has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the confidence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. reporter: press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders was asked about it yesterday. he said he was not going to give a response from the briefing room podium. the president chose to on twiser. over all, we are seeing a sustained campaign on behalf of the president against republicans at a time he needs them now more than ever. decent from capitol hill. also this morning, new decent from inside the white house. his top economic adviser, kaitlan. yeah, gary cohen did an extraordinary interview with the financial times. i want to read two excerpts from that. he said this administration can
delegitimated by the allies. just imagine the day of the congressional baseball yesterday with so much emotion and so much sort of unified, you know, expression about the need to deescalate the rhetoric. newt gingrich, the top ally, is maligning bob mueller in tweets all day saying he is the tip of the spear of the deep state out to destroy the presidency. so there is a definitely a campaign out not through officials at the briefing room podium but others to make sure that bob mueller is a bad guy no matter what. that s fine. i understand that they re doing it. it s what bill clinton and his allies did to ken star in the 90s. but he lengthens the story about russia by tweeting about it all the time. we re in a new phase that we need to talk about on capitol hill where not only do they really take issue with him, you know, having a celebration in the rose garden about the house
maggie haberman and john avlon and chris cillizza. that is the common phrase. haven t talked to him about it. it is highly indicative of a message from the white house. that is? it is two messages. we have to assume a claim no knowledge of conversation is now what passes for an answer from the briefing room podium which is a different point. be peter baker and i reported monday night that the president has grown frustrated with jeff sessions. complaining about him privately. it dates back one to the travel ban that wasn t a ban and now is a ban again. it has been blocked in the courts. the president despite the fact it was an executive order he signed and blaming the department of justice in terms of how this is played out and defense of it. this goes back to when jeff sessions recused himself from
him coming up and taking the white house, you know, briefing room podium and answering questions the way that, you know, at times hillary clinton when she was first lady and she held press conferences to sort of get at her role as an adviser to the president, you know, president bill clinton. you know, family members who will put themselves kind of forward and take those questions. it seems very unlikely, but the pressuring s going to grow, and part of that, kate, of course is democrats smell blood in the water. they know that jared kushner occupies this kind of unusual space in trump world, where, again, president trump can t just sort of throw him overboard. so, the extent to which they can cause heartburn for the president, a lot of it s going to be around jared. whereas you may not want to hold a press conference, i do know that someone named gloria borger did a great interview with his wife, ivanka. you could also sit down with gloria. it d be great to see you. just an idea, jus
behavior. the president doesn t need biased, traditional media to reach you, the american people. we now have facebook, he has over 50 million followers on facebook, twitter, instagram. c the president is in a unique position to communicate daily and directly with the country, without using the press as hisme messenger. in order to benefit the american public, if these daily briefings do continue, i would argue they need to be restructured.d. the white house press team should regularly develop a list of the top and most important 15-25 issues of the day. the media should be able to submit questions about theseth issues in writing, give the white house time to respond with clarity, specificity, and if sean spicer wants to take a couple of questions from the briefing room podium, that s fine. but only on the specific topics and he should also follow up ing writing on any other questions they have.g what about taking questions from you, the american people, on facebook?