hearing something from robert mueller. what do you make of that? i think he s thinned out his corps of prosecutors but one of the things he s done is he s tightened it up, the leaks that were there initially have clamped up but i think keeping it close to the vest like this is a way to keep their strategy under wraps and be able to make that case, whatever case they re going to make. harris: the president has said he probably won t sit down with robert mueller. the way we ve been watching this unfold, this would be the top of the food chain in terms of who you talk with. the president is who they want to talk with. i think it s a mistake because i think it indicates, to me anyway, that they are still on a bit of a fishing expedition, trying to link president trump
mo: you have a white house staff that likes to talk to the press. they like to do it anonymously. they like to leak for different reasons, private agendas sometimes, it makes them feel more self-important. you have a white house staff that likes to talk. and you have a white house staff that doesn t necessarily know what s in the president s head. they may be hearing something and interpreting something and putting something out there about a staff changeup. but we have gone through this cycle umpteen times with this president where there is a leak and denial and it did actually happen not long afterwards. howie:t howie: in the spring of 2017, there was back biting and sniping and it died down under john kelly. for a while.
mo: you have a white house staff that likes to talk to the press. they like to do it anonymously. they like to leak for different reasons, private agendas sometimes, it makes them feel more self-important. you have a white house staff that likes to talk. and you have a white house staff that doesn t necessarily know what s in the president s head. they may be hearing something and interpreting something and putting something out there about a staff changeup. but we have gone through this cycle umpteen times with this president where there is a leak and denial and it did actually happen not long afterwards. howie:t howie: in the spring of 2017, there was back biting and sniping and it died down under john kelly.
we re going to be doing the same thing tomorrow. i want to clear up a couple things. okay. a few people tweeted me about an audio issue. they ve been hearing something. it s cicadas. we re not hearing them right now but it s very quiet right now. this is the literal calm before the storm but they ve been our third co-anchor during the whole thing. they are very loud. cicadas are very loud. yeah, very loud. more important than that, we ve had a number of people asking me why i m wearing a flannel shirt. it s not flannel. it s cotton gauze. it s very, very thin. i guess it looks hot. it s making people around me feel hot. but it s 85 degrees here. this isn t a flannel shirt. and the third thing, kasie, is there are people around here who are sticking around. they re not leaving. i want to explain this surge here is going to be from 9 to 13 feet. i want to show you 13 feet. this pole, the top of this pole, the metal part of this pole is 13 feet. so it s one of those things people
in what is sure to be the worst-ever episode of undercover boss. all right. that s a funny look back at this last week. from the media perspective, though, brian it is interesting because the president tried over the course of the twisted week to talk about the media again and put it back on them. i get the sense it is not hitting as solidly as it has in the past because people just know it s not true. i m glad you pointed that out and measure that in a way via the twitter and facebook accounts. look at the president putting out the anti-media accounts and not shared as much as he used to, not as loud as it used to be. i think we know, though, the president, going gets tough, the news get fake. that s the default, the go-to. all this week has been about the president s loyalty attacking the media. that makes you wonder if he knows what makes america great. hearing something with your own ears and own eyes it is hard to call it fake news.