do is show results. we talked about why that s been difficult so far, especially as he becomes more estranged from lawmakers in congress. flo there is no simple answer to regain that media narrative. he doesn t have a communications director or anyone kind of helping with that. there are a lot of people that don t want that. there s an interim director. we ll see if it becomes permanent or not. my impression is there s a lot of people who have turned that job down, and so he s brought in somebody who s already there to do it on an interim basis. that s the kind of job people would normally cherish and fight to have, and in this white house not so much. we ll see you tomorrow on reliable sources. i want to make sure you understand the scope of this in a matter of dies, president trump has been forced to cancel
leaders distancing themselves, charities pulling their events from trump s florida resort. by the end of the week, trump received condemnations. friday, the departure of the ideological head of the trump movement, the firing of the chief strategist steve bannon, one of the most controversial figures in the white house. quite a week. we begin with host of reliable sources, brian stelter. that felt like a couple of weeks. there was so much going on. what stands out to you? seems to me that tuesday news conference, i described it at the time as not just a flarchs went off the rails, but a presidency that went off the rails. how can he get this back on track? i remember you saying that on tuesday. now we re seeing, especially this weekend a lot of newspaper web stories, television stories, all focusing on this question of
fridays in august here. i made a mistake by going on vacation for a couple days. the point being that this is not over for the president with this white house in crisis. as we reflect on tuesday, he wasn t planning on taking questions and his aides had not expected him to take questions at all. i think he agreed with his aides that he wasn t going to take questions. and yet in that moment, maybe the true president trump came out, which was valuable. for all the criticism this week, it is valuable to know what s in the president s mind for the same reason his tweets tell us a lot about what he s thinking. but those tweets and those statements and on-camera events are the reason why people have increasingly questioned his fitness, why gop leaders are privately asking those questions. and does heavy the
whether it s possible to have an effective presidency going forward. calling back to tuesday as one of the many reasons for raising that question. if you look at the front pajsz of the sunday papers tomorrow morning, it s going to be these questions about whether it s possible for the president to regain the rails that you were describing, whether he can get back on the rails and regain credibility and trust within his party. from what i ve seen so far, looking at the coverage this entire week, we re seeing republicans, gop leaders, sometimes privately and publicly asking these questions in ways they hadn t before. i think that s why this week was so pivotal. i want to go back want to exchange i had with president trump in that conferences. it was so striking just trying to ask a question of the president, shouting these questions was difficult constancy questions came in, he was ready for combat. let s play this. no doubt about it, and you don t have any doubt about it.