other people who need an offramp, but have to find a good reason to get out. at a certain point, they re all undermining their own credibility by continuing to work for this person. he makes them do really like degrading the lies that, especially the coms team has to do. that s going to make it tough to take you seriously ever again in your career, i don t know where sean spicer is going to wind up, but whoever he has as clients, they have to know he doesn t come with a ton of credibility, we all know he s willing to lie for his boss. the same goes for hope hicks now. they all decided to get in, it s going to be hard to get out. but it s that first decision that really matters. put this in the context of what has been another rough week for the president, mr. nunberg s domination of the public discussion of the russia probe, but as i mentioned, what
president for the meeting. there is no diplomatic strategy for how we re going to tell foreign partners. there s no legislative strategy for how you re going to alert congress. yet wilbur ross department in the late hours of wednesday evening cobble together an e-mail to say this is what we re doing. and that then gets leaked out, to your point, that there s a meeting about to happen. it s really important to note, no one at the state department, the treasury department or the department of defense knew anything was going to happen. in fact, according to my source, the white house counsel s office said they were 1 1/2 to 2 weeks away to even reviewing the steel industry and possible tariffs. they simply weren t prepared. now the white house has pushed back. they spoke to my colleague, peter alexander, and said hold on. the communications department was prepared. the coms team. it s no surprise. everyone in the world knows how president trump feels about trade and trade wars. sure. we
perhaps that requires trust in his coms team. but tweet smarter. i think there s something to that. you can use twitter to help advance your message. that said, if you re like the coms team and you re tweeting out p.r., press releases all the time, nobody wants to read that, right? one of the reasons why he has been successful, harlan, on twitter is because he s authentic. that s the word for it. sometimes it s not as polished as we might like. in the past, running cam pains, i ve taken the twitter away from candidates. i found it s been damaging. that s not the case with the president. what he s been able to do, he s been able to parlay some of that outrageousness to productive attention. as soon as that changes, i ll change my tune.
priebus and steve bannon. who leaked that to you. oh, man, i can t tell you that. i can t tell you that. okay i m just going to what i m going to do is i will eliminate everybody in the coms team and we ll start over. it s no problem. that s all. so, i asked these guys not to leak anything and they can t help themselves so we ll eliminate everybody. so somebody in the coms team leaked that to you? okay, but you re an american citizen. this is a major catastrophe for the american country, so i m asking you as an american patriot to give me a sense of the leak. the one thing i can tell you is it s two people in the white house who i know wouldn t lie to me, you know what i mean? who? i can t tell you, buddy. you know i can t do that. so you can give me is it an assistant to the if you told me something is it assistant to the president? reince is [ bleep ] paranoid schizophrenic, let me leak
combat with him to publicly shame him, all this tension stays and all the leaking continues. tone comes from the town. that s the point a.b. is making. this is all about mimicking the president s own memes and actions. trying to shame his internal, not enemies but challengers. what scaramucci may have done to priebus last night mimics what the president is doing to jeff sessions on twitter. none of it is healthy, none of it is normal. none of it speaks to leadership that puts a cohesive team on the field for goals for the american people. yesterday was supposed to be about health care. it became about a trans ban popped by the president on twitter, removing rights from americans currently serving, a series of other initiatives and then capped off in the evening by sort of bloody knives between white house staffers on twitter.