could the white house relied on president obama s statement sunday night and then just waited for a day until they got all the report in and got everybody on the same page and then put something out? yes. that s what they should have done. it s p.r. 101 that you get all of your ducks in a row before you come out and start telling stories. inevitably there are mistakes. that s just what happens. some of the mistakes are hard to understand how you go from a 40-minute firefight to we walked in and shot him. those are two completely different stories. bret: one guy out in the courtyard. it was not a 4046 minute firefight. it wasn t a 20-minute firefight. it s one guy. they are different stories and hard to understand how that happened. i think what they should have done is they should have said yes, put out the statement, then get all of your conversation and then have someone come out and give it out, it should be in writing and coordinated. the way they did it, they detracted fro
as 2010 comes to a close it is nice to remember all the stories that inspired us. but fun to remember the ones that made us wince, laugh out loud. and videos that went viral for better or worse. kathleen, mostly for worse. three of our favorites. they proved in the age of youtube, everybody is fair game. take representative bob ethridge, democrat from north carolina. remember when someone tried to ask him a question on camera. take a look. not a nice encounter. do you fully support the obama agenda? who are you? who are you? whoa. who are you? whoa. who are you? i am here tell me who you are. we are here for a project. we are just here for a project. please let go of my hand. tell me who you are. who you? who are you? not pr 101.
better or worse. kathleen, mostly for worse. three of our favorites. they proved in the age of youtube, everybody is fair game. take representative bob ethridge, democrat from north carolina. remember when someone tried to ask him a question on camera. take a look. not a nice encounter. do you fully support the obama agenda? who are you? who are you? whoa. who are you? whoa. who are you? i am here tell me who you are. we are here for a project. we are just here for a project. please let go of my hand. tell me who you are. who you? who are you? not pr 101. turned out the gop was behind the encounter. let s face it, the congressman did not handle it the way his staffers wanted him to no doubt. now he is ex-congressman. sometimes a politician
her and knew she was illegal until last year and also has been answering the question well, why didn t she turn her in when she found out she was illegal? she answered that question repeatedly in a 45-minute press conference today. very fond of nikki. i didn t want to make an example of her. it is not an obligation of the employer to turn in illegal employees. and i you know, just thought i m knowing go to make an of nikki. clearly she is trying to show a compassionate side while maintaining her tough on illegal immigration policy position. but bottom line, this was crisis pr 101. she took every question and has been doing a series of interviews to try to put this behind her. gloria allred the lawyer for the housekeeper in question, she says that whitman is not telling the truth. that s right. first of all, whitman appeared with her husband by her side claiming that her family never received a letter from the social security administration
so let s say the investigation goes for three years. does that mean you wouldn t fire anybody? as the investigation draws conclusions, we will take the necessary action. 20 past the hour. goodness gracious. what is that? okay. what is that thing? with us now from washington, moderator of meet the press david gregory and from the white house. i just think ikarumba is a perfect response to that. i think the guy is from mexico, right? or one of the two places. right. okay. also the fundamental problem this is a pr 101 thing which is you ve got to give a little of yourself and you ve got to say some things. i mean, this is not a process about the merits here. this is about you got to go and take a beating and it s not pretty, but at least say, look, we are going to have full accountability here. heads are going to roll. we got to get through plugging the hole first. we got to deal with the