talk to us about what you ve learned about jim jordan and mark meadows. jordan and meadows are among the president s closest al lies. they re among a small group of republican lawmakers have who have tended every one of these depositions that have taken place behind closed doors. now i m also learning with my colleague pamela brown according to four administration officials that congressman jordan and congressman meadows have been quietly helping white house lawyers sift through some of these public reports about the testimonies. offering guidance about some of the testimony that has been given in these impeachment depositions, all of this to the extent they can. they cannot divulge the substance of these testimonies. congressman jordan and meadows insisted they are not violating house rules. they have not discussed the substance of these al gages. congressman meadows told me he has only offered broad
unbiassed. hopefully it will shed light on this. the fbi considers the work they do impartial, but by design, because they are doing a background check at the white house s request, they have say over the scope. senate republicans involved to draw the boundaries along with the white house and the democrats not so much. both sides looked to politicize this as a sought to get to the bottom of the matter. the presidential adviser kellyanne conway saying no, the white house does not have its hand in it and counsel don mcgahn is offering guidance and giving instruction to the fbi, who would be interview and what the limitations are. etc. what is the expectation on how involved the white house would be? look, i have to operate under the assumption they will have in
i just want to make sure you see the difference with that which the fbi is stating and that which the president has tweeted. having somebody put within the campaign, a spy as he put it, a spy within the campaign, as opposed to an informant speaking with people who may be working within the campaign, but he s not attached to the campaign. there s a difference there, right? so the president sis incorrect n his tweet? yeah, well, details are still developing. a lot of it was unconfirmed. it could be that the spread correct. what i read did seem to indicate that the informant approached officials under the guise of offering guidance and advice to the campaign. that s actually something supernormal. any presidential campaign, people come, they offer advice. sometimes, it s taken, sometimes, it s not. i think if they were going to do that, i think that s actually a pretty normal way to go about
point, i think president obama recognizes donald trump and his team need help. donald trump recognizes he needs help and his team needs help coming in. it is a massive entity. staffed to a level you can t imagine until you ve been there. the build itself at a size you can t imagine until you get in there. a recognition president obama is offering guidance and counsel to some degree and donald trump would be a fool not to take it. donald trump is willing to listen to people, often more than some advisers would like but he s willing to do that going forward. interesting dynamic. and the president on this conference call later in the afternoon with leaders from the democratic national committee. hillary clinton will be on that call as well. there s a lot of anguish going on there, a lot of anger that they failed. yes. and they did fail. they failed massively. at least in terms of electoral college, in terms of some of these states that were part of the democratic base. so they thought
let s take a look at this from her communications director. she sent out a tweet this morning sort of offering guidance. we are not responding to trump, but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #i mwithher. they are definitely try iing to rally the own supporters. but i have to tell you, it s probably good for both of the respective bases whenever trump takes on clinton his people love it. whenever she responds, her people love it. we ll keep an ear out this afternoon to see if she responds. i don t think she will. this is his ballpark, this sort of thing. we ll see. jeff zeleny, thank you, appreciate it. donald trump didn t just get vulgar. his talk went to the toilet when talking about clinton in michigan today. this is what he said about her entrance to the stage. she had gone to the bathroom. i know where she went. it s disgusting. i u don t want to talk about it.