whatever it was, and this is all of these tentacles we talk about. what s going on here, what s going on in the white house. the big issues that are on his desk are giant for the country. bob woodward, thank you. hold a second. thank you so much, bob woodward. bob costa, willie and i got the three carton cigarettes. chesterfields. we re heading down to the holiday in off of 57th, and did you text beckham? beckham is coming. victoria is coming. all right. a little spice added. we do it every friday night, in case you guys don t know. what do you got on tonight? we got my colleague dan balls, susan davis. a great show. the beckhams love dan balt?
the reality, as we heard the sound there from a variety of members of congress on both sides in the opening of the show here, this gives a new opening, a new sort of window to look into. so i would find it very difficult to believe that the president s oldest son would now not be answering a question from congressional committees, and this takes us into a whole new realm. the question, of course, is, did the president know about the meeting? his lawyer spokesman said he did not before the meeting but will be asking those questions to see if he knew about it after, and in the year since that meeting. this is a significant development here that will be lingering in this special counsel s case as well as we go forward with this. sure is. jeff zeleny, thank you for that report. here to weigh in with their reporting, margaret from bloom berg politics, cnn s manu raju and amy walter of the cook political report and dan balls of the washington post. dan, starting with you. what do you mak
he is doing this to some degree. the other thing that i think is important to note, this is a great piece by dan. but it is, i would say, however, a washington story. out here, people are not paying attention to this kind of thing. what will happen is at the end of the trump presidency, whenever that may be, history will judge him on his accomplishments as they do with every other president. not necessarily and really at all on how he got there. to say that people aren t paying attention to it doesn t mean that it doesn t play a role in what ends up being the accomplishment. i understand. history will judge that. appreciate it. thank you very much. fascinating article in the washington post. thank you. in a few minutes the truth with van jones begins. one guest is arnold schwarzenegger. how enforcement efforts are being felt in california. van traveled there and spoke to people dealing with the changes and filed this report.
weeks for president trump. it s fascinating compared to your peach whiiece which lays o things went off the rails quickly. a lot seemed to be about donald trump s management style. i think that s right. the interesting thing is that there was a transition process that was operating. according to outsiders, pretty effectively until the week of the election. the curiosity is that donald trump i think for s put it, bad karma reasons did not want to engage at all with the transition team prior to the election. he thought it was he thought it would jinx him. so he didn t have any involvement. members of his family and senior staff certainly did. jeffrey, do you i know i m sure you read dan s piece t. seems like the white house is set up in many ways like the transition was and in many ways like the trump organization itself was. it worked certainly during the
it even had a name. it was spokes of the wheel. each person was a spoke going in to the president. everyone since then has abandoned it because it created a factionalized white house that was more like lord of the flies. dan, i talked to a number of former chiefs of staffs, republicans and democrats, from recent administrations who have all said, you need to kind of everybody needs to know what their leans aanes are, what the portfolios are. you can t have various people who have the president s ear. everybody needs to stay in their lane. certainly there are management techniques of having conflicting groups around you so that you are getting different kinds of advice so that everything isn t hom oj niezed. there is value in that. one of the things that some of the people who were preparing the transition saw was that donald trump as a candidate and as a businessman has a particular style.