who have been unable at this point to get permanent security clearances. who else within this administration has skeletons in their closet that are waiting to come out to the public because the white house either is unwilling to investigate or just doesn t care and is hoping that it won t leak out? hugh, phil, i have a question for you. we heard something from this white house yesterday. i was in the front row. i don t think i ve heard it in the course of the last year-plus covering the trump administration, this white house. raj shah, the deputy press secretary, said, i think we would agree that we could have done things better in the last few days, last few hours. well, that s good. and i hope that admitting mistakes, admitting dropped balls does not in any way does the president agree with admitting mistakes or was this a riff the president will not be happy with? i hope he keeps raj shah. he s very good. very, very good at this job. i hope they learn that s not the end of
mueller, asked about the conversations that fbi director comey had with president trump, the conversations which would include, obviously, michael flynn, which would include this question of loyalty that donald trump was demanding of james comey, as james comey testified in front of congress. big news. also big that we are only hearing about it right now. absolutely. yeah. interesting this didn t come out sooner if he was interviewed last year. makes you realize, the special counsel is probably doing a lot of things we honestly have no idea about. right. and they don t leak. that s also very clear. but of course, mueller is probably going to be asking comey or probably ask comey for the memos he wrote contemporaneously after he had these meetings with the president in which trump asked him, you know, for loyalty and asked him to drop the investigation into michael flynn. so it s very likely that comey gave these documents to the special counsel that he described his conversations
chaotic under his sort of control. of course he was never really given full control by the president so it is not his fault in that respect. and so president trump, after sort of a wreckage of a week, a train wreck of a week in all kinds of different ways, is trying to re-set his administration, bring in when you see the thugs being thrown into the back of the paddy wagon charlie hold on for one sec. we re going to lower this volume. that was the president speaking yesterday on long island. but charlie mentioned, aliza, that vulgar reporting, the words of anthony scaramucci, basically talking just some trash about reince priebus, accusing him of being a leaker, he is the new communications director, sean spicer left last friday. now here we have another friday with reince priebus after scaramucci called him a paranoid skitsa frennic because scaramucci thought that reince let it leak that he had din we
about his meetings with russian officials, how many there were and what was discussed. secondly that is something that would seem to not only move the investigation but the political discussion. so i m sure there s a great interest from the public in hearing that. that does not mean he has to testify in public at this time. he could testify in a closed session and eventually the word of it will get out. my guess is, it would probably be better for him for the public to hear it in his own words rather than have it leak out a little bit later on. and so, i think that is one of the main arguments for making it public. but he is not somebody who has wanted to talk about the subject very much in any public forum and i can imagine that probably has not changed now. and philip, what would you want to hear from jeff sessions? what do we need to know from him? well, i think, from the
a politics editor at the root.com and msnbc contributor. ned, i want to start with you. i would think it would be a lot more difficult it leak classified info, kind of seems like it was easy? well, stephanie, i think you saw here what happened in this case. it had this individual gone about this in a less careless and reckless way, i think it would have been much more difficult to identify her and ultimately apprehend her. you can tell by the reference to fvey that this document was provided to not only the united states intelligence community but our four closest intelligence allies, so thousands of people had access to this document. but not thousands of people printed it. six people printed it as we know and in addition to what pete williams said, the document was postmarked from the hometown of this individual so she made it incredibly easy to track down what she had done.