moments ago, cnn learned that president trump called scott pruitt last night to deliver this message. keep fighting. we got your back. joining me now, molly ball, cnn political analyst and patty solis doyle and scott jennings. good to have all of you with us. as kaitlan collins just pointed out, we hear the message from the president, i got your back to scott pruitt that the president is happy with some of what he s seeing at the epa. molly that being said, we know how quickly things can change in the white house. what is the sense around washington in terms of the president s messages being put out there and what is really happening behind the scenes for scott pruitt? the sense in washington is that everything depends on trump s whim and trump s whim can change, can turn on a dime. we have seen cabinet officials forced out over these types of scandals of whatever caliber you consider them. tom price, david shulkin, and then we have seen some who are staying on, ben carson is still
when he doesn t like coverage, he goes on the attack. and i fear that that s what s behind this amazon attacks and personal jeff bezos attacks. patty, molly, scott, appreciate it. thank you, all. speaking of stocks, let s head over to the new york stock exchange for a look at how the market is reacting after that monday sell-off. that s next. booking a flight at the last minute doesn t have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it s the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%.
of the united states would not want that publicly revealed and would be likely to back off and settle with stormy daniels rather than depose edeposed. if you re look for a common thread between stormy daniels and russia, it is the idea of putting the president under oath, which lawyers on both sides think could be problematic. paul callan, good to have you with us. appreciate it. joining us now, jackie c kucinich and patty solis doyle. jackie, the president has been silent on stormy daniels. has been silent altogether for four days. how much longer can this go on? one might think that his first public appearance, our friends at the white house press corps, they ll be shouting questions. he s ignored questions in the past about this, over the previous week.
ndas, it is pretty toothless. there are federal laws and whistle-blower laws that protect federal employees, which white house employees are. so if there is a silver lining into what amanda just outlined, that might be it. you know, it is interesting they are toothless, but it does remind me very much of the loyalty pledge that republican former presidential candidates were asked to take during the republican primary, also toothless, but still managed to yield a great amount of power over them in terms of questioning their loyalty to the party and their ethics as personal members of the party. so even though this agreement may be toothless, it is still threatening and still has power. patty, i want to read you something that we just got from the attorney for stormy daniels. michael avenatti. he put this out on twitter. he says to address the rumor we do not have a monica lewinsky type dress. thus there is no dress to be tested for dna. but we re making progress on the stocking
to turn trump supporters, where you could see erosion is with women voters in the coming midterms who are just sick of looking at this and sick of hearing about this kind of stuff. jackie, patty, amanda, author of the future book gas lighting america , thank you very much. appreciate you all being here the. still to come, russian retaliation, how the kremlin will respond after the u.s. and other countries expel russian diplomats. and a growing list of veterans organizations are coming to the secretary s defense. and a mystery train in china, inside highly likely it was kim jong-un. what was he doing there?