but, you know, john could tell us more about this. the thing i ve been hearing from a lot of people is usually you don t have two leaders meeting right away. you usually work things out at lower level staff, people that we re not really hearing about that aren t in the public eye just quietly negotiating on what a deal could be possibly. and then you send people that are a little bit higher up, and then you might have the leaders meet. and they don t meet until they kind of know that there is going to be a deal that didn t happen this time around. i think that s right. there is a lot of groundwork that has to happen for a successful summit, whether it s the group of seven, the group of 20, presidential leaders, there are months if not years that go into delivering verified agreements that you can trust and that you can back up. like the joint comprehensive plan of action that the trump administration just tore up with iran. well negotiated that for four years. so these things take ti
think about is the impact these indictments and papadopoulos has on lower level staff in the white house who have to look over their shoulder and wonder what other e-mails are there and have to higher attorneys of their own at great cost. yeah. one republican operative i think at the white house post tonight in touch with people at the white house described it as the walls are closing in. people feel that in the withist wing. there s no doubt, as much compartment alzbliegs as you d like to accomplish, there s no doubt that this just oozes thu every ras spekt of what goes on inside the west wing of a white house. every one is aware of it. it is impossible to remain a 100% focused on the policy initiatives because this is hanging over their heads. this president doesn t compartmentalized eyes. he vents. and that s what we saw today and we may see more of it. thank you. when we come back, the man at the center of all today or one of the people at the center,
i think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it s healthy. okay. he thinks it s healthy. he s gone. that s what you say. the question is, what next? what changes? can general kelly, the anti-trump in many ways believes in order, discipline. he thinks before he speaks. can he change the behavior of the president s inner circle and, more importantly, can he change the behavior of the president? yeah. i think two things we need to see, precisely that, how will he impose order on both the senior level staff, the family and outside friends who influence the president or have wide-ranging walk-in privileges, call-in privileges, conversational privileges? will he seek to limit exposure to the president? not to do that but get reports after the fact about what folks talked about? how broadly will that apply? we all assume that the family, jared and ivanka, can come and go as they please.
of his life from the beginning of his presidency. when you have a conspiracy prosecutor, it started with a look into land deals in arkansas and that special prosecutor was still around when the allegations around his affair with monica lewinsky and sexual misconduct came up years later. it can be tremendously debi debilitating for a white house or not. what most people in any white house need to do in a circumstance like that is always tell the truth. always do what you think is right. and have the lawyers deal with this stuff. but this white house everybody seems to travel in packs. th they all have to be in the room with trump. there isn t much of a lower level staff in place in front of the government. so i don t know that it s going to actually make it from their perspective easier to function. mukal waichael waldman, than
because you have lower level staff, right. it s tough for them to bear the cost going forward. but on this issue, as it does just politically here now, because the bob mueller as a special counsel has enormous power that many members of the congressional committees and i m sure they ve expressed to you. they ve expressed to me frustration, from the intelligence community. that s not a problem that bob mueller is going to have. it s not. it s not. no question there s frustration from democrats and republicans i m talking to saying that they feel that this puts a freeze on what they re doing and it may not be a full-on freeze but it will shut them down from doing a lot of what they wanted to do. first and foremost, talk to james comey in a public setting. that deal had not been struck to get him before congress and then, poof, we have this special prosecutor.