filing center saying he didn t say he didn t actually refer to article v, did he? even called the nsc for clarification and what happened and the messaging from the communication shop was, the white house, said, absolutely, that was an affirmation of article v. right, his presence there. that s what they were actually saying. and the sort of brief messaging like after the 2001 attacks, you know, article v was invoked, but there was the obvious not the rest of it that you would expect which is, and, you know, you can always count on the u.s. to be there for. that s the part that never happened, and at the time it was like don t make such a mountain out of a molehill, but maybe it was. tell our allies in europe. thank you so much one and all. be sure to tune in thursday to cnn for special coverage of james comey s testimony before the senate intelligence committee starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern. coming up, amid alleged ties to terrorism, five arab nations cut
this kind of governing chaos around everything that he does. we saw that with the run up to the paris announcement. nobody knew what he wanted to do. at least on that occasion he was controlling the sense of chaos envol lopping washington. this week will be a difficult week and potentially bad week for the white house because they can t control the message. we ve seen their communication shop has enough trouble sort of trying to communicate what the president is doing and thinking in normal circumstances. this is why it s going to be very difficult. you have to say they have four days to potentially game out, you know, exactly what comey could say. there ought to be some kind of, you know, decent and thought out response about what he says. i wonder if the white house might feel like it can at least try to control the message for rosenstein now. possibly. yeah. because he is a current employee. looks like he will be much less expansive than perhaps comey who has an incentive to
about the guy sleeping in the residents. yeah. i think there s so much that plays into that, brian. it s not just last night s tweet. it s the culmination of things. it starts at the top. starts with the head. the president sets the mood and the feel and the environment and the space in which everyone, the staff, and the chief of staff on down operate. when there is considered an and accepted dysfunction, then that s what you re going to get. the only person at the end of the day, we could talk about who s going to be chief of staff and who s coming and going, it don t matter. because this is the environment the president allows to exist. he perpetuates it in his own way. the communication shop is dysfunctional because they can t keep up with what he s saying when he s having interviews with people. so let s stop pretending someone s going to miraculously turn this around. the only person who can do that
and appointees feeling great about the guy sleeping in the residents. yeah. i think there s so much that plays into that, brian. it s not just last night s tweet. it s the culmination of things. it starts at the top. starts with the head. the president sets the mood and the feel and the 92 environment and the space in which everyone, staff and the chief of staff on down operate. when there is considered an accepted dysfunction, then that s what you re going to get. the only person at the end of the day we could talk about who s going to be chief of staff and who s coming and going, it doesn t matter because this is the environment the president has created. he allows it to exist. he perpetuates it in his own way. the communication shop is dysfunctional because they can t keep up with what he s saying when he s having interviews with people. so let s stop pretending
it s not just last night s tweet. it s the culmination of things. it starts at the top. starts with the head. the president sets the mood and the feel and the 92 environment and the space in which everyone, staff and the chief of staff on down operate. when there is considered an accepted dysfunction, then that s what you re going to get. the only person at the end of the day we could talk about who s going to be chief of staff and who s coming and going, it doesn t matter because this is the environment the president has created. he allows it to exist. he perpetuates it in his own way. the communication shop is dysfunctional because they can t keep up with what he s saying when he s having interviews with people. so let s stop pretending someone s going to miraculously turn this around. the only urs person that can do that is donald trump. if he wants it to stop, it stops.