Are following his example. howie: there has been a lot of media chatter about fox news carrying most of of the president s evening rallies in full because the ratings are down with its regular prime time hosts? richard: the rallies help him. i think the president is a master brander and marketer. while yes the house and senate are more complicated. when it comes to governor s mansions, republicans could take major losses in the governors mansions. howie: there is a lot of repetition. this is a business. there has been some grumbling about sarah sanders is holding fewer briefings. she said who would you rather hear from? me or the leader of the free world. mollie: i think the issue of the
Judiciary committee during his confirmation hearings. so those facts don t evaporate. they don t sort of go away over time. those are facts and they remain, stubborn as they may be. i will say this one thing for mr. nunes. what he said in private doesn t seem all that much crazier than what he says in public. fair enough. let me just say i m in good company not knowing what unrecuse means. paul, we know where it came, from it came from donald trump. nick, now you have a real synergy once again. you had it on unmasking, on uranium one. you have it on every corrupt smear campaign, every play that s being run against the republicans running the justice department. it all has its roots and its birth in this nexus between the minds of donald trump and devin nunes. look, it s fascinating and you have to give the president credit on some level. he is a master brander. he has been able to make the entire party talk the way he does. it s seeped down from the white
He s doing it again. it seems like what he is trying to do is say, hey, look at these families, look what s happened to them, and that is why we need to shut down the border entirely. that s why i think everybody who s coming across and trying to claim asylum is lying. he tweeted this earlier, weak and pathetic sob stories, he said, i m paraphrasing him. he did use the word pathetic on twitter this morning claiming that everything that people have been seeing in the press, on television, is all wrong, that we are somehow making this stuff up because he doesn t want it to be the truth. bottom line is the president who fancies himself sort of a master brander is trying to brand this issue of illegal immigration, to sort of trumple conversation by trying to, in his efforts, refocus it on these american victims, those most extreme examples of undocumented immigrants in this country committing acts of violence that ultimately took american lives right now. but obviously it doesn t resolve
Fold, wolf. one is a fixation and a strategic move to undermine the investigation. start with the fixation. if you look at the tweets and you had, you know, some sort of mash together of the tweets they would be plentiful with regard to the investigation and these angry democrats and it s no good and it s no collusion. et cetera. et cetera. that s persistent. you could say there s a fixation there and part of a largest strategy. remember, we are dealing with a master brander. right? and this to be clear is a campaign. what do i mean by that? themes to get in the jury s mind and angry democrats, resonates. witch hunt, resonates. how many time we heard that? co-oping the debate and believing that s what this is about. there s no investigation that has any type of merit whatsoever. this is a witch hunt designed to undermine me. and remember, wolf, at the end
the president is a master brander. i think what he s shown is that in many ways, when it comes to things that the public doesn t understand like investigative processes of the intelligence community, truth is in the eye of the beholder in a way. that s what he s doing here by playing to the public, by talking about spygate when there s no evidence. it s a pattern. it s been happening. there s a germ of something to hang these accusations on. there s some person that was involved. it s not that they made this up out of the thin air. the involvement is not as serious as they re painting it to be. starts with the house gop, trick elms up to the president. i think rudy giuliani gave us a gift in journalism. when the president does this, we can say this is why he s doing it, he s doing it for public relations reasons, and that s straight out of the president s lawyer. again, there are venues. you can challenge this at any moment, court of law. go ahead, make your case or go on tv. u