those answers. the thing the irony of all of this, from my point of view, is that rudy giuliani went out on his own and did this. maybe he talked to the president, maybe he didn t talk to the president. but he clearly did not know what the law and the facts were related to federal elections commission and they have right there as the white house counsel don mcgahn who is a federal election law specialist, that s what he knows better than any other area of law. and all giuliani had to do was say, hey, i talked to the president, this is how we want to come out with this, how does this implicate his legal standing as a matter of federal election commission and department of justice. it is stunning. just stunning. kaitlan, just as you say, i m thinking about the press briefing, sarah sanders, about her credibility problem after yesterday. how does she square this today? we can talk about sarah sanders and what he is said and didn t say and what she knew and didn t know and also abo
dammed. rudy uni mgiuliani may not have facts right. but we will go partisan here. that s a great point. we will bring up the facts that we believe that the mueller investigation is tainted. something we hear every night from sean hannity and i don t think it is any coincidence you re hearing it from the president the morning after he get the hannity notes here. that is, you know, it is a political strategy and maybe that will work. it is. by the way, john, it is working. we have seen how republicans are responding in the polls and looking at the mueller investigation. this constant hammering and politicizing of this investigation, it does seem to be working with the president s supporters and beyond that a little bit inside his party which is key. but what i do think is important to note here too is that the president seems committed to a strategy on fighting back on the obstruction of justice charge, the potential charge, that he
in one place. they are. and, i mean, stormy daniels notwithstanding, the fact is if there this much of a breakdown between giuliani and trump on this issue, imagine how this is going to spill over into the mueller investigation. you can live in this alternate reality, where facts don t matter sort of on air and into the press, but that doesn t fly in a courtroom. that doesn t fly to prosecutors. and mueller, i mean, if we re talking about the president, the possibility of the president sitting down for an interview with mueller, this type of behavior is not going to fly. not going to get him very far. david chalian, the parsing of words that john mentioned there, this seems like another depends what the definition of is is moment. it does. and i long studied that tape and i agree with john, you can see the avenues of opportunity to parse language and have an is is moment and donald trump can say, i did not know it at the time, i did not know about the home equity line at the time
this one or is this just muddy the waters, muddy them, muddy them, muddy them, scream fake news and hope people forget. it is hard to discern a strategy other than they seem to be playing catch up. they re behind developments. so i think what you see now is the president responding to the overall coverage he s seen by rudy giuliani s comments and realizing that whatever their goal was to try to clean things up and perhaps wall off the president from the michael cohen investigation and the southern district of new york, that didn t seem to work well, and so here s the president sort of saying, you know what, i ll get out there and i ll have to clean this up myself. which, of course, is a position that no white house likes to see the president in. but this president, as you know, believes he s his best advocate and best communications specialist to get out there and try to clean this up himself. insofar as there may be a strategy here, it is facts be
i was going to get this over with. so now doesn t the president essentially have to say rudy giuliani was lying in that? the president, poppy, i think the president clearly stated rudy giuliani did not have his facts right. he said he s going to get his facts straight. that implies his facts haven t been correct at this point according to the president. and so two things you have to ask there, either rudy giuliani was not telling the truth to the washington post about this being a strategy and that the president agreed and the president was pleased with this and wanted this out there, that that s one possibility or the other possibility is the president didn t like the coverage of what he saw after rudy giuliani made those comments and is now shifting and trying a different approach here in order to to explain to the american people in a way that he thinks might be more acceptable. we ll see when we get theon the