you don t talk about the family, correct? absolutely. scott? yeah, it s bad idea. more specifically, she should have known better, correct? absolutely. i can tell you having i worked in the clinton administration and had, you know, both for president clinton and then first lady hillary clinton and there i would first of all, i can t imagine ever saying anything like that and certainly, you know, there have been times when i was a press staffer, right? if i went out for an off the record dinner with reporters, the aid the person who was the president s aid or the first lady s aid, they didn t generally come to be perfectly honest. one of the rules is don t put yourself in this situation, and certainly, the moment she, you know, she clearly, it sounds like she said something that somebody who was at the dinner then tried to get more in information about it. maybe that s part of how it came
people have honest conversations, which we re not in, what i always thought of her as a confidante of the president, somebody that he implicitly trusts not to rat him out. he can say anything. i can t stand that guy or i m bsinging here. he would share everything with her. she knows it all about the russians, about roger what s his name, all these people. and one of the things the democrats wanted this to be the moment where they bring the mueller report alive. they didn t do it here in one part because this is all happening behind closed doors first of all. just to say it, she knows it all? she does. that s one thing that comes through very clearly. she was as close if not the closest confidante in the entire operation. she was the only press staffer. she invokes her white lies. she admits to the committee that she was being asked to draft statements that she did not even bother to ask then candidate president trump whether they were true or not. she was doing so including wit
president george h.w. bush as he slipped away, broke down and cried. so for me, as a, you know, i was a 29-year-old press staffer when i met or started working in the white house. i was younger than. i worked for jeb bush when i met the 41st president and barbara bush. but to see everyone stripped down to their bare naked unashamed love and devotion to the 41st president was incredibly moving and i don t think you had to know them to choke up when george w. bush choked up. i don t think you had to, you know, be anything other than an observer of american politic it is see that these friendships were real. i think you also heard some of the funny 41 was not a stiff. he was he could be, you know, he could be mischievous, a goof ball. driving the boat too fast and
was on the side of more transparency. we know from mark carrallo s count in fire and fury, that hope hicks and the president prevailed, said it will never get out, just say it was about adoption. so the press staff, i have to say, having been a press staffer, you are in charge of some of the most insignificant things like which tie your boss wears, to some of most seismic things like, like, you know, personal and professional. so, you know, when you look at a white house under investigation by a special counsel, you look at a white house, hope hicks is up on capitol hill today before a committee, every single person has, you know, a ripple effect. what do you think the ripple effects are of both kushner losing those clearances today and kushner and ivanka losing their top spokesman? as my colleague, ashley, said, it certainly is easy to sort of delve into this world of conspiracy theory, what does this all mean, why is it all happening now? which is totally fair, particularly given
hillary campaign, i cannot believe they allowed this reporter to essentially hang out inside the white house and just essentially be a fly on the wall. no press staffer said, why is that reporter here? why is he here? is he ochb the record? does he have a recorder? is he taking notes? those are basic level questions. the fact that he has documented the incompetence tenis evidence got access in the first place. how he acts and what he cares about and also a picture of the disfufrp dysfunction that was just mentioned within the white house, so so little of his attention seems to be centered on that, on defending the way his administration works or doesn t. i think michael wolff crossed a lot of lines when he wept after the president s family. i don t think anyone can blame president trump for being angry about that. i think michael wolff has hard time knowing what was true or made up. he told the post in 2001 he will say anything.