Were used to seeing from the president. Perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague Ashley Parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. He wasnt available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. Look, its important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. We know from our reporting that theres anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that hes worried about don jr. , worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and theres a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. We dont know what that might be. But this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. All right. So theres the issue of the Trump Tower Meeting which we know mueller has a good deal of inform
very xenophobic base. and making sure that elect them. they are in charge of the republican party. the masters, the big donors, the corporate special interests, deed to go along with that. so now what s happening is that they are fully in charge and they have elected a president who is of that. something else that came out today with omarosa is the response that donald trump has had which unfortunately is becoming a little bit familiar. let s listen to this. calling may low life. saying i m not intelligent. this is what he does when it comes to african-americans. maxine waters. low i.q. particularly with
number of things in that book that seem to be offhand comments and then we heard tape to back them up. this becomes interesting for the special counsel or anyone else to say does omarosa know the president was being coached to lie in that interview with lester holt and in the end when he told lester it was about russia was that the truth or was that a lie? i don t know about her what she experienced or what she may have witnessed firsthand at the time or if she was even in the room for those discussions in advance of lester holt s interview. but her account seems to make sense because the administration had put forward a narrative of events where the president was just simply reacting to the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to fire comey for his work on the job. but clearly there was more to it than that and trump himself had acknowledged he had fired comey over russia and that that was sort of a series of explanations that were created by the
and what the conversation was with james comey. and it goes to why the president fired james comey. earlier today i had a conversation with omarosa manigault newman about the tlers holt interview. here s what she told me. i want to talk about the lester holt interview where you said that the team prepared him well. then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believe to be the truth, that he fired jim comey over russia. so was he being prepped to lie? he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say that the d.o.j. had come up with this memo so that they could justify the firing of comey. so you were that was definitely hope hicks, press secretary kind of thing. i was really, really surprised that he would implicate himself. phil, i don t know what to make of that because there are a
where it almost seems like she s trying explain herself to them. tara, she didn t really do as much. when i asked her why she stuck around as long as she did, she said she was trying get a better place at the table for african-americans in the white house. it s not clear that that bore any fruit. ? well, i don t think that s why she stuck around. look, at the end of the day trump reflects the people who work for trump reflect trump. omarosa, the whole cast of characters, he wanted a reality show presidency and that s what he s gotten. the cast of characters around him are shameless as he is, as deceitful as he is, and in many ways as corrupt as he is. so the notion that she was there for these noble reasons, she was there for the same reason all the other people are there. power, connections, and to set themselves up for something bigger later. michelle, the kriegs she writes about in the book that she s released a recording of, getting fired by kelly, it s a very long tape. she