i think that was a personal decision that rob made and one that he was not pressured to do but one that he made on his own. there was initially an impulse to protect porter but also to say that he only resigned over the objections of people in the white house. let me back up one second. there was two stories that came out. one on tuesday night and one on wednesday morning. the weight of the two stories together i think compelled rob to do the right thing and resign. but all the while, they read a statement from rob porter that he is denying the vile allegations that he doesn t want to further engage in this orchestrated public kmeer campaign nap said when you are do you think it is a smear campaign? when the president is talking about due process, he is right that we re a country of laws and there is due process, but we
manafort. central or not, don t know. know a lot about apparently what mueller s efforts to investigate whether the president was obstructing justice, how he handled comey and flynn, but neither one are at the central issue issue, which is russian interference. did americans help? where are we on that aspect of it? today face bao disclosed they are turning over to congress these 1,000 russian ads disclose add few weeks ago that were placed during the campaign nap is an unexplored area of this whole russian interference campaign. the fake news, the use of social media. haven t heard much from twitter come to the hill and testify. russians clearly used media, we don t know to what extent or in any americans cooperated with it. do we have a sense what twitter and facebook are
system functions. he is absolutely lazy. and detached from his job. what people saw last night, i think, was a president that revealed his incompetence, how lazy and detached he is. did you mean to call barack obama the president of the united states lazy? yes. lazy, dumb, incompetent. and general powell said sunday when many of us in the african-american community hear lazy, the next word is shiftless. all of these are stereotypes. felons. and what is most disturbing about this is he was a surrogate for governor romney, the presidential candidate, and not one time did he denounce the statements. sununu has a right to say what he wants, but he was never, ever denounced by the campaign and he was an official representative of the campaign nap is what was so offensive, victoria. it was. and then in talking about this vein of intolerance, it s old