you got a best friend? yes, sir. is he smarter than you? yes, sir. would you trust him with your life? yes, sir. that s your chief of staff. remember when people were romantic about politics from that scene in the bartlett west wing we transition now however ungracefully to the trump west wing. the president wants everyone to know that while many people wanted the job and some big names were turned away, he ended up going across the white house driveway to the office of management and budget to find his new chief of staff. the president made the big noumt on twitter. mulvaney is his new acting chief of staff. it s believed the acting part of his title is an option he wanted for when it comes time perhaps to exit the west wing.
catherine, i can t wait. i have to show you this. this is a clip. what was the date on this? november 2nd, 2016. this is your new acting white house chief of staff talking about donald trump. yes, i m supporting donald trump. i m doing so as enthusiastically as i can. in fact, i think he s a terrible human being, but the choice on the other side is just as bad. how many people wanted this job that is now in the hands of a guy who called the boss a terrible human being? i think the thing that s been notable with this process all along is how many people have been trying to distance themselves from the job rather than run toward what is typically a big, highly sought after washington gig. we had a lot of people back channelling that they weren t interested and some people publicly withdrawing their names. most notably today the day started like looking like former new jersey governor chris christie was a leading contender. he declared on twitter that it
new york running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. i m going to read you what he wrote today on twitter. the fbi 302s, basically transcripts of interviews with general flynn show comey and strock were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap for flynn which included not refreshing his recollection and filing a false statement charge when the fbi thought it wasn t. again, nelson, i would never ask you to take a swing at your former boss, but what is he talking about there? it s really hard to see. remember, flynn did not lie about this for the first time in his statement to the fbi. they were there because he had stated two weeks before in public that he had not spoken to kislyak about the sanctions. they knew that, in fact, he had. so they went to go ask him, are you sure you didn t talk about
and not get caught. malcolm nance, i ve got to read you this and this is fantastic. this is from government papers. in a series in november 8 and 92016 twitter directed messages. again she s using twitter. as part of that same twitter conversation butina told the russian official, i m going to sleep, it s 3:00 a.m. here, i am ready for further orders. in other words, malcolm, we were still in this city in new york city and she s in touch saying when i wake up, you know, if there s a briefcase with cash on the couch i ll know we have a deal. fascinating. i want to clarify what i think is the title of maria butina should be. since the fall of the soviet union there s a new category of intelligence collector and