her. you asked me did they sow an intention to do anything with russians. they know a woman with a russian name wanted to meet with them. she didn t know she was a representative of the russian government. she s not a representative of the russian government. if this is their case for collusion, good luck mueller. figure that one out. the white house dealing with the fall out over basic c cuizatio accusations of omarosa. take a listen to what she said this morning. there s really no real commitment to diversity in the white house and he s unapologetic about it. donald trump is disingenious. i believe he wants to start race war in this country. wow. big words there. let s go to kelly o donell in
this indictment, which is, a really detailed conspiracy, they do say that americans, including those affiliated with the trump campaign had no knowledge that russians were behind it. alex? kelly o, thank you so much, we ll see you again thanks for that. let s bring in danny savalos, msnbc legal analyst. the president s claim that the russia investigation is a hoax does this indictment nullify that? it doesn t nullify it legally. because of course it s an indictment and only an accusation. but it does tend to show that, that maybe most, most impressively, that citizens, actual citizens without a partisan interest, sat on a grand jury and passed on the evidence presented by a prosecutor and chose to indictment. that alone is very significant. and it tends to show that there was at least probable cause established that there was russian involved in the attempts
scenes. you know bannon s departure is really it shows the power of these folks but it shows the power and influence of kelly. i m told that kelly had enough and it was his decision for it to play out this week. kelly o, pull back the lens for us. when i think of the bannon/trump relationship, i mean, i laid it out at the beginning that he was sort of the devil on the shoulder, do it, do it, inflame racial tension, do it, undermine the general, do it, do it, talk about pulling out of nafta and the tpp even though it goes against long standing commitments. do it, do it, trash article 5 of our agreements and commitments to our european allies. and now that he s gone, do you think there s any sort of false optimism that those instincts that already exist in donald trump will be less sort of visible to the outsider?
the resolute desk and he s very involved in the white house response. they are trying to put forward a real sense of competence and strength and make people feel assured that they ll have this under control. i think it was telling that we didn t hear directly from the president today. he did not come out to the cameras and address the american people and instead, they had tom bossert be the face of the administration. bossert is somebody as we saw today at the briefing with the extraordinary amount of knowledge and detail and can speak with real precision and accuracy about what the government doing and what citizens should be doing who are in harm s way. and that seems like a deliberate move by the white house. kelly o, let me bring you back into this. you mentioned hurricane katrina in the interest of disclosure, i was the white house communications director for what was one of the darkest chapters of george bush s administration. plenty of mistakes made and one
sign whatever declarations are required in advance which could sort of push forward some additional resources and man power and assets. but this is a huge test for president trump who s never dealt with a natural disaster and nothing of this scale before. so it s a test for this white house as well and they have had the opportunity to plan for it because of hurricane season. now we have got the specifics here that they re having to grapple with. but certainly for president trump there will be there will be a bar he s got to cross politically for how well he is perceived to being on top of this and of course whatever happens with federal resources supporting all of the local agencies he ll get a grade for that as well. phil rucker, let me bring you in. kelly o talking about the president s homeland security adviser tom bossert. one thing that struck he me said from the podium today, quote now