you and i are friend. hey, i hope this happens but you got to do your job. that is what he told comey. you got it played out there with a sear of sound bites. our panel is back with us. let me start with julian. what is your take on how trump jr. is sort of saying what his father did? is he just coming to his father s defense or does he somehow add a bit more mud to the water here? well, it s the chaos versus strategy question about the trump white house, meaning the chaos is there is no war room, there no coordinated message as we have seen in scandals in the past and everyone is saying their own thing. here he is directly contradicting what the president and his attorney said. the strategy side of this is the chaos is intentional. it s to create confusion, it s to send out multiple messages and it s to somehow put appoints in congress with the investigators in a tougher position. we don t know which of these it is.
much too many interestsing tweets from the president. then on saturdays, he would pop off a little bit. probably helps him in that regard. you know? there has been a lot of questions, more unlike the social scene of whether the trump s would become a washington family. obviously, this would seem to show that. we are a long way away from them talking about keeping another white house effectively up in manhattan. all the, you know, questions about trying to secure that. probably a natural progression here, you know. are they part of the swamp? i don t know. i don t think that, you know, that is the case here. maybe not just yet, but definitely does kind of hurt the outsider image a little bit. julian, this is another big week too for ivanka trump we should point out because she is about to leave these meetings this week about the work force,
ensures our president elect is successful. i just went to the oval office and found this wonderful letter from president obama. he was very nice to me but after that, we have had difficulties. he was very nice with me with word and when i was with him but after that, there has been no relationship. no relationship. so let s talk about this with errol louis, cnn political commentator and political analyst julian selzer of princeton university. does the lack of relationship affect wh what happens in the white house right now? i think it s important. previous presidents have communicated with their preside predecessors. in the 1960s you can hear
week? no, no, no. not at all. in fact, i think, look. julian put his finger on it. there are past presidents who have been able to get along with their predecessors even in the case of bill clinton and george h.w. bush. the biggest example there. exactly. he defeated him. he beat him. that is not just having different politics. he went directly at him and took the man s job. in this case, i think we are not going to see anything resembling that kind of relationship because donald trump s entire political career is really based on attacking barack obama with the birther lie that was sort of the foundational sort of theme of his emergence into politics and even after getting elected, sort of throwing out this baseless accusation of being wiretapped at trump tower. one thing we know about donald trump he goes back to his base and one of the things that works
with all respect to ivanka trump this is a problem that is going to be solved by detailed policy work, people inside the government. there are more than a dozen job training programs. this white house has talked about streamlining it and it require a tremendous amount of coordination between private industry between community colleges, the states have to get involved. there is a meeting of governors of the white house later in the week that has been scheduled. this is it s very intricate policy work and you have to have a lot of information flowing and a lot of different directions and to make it effective is going to require a very serious policy apparatus. so ivanka trump being the face of it, sure, maybe that will be nice, but we really need to see a lot of the details as well. very true. errol and julian and tom, always appreciate you being here. thank you. from russia with no love,