business with with people who get on his wrong side. as you said, ana, experts pretty much agree that the nd a s are unenforceable, probably unconstitutional in terms of how the president makes his threats and sort of sees how he can manage his own employees. michael, our reporting is the president viewed westerhout like a daughter when you read about her role in the white house she comes across as a hope hicks 2.0. what do you know about her replace with the president? one of the things that has always characterized in white house is that it doesn t operate with the normal discipline and strict yurs of a regular white house. normally there are well defined roles. people play the roles and abide by a set of rules enforced by the chief of staff and on down throughout the rest of the administration. this this white house has always been sort of chaotic in the roles that people play. and what madelaine westerhout
by anyone and everyone. and she went for some cheap money from a book. numerous others also. i should note that according to the legal experts, the nd a s the president had white house officials sign are unenforceable since they are government employees. i want to bring in new york times white house correspondent michael sheerer. and patrick healy. did you read the president s tweets there as maybe a veiled threat. yeah, i think that s pretty clear. while the president had a very close relationship with westerhout he mass a tendency likes to send signals to basically anyone working for him, even though they are government employees, he basically still sees the people asset working for him and that he can both troet them essentially any way that he sees fit. this is how the trump organization worked for many years. this is how he did business with people like stormy daniels. and he sees it as a way to do
put something out there. patrick healy and michael sheerer good to have you both with us. thanks, gentlemen. from big lies to the tiny exaggerations president trump makes plenty of false claims. next a six-week cnn analysis. you re live in the cnn newsroom. living well do you often wake up with chest congestion? or suffer excess mucus? try mucinex 12 hour. the bio layer tablet immediately releases to thin and loosen excess mucus. and lasts for 12 hours. mucinex 12 hour. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. states that president trump won in 2016. sometimes referred to as trump country, and republicans there they re in the world of the washington post, falling flat. joining me is michael sheerer. good to see you. trump is going to these midwest states in pennsylvania, campaigning for these folks. it s not moving the needle for some of the republican candidates. what are republicans telling you about this? that s because he can t move the needle that much. some of these republican candidates are down ten points or more. that s not something a little enthusiasm from president trump can make up. what makes these numbers remarkable is these are states president trump squeaked by in 2016. talk to pollsters in the state and there are a couple things happening, first is trump is not on the ballot like we saw in 2010, in 2014 with barack obama. it doesn t work that the president is able to impart his
own popularity to members of his own party. and the second reason is in the same ta states trump is actually pretty unpoplar. more than his favorability is low. pollsters say that that is really the predictor of how someone s going to vote right now in some of these places. if you have a favorable view of the president, you know, 80% or more are voting for the republican. if you have an unfavorable view, about the same percentage are voting for the democrat. there s a lot more with an unfavorable view. michael, let s look at, we just showed tammy baldwin in wisconsin up 11 points, debbie stabenow in michigan up 16. sherrod brown up 16. bob casey up 16. this is real clear polling averages. in wisconsin, the governors race, scott walker, he s down ten points in our nbc polling. real clear polling average has him down about four points. this guy is in the political fight of his life. he is, you know, what s interesting about him, he came into office in 2010 in a