she s sending your company updates about the president. correct. as are others in the pool. aparnlparently haley is speakind it s been the honor of a lifetime, she s excite thad in the two years the u.s. has become respected since trump had been in office. it seems like it s a praisefest. she praised him and he s doing the same. a reporter is saying, we love you, hate to lose you. there s a lot of love despite u.n. ambassador nikki haley stepping away from that role. we have the president saying at the end of the year. let me bring in jonathan lemaire. do you have any knowledge why this is happening 28 days before the election? it s sort of odd timing if you will. it is. the white house had been looking
maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video, the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a double negative. so you can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. yeah, that s a lie. you know how long it takes when you re a president to get a clip of your press conference? about 60 seconds. we just learned that that stunning attempt at cleanup, most of it read from prepared remarks, followed an unscheduled meeting this morning of national security advisers concerning russia. here to react are peter baker, robert costa, frank sigluzi, and with us at the table, jonathan lemaire.
these are not friends of russia. these are not people who think vladamir putin is a friend. and at one point, h.r. mcmaster was quoted as having said, you know, he wants to be friends with putin, and i don t know why he would want to be. this is a consistent theme of his since he became president. he did not want to confront vladamir putin on this. take away the sentence he says was mangled, and the rest of the press conference still stands. he was offered a chance by jonathan s question to say would you condemn russia here and now for what they did? instead of doing that, he condemned the fbi for investigating it. you can see why john bolton, a long-time russia skeptic or mike pompeo would be alarmed by this and try to nudge him back onto at least safer territory. jonathan, let s go back to the question that you asked. did you have the sense when he answered that he had misspoken or from here, it all hung together quite well? certainly not. there was no suggestion that he
round of conservative talk radio interviews in which he attacks his predecessors and john mccain came first. jonathan lemaire, let me ask you. i heard from two people close to trump, but not inside the white house staff that the strategy behind the interview that tom barrack did with the washington post last week and others is to scream at the top of their lungs at this president which is the things he sees which is the media about him that they can t get through to him. that they feel what has been lost is any attempt on his part is to govern beyond the 32%. do you have any reporting that suggests that the president is now all in on being the leader of the 32%? i think he is very concerned about the base. we have reporting that suggests that he has told people around thame he is worried a little bit about the ramification about the chuck and nancy deal,f backing the wrong candidate in the alabama race, the steve bannon insurgency to attack some of the