being related to the president might actually move the needle. he might be taken serious there because the place is full of people like him who have no qualifications but are the son or son-in-law of somebody. this is just that crazy. i think that s an upswing we can end this segment on. to our panel, bobby gouache, ashley parker, and michael crowley, thank you all very much for being on our broadcast again tonight. coming up, the senate poised to go knew clear as democrats plan to filibuster the supreme court nomination of judge gorsuch. i ll speak with a member of the senate jish rath senate judiciary committee when the 11th hour continues on a monday night. 5,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide.
affairs correspondent for politico. see how cool he keeps it in that third box. always very cool. bobby, we welcome you back to thesstores. shores. yohave the only double life among us. you get to live over there and come back here. what is this story playing like over there? well, it s astonishing. the level of astonishment about the donald trump presidency, just simply keeps rising. where do you start? twitter or the russia ties or twitter, actually, the fact that you have a president who is speaking over the top of his entire administration directly to the american people, but speaking in this sort of really bizarre manner. it s sort of my newspaper every day either online or in the paper, we re covering this, because people are fascinated. this is the leader of the free world or so we would like to think. every tweet he tweets out matters. people pay close attention. ashley, and this is the life we have chosen. this has become baked into your
as we speak is by day a reporter for the washington post. thanks to ashley and the friendly technician who made it possible for her to hear us and speak to us. and michael, from politico. always very cool. bobby, we welcome you back to these stores. shores. you have the only double life among us. you get to live over there and come back here. what is this story playing like over there? it is astonishing. the level of astonishment about the donald trump presidency, just simply keeps rising. where do you start? twitter or the russia ties or ? twitter, actually, the fact that you have a president who is speaking over the top of his entire administration directly to the american people, but speaking in this sort of really bizarre american, it s sort of my newspaper almost every day either on line or in the paper we are covering this because people are fascinated. this is the leader of the free
campaign and pro trump super pacs. he was seen in the trump transition s new york offices in december and also happens to be the brother of the trump administration s education secretary betsy devos. one of our own sources confirmed the woeftd version of the meeting while a second cast doubt that that s what the meeting was about a. senior administration official called the suggestion of a trump/putin back channel ridiculous. white house press secretary sean spicer told us late this even, quote, we are not aware of any meetings and eric prince had no role in the transition. we also learned late tonight that president trump spoke with vladimir putin in the wake of today s deadly subway explosion in st. petersburg. let s bring in our panel to kick off the night and the week. bobby gouache is here, former worl editor for time magazine, now editor in chief of hind you stan times. ashley parker who has a pair of human hands affixing a microphone and earpiece to her