reports of back fighting, dissent and dysfunction coming from inside the white house. the power struggle between president trump s son-in-law jared kushner and steve bannon brought drama to trump s 100 days and presidential rough patches aren t new. president clinton s first budget drew fire for spending cuts and his administration s don t ask, don t tell policy for gays in the military ignited a fire storm. donald trump admitted he thought the job would be easier. can he advance his agenda? to break it down, i m joined by president clinton s first chief of staff thomas mcclarty. good to have you here. glad to be here. are there parallels between clinton and trump? there are parallels and differences. both came from the outside.
spilling out, reporters wrote about it, it was all over the place, this time it was kind of swept under the rug. they kept a lid on it. they did. and so people thought that it was this drama-free campaign but there was drama bubbling up and that s what we report in this book. what kind of drama? infighting from the top. two of the top aides were there was infighting between john podesta the campaign chairman and robby mook the campaign manager. one didn t trust the other. both had sort of competing interests. that went down the line to other people and there was all kinds of back fighting and factions. the clinton world is surrounded by various groups from her time as first lady and at state. these were competing interests that didn t always get along. you write of the conflict, within the campaign over whether to concede, whether to do what we saw in the sound bite, and i
are they upset because they lost and need a reason or do they legitimately think the russians were somehow interfering in hacking, and what we do not to be factual about that, are they not upset about that? that could have more of an investigative movement rather than his back fighting, so i m confused what they are really upset about. by the way, extra revenue, rent out portions of our home to safe spaces for these people who just cannot i am joking because i want to live with just my family, but they cannot move forward, they need to figure it out. bill: at the moment, so much as theoretical in it will stay that way until the senate gives us some answers. sandra: i m glad i was right about something because you pointed out, i m wrong about where caterpillar was based. bill hemmer said it correctly and i did not hear him. harris: where is it? peoria?
broke away to have phone calls. it makes you wonder if it was to reassure him, he was in the running. we have no idea, it s significant he was in touch with him. why is this decision just galvanizing all of this attention? i think because it goes to this, you know this decision he has to make and what it says about donald trump, his team, his governing sometime as president of the united states. he could have easily be i this point picked a loyalist like rudy guiliani. but the fact that he s considering mitt romney suggests that he knows that it would send a message to the country. he has said, i want to be a unifying president. it would send a message that yes, he could be that president of the united states, he could pick somebody like mitt romney that trashed him so bad in that speech in salt lake city. there is this trashing back and forth going on. i talked to one loyalist to mitt romney, who needs who more? this is sort of in response to this back fighting coming from the peo
we re live tonight in las vegas. just hours now until the first democratic debate of this campaign. joining me now is congresswoman debbie wasserman who also happens to be the chair of the democratic national committee. i appreciate you joining me here. great to be here. pleasure to meet you finally in person. thank you. i know. so the republican debate, that s a hard act to follow with donald trump and all the sniping on stage. are we going to see fireworks tomorrow night? i think we re going to see a very clear contrast between our five candidates who are talking about the issues that are important to the american people, particularly those that want to make sure that they can help them reach the middle class. the cornerstones of the middle class life, making sure that we close the wage gap. making sure we can get equal pay for equal work. access to quality affordable housing. issues? you want to hear about issues? that s what i think we will hear about instead of the b