seeing it? that s what the team wants to communicate and what the voters desire. there was some concern and fear, allegedly, if the president had been watching the hearing, he would have been very much tempted to respond to twitter as he did before sunrise friday when i guess he got his iphone back. the reality is, while he may have not been paying close attention, not only did we see the rnc, we saw donald trump jr. paying attention. perhaps what could be communicated to the president is, if you focus on putting forward the policy that is you told your voters you would move forward, there are other people who take care of the social media wars for you in a way you find sufficient. the problem is, this was his week, the president, to focus on infrastructure who weren t focusing every day at all. kelly? yeah, it s, you know, great. president trump had the hashtag
pay attention is what this is saying about the relationship between sessions and donald trump. the president, i think, as jessica reported is aware he does not have a lot of room on his plate for another controversy. if this ends up being one of those, the future of attorney general sessions is up for question. kelly, i want to listen to senator blumenthal here. sessions is emerging as a key figure in the russian probe. listen to what he said. what we have here is a pattern. i can t confirm what may have been in a classified setting, but with a third meeting and even without it, what we have is a pattern of contacts with the russians by flynn, by sessions, but kushner, secret, then concealed. do you think attorney general sessions will be attorney general sessions if he s going to stay in that job? he s emerging more and more as a key figure here.
white house council, asking for the tapes by june 23rd, which is less than two weeks away. will they get a response from the white house on this? obviously, the president has been pressed on this a number of times and refuses to provide insight. if the tapes were revealed, james comey wants to hear them. thank you so much, appreciate it. there is so much to talk about that brian just brought up. let s get to the panel. let me start with kelly. president trump says he will give more information on the tapes, shortly. but what really happens if there are no tapes? it seems like then you have two men with two different stories. exactly. you know, i think president trump, if there are no tapes, he will claim, and he s right, in his tweet, comey better hope there aren t tapes. he can probably claim, i did not state there are tapes.
been devoted to this issue, of course it s preventing other things from being discussed and contemplated. kelly, let me ask you this. is this the time, perhaps, when republicans, someone else, needs to step up here, whether it be, you know, paul ryan speaker or somebody like mitch mcconnell here to sort of bring this party forward at the same time the president is on suspicion. that s an interesting question. there is a leadership vacuum, in a way. president trump is not talking very much about policies and, yeah, this investigation has been distracting. let s face it, president trump is his own worst enemy. he, himself, brought a lot of this on himself by tweeting about it. i mean, when we have had the hearing, was this the only thing or almost the only thing washington has been talking about for the last week if he
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