that we will continue to cooperate with bob mueller and his investigation. just hired the 16th person, many are democratic donors, but we ll continue to cooperate and comply. nbc s kelly o donnell joining me now from bridgewater, new jersey, right near the president s resort where he s spending the next two weeks. good sunday to you. we just heard part of a particularly strong response from vice president mike pence on accusations he s running for president in the shadow campaign. what more can you tell us about this? well, certainly, in republican circles where there has been concern when trump was a candidate and now amplified concern now that he s president a lot of gaming of what would happen in 2020, would there be a republican challenger to the president. those questions are a delicious part of the political parlor games do give rise to people speculating about the role of someone like mike pence. mike pence has a longstanding relationship with big donors in the party, he has
there kind of pushing that narrative. but i think this report is pretty true that, you know, he and other people, i think, are kind of testing the waters, and i think a lot of donors in particular, people who haven t been satisfied with the way president trump has been conducting business are kind of looking to him and saying, okay, what if, and kind of playing those parlor games. and i think that s a typical washington kind of story. lexi, why feel even the need to respond to a speculative article that could be considered sort of an inside the beltway parlor game? do you think anyone at this point cares about 2020? i don t think they are thinking about 2020 too much yet, but i think it speaks to the loyalty issue within the white house. trump has always valued loyalty and we ve seen he s fired people when he perceived they are not loyal to him, so i think in order to reassure trump and the base voters that, you know, pence is still loyal to trump, he has to release a statement. ot
it was this a good move for the president? the president, you could say that he feels defrauded by what took place with no conversation, no heads up, recused himself. i think the thing people are still marketing with donald trump is, he s not going to play the usual d.c. parlor games. he s been upset, he is upset with what the doj is doing. if you look at what is going out the special counsel, he s very upset. sessions recused himself. rod rosenstein writes a memo and for all purposes trump policy memo. only in a world that is removed from common sense and rational thought does this all makes sense. on top of that, you have mueller s team he s put together with people, quite frankly, are conflicted and so my different ways. one of them work for the clinton foundation last year, especially on the case fighting to prevent emails from coming out about the private email server. there is a lot of frustration that is taking place and it was shot across the bow. we will see what happens aft
sharp words for a bill that would let congress audit the fed. i would envision a situation where the gao at the request of members of congress might come in and say they believe that the decision we made was the wrong one at that particular meeting. and i would say that s an extreme interference and politicization of our ability to make independent monetary policy decisions. trying very hard to be separate from the political process in washington so they can make decisions not based on politics, not based on the party in power. yellen faces what could be her final congressional testimony today. the president has not said if he will reappoint her when her term ends in february. one of the interesting parlor games, will she stay, will she go. police in pennsylvania want to know how and why a man killed at least one person, left the remains in a common grave. an update on this bizarre case.
it is not up for grabs. donald come the u.s.a. nasty yet. trade for reading a portion of her new book to the town hall in new york. over to you. pete: i m sure that will sell it to the media. the russian collusion fallen apart. a whole new scandal to run with. mike pence secret plot. one headline going as far as asking who would president pens pick as his vice president? here to react come analyst amy holmes. i saw this right away yesterday. here s a little bit or from the article. this is mike allen saying one of the parlor games republicans are playing in the shadows is this. you would president pens pick as his vice president? this is premature and highly speculative and premised solely on trump leaving office for whatever reason.