quite well in the sense that, as michael was saying, he was very self-deprecating. he was jovial. he sort of got the toing and froeing of what it takes to work with the press and want just against the press. quintet, also the idea that according to kelly his only frustration is the media that he has no frustration about trying to keep the president on message or away from twitter rants. what else is he going to say? but it does seem to fly in the face of a lot of reporting. i think that s right. i do think that general kelly s influence is expanding in this town. loo being at the new pick for department of homeland security. she s a deputy of general kelly here at the white house. she is going to be the secretary of homeland security unless there s a major problem up on capitol hill. look, i was talking to a couple of different sources today about the president s twitter habits. one of those sources said, and this was somebody who worked on the campaign, works in the administration
look, i think that you can understand the motive for this white house or any white house to try to deny the story that s right in front of everybody s faces. i think back to the first days of the administration with the travel ban where that chaotic weekend that people were arriving at airports and there was utter chaos as to who could come into the country and who couldn t. and i was talk to go senior administration officials who were denying there was anything out of the ordinary going on and of course later when they looked back on it if you remind administration officials now they sort of privately acknowledge that didn t go well. i think what you have is a kind of initial instinct and general kelly, chief of staff kelly showed it today, an initial instinct to try to deny deny deny and the truth is that the kind of reporting that dan that and quintet and my paper have done is really beyond denial at some point, right. you can pick with a fact or a
know, hear from various law enforcement sources. so we don t know we know that they are keying in on those exact dates. the timeline, again, when did he check in? what was he doing in the days and the hours before this? so all of this is a part of it, but at this point the way i took it from what we re hearing is that they re still trying to nail it down and that s very much reflected on what the sheriff said. all right. everybody stand by. we re going to have much more on this story coming up. major new developments unfolding in the investigation into the las vegas mass murder. but we re also following other developments in another significant story. the stunning feud that has developed between president trump and a prominent republican senator, foreign relations committee chairman bob corker. let s go to our senior white house correspondent. quintet acosta. quintet, the president is said to be very frustrated by all these late breaking developments. frustrated, wolf, but silent
impugned and motives maligned. it s shameful. if this behavior keeps up, it will continue to make more victories in 2018 and 2020. but not for the side they want. mark: you make a very good point there, dana, wit. josh malina is an active actor, a creative person. he s labelled half the population of the united states as members of a quintet of hate groups, particularly the unfunny part. i think he left out isl islamaphobic. how can he believe half of his fellow americans are bigots? is that what the left understands of the trump victory? apparently he is. he s unfamiliar with these individuals. he s referring to average everyday men and women, young
they had their motives maligned. it is shameful that this vulgarity is considered a substitute for weight at all whatsoever. if this behavior keeps up, it is only going to continue to make more victories in 2018 and 2020. mark: you make a very good point there, wit. he is an actor in a creative person. he has labeled half the population of the united states as members of a quintet of hate groups. particularly, the unfunny part. trans phobic. i think he left out islamophobic. how cani o it be that this man believes that half of his fellow americans are bigots? is that really the extent of the left s understanding of the trump of victory? apparently it is. apparently, he is completely unfamiliar with these individuals. he is referring to average, everyday men and women, young and old as bigots simply because he doesn t like the individual