it does seem democrats haven t learned their lesson, every member of their leadership team, it s not just nancy pelosi, they basically have a foot in the grave, whereas republican leadership, they re essentially fresh faces, you may agree or disagree with them. they were not around in 2006. democrats seem to be returning to the same playbook and getting the same results. republicans took back congress and they have something to show at least for the change in leadership. republicans don t tolerate the losses the way democrats have been. i want to get back to the donald trump tweet as he often does think time about nancy pelosi. let s put it up on the screen if we can. jonathan, democrats look at this, it s like they re not going to, i don t know, talk to me about it.
the fourth of july break. so notable in how different the president s personal involvement is. will he talk about it? we can expect that to be the case. but when and how will be key to watch. because his attachment to a bill could make it harder when there s such a narrow, narrow margin for mitch mcconnell to try to deliver on something that s going to take a lot of criticism as soon as it hits the daylight. kelly o donnell there at the white house where in just about 45 to 50 minutes we will see the president. he will be delivering remarks on technology, for technology week. the question is, will he talk about the bill or not? our colleague peter alexander will be in the room, we will be watching that. thank you much. i want to bring in my panel, nick jockson and arian no johnson and jonathan le mere, thanks for being here, we are teeing up, obviously, to this sort of online drop, somebody s phone went off a couple minutes ago. i totally get it.
presided over by a press secretary whose salary is paid by the taxpayers, that news briefing was blocked from tv coverage or any audio recordings today. reporters and news organizations will now have to decide if the briefings are worth attending, if they re going to be blacked out. with that, let s bring in our starting panel tonight, kwas i white house press corps, eli stokele white house reporter for the wall street journal. jonathan le mere white house reporter for associated press. joining from washington. anita, former clachy newspapers. jongtening you write tonight trump s legal plan built on his image. fight, fight, fight. i think an accurate depiction of his image. it does run up against the special counsel a and his style in this case. that s exactly right. the special counsel has been buttoned down. there s been silence no public proclamations what they re looking to do.
the aggression and chaoses that seemed to work during the campaign. he bounced from one thing to the other but kept his head above water and was viktious. here he has been unable to do that turn it into a message. we ve seen him poll numbers slip and stuck behind the cloud of stuck zblool it s driving stockles a coup mar crazy that i keep quoting your headline. eli stokeles jonathan le mere and anita coming up a former watergate prosecutor joins the conversation with insight on this evolving answer on whether or not the president is under investigation when our broadcast for a monday night continues. .it starts a chain reaction. .that s heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time
starting panel tonight, kwas i white house press corps, eli stokele white house reporter for the wall street journal. jonathan le mere white house reporter for associated press. joining from washington. anita, former clachy newspapers. jongtening you write tonight trump s legal plan built on his image. fight, fight, fight. i think an accurate depiction of his image. it does run up against the special counsel a and his style in this case. that s exactly right. the special counsel has been buttoned down. there s been silence no public proclamations what they re looking to do. this is a president whose indistinct is to be pugnacious if not hit first hit back much harder than he got hit. that of course has gotten him into trouble. there s been confusion this week about with are you under investigation. he says he is his lawyer said he isn t after saying he was then he said he wasn t again. he is sort of getting in his own