everybody around the oval office. nobody trusts anybody and the person who would take the job is consigning themselves to millions of dollars of legal fees, maybe a prison term, but certainly, professional disrepute, they ll never work again. and so that s the real-world reaction to everybody, right, that wants to go into the white house. this is the markets speaking. this is the contempt with which people in washington, people all over the country, who run normal businesses, who conduct themselves with some sense of proprie propriety, this is their verdict on the trump administration. every single person considering this job knows it. they may be in a reality distortion field inside that white house. they may like flying on that plan plane. but every single one of them is aware of the disrepute that will
a follow-up for some of the conversations he had had previously. remember, they were having a number of conversations. it wasn t just this conversation he had with sergey kislyak about lifting about sanctions and whether russia would retaliate. he also had a conversation with sergey kislyak about whether russia would veto or vote against a resolution related to israel in the u.n. so they were having these back-channel conversations all through the transition with the russian ambassador and i think it s important to state, you know, we talk about what the crimes might be here and whether this relates to a quid pro quo that, you know, the russians would interfere in the election and trump would reward them with the sanctions or the russians would, you know, approve a development deal in russia, trump would reward them with lifting sanctions. we talk about what the criminal acts might be but there s also that s kind of a very low standard to which to hold the president of the united s
roommate who couldn t believe it was paula deen. i haven t followed the scandal very closely that she got fired. but here s what i do know, she admitted to using racial slurs in her personal life and i m very sorry that a that s the case because i also a know in my family, such talk was never tolerated, not for one second. it happened on occasion that older relatives. my mom and dad put the hammer down and they made it a rule that attitudes like that would not be tolerated across our threshold. my parents were protecting me and my brother and also a protecting their sense of proprie propriety, human decencies and core values. she may not deserve what she s now suffering. i don t know, i can t know. she did make choices and i hope from all of this that we ll take a pause, examine our own choices because i know we can always make them better.