Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Selfinflicted wound. We dont know the entire back story but our understanding is this was not a strategic legal tweet. This was not a Communications Shop messaging tweet. This was the president waking up and doing what we reported him doing in our story which was privately sort of brooding and then publicly feuding and roaring. And he sent this tweet out to refute a bit of our story but in doing so actually pushed his own narrative much further into a place that is not particularly helpful for him or his namesake son. That may be an understatement. Phil rucker, lets talk about dj t. J. To your knowledge and to the best of your reporting, has anything about don june,s case changed materially that has motivated the president s
behavior, his change in mood . You know, the truth is, brian, we just dont know. Bu
democrat i can and n democratic. even if your abc entertainment is something dangerous to our democracy, you don t reach out to hire this guy. ej, it is all across the board. we have sarah huckabee sanders going to fox news which makes sense. she will be doing her own job lying for trump. reliance prieb priebus joined the navy and hope hicks is at fox news and . h.r. mcmaster at stanford and gary cohn at harvard and corey
periods. a letter to nadler on the eve of the hearing the white house counsel write the justice department advised him that hope hicks is, quote, absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters occurring during her service as a senior adviser to the president. what do you make of that argument? yes. i m not aware of any legal doctrine that s called absolute immunity. i haven t heard any other legal scholar no matter what side they re on saying they understand what that is. there may be some arguments you could make and at least make set out a nonlaughable case for why something should go a certain why but they take it too far. this issue of absolute immunity of not answering anything at all or not showing up has been addressed by the court. the logic, it doesn t make a lot of sense. it s along the lines of what they re doing with don mcgahn.
stories straight. your reaction and any reporting you can add. so i think at the very, very, very least the optics are absolutely horrible. you remember bill clinton s tarmac meeting during the campaign. you just can t do this. my sense based on some reporting is that this is sort of the free wheeling way things work in trump s orbit. if you look at these rallies over the past week in each one he s sort of taken people who he feels comfortable with during the campaign into the white house including cory lewandowski, hope hicks. and so i think on some level for donald trump there s a sense this is friendsly. hey, you re in bedminster, why don t you hop on air force one and floi floy out to ohio with ? but it ignores the fact who hope hicks is, who the president is
i think most americans care about if president trump is going to fix the immigration system, like he promised. what are the status of their second amendment rights? how much in taxes are they going to pay this year? they care less about hope many of them don t even know who hope hicks is, much less care who will replace her. meetings that the president has broadcast on television, talking about gun control, tariffs. many mile an hours would find them confusing when you look at what s being said and what s being done. welcome to washington. the sausage making is never as attractive as everyone likes to think it is. he has been far more transparent, i think, in his negotiating style than a lot of presidents have been previously. and the result is, yes, you hear ideas being traded across the table. you see fluctuating messages. that s how negotiations work in washington, d.c. i think trump is trying to make that process a little more transparent. i ll get back to chris and eddie i