trump s real impeachment worry. president trump has told friends that what he s really worried about when it comes to impeachment is how it s going to affect his legacy. this is a scoop in axios sneak peek from jonathan swann and elena on a coall on friday. we heard the president blame rick perry, the president said that his energy secretary had convinced him to make that call to the ukrainian president. and he said it was something about lng, liquefied natural gs. one problem, of course there s no mention of liquefied national gas in that transcript. but something else the president said on that call, he said impeachment isn t something you want on your resume. he said i don t want impeachment on my resume. but the other thing he said to these house republicans is, but, it could make kevin speaker,
uh-huh. in that axios sneak peek tonight we were talking about earlier, jonathan swan asked some of what he calls the white house s most prolific leakers and he asked them what motivates them to do it. one of senior officials told him that they usually come after someone loses an internal decision and they want to jen up some public blow back. you have to realize that working here is like being in a never ending mexican standoff. everyone has leaks, pointed at each ooh it s only a matter of time before someone shoots. there is rarely a peaceful conclusion so you might as well shoot first. to cover my tracks, i usually pay attention to other staffer s idioms and that throws it off me. shawna? you don t want to get blamed for something. for sure. but you remember, you covered the obama administration as well. we talk about how this white
whole saga as well because it s very similar. they don t ever apologize. as john said a few minutes ago, the culture, the organization that starts from the top. donald trump before he was ever in politics decided i m not that kind of person. i m not going to apologize. nobody at the white house will either. and it s true, they have we re in this place now of almost absolute tribalism in our politics. and i think that they believe that no matter what they ve said or done, they re just going to turn around, weapon eyes it, they re going to look at this and say the elites are trying to scold us, they re getting on their moral high horse. it is quite a parallel to draw to that situation last summer when you had the gold star family, the president made the condolence call. they said he was upset. john kelly tried to come out and explain it, ended up exacerbating the entire thing by attacking the congresswoman, lying about her background. they just have a hard time getting out of their own
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and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum we like to think of this newscast not as the last sunday show but your first show for monday. and every sunday night, jonathan swan previews the week ahead in washington with his axios sneak peek newsletter. what s on deck? well, tax reform is the big issue at the moment. the president s feeling pretty optimistic about it. as you mentioned, he dialed into that conference call just about two hours, three hours ago. and monday ivanka trump heads to bucks county, pennsylvania. this is probably her biggest outing in terms of selling tax