We came in in the Bush Administration with what we thought was a press corps largely inclined to be unfriendly. Did a fair amount of work to try to warm up the relation shship it was always throughout the Bush Administration, it was relatively tense. The view inside the white house was that most of the media were either slightly or substantially biassed against the administration. We felt we were most of the time swimming upstream. One of the good things is that the president periodically annoyed by it just said, you know, let it is it everybody was like let it go off your back. Do the best you can but dont get fixated on it. Dont dont spend all of your time rawed up about how the press is treating you. Do your job. Who helped him decide who he would grant interviews to . Thats the press secretarys job usually with the with the supervision of the Communications Director and the structure we had. Our Communications Directors were karen hughes, dan bartlet, ed gillespie. We had a series
With a prepaid card. Spends like cash. Feels like membership. Good morning, im chris hayes. The country will see more extreme weather. In the east, highs in the 50s. On the west coast, temperatures near freezing and severe storms are threatening the mississippi and ohio River Valleys with flooding. And in egypt, a court has ordered a retrial for former president hosni mubarak. Im joined by msnbc contributor, joy reed, and tara mcinnis, executive director for american for progress action fun and professor of linguistics and contributing editor at the new republic and columnist at the New York Daily News and amy goodman, author and, of course, host of democracy now. This week president obama anoupsed three cabinet nominations all white men. The five departures which as of wednesday include hilda solace to our males. The appointments have called into question the president s commitment to diversity in his second term, concerns by a mick kmur in the New York Times on tuesday, showing presi
Tough business. With us president of the council on foreign, author of the book a world in disarray. Youve had one of those. Also New York Times jeffrey peters. Were going to talk about the updates of the weekend, comey. Im going to say two years from now, if he does what hes supposed to do, Richard Haass, we may look back at macron and say hes the most significant world leader on the stage in a century. First he won the presidency without a party. Now hes forged a parliamentary majority without a party. 75 to 80 in a country that was just about as stayed when it came to Political Parties as us. Its a political the contrast with britain one of the two established, tories, George Osborne described theresa may, the Prime Minister, as the walking dead. Youve got a limping Traditional Party there. In france dynamism, possibility as opposed to defunct. This is an Extraordinary Development in france. For the first time since, my gosh, i dont know how long, the french are not following. The f
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