The question is who he can get confirmed into any of these jobs. Or recess appointed. Never a boring moment. My thanks to the squajeremy bas. Ill see you back here monday for deadline white house at 4 00 p. M. Weird night in the west wing. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington tonight. The american presidency is grim and chaotic. The New York Times is reporting the Chief Of Staff is offering to resign. The communication chief is in danger, and the white house secretary is gone altogether. President trump publicly addressed the growing west wing scandal for the first time today defending the former aide whos been accused of two exwives of
violent behavior. We certainly wish him well. Its obviously a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. And we hope he has a wonderful career, and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly hes also very sad now. And as you pr
To say its been a busy week is an understatement. Before we go, a quick programming note. Msnbc is teaming up with the Global Citizen festival to help bring an end to extreme poverty. The Global Citizen festival is tomorrow. There will be performances by janet jackson, Janelle Monet and john legend. Catch it all here starting at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on msnbc. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Breaking news this afternoon on the Supreme Court nomination fight that has gripped the nation. Republican senator jeff flake dropping a bombshell on his Senate Judiciary Committee Colleagues saying he would only vote yes on Passing Kavanaugh Out Of Committee if the fbi investigates dr. Christine blasey fords allegations of Sexual Assault before any final Confirmation Vote on the floor. Flake will not support final confirmation until the fbi concludes its limited investigation. Here was that announcement. Weve had
will not give up. kadia, considering what just happened today with joe manchin, what do you now think about the vice president s response to that question? thanks for having me. first of all, kamala harris is right, there s so much more work that has to be done now that this news has come out today about manchin s plan to vote no and not support this bill. what the american people are wondering now isn t whether president biden is in control as opposed to senator manchin. what they are going to wonder is why didn t the white house know this was coming for weeks if not for months. we had been hearing that negotiations were going well, they were coming together, they were coming to terms about what would pass and what could pass. to have this news come out like this and also to hear, as we just heard earlier, that the white house didn t have much of a heads-up that it was happening, that doesn t look quite good.
didn t the white house chief of staff who actually possesses some duality when an incumbent president runs for office just call over to doj and say and even that would be inappropriate. but these actors knew there was no fraud because bill barr had said there was no fraud. i think chris krebs had already said that the election had been secure. what questions do these meetings lead you to want to know more about? well, first i think it s remarkable that they had a meeting two days after the election ostensibly to talk about a media strategy that included allegations of fraud. there was no basis for that. it wasn t that they had received sales of fraud and allegations of fraud and they were aware of fraud, that was part of their media strategy, not their legal strategy. right from the beginning you know that this was a corrupt enterprise designed to subvert the election. there are a lot of things in this reporting and other
third of our supply. they wanted to know how much oil america needs a day. why didn t the white house have a talking point for all democrats with those numbers on it so these things don t happen? it seems like a confusing moment that she wouldn t know that. i wonder if she didn t want to say, if she wondered if folks at home would be doing the math, 50,000 barrels, that s not much in the issue we re facing here. we have seen this administration finally coming around to try to message on inflation, right? they were running from it for a long time. it s evident to them they can t outrun this issue anymore. and they are, even though it s a bit of not really a disciplined effort, as we can see they are making an effort to address this. they are making an effort but they are clouding their effort by unforced errors. we ll see as we go.