the dynamic, great, but there has to be some accountability. and if it s it s got to be the president or someone who can speak for him. i was in meetings all morning with senior staff, i would have a prep session making sure i knew everything about where we were on every issue, that i could answer truthfully and as transparently as i could on every issue, when i wasn t liking what i was reading or didn t know exactly what the president thought about an issue, i would walk down the hall and ask him if i hadn t seen him already that morning before the briefing, because i thought it was important. your credibility as press secretary is all you have, it s not about you, it s about because you re speaking for the president, the white house, the administration and the country. you need to do everything you cannot to erode that credibility. what s the legacy? well, i think the legacy that she leaves and her predecessor leaves is where it s not a role
it s a mysterious visit that caught us off guard. he met with the senate intel committee. unclear what he met with. he went there. he had lunch. he went back with his attorney. it wouldn t be that unusual to prep before such a high stakes interview with the committee which is supposed to happen next week. that would be something that could happen. we normally haven t seen this with other russia-related witnesses in the investigation. it does appear this was a prep session of some sort. there is a lot of anticipation for next week when there are three different hearings with michael cohen, two behind closed doors, one that will be open session. it s going to be about trump and his businesses. there will be a lot of focus on that while the president is overseas in vietnam during the second summit. in hanoi meeting with kim jong-un. michael cohen will be before the
people to arrive here today. it is a really diverse crowd so far. men, women, young, old, huge mix of ethnicities and nationalities. i have to tell you, they seem pretty organized. we listened a while ago as organizers convened the crowd and gave them the prep session for the day. a heavy emphasis on remaining respectful of the senators they encounter, not making anybody feel physically threatened or intimidated. they stopped twice during the prep session to ask two people from the crowd to not raise their voices. sandra: we see the pictures and the people. they are coming. what are you expecting to see there later? so we don t know exactly when the leaders will when the leaders will show up, the leaders of the movement. the organizers here tell us their goals for today are specific. they want face time with the three or four undecided senators. one of them told the crowd in
there is so much that could go wrong for kavanaugh and this hearing. so unpredictable it may be that you have a credible witness, democrats now we know that they re going to go after kavanaugh on his high school activities and nobody really wants to answer questions about those. lots of places for them to go wrong. the washington post reporting over the weekend that he was a little defensive when he was asked some of those questions in his prep session. unpredictable one way of describing it. we will be reading axios a.m. in just a minute. you, too, can sign up for that newsletter that does it for us on this monday morning, i m ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf morning joe starts right now in the very near future judge kavanaugh will be on the united states supreme court. so, my friends, keep the faith, don t get rattled by all of this we re going to plow right through it and do our job.
allegations against judge kavanaugh is no. if and while it is still unclear whether there will even be a hearing on monday, judge kavanaugh is making preparations to be there. sources tell fox news that judge kavanaugh went through a so-called murder board here at the white house yesterday. a prep session where he was peppered with questions about the alleged incident. sources say he did well in the session, that he was solid, there was no wavering. if leaving the white house for the storm ravaged carolinas, president trump for the first time indicated for the moment at least he believes brett kavanaugh over the judge s accuser christine blasey ford. if she shows up and makes a credible showing, that will be very interesting. will have to make a decision. but i can only say this, he is such an outstanding man, very hard for me to imagine that anything happened. president trump could ask for the fbi to develop more information about the