she said. does everyone in the president s inner circle feel as confident about this strategy? well, there are a lot of divisions inside the white house right now over things that have already happened. and one is that sort of original thing that has set this off, the release of the memo memorializing as close as exists as a transcript to that phone call of the president and president zelensky and there are other also divisions of strategy and approach of the chief of staff s office and bad feelings about whether people are cut out of the loop but what this really all comes down to and everyone in the white house knows this and agrees on it is that the president is going to dictate the strategy and everyone else will have to try to pre-act the best they can and then respond after the fact. but it is certainly the president s style to always project confidence and to punch back so that s what we re seeing this week. as the president projects confidence, kim, he is saying he
be careful to make sure that the people s identity remains confidential because the third strategy, one being procedure, one being answering on the merit which is the republicans haven t mustered yesterday, the third would be to divert it to being about the whistle-blower and people need to understand the statute proceeds the constitution itself. it s bedrock concept of the government and the person is out of the loop right now. the issue is the facts that come out in the open hearings. okay. kim and margaret, thank you both for your insights and expertise. good to have you here. thank you. new reporting of how u.s. border agents sounding the alarm on breaches of president trump s new border wall. details next. yeah, that s half the fun of a new house. seeing what people left behind in the attic. well, saving on homeowners insurance with geico s help was pretty fun too. ahhhh, it s a tiny dancer. they left a ton of stuff up here.
support ousting the president of office. now the democratic controlled house appears to be more likely to impeach the president. the advice looks for practical. senator mcconnell, the leader of the republican controlled senate, reportedly suggested to the president he tone down his attacks on gop senators. if he s impeached by the house, the senate and the relatively thin republican majority will decide if he stays or has to go. kim wayly is a former federal prosecutor and associate in the watergate investigation and author of how to read the constitution and why and marg retd talib is a cnn political analyst. margaret, president trump is serving as the lone architect of his defense strategy, the white house press secretary just said that the president, quote, is the war room. he feels confident with the people he has in place. we don t feel the need for a war room. we ll see what happens.
for another week. we expect a vote on a soon to be new attorney general bill barr to happen next week. whitaker s time is limited here but his information is considered very valuable to democrats. they ll try any way they can to get at it today whether we have the first real come to blows moment between the administration and house democrats today over this issue of executive privilege and how officials can invoke it. we will find out shortly, but this is the tip of the iceberg. democrats will be going after information about how the president and his appointees have impacted the mueller investigation in a lot of different ways over the course of the next few months and we ll learn a lot about how they plan to do that once the questions start for matthew whitaker. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney and law professor kim wayly, former deputy assistant attorney general and the washington post columnist harry littman and my panel mark and rick still
if you assume just for the moment that the special counsel s team is completely airtight it, you look next to where that information may have trickled out to. it may have trickled out to the southern district of new york, to other districts, other united states attorneys offices. it may have foundity way to michael cohen. those are all possibilities but it requires the assumption of course, that mueller s team has remained completely silent throughout all of this. okay. kim wayly, danny, thanks for getting us started 0 this topic. from there letting you know what we re seeing to the left of the screen. you re seeing the women s march from d.c. you re also seeing on your screen as we volley back and forth, olivia into thecy and david farenthold from the west and msnbc contributor. welcome to you both olivia, your reaction to the president s response to the buzzfeed report