came from donald trump, jr. i notice you ducked the aspect of whether you can guarantee that nobody will be worse off financially. i firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we re going through, understanding that they ll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their families. i have talked to general flynn. none of that came up, none of the subject matter of sanctions or the actions taken by the obama administration did not come up in the conversation. there was no challenge of american policy currently by mr. flynn with the russians? none. i answered the question of
was in contact with russian officials, do you believe him? i have no idea. and joining me now is president trump s chief of staff, welcome back to meet the press, sir. good morning, chuck. let me start with the issue of mike flynn and the conversations, what was said or not said with the russian ambassador. you were on the program just before inauguration, and here s what you told viewers at the time. i have talked to general flynn, none of that came up, the subject matter of sanctions or the actions taken by the obama administration did not come up in the conversation. so there was no challenge of american policy currently? by mr. flynn? none. now we know that was not true. you clearly were misled. walk me through this. when did you know that you had been misled? sometime after january 27th. it was our legal counsel had