there is a question of whether a former president is disqualified for insurrection to be president again, is, you know, just saying it, it sounds awfully national to me. the thing that is troubling to me is i totally understand your argument, but they were listing people that were barred, and the president is not there. so, jason, what specifically did you hear that gives you hope they will rule in your favor? certainly i think the hardest questions they asked is whether the states have a role to place here in enforcing disqualifications for the presidency. there s a long history of states excluding ineligible candidates, whether they re underage, foreign bore or fail to meet other qualifications for i ve. i do feel there was a sense that maybe this provision of the 14th amendment should be different, though when i think the court digs into that issue, they ll be hard pressed to say why this should be different. states run elections, so the normally way these things w
had that job because she s very beautiful, no, she s very talented and she has the power, the authority, or whatever, the talent to have done that job. i don t know what happened, i have no idea. i learned about this just like you, i can t add any insight into it. you can t add insight to it, but you can add context to what it means when a white house has jared kushner s security clearance is downgraded. and hope hicks, according to nbc reporting, just told trump earlier in the day that she was leaving. although we don t have all the details nailed down, do you determine, do you think something s putting pressure on the white house right now? i do. and i would agree with that, i would agree with that estimation, i would tell you, ari, that once again as i have told you before and i have told you informally, i would assume that she was going to be there for perpetuity, as long as
that the trump campaign, with this criminal russian hacking story, consider this, long-time trump aide hope hicks resigning from the white house after admitting she told white lies, insisting she hadn t told lies material to the investigation. all of this comes as chief of staff john kelly strips john kushner as part of his access to intel. two of trump s loyal aids tonight and the gears are changing, trump was supposed to have a global portfolio. the downgrade hobbles those roles, kushner cannot execute those responsibilities now that he s lost access to secret intel, as one former cia official told us last night. the big issue here really is, you can t operate in the white house on the issues that he s supposed to be dealing with with a secret clearance, the people in those meetings can t parse
we re back with two breaking stories rattling the white house tonight, hope hicks speaking with the special counsel yesterday and trump bragging about most people never go, inside bob mueller s witness room and inside donald trump s inner political sangtum. sam nunberg, a former trump campaign advisor. thanks for being here. i get to c block? you re talking about being in the middle of the show? you wanted to be the lead? i would have hoped i was the lead. are you surprised that hope hicks has resigned? it surprised me, but hope, people will always say, oh, she was around donald trump and she
board as special counsel. he s looking at collusion with russia. we have seen a little hint of that in the indictment of 13 russians and subject matter involving internet manipulation, potential voter view manipulation, now we re again learning that mueller is focused on hacking, in this case hacking of democratic emails, it could be hacking of voting machines, that s been in the news a little bit. but clear confirmation this week that mueller is looking at this court crime of collusion with russia in its many potential aspects. this comes from inside the room, a couple of other highlights that others got like katie tur med with mueller before becoming president. trump s pretty famous 2013 trip to moscow and trump s business interests in moscow. your interpretation? i agree with her, i don t