that s not what he s charged with. he has all these talking points. he doesn t want to talk about the charges. he wants to talk about the raid on his home, the use of force, all these things inappropriate is and being done to him. he s very good at making him look like a victim. that s why he s able to raise money for his legal fees and get writers to write on behalf of him. he works with all of these little writers who will write stories that he wants to write. we even reported that robert mueller was investigating a story he planted about his back channel. he has a media operation and he knows how to spin things better than anyone else, so i think it will be fascinating if there s no gag order, continue to see classic stone. even if there is a gag order, i think he will have a way of getting his narrative out there even if he s not the one doing it. in fairness to stone and any defendant, don t you think there s a good argument against a gag order, paul? what the judge said is th
bullet, as we have reported once before, did miss the president s heart, missed by an inch. he told mrs. reagan, honey, i forgot to duck. what? i forgot to duck. and then when he got into the operating room, he looked at the doctors and he said, please tell me you re republicans. reagan relied on this trick of advisers. jim baker is his chief of staff, a really killed, shrewd political insider. ed meese is a counselor to the president. and michael beaver is in charge of the media operation. they ran the white house. the assassination attempt and aftermath elevated ronald reagan s popularity to a new high. his job rating jumped ten points. reagan understood that he was getting this sort of sympathy reaction.
have a perch. republican officials have told me that romney is likely going to get a spot on the senate foreign relations committee which would give him an obvious platform to talk about issues of russia, north korea, and challenge the president on those issues and i ll be interested in seeing on which error he is does back away and decide not to engage. that will be the tug the seesaw we ll be seeing for some time. as you can expect, the president s allies were quickly out with their own thoughts. i want to play sound from david bossy, very close to the white house. this is what he had to say. this is a pathetic attempt by mitt romney for relevancy. this is a guy who comes to washington and instead of trying to help this president, instead of trying to help the republican party he wants to attack this president and try to undo and be the center of attention. because he has his own political machine, his own media operation and he s used to the national stage he comes to washingt
what happens when you start governing as a right wing media operation, that you stoke these story lines for political gain and then the minute they re no longer politically expedient, you flip the script and start the next segment. that is not that might be a cable tv programming strategy. that is not a governing strategy and that is why, again, i think as eric just mentioned, post mid terms we re entering i think a more dangerous period for this white house. yeah, absolutely. i want to come back to you, daniel. the other thing that struck me and my producers besides the pacing which makes me think it was more visceral than it was sort of strategic because he seemed like he was going to explode, but the other thing that i noted during that press conference was his treatment of the foreign press. let s take a look at that. but is the election of two muslim women, one of them is to the house which is making history, is this a i tonight understand what you re saying.
shrinking cult. s as i was saying, i think part of the issue here is that you have a media operation, fox news, but also conservative talk radio that essentially amplifies whatever the president s political jaent is to be. and in this case, i think you accurately pointed out, the programming on the cara van was propaganda. it was a political campaign motivated propaganda. state run television. state-run television. so any talk about trump s political issues, he has to mention the fact that he has a media entity that is essentially serving as a campaign arm. i am not shocked in the slightest that the programming on the caravan is stopping entirely on fox. it was never a story. it was a campaign issue. one last note on it to make it official, the pentagon announced yesterday that the military operation at the border where the president sent troops down there will no longer be