key issues we ll do that. the best messenger is the president himself. he s always proven that, that he is the best messenger, not just for what he wants to articulate but that the american people went down and chose him as president because he understands the frustrations and concerns and values of american people and he s probably the best person to communicate that. josh, of course, the american people resolvingly, if you want to use that word, chose hillary clinton and electoral college that chose donald trump. but this notion that there can be a war room set up in the white house to somehow deal with the russia investigation and that war room will be concerned with nothing but communications. i mean it seems if you re going to have some kind of war room response to this, it has to be filled with lawyers. it does, lawrence, you know, typically the reason that you set up a war room is for two purposes, the first is, you want to make sure that it s a small
couple of things. first of all, this job was vacant for several weeks before some of the officials at the trump white house succeeded in convincing him to accept the job. he accepted the job for several months and now has been asked to leave the white house after only a couple of months there. it is clear that it is going to be a difficult job for them to fill. i ve seen reports that three or four people have been asked. it is a pretty good administration for people who did not work on the trump campaign to be accepted as a member of the team iniside the white house. ultimately, lawrence, the biggest problem facing the trump white house right now, their biggest problems are not actually communications problems, their biggest problems are actually substantive problems that relate to whether or not the president of the united states and his team are
david who was the man who filed the successful lawsuit that led to the citizens united supreme court decision was asked on fox news this morning if he s going to join the white house staff. so, they ve talked to, you know, many people, including me. is that a yes. have you been asked? no. i m not going to say that there s that something sitting on the table for me to pick. that would be a little i think that s it s an on going conversation. i think that s a fair way to put it. joining us now, josh, former white house press secretary for president obama. he s also msnbc political analyst, so, josh, a guy i ve never heard of has left the white house. this is literally the first time i ve heard his name. i didn t know there was a communications director in the white house. the communication wasn t being directed. what does that mean for the white house? lawrence, i think it means a
would that break the rhythm of this whole hand off thing? watching him pause for nine seconds, i felt like i could feel my molars to avoid to help himself figure out what to say there. i think he would suffer the most anxiety watching the pause today would be president donald trump. ding ding ding ding ding. thank you, lawrence. thank you very much, rachel. well, donald trump s choice of a criminal lawyer to help defend him in the russia investigation proves once again that the problem with the trump white house is donald trump. this is dangerously flirting with obstruction of justice.
memo. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. he did not say anything to mr. trump about curtailing the investigation, only replying, i a agree he is a good guy. defending the integrity of the president trump and attacking the accuracy of the memo saying, this is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and mr. comey. joining us now, connecticut, democrat senator who is a member of the judiciary committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight on this important night and i wanted to get your reaction to your reading of that comey memo as presented in the new york times. what you re seeing, lawrence, is actually an obstruction of justice case unfolding in real time. as a fellow alumnus and also a prosecutor, i have written more than a few of those memoranda of