after his rape conviction. it s something he s been accused of himself and maybe that informs how he feels about this stuff. it s not just rob porter, corey lewandowski faced accusations during the campaign of touching inappropriately, physically, a female reporter and trump rushed to his defense. it s odd to sit here and listen to it because we re accustomed to what is a simple, if not unfortunate, pr move in such situations which they would say something akin to we take these allegations seriously and looking into them and get on the same story and present what they have to present. but in this white house, it seems as if they are doing this almost like a jazz ensemble. and that is feeding this controversy, and now we re on day six of it. until they can get their stories straight, i don t see how it goes away. absent another controversy. peter, you have written an account of the chaos, the whirlwind and the revolving door
the thing it is obama white house did was they had obama in settings and stuff that showed he was still working, even though the government wasn t and putting a spotlight on the government functions that weren t working. and to be frank about shut downs, they re tedious blame games. one of the great tools the president has is the bully pulpit. so i don t see this as so much a dumb pr move, although it probably is one, it s really a wasted opportunity for trump to stay in d.c. and hammer the message he s still working even if the government is not. let s listen to what paul ryan says about this as he tried to play the blame game. i ask the american people to understand this. the only people in the way of keeping the government open is
the thing it is obama white house did was they had obama in settings and stuff that showed he was still working, even though the government wasn t and putting a spotlight on the government functions that weren t working. and to be frank about shut downs, they re tedious blame games. one of the great tools the president has is the bully pulpit. so i don t see this as so much a dumb pr move, although it probably is one, it s really a wasted opportunity for trump to stay in d.c. and hammer the message he s still working even if the government is not. let s listen to what paul ryan says about this as he tried to play the blame game. i ask the american people to understand this. the only people in the way of keeping the government open is
million. this amounts to $42 million. yes, it s a pr move. it may be cynical. but at the same time, let s go back to the discussion i was having yesterday, where we can sit and say, hey, this mainly helped gazillion airs, the rich of the rich. somebody in indiana is getting $600 more a year and they re on a fixed income or let s say they make $35,000 a year toeshlgs they don t care if you and i are getting a lot more than that. they care about the $600 and that s what this may be a cynical move by companies, maybe it s fought. i mean, they re going to make a
thousand dollars. at&t is trying to buy time warner. i think boeing jumped in. boeing is trying to sell planes and get export financing from the federal government. i don t want to sound cynical a couple days before christmas. wells fargo, $15 an hour. wells fargo has massive regulatory problems. it s a pr move. by the way, even if you re not trying to curry favor with the government, it s basically how many tens and tens of hundreds of billions are we going to save as a company. it looks like it s going back to the people. at&t s revenues are $45 billion a year and this amounts to $200 million. donny, you re exactly right, yes, it s a pr move. it may be cynical, but at the same time this goes back to the discussion i was having yesterday where we can sit and say, hey, this mainly helps gazillionaires, the richest of