to her? the president refused to take questions about dingell who reminded him she is still in mourning. it is still something i am really grieving over. this thanksgiving was really hard. and christmas is harder. reporter: white house press secretary stephanie grisham defended the president saying mr. trump was just punching back. but that s not true, the dingells didn t punch first. he was just riffing. reporter: speaker pelosi said the president s remark revealed his character. just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things that he says doesn t mean he s funny. it is not funny at all. it is very sad. reporter: the president used his appearance in the oval office to introduce jeff van drew who bolted from the democratic party. the president also told reporters he is all but settled for pat cipollone to be his
gun. what trump is struggling with now is okay i ve been impeached. i m going to reject that entire notion publicly every single day. at his rally last night, it s insignificant. all day today he s talking about it doesn t feel like i ve been impeached. he s not taking ownership for what seems like one of the first times in his life of being held accountable. this is a lighter point but i don t know if something happens to you for the first time you can say it doesn t feel like it s different than the last time i was impeached. it s all brand-new. it s a new experience and a rare one as gene said. stay with me as i tee up another special guest with context. here s speaker pelosi inviting prayers. let us pray. let us pray for the president. just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things that he says doesn t mean he s funny. it s not funny at all. it s very sad. very sad, speaker pelosi
let us pray. let us pray for the president. the president clearly is insecure when it comes to statespersons, whether it was john mccain. think or what he said about john mccain and his supporters just overlooked that. john mccain. now john dingell. what the president misunderstand stands is that cruelty is not wit. just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things he says doesn t mean he s funny. it s not funny at all. it s very sad. thank you all very much. happy holidays. good morning. i m chris jansing in for craig melvin. you see the speaker of the house departing after what was an historic day yesterday. she made it very clear, what we re all watching for, what happens next after the
nancy pelosi spoke about it this morning, she was asked about it at her news conference, i wanted to share that with our viewers. let us pray for the president. the president clearly is insecure when it comes to statespersons, whether it was john mccain. think of what he said about john mccain and his supporters just overlooked that. now john dingell. what the president misunderstands is that cruelty is not wit. just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things that he says doesn t mean he s funny. he seems to play to the crowds at these rallies and he said a similar thing about john mccain whose family was deeply hurt by that. what is it about the way he behaves in front of these crowds? you know, i don t know. it makes me sad.
in trump-leaning districts were not going to vote. the majority of them are going to vote for impeachment. so i think they had done a lot of tricks either with the media to try to convince us that things were not going the way they were which was traditional spin. but some of it was them believing what they were saying. and to your point, here we are. he doesn t want to be impeached. i understand he is energized by a fight always. we ve seen that with him repeatedly. this reminds me of his behavior right now the most of the access hollywood weekend fallout in october of 2016 after that tape was released and he went to the debate in st. louis and attacked hillary clinton with some of her husband s accusers. his behavior right now reminds me of that. that doesn t mean he s enjoying this. it doesn t mean because he sees political advantage to it that he isn t acutely aware of the negative historical connotation here. david gregory, you ve covered different presidents. what s your thou