and his reluctance to cross the president has been a frustration not just to critics of donald trump but sol republicme republ well. the best jokes always have a grain of truth. self-defacing humor he has a create personality and great comic timing. he nailed those. can i see people saying paul ryan, you should bristle at the nature of the presidency and how dare you joke about the fact that you pretend to ignore the tweets which he probably does. but it s the al smith dinner. it s a roast of yourself and everybody else. so, take it with a grain of salt and be light harted. we could all use some humor. but, i was saying bring that every day. for instance, if he s asked about the tweet go, look, guys, what do you want me to say? kind of be a little honest without kind of denigrating the
jake pressed the sec of state on whether or not he called the path moron. listen. i m not going to deal with that kind of petty stuff. this is a town that seems to relish gossip, rumor, innuendo and feed on it. you have a cattle ranch. you don t want to say anything about the senator calling suggesting you will be gelded before the world? not anything that bothers you? i checked. i m fully intact. so, betsy, kudos to the secretary for comic timing. that was fantastic, the response to jake right there. but on the question of did he or did he not call the president a moron, a question that he continues to dodge, is there any right answer there? is there an answer that will satisfy the president? the answer the president clearly wants to hear is hear tillerson say he never called him a moron and just telling that the secretary of state resolutely now on more than one occasion has refused himself in his own voice to disavow that
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you have to balance your humor or you re going to offend somebody. mort didn t care. the act is the statement of a lone guy in a rebellion. that s why people call it negative. i don t talk about the news, i m a victim of the news. former speech writer for president obama. david lit joins me live from los angeles. good to see you. you wrote a lot of speeches for president obama. now you re the head writer for the funny or die website. how important was comedy in your speeches? i wrote for a president who has really good comic timing, he used that to get his point across, entertain audiences, whether they voted for him or not. and sometimes we were able to use that to get the administration of our may to the