sources telling cnn that he will say he didn t see a problem in the call between the president and zelensky, but we heard from manu that there will be some nuance as to what morrison has to say. in terms of nuance, doug, it s not really about, as we know going into this, looking at the testimony, it s not how somebody felt about it, it s the facts of the situation. yeah. look, absolutely. this is where the white house finds itself in real trouble is whatever the president says seems to be contradicted not only by testimony but by witness after witness, and it s why there s been a lot of consternation on capitol hill that, as was referenced earlier by jerry diamond, that there hasn t been a real cohesive strategy for the white house moving forward. i know tony sayeg. i think he is one of the best people this administration has ever had, and i hope for his sake he ll be a little too busy to help in this case because it seems there are not a lot of good answers, and ultimately, that s w
since inauguration day. clearly, there is some amount of people, maybe less than 40 tomorrow, who are sticking with him in spite of all these things that phil just listed off. i agree with that. i want to go back to abby s point for a moment. she was talking about how the white house kind of rationalizes everything and tries to explain everything and we heard that earlier today when they were trying to explain the clear contradi contradictory statements on fisa. he does a little cleanup after people got to him and say approve it and now they are doing cleanup on these comments and the cleanup is, well, you know, it would work with his base and this is what the president really wants to do with immigration, kind of they can t deny it because there was so many witnesses but they find different ways to shove these things under the rug every single time. and they have no other answer to justify the unjustifiable.