nonpartisan. but he kept going on tv and only attacking hillary and only attacking mueller s inquiry. jed, you talked about this constitutional ground he s on that s dodgy, there s a connection between the lack of consent, and what we re learning about now. it s uncontroverted that a principal officer has to be confirmed by the senate. there s at least a question about what the line is between a principal officer and an inferior officer in certain cases, an inferior officer doesn t have to get senate confirmation. that s what the olc basically said is maybe he s not a principal officer, maybe not an officer at all, maybe he s inferior. the constitution tells us that s not true. the constitution treats the heads of departments as principal officers. in a couple of different places. so if that s true, then what is whitaker right now? whitaker is the head of a department. and as head of a department,
what was happening and anticipated this ahead of time. i want to bring into the conversation nira tanden who advised the clinton campaign. attacking clinton s health and accusing her of corruption, and back with us is john flannery. great to have both of you join the conversation. thank you. nera, let me begin with you, your thoughts learning about the depth of the relationship when president trump and the national enquirer, and what he tried to do. well, during the campaign it really did seem like the national enquirer operated as a media arm of the trump campaign. obviously they had cover story after cover story after cover story of attacking hillary in really vicious terms. and they had ridiculous positive pieces about donald trump. what i find shocking about these revelations is, just think of how much the national enquirer hurt their own business sales in the moment by quashing the
that are on voting roles. they ve gone in, we ve heard they are very serious, they take their job seriously. we ve heard this from people who have been before grand juries and they are the ones who have indicted the russians and members of donald trump s campaign and here you have rudy giuliani by the way, i m sure the yankees would like him to take off the world series ring definitely. shaming himself, shaming the people of new york, shaming anybody who believes in the rule of law saying no, let s investigate the investigators and end this investigation because it s getting a little close to home. and again what drives me crazy about yesterday is people are going look at these four or five people sending text messages. that happened in the fbi in new york, people attacking hillary, happened in the cia always. this has always happened and yet the big picture they seem to miss from this ig report is that comey held on to the most damning evidence of all so he
talk and pivoted bill clinton s sex scandals and attacking hillary clinton. at the time, we thought that remember when we said that apology looked like a hostage video? it did not seem genuine. there was no enthusiasm to it. he immediately pivoted to attacking bill clinton, attacking hillary, bringing accusers to the debate. within like a year, we were getting reports he was saying maybe that wasn t my voice on the tape. he was inventing a whole scenario by which his apology was unnecessary because it really wasn t him. and in this case the president s staffers just to follow up frank s point what trump does to people around him, the president s staffers started attacking the people who leaked what the staffer said, not what the staffer said. and fox news went along. and now everyone is in an uproar. and the president himself tweeted these leakers are traitors. and it s his own staff. it does show how much sort of
white house in the middle class got hammered. what do you have to show for it? do you have to show for it, juan? the bottom line is the bottom line. they don t have cash in hand, even hillary and bernie both came out swinging against the dnc, and now chuck, is he being a little sexist? how is that? by attacking hillary? i think he had a point. i think you are this from david axelrod, they said they had a lot of money, they had a tremendous financial advantage and they certainly had an unpopular opponent and they still lost. i think there s a lot of frustration. to their credit, i think they are finally moving forward. i think finally they are now focused on a message that get traction, and economic message about jobs, about wages, about infrastructure. is a disinterest message? it s very centrist. are you alienating the base? they see bloodsport and going after strum, responding to trump