carry weight as well. the lawyers he had, emmitt flood, ty cobb, really, really credible. there were disagreements between you and pat cipollone. you made clear there were policy differences but you could attest to his cred ibt and integrity. i want to talk about another one of the major trump investigations. a special master reviewing documents seized from mar-a-lago ordered trump s lawyers to back up his claims that the fbi planted evidence at his florida resort. so this seems to put them in a tough spot, either sign a sworn declaration that evidence was planted or not, basically admitting trump lied. it s very interesting to me as a form are lawyer and trump insider and someone who worked in the west wing, this is where we re starting to see the bright lines drawn between politics and
they re recognizing that there s a problem with his connections to ukraine and at a bare minimum he needs to step back away from that. scott, should the president still consider rudy giuliani his personal attorney given all that s going on? no, absolutely not. i mean, giuliani being in the middle of this from the beginning has been one of the absolute worst facts for the president. he obviously exercised galactically bad judgment and now he s in direct contact with people who were terrible in trying to break campaign finance laws. so he s put the president in harm s way. you can t have your personal attorney putting you in harm s way. i think it s time for the president to move rudy on. rudy s got his own issues to deal with and he needs a core of lawyers around him who are competent and help him navigate this. just like when he brought in emmitt flood. i would highly advise the
i ll pass. welcome back. i m cyril vanier. let s look at your headlines this hour. u.s. president donald trump making waves ahead of his trip to great britain. in an interview with the sunday time he said the u.k. should not pay the $50 billion price tag to leave the european union. he praised the brexit party leader nigel farage. meanwhile london s mayor and lashing out against the president in a new scathing op-ed calling him one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat. president trump said white house lawyer emmitt flood will be leaving his post. he also represented former presidents bill clinton during his impeachment process in the 1990s. the city of virginia beach
demeanor. what sources have been telling us that republicans and allies to the president have already tried to paint this as a victory for him, despite the fact they have not received this report but the mere fact that the president does not face an indictment, that coming from a source that the president was happy this was over and that it s really kind of a wait and see type of situation. the rnc putting out talking points already emphasizing that those inside the trump circle and outside his allies should emphasize that this investigation that took two years, millions of taxpayer dollars and no indictments here, they are happy that it is over. i think the one thing we should look at, however, is the fact that emmitt flood, his attorney who is responsible for this report he rarely travels with the president but here by his side and we have not yet seen a
15 minutes after the hour now. as they absorb the news that robert mueller ended his investigation with no more indictments the trump seem to be in a celebratory mood and he is golfing with kid rock. there are the pants again. democrats vow that the mueller report is only the beginning and pointed to the fact that numerous legal and congressional investigations continue. what is the strategy for the white house moving forward? that is the question. let s bring in someone who knows what it s like to work in a white house under siege. guy smith, former adviser to president bill clinton. thank you for being with us. thanks for having me. good morning. a source close to the president says there is no war room set up at the white house, that white house staffers do not know what the communication strategy, what the response will be from the white house if this report is negative. what is your assessment of that strategy? you know emmitt flood, the