anyone who swore an oath to uphold the constitution. representative craig, also in the washington post tonight, they are indicating that rudy giuliani was off on his own in a way that they were trying to figure out what he was doing was actually by reading newspapers and watching tv of rudy giuliani s statements about what his involvement in ukraine might be. they had no way within the administration, apparently, of finding out what it was. well, this gets to the heart of the issue with the president, and that is he has put his own personal interests by nature of putting his personal attorney in the middle of all of this. and that s exactly why we couldn t stand on the sidelines and allow this continued behavior, this behavior to continue by the president and his personal attorney. congressman lujan, the
the washington post tonight, they are indicating that rudy giuliani was off on his own in a way that they were trying to figure out what he was doing was actually by reading newspapers and watching tv of rudy giuliani s statements about what his involvement in ukraine might be. they had no way within the administration, apparently, of finding out what it was. well, this gets to the heart of the issue with the president, and that is he has put his own personal interests by nature of putting his personal attorney in the middle of all of this. and that s exactly why we couldn t stand on the sidelines and allow this continued behavior, this behavior to continue by the president and his personal attorney. congressman lujan, the consented unanimous agreement was a surprise to everyone, i
inside the white house. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, this is new dramatic reporting out of axios. a source inside the white house provided them with the president s schedule, his daily schedule for nearly three months worth of time, midterm elections until now. it appears the president spends about 60% of his time on executive time, essentially private time in the white house where the president is watching cable television, reading newspapers, calling friends, et cetera. we should point out, not everyone meeting that the president has taken is on these schedules. we understand, according to white house officials in this report, that he often has impromptu sort of spur of the moment meetings. also, apparently, the president doesn t listing meetings because he s afraid they ll leak to the press. but it does show just how unstructured and unorthodox his time in the white house has been. right.
what we re seeing here is actually a cultural clash between does germany continue to moderate politics where tries to get as many people on board and try to humiliate its few people as possible or do you go in and throw your weight around and because they see trump doing it they see other countries do it and they want a bit of the action i think that s the bottle or actually. and that s what worries me slightly more on that people whether people are saying that now i worry that people will start reading newspapers for germany is unstable germany is in crisis it isn t just because journalists think i don t really agree with you. well i agree i don t i don t think that it s in crisis i think though it s worth noting that one of the conclusions one could make from the past couple of weeks is that this little rebellion that we saw from the c.s.u. and from some of the young men as you call them and miracles party really failed and i think there is still a consensus in germany and a centrist
images that had been coming out of south texas over the past few days. peter, what more do we know about melania trump s influence on the president s change of heart if you will? well, i think we know that the president is driven by images, perhaps before anything else. he spends a lot of time speaking to friends and allies outside the white house, but he is certainly someone who consumes a ton of media. reading newspapers, but most often watching cable tv and based on conversations i ve had the belief system is, that this president was in many ways motivated to make this decision based on what he was seeing on television. but it s certain that part of what swayed his decision, was the guidance, privately of the first daughter, ivanka trump, and the first lady melania trump, according to sources familiar with the matter. the first lady you ll remember, only a matter of weeks ago, announced her formal platform, be best, supposed to focus