Everybody wants a piece of the white house . Except for the steady stream of top officials who have backpac their bags and headed for the doors. Its record breaking in every way. The president now going to have three Communications Directors in a very short time, but no, the brain drain is extraordinary. Some of these people were absolutely not qualified for their jobs but the latest, gary cohn, very qualified who is leaving. His impending departure is shaking the market this morning. And the wall street journal, heres the headline here. Cohn quits and if you go inside and you look at the editorial, the wall street journal writes, mr. Trumps increasingly selfdamaging style of managing officials. Its a leadership fiasco that cost mr. Trump a key ally. It is a loss and this presidency cannot afford more like it. You know, mika, a lot of people last night were criticizing gary cohn saying well, gee, he should have left after charlottesville or he should have left after this or after that.
I dont think the Inspector General can answer all of our questions. Some witnesses left the department which means the Inspector General does not have viewers diction. Congress proved itself incapable of investigating this abuse. Doj should not be looking into it. We need an arbiter that is either the special counsel. Peter, how many witnesses does gowdy think are no longer with the Justice Department. Sandra, he says two dozen. That means he thinks there are up to two dozen people who could help crack the case of obamaera abuse whose are no longer at the Justice Department which means they are no longer reach able by the Justice Department Inspector General. Now, other republicans here on capitol hill, are joining him in calling for a Second Special counsel. We cannot have the people currently at the department of justice and fbi investigate themselves, thats why jim jordan and lee and so many republicans joined me in calling for a Second Special counsel so we could have consequences
The president s economic team. Wall street already acting tonight negatively in contrast to what we are hearing from main street, praise for the president s tough stance on tariffs. We have got Team Coverage for you tonight. Trace gallagher with the latest on on this latebreaking showdown between the Trump Administration on the california, but we start with chief National Correspondent ed henry and what he is learning about the departure of white house Economic Advisor gary cohn. Shannon, great to see you. Breaking tonight, they are already plans to replace gary cohn from conservative supplyside economics, larry kudlow, to trade advisor peter navarro. Remember, he beat out cohn on the tariffs issue in recent days, while he was correct when he said, there is turnover in every single white house, there has been a particularly large number of departures recently from hope hicks to report her, multiple press secretaries, National Security advisors, yes, chiefs of staff. What is significant
Retained a group of senior politicians to take positions favorable to ukraine which included lobbying in the United States. And the charges allege that manafort used at least four off shore accounts to wire more than 2 million you euros to pay t. And today he said he would continue to maintain the innocence. And we have michelle sindor and the White House Correspondent howard fineman. And Alfonso Aguilar is the president of the Latino Partnership for conservative principles an the chief of the u. S. Office of citizenship. Welcome all. Paul manafort being a big part of the special counsel probe is not news. But, boy, what mueller is finding on him is huge. The question is how much of this touches the president . Thats the number one question to be asked and hasnt been answered. The white house is every time you ask them, they are getting further away from the memory of who Paul Manafort is. And this is to the idea of who President Trump chose to surround himself with. Even if he doesnt
This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. And welcome to mtp daily. Im chuck todd here in new york. If conflict and chaos are trumpan operating principles, then this white house is humming and this is more trumpy by the day. But since gary cohn is leaving, the moderating influences in the west wing is getting shorter and shorterment b shorter, but if you ask the president , nothing to see here. The white house has tremendous energy. It has tremendous spirit. It is a great place to be working. Many, many people want every single job. Believe me, everybody wants to work in the white house. They all want a piece of that oval office and they want a piece of the west wing. Lets do a fact check. This white house is bleeding staff. Six Administration Exits in just the last four weeks. And a brookings analysis found the staff turnover more than the last president s and if you ask him he has people lined up to fill any and all jobs. The white house has a trem end os energy and ta