are you kidding me you say where you working these days? ukraine. [laughter] it s not like it s detroit. that s kind of a big thing. i think it would ve come up in conversation. the lies continue because even after hunter biden and he magically appeared again, he said he didn t know hunter was getting ready to give an interview. that s a lie. there is a messaging strategy, especially in politics, the majority of his life. would gotta move on, i know were going to keep talking about impeachment. we will find a home for it after this break. do not go away
message, perhaps a new defense. the democrats would rather focus on impeachment and phony investigations ignoring the real issues but that s not stopping donald trump. he s no mr. nice guy but sometimes it takes a donald trump to change washington. and in a new interview with the washington examiner president trump said he doesn t need a team to fight impeachment because he has the republican party behind him as his vocal defenders. add in white house press secretary stephanie gri sham saying president trump is the war room. with us now to discuss, senior media correspondent oliver darcy and reporter donnie o donovan. what stands out to you about the messaging strategy at the pivotal time in the country and the presidency? what perhaps stands out most is the lack of a disciplined white house messaging strategy. previous presidents facing impeachment they had the war rooms with lawyers and press aides aimed at shaping public perception and really getting
chart, and that s just if people would even pay attention to it. this is the problem with the messaging strategy and the coverage so far they ve gotten. they ve gotten a sort of drip, drip, drip and the only way to follow this is like reading a tolstoy novel. you have to be tuning in 24 hours a day. it s why we saw such a straight line partisan vote today. there is no reason to flip your vote. republicans are going to say democrats are for impeachment. these two guys don t get a pass. i was talking to an official last night who was saying in their view what they re hoping for is this is going to backfire against the democrats, that for people outside of the beltway who aren t paying attention to the drip, drip, drip and aren t following all the nuance, this official said, look, if you ask someone outside the beltway who is not closefly wauchgtching it
to watch today. democrats are continuing their impeachment investigation as the white house now tries to step up its messaging strategy. so we ll get the bottom line on all of this, next.
come back out. here is south carolina republican senator lindsey graham answering questions on capitol hill. the white house changed course malt 308 times at this point you noticed. are you confident you guys are on the same page and is it the hill now leading this messaging strategy? so i talked to chief of staff mulvaney. i think they re working on getting a messaging team together. you know, i was involved in impeachment of president clinton. i know this sounds weird, but clinton look what he did. what he did is, he had a team that was organized, had legal minds that could understand what was being said versus the legal proceedings in question and they