say to kelly sadler, you march out there and apologize to senator mccain and his family is an unwinding of his moral authority, the authority you should have as white house chief of staff that donald trump has done that to him is a horrible thing and that john kelly has accepted it is an equally horrible thing. it s a disgrace to see. john kelly will continue to go to work tomorrow and work side by side with kelly sadler. coming up, some members of team trump are getting very worried about team pence. (burke) at farmers, we ve seen almost everything
does reflect his understanding he s playing a weak hand on some level. he s not the natural inheriter to donald trump s base or anybody s base at this point, he s looking at a situation where either donald trump is going to survive this first term, run for reelection or not, and either win or not. then he s looking at running in 2024. that s a long way down the road and the party is going to be radically different at the end of either one of those outcomes or trump is not going to finish out the first time, in which case pence will not be the inheriter, he ll be challenged by 25 republicans. many of them more beloved. so he has to do everything he s doing right now to put himself in a reasonable position to thrive let alone rise. on that, the most dramatic scenario we ve considered, we have to take a break. thank you both for joining us,
but he sounds like he means it when he says it. at the same time it is just impossible to imagine that john kelly shares white house staff er-kelly sadler s disdain for john mccain, when she said last week, quote, it doesn t matter he s dieing anyway. it s impossible to believe that john kelly does not respect john mccain, the decorated former prisoner of war in vietnam who comes from a family richer in military tradition than john kelly s own family. so john kelly s silence about kelly sadler s comments has to be the product of john kelly s own cowardly fear of the wrath of donald trump. any other white house chief of staff would have fired kelly
pence camp and the worries the trump camp has. what s the situation tonight? as you noted in the intro, mike pence has emerged as a political force on his own. he has a web of groups, including this super pac that corey lewandowski has signed on to, one s a political action community, the other is a nonprofit, a charity, that he s using to go around the republicans to help republicans and also himself. a lot of the folks in trump world were not pleased with that. one source told me that the president asked corey lewandowski to go kind of keep an eye on to keep an eye on pence world. and another source i talked to about this, you know, basically said trump and pence are generally aligned, they get along personally, but this is trump making sure it s clear to everyone who s still boss. and politico is reporting on another set of friction, which
apologize, everyone will understand that you could have said something obnoxious. she apologized privately to the mccain family, having apologized privately why won t she publically apologize. it has to go with donald trump. all it would have taken is 30 seconds for the woman to say, and the white house to stand by her and say i said something terrible. i m sorry for that. and it will all be over. that then would raise the question, wait, your boss said that he started trashing john mccain when he first got in the race and isn t what you re saying consistent a worse investigation but a consistent version of what president trump thinks of john mccain and you have a different issue of troubles. different jobs have different standards of public conducts and different reactions when private conduct becomes public.