to hearing from press secretaries. the president says, to the best of my knowledge, i have not discussed that with him. these are, i don t believe spicer lawyered up. i think he will have to and i think many people in the west wing will have to, even if they haven t come to that realization yet but in general, you re hearing spicer and other spokes people like sarah huckabee sanders being far more equivocal. they are not saying things, not stating things as if they were uncon tefrt uncontested fact. the high beshly itself. they are putting things in the arena of the president and other advisors and not taking it on themselves. ron, sean spicer is under no public obligation to disclose he is consulting or hired a lawyer. when you listen to the distinctions that glenn is showing us in wait shawn spicer is speaking now, it is the way a
boss doesn t have their back.liz doesn t have their back.ized, fe doesn t have their back. i think there is a sense now that people need to protect themselves and spicer s comments, were a lot less constrained six weeks ago before things got much more serious. glenn, you mean more defensive and more combative with the questions? he would assert things as if they were fact. yes. he would say he is now saying things that we are used to hearing from press secretaries. the president says, to the best of my knowledge, i have not discussed that with him. these are, i don t believe spicer lawyered up. i think he will have to and i think many people in the west wing will have to, even if they haven t come to that realization yet but in general, you re hearing spicer and other spokes people like sarah huckabee sanders being far more equivocal. they are not saying things, not stating things as if they were uncontested fact. the high beshly itself. they are putting things in the arena o
and let s talk about in terms of off the cuff, what we heard sean spicer say yesterday, karen. let me get your take. look, he made these comments, comparing bashar al assad to hitler. not a good day for sean spicer, but how does it impact the administration when they re trying very hard to get on the same page when it comes to messaging about syria? i do think that one problem is that they are not getting enough sort of guidance from the top, on the really big key issues, which are what exactly is our goal here? and to what ends are we willing to go to achieve it? and we re hearing different messages from different top administration officials on that. very quickly, i m hearing spicer s job is safe. do you think it is? because this is not his first gaffe. i would be nervous if i were him. your job is literally to stay on message, not create distractions, move the administration s goals forward. at a time when trump was