To give him a pep talk, to have conversations with him about how he might be more respectful to the president. And thats according to a white house official, and other sources have said the same. You know, he didnt deny calling the president a moron. He essentially gave a series of different Policy Issues in which hes saying the president has been successful on, he really backed the president , he supports the president. He also said he doesnt intend to go anywhere, that hes just getting started. It was very much, as our own chuck todd tweeted earlier, it very much seemed like a statement that was serving an audience of one, and that is the president. I think the question all of us has now is what happens to Rex Tillerson . Is this enough for the president . And kristen, we know that President Trump was paying attention to this because we can read his twitter and hes been talking about this. Very clear that the Vice President wasnt among those who specifically talked him out of resigni
and that really, you know, put the white house in a spa where today to, acknowledge, the president did. this played out the way so many others thought it would. it s an interesting. it kind of lays out a common trump jat ji. we saw it with paul manafort, we saw it with michael cohen. i could go on. he s now suggesting the allies he barely. he s now referring to michael co help as a pr person, and michael cohen got into a lot of trouble and is trying to cooperate with
states were targeted bill th this by this ads that were targeted. but those states included some major swing states and some states that were critical to the president s victory. wisconsin, michigan, but also florida, ohio, georgia, as well as some states that were not swing states in the election. california, new york, texas, mississippi, alabama. this was spread across. and there is also some suggestion it may have been because of election day, that it was designed to inflame tensions across the board. there were some ads in states where there was incidence of police shooting african-americans, for example. we know that the black lives matter movement seemed to be a part of what seems to be the jat