drawbacks for melania are that leading republican. the way she s allowing herself to be defined are on a strange so i would urge the president to knock this off. this is the greatest democracy choice of a jacket that she wore on earth. on a trip. you re the leader of the free that was in poor taste. a strange outfit in egypt or some people liked it. world. and people are going to start an anti-bullying campaign that doubting you as a person if you people see as ironic and not in a good way. keep making accusations against and now she s kind of publicly our electoral system without calling for the firing and successfully, i guess, of an justification. official who was really a senior that was the january 2017 paper pusher. version of lindsey graham. so it s strange. back now, jen psaki, ken most first ladies, michelle obama, for example, hillary clinton, first lady, you know, cuccinelli, abby phillip, and laura bush, they define their role on their own terms and maggie haberman. mag
you know, i want to clean house now, because i know how to do this job. and no matter whom i appoint as chief of staff, that person is going to be a paper pusher. i m really going to be running the white house. and suddenly, abbey, and you get in these photo ops many times. suddenly reporters are shouting questions to the president, and as opposed to what he was doing until the last few days, he s refusing to answer their questions at these various events. yeah. that s a really interesting development. and that also has to do with the fact that the mid terms are over. the strategy leading up to the midterm elections was to let trump kind of control the narrative by talking as much as he could to reporters directly, answering those questions, talking about what he wanted to talk about. that s all over now. he s in a bad mood, he doesn t want to take questions. he just wants to go about doing only the things that he wants to do. it s worth noting also, wolf, the president has been ca
republicans are really trying to cover up his record there. they don t want to go to the archives, look what advice he gave president bush, calling him a traffic cop, a paper pusher, saying he didn t create his own documents. that s nonsense. the role of staff secretary is not well-known, but it s a very important policymaking job. he was promoted from senior associate white house counsel into that job. he carried the very top title, assistant to the president in the white house. he was clearly a key policy adviser, at a time that president bush was making important decisions around restricting abortion rights, trying to push for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. he was there, being the last stop, really, on a series of signing statements that were very controversial, including on
about brett kavanaugh. walk us through why that matters and what democrats should do about it. look, ari, he served in the white house as staff secretary, the first position i served in for president clinton. todd stern, who succeeded me in that job, and i wrote an op-ed piece in the washington post this week, noting that the republicans are really trying to cover up his record there. they don t want to go to the archives, look what advice he gave president bush, calling him a traffic cop, a paper pusher, saying he didn t create his own documents. that s nonsense. the role of staff secretary is not well-known, but it s a very important policimaking job. he was promoted from senior associate white house counsel into that job. he carried the very top title, assistant to the president in the white house. he was clearly a key policy adviser, at a time that president bush was making important decisions around restricting abortion rights, trying to push for constitutional amendments to b
white house. they say that job is somewhat called it a paper pusher, that s not quite what that is but they re saying that his job was to not about providing advice, that what it was about is making sure all the documents that were coming from different parts of the executive branch that were supposed to get in front of the president got in front of the president and he saw them and then it has nothing to do with his legal thinking. he didn t have any say over how the documents were constructed or what was in them, he was just responsible for getting them to the president. guy: they should strike an agreement about a reasonable document request from the bush administration era days but keep in mind, judge kavanaugh has sat on the d.c. circuit now for 12 years. that is the body of work that is most relevant to his nomination to the u.s. supreme court. i think it s interesting to see him as the first democrat to come in this guy has been a nominee for a month, the democrats are finally