jen psaki, former white house communications director for president obama. congressman kingston, is this bad news for the trump administration? i don t think it s bad news. i think it s actually helpful. if he wants to come forward, i think people will want to hear what this big story is that he has. but i do think there is a lot of questions. as i read the immunity agreements with the five clinton employees that were involved with the e-mail scandal, there were different types of immunity, for example, for heather samuelson and sheryl mills, they got immunity from the fbi. but apparently not from congress. i m not a lawyer. i don t know how it looks. but i think it might be a while of going back and forth before an immunity agreement is reached. but frankly, i think it would be good to have him step forward and say what is it that you know? it seems to be the center of it. and this might be where the whole thing well, not the whole thing, but where some of
republican side right now. we don t know enough to say that it s necessarily nefarious. but it s definitely unusual. congressman kingston, you know this better than anybody. that committee, the house committee, they can have more than one meeting a week. if they wanted to have a closed door meeting with director comey and mike rogers of the nsa and also that week have an open hearing with sally yates and james clapper and john brennan, they could do that? they could do that. i do support nunes decision to let things cool down. i have never seen so many people run to the cameras on the intel committee. i will say it s happening on both parties. the ranking member i don t think he can make a meeting. for him or others to complain about process, devin nunes can go down to the white house and look at evidence any time he wants to. for them to worry about process when they re comfortable taking
i think this is just one of the many weird things that we re seeing happen. again, a lot of smoke, no fire. yet that we know of. why does nunes go to the white house and talk to the brief the president before talking to the ranking member or members of his own committee about this? then most recently, cancelling those hearings. to the jared kushner question, why does he decide to meet with a banker? there s a lot of really bizarre things happening on the republican side right now. we don t know enough to say that it s necessarily nefarious. but it s definitely unusual. congressman kingston, you know this better than anybody. that committee, the house committee, they can have more than one meeting a week. if they wanted to have a closed door meeting with director comey and mike rogers of the nsa and also that week have an open
ryan was his decision and he didn t go out there and sell it. this whole process has only taken about three weeks and he s not been out selling. 17% approval according to quinnipiac. that s his problem. he may have gone through the motions of lobbying, brought people to the white house, went to capitol hill, but at the end of the day people didn t hear him. we heard for days the freedom caucus members would succumb because of fear he would come to their districts and primary them. in one meeting he stood up and pointed to meadows, the head of the freedom caucus, and said i m coming after you, people didn t know if he was joking or threatening. the outside republican groups didn t fear the president. that will be a problem when it comes time to pass things like the debt ceiling. those who were opposing this were saying we ll support you, have your back. congressman kingston, again it s early and every president has
what the country needs. we don t make great deals anymore but we will once i become president. i m a closer. i m going to close. we re going to start winning so much. we re going to win and win and win! back with the panel. gloria borger and ryan liz sa, john king, maggie haberman, jack kingston, james sake, jason miller and brian fallon. john king, an extraordinary day. it is and donald trump has defied every rule in politics so don t put anything in cement tonight. however, he failed at his first big test. to the point you played that sound and from his announcement speeches, i know the politicians, i can get a deal, if you can t get a deal, you re not very good. hi words. i m the guy who does deals. he could not get his party to follow him on the first big test of the trump presidency.