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opportunity to really distance himself from jeffrey epstein. we do have to be clear prince andrew has not been charged, convicted not even being investigated at this point. but what he is guilty of is appalljug judgment when it comes to friends. he does address the fact in 2010 he looks back and sees it wasn t terribly sensible to stay at the home of a convicted sex offender but two areas that struck me the most, number one he showed chutely no replors or regret over his friendship with jeffrey epstein, and number two, at any point did he mention the victims. when we re looking at damage control the monarchy at the end of the day is a business. and this was further damage. these are all things any pr expert would say we ve got to hit every step of the way. quickly if you will, how do you see the royal family dealing with the pr aspects of this going forward because we all
against china because of the let me get back to my initial question. did you watch last night? because this was a small part of what he talked about. he opened up talking about charlottesville and race and relitigating what happened and rewriting history. if he wants to move beyond this, why does he continue to have a bee in his bottom will be it? you feed somebody else to be the pr expert here. i m bad only reason i m asking you because you re saying stability and you d like to see him move beyond this it and does not appear i was about to explain how i think he s handling things with china and north korea which is positive. i think moving in a way to first of all try to get china to cut back on some of the trade practices that have been a real problem for us over the years. but, as he has seen china move in a small way, but nonetheless
moved against china because of let me get back to my one of my initial questions. did you watch last night? this was a small part of what he talked about. he opened up talking about charlottesville and race and relitigating what happened and rewriting history. if he wants to move beyond this, why does he continue to have a bee in his bonnet about it? you need someone else to be the pr expert here. i m bad you are saying stability and you would like to see him move beyond this. i was about to explain how i think he is handling things with china and north korea which is positive. he is, i think, moving in a way to first of all try to get china to cut back on some of the trade practices that have been a real problem for us over the years. but as he has seen china move in
way to 2016. anyway, joining us is long-time crisis pr expert and vice chair howard bragman. this looks to me like classic crisis management. he and his pr team have said you ve got to wait a long time, many months to find out if you re clean of this legal entanglement. you have people who may get indicted. you don t know that. but you ve got to assume and have a contingency plan if you do avoid indictment. if nobody too close to you gets indicted, you ve already got some momentum. i think that s what he s up to. i think this was a very good political moment. he went to jimmy fallon who s been very critical of him. you get extra points for going into the lion s den, gone very viral, very funny, very well written. all these things work to his benefit. a great moment. but i don t think in any way do i see this as a game changer. and that s the issue here. any more than nixon ended up being a warm, cuddly president after he said sock it to me. he s not going to change who he is. and fur