scrutiny of matt whitaker, who s a huge trump supporter and critic of this problem is and its expansion, is not going to be able to plug in certain answers, when asked about this, the person we investigated said that. we expect in general that report what do we know? we expect that report to be shades of gray and ambiguous material and sort of eye of the beholder. it would be nice for history if nothing else to have something more than the boilerplate denials trump puts out. there s no obstruction he said to chris wallace as chris was trying to get him to say something real. jay, what do you make of the president downplaying this whole q&a process of mueller. he calls it simple, it s not a big deal. what is your read on how he s handling this whole thing? it s another way for crump to say move along here, nothing to
cites. exactly. so the oil that they have, he doesn t want to let go of the arms sales to them and he believes someone else will sell them the same arms. why lose american business. he s glossing over and pretending it doesn t happen. that s his own reality bubble saying this is the way it s going to be. are we going to learn more thanksgiving day or soon thereafter? we certainly could. at least is it relates to saudi arabia, i think this will be a situation where the president s hand is forced perhaps by a bipartisan majority on the hill because there is this sense that saudi arabia, to include mbs, the crown prince, has to pay. they have to account for what happened to this journalist and not just jamal khashoggi, but also that role in the thousands of civilian deaths in yemen. certainly this will be a story that we re watching this coming week, alex. okay. charlie savage, jay newton
cored crossive. cor. it would be a war like process. he forced the resignation of the attorney general. jay last word? look, i think definitely he loves to have a real straw man, somebody to fight against, an e poent, and an opponent, and i think nancy pelosi is that person going forward. we have heard the starting gun for 2020 and the window to get much done legislatively is going to be incredibly narrow in this session. especially if they start investigating him right off the bat, that pretty much shuts him down. kimberly savage, and jay newton-small, thank you. thank you. and we ll be right back. than. thank you. and we ll be right back
and how that might be inciting some of the worst aspects of our country. he called her a racist, and that was one of the three attacks as you mentioned on black women journalists this week. that s a very, we ve seen the president use really demeaning language attacking the intelligence and capabilities of black women from journalists to members of congress and this was just, it seemed like it was him being free wheeling and telling us exactly what he thinks. jay, no huge surprise as far as jeff sessions being out after the midterms but it was the next day, that wednesday, so we had matthew whitaker who many regard as a trump royalist who was in. are there any other shakeups that you re seeing coming around the bend. frances, i think there s a lot of talk that you might see interior secretary ryan zinke perhaps leave now. he has been under investigation for quite a while for misuse of certain resources at the interior department. he s generated a lot of bad press for the president.
back control of the house. that led to a contentious post midterm press conference on wednesday which ended with the president revoking the white house credentials of one cnn reporter. this week he disparaged three other white house reporters who all happened to be african-american women. on wednesday, he fired his attorney general jeff sessions, replacing him with matthew whitaker. by thursday, the president was accusing democrats of trying to steal elections in florida and georgia. then yesterday, the wall street journal released a report saying prosecutors have evidence president trump violated campaign finance law with his hush money payouts to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. for more on the week that was, i m joined by charlie savage, new york times washington correspondent and msnbc contributor, kimberly at kins and also an msnbc contributor, jay newton small, time magazine contributor. let s talk about this chronologically, starting with the house and senate candidates en