as you mentioned, they only put out a brief statement but didn t really explain much else. i m sure they re not going to. there s not their thing. they re not going to explain much else, but they re going to get a lot of questions so this is going to continue on. just a reminder to our viewers. this is imary night after al we haven t done this for a while, but we have a projected winn. an fnstein, the victor of the california senate primary, just in to us. we wanted to pass that along before our next update with steve kornacki. eli, back to present day. i want to play for you an exchange that took placen e briefing room. josh dossey of the washington post, former colleague of yours with sarah huckabee sanders today. we ll talk about it on the other side. do you think your statement was accurate or inaccurate? again, i know you want to get me into a back and forth with you on this conversation. it s not back and forth. you said something. we just want to know if it was accurat
therefore i can t answer. and i would direct them to you. how can we believe what you tell us from the podium if his lawyers are saying it s totally inaccurate? once again, i can t comment on a letter from the president s outside counsel and i d direct you to them to answer it. t words are- literally, you said he did not dictate. the lawyer said he did. what is it? i m not going to respond to a letter from the president s outside counsel. we purposely walled off, and i would refer you to them for comment. that was josh dossey of the washington post doubling down there. r tonight , giulia dismissed the contradictions here as a simple mistake. you think maybe somebody could have made a mistake? it s a lot of mistakes. why is it always a lot of mistakes. why is it always that somebody you think jay sekulow lied? maybe he just got it wrong like i got a few things wrong at the beginning of the investigation, meaning my knowledge. this is a complex investigation.
president s outside counsel, and therefore i can t answer. how can we believe what you tell us from the podium if his lawyers are saying it s totally inaccurate. once again, i can t comment on a letter from the president s outside counsel and i d direct you to them to answer it. literally, you said he did not dictate. the lawyer said he did. what is it? i m not going to respond to a letter from the president s outside counsel. we purposely walled off, and i would refer you to them for comment. that was josh dossey of the washington post doubling down there. earlier tonight on cnn, giuliani dismissed the contradictions here as a simple mistake. you think maybe somebody could have made a mistake? it s a lot of mistakes. why is it always a lot of mistakes. why is it always that somebody you think jay sekulow lied? maybe he just got it wrong like i got a few things wrong at the beginning of the investigation, meaning my knowledge. this is a complex investigation.
and republican, are going to be informed a lot by their constituents. so our jury is the as it should be, is the american people. let us bring in the rest of our leadoff panel, shall we, on a tuesday night with thanks for their patience. the aforementioned ashley parker, pulitzer prize winning white house reporter for the washington post, aforementioned, philip rucker, pulitzer prize winning bureau chief for the washington post. a rare visit to new york. good evening to both of you. ashley, let s back up over some stuff. any proof of what the president was saying there in nashville, that in the history of campaigning, a campaign had never been infiltrated to this extent? no. to answer your question, simply no. there s no proof. there s no good evidence of that description of the fbi informant. but that s sort of beside the point. rudy giuliani, for instance, in talking to my colleague on that story, josh dossey, just today sort of said do you want to know why the president is
place like took place during this election. we ll talk about that last assertion in a moment. since saturday, president trump has relentlessly attacked the russia investigation, on twitter, among other things, calling it a witch hunt and rigged, two old classics there. earlier today the president wrote, quote, the 13 angry democrats, plus people who worked eight years for obama, working on the rigged russia witch hunt, will be meddling with the midterm elections, especially now that republicans stay tough are taking the lead in polls. there was no collusion, capital c, except by the democrats. meanwhile, the washington post has new reporting on trump adding an unofficial job title, let s say, to his own. ashley parker, josh dossey, and philip rucker write, quote, the white house communications director s job has been vacant for exactly two months but in practice, it has been filled since the day hope hicks said