if you know someone in one context, like the military, you don t know what that means about them in another context. we learned he does lie. he lied about congresswoman wilson. we learned he has trump views on race, praising confederate general robert e. lee, saying daca dreamers should have gotten off their butts. so this has been a revealing six months for a man we didn t know as well as we thought we did. you have to remember going through the transition, there were a list of folks they refused to hire, those were folks considered not trumpers. if they said something negative about trump in the past, they would not hire them. there were folks floated, folks willing to go in and meet with the president that were shown the door because they didn t
we learned he does lie. he lied about congresswoman wilson. we learned he has trump views on race, praising confederate general robert e. lee, saying daca dreamers should have gotten off their butts. so this has been a revealing six months for a man we didn t know as well as we thought we did. you have to remember going through the transition, there were a list of folks they refused to hire, those were folks considered not trumpers. if they said something negative about trump in the past, they would not hire them. there were folks floated, folks willing to go in and meet with the president that were shown the door because they didn t want anybody who they thought would go against his agenda. donald trump had a long memory in that respect. look at mitt romney and the meeting that president trump had
to be able to ask a question all by yourself. but. the other thing that general kelly said yesterday was in reference to general lee and he said that the civil war was the result of the failure to compromise. was he suggesting that there would be compromise on the ablution of slavery? look, all of our leaders have flaws. that doesn t diminish the contributions to our country and certainly can t erase them from history. and general kelly was simply making the point because history isn t perfect doesn t mean it s not our history. you are a proud daughter of the south. when you see a statue that was responsible for the massacre. is there a differentiation? do you think there are certain
of mueller mandate which is russia, collusion, allegations of russia collusions. so to downplay his efforts in that campaign you can do that, but you also have to explain why was he talking to senior officials. and he s been talking and cooperating with the fbi. so republicans on the hill are just waiting for other shoes to drop. and they don t know what to say. a lot of them are remaining silent and that silence is becoming deafening. so curious to say how sarah huckabee sanders handles this today. stay with me, i have more for you. coming up at cnn white house briefing about to begin. how trump is reacting behind the scenes. we ll take the briefing live. also questionable comments from the chief of staff, john kelly, praising confederate general robert e. lee and saying the civil war resulted from an inability, lack in this country
this investigation. can t really do that because it s not under doj purview, it s under treasury, but given that it don t come up to the flow which shows the complications of this. and you also have people saying that to fire mueller would cross a line that we don t want to go. so they are sending these signals now just in case. bull i think that divide is pretty interesting. a lot of tough questions coming at sarah huckabee sanders momentarily. thank you so much. fascinating times in which we live. we are waiting for the white house briefing to begin we ll bring it to you live. also talk about the comments from president chief of staff equally praising the confederate general robert e. lee saying it was a lack of compromise that led to the civil war. more on his comments when we come back. you wouldn t do only half