alabama, he indicated bill shine is resigning. still the president released a statement saying, we will miss shine in the white house. we look forward to working together on the 2020 presidential campaign, where he will be totally involved. shine a former fox news executive is the sixth person to take on the communications job raising questions about the president s commitment to hire the best people. we will get the best people in the world. we will use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks. reporter: the president may need a communication director to spin the latest numbers on the employment numbers. still the president said, there is nothing to worry about. the economy is very, very strong. if you look at the stockmarket over the last few months, it s been great. reporter: the democrat is looking to put democrats on the defensive looking for them to go soft on ilhan omar after the house approved a bill on hate
collusion. there was no collusion. it s a collusion hoax. it s a collusion witch hoax. reporter: just before the president viewed storm damage in alabama, the white house announced its communications director bill shine is resigning. sources tell cnn mr. trump had soured on shine, questioning his judgement on a number of issues. still, the president released a statement saying, we will miss shine in the white house but look forward to working together on the 2020 presidential campaign where he will be totally involved. shine, a former fox news executive, is the sixth person to take on the communications job, raising questions about the president s commitment to hire the best people. we re going to get the best people in the world. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. reporter: the president may need a new communications director to help spin the latest unemployment numbers, showing the economy only added 20,000 jobs last month
woodward s book fear. trump started complaining to people that there was no advanced prep on woodward s book, a republican close to the white house said. trump let shine know he wasn t happy. according to gabe sherman, one theory is, quote, that trump push shine out now because house democrats are looking to investigate the white house s ties to fox. tensions were likely especially high this week after the new yorker s jane maier rocked the white house with her deeply reported piece on the close ties between the fox between fox news and the white house. maier wrote that as a fox news executive, several lawsuits named bill shine as complicit in a workplace culture of cover-ups, payoffs and victim intimidation. and politico is reporting tonight that trump had complained to allies about shine being tangled up in those lawsuits. past trump staffers are also coming back to haunt the president. his former campaign chairman is a convicted felon, and today the
woodward s book fear. trump started complaining to people that there was no advanced prep on woodward s book, a republican close to the white house said. trump let shine know he wasn t happy. according to gabe sherman, one theory is, quote, that trump push shine out now because house democrats are looking to investigate the white house s ties to fox. tensions were likely especially high this week after the new yorker s jane maier rocked the white house with her deeply reported piece on the close ties between the fox between fox news and the white house. maier wrote that as a fox news executive, several lawsuits named bill shine as complicit in a workplace culture of cover-ups, payoffs and victim intimidation. and politico is reporting tonight that trump had complained to allies about shine being tangled up in those lawsuits. past trump staffers are also coming back to haunt the president. his former campaign chairman is
weekends when the president is there, who is he meeting with and is there any attempts to have foreign influence or anything like that. we don t get visitors logs when he goes down there. and we only know who is there if we happen to glance at something on social media or the white house lets us know and that is usually if the president wants us to know. so it is only in cases like this where we discover something like this and, again, could pose even more legal and ethical questions for this white house that is already under siege with so many investigations that we ve been talking about this entire segment. great. natasha bertrand, katie benner and jordan stick around and i ll talk to you later in the show. coming up. saying he will not belittle other democrats this time around, what bernie sanders is doing differently from the 2016 presidential run to avoid mistakes. plus, why not? a look at the abrupt resignation of a former fox news executive turned white house communications