the president is in florida. what are you learning? reporter: we re learn iing n changes happening to the pecking order inside the west wing with the addition of the top aids. john bolton and the director of the national economic council larry cudlow and instead of reporting to the chief of staff john kelly, those aids are reporting directly to the president and president trump in turn is viewing them as mini executives. much like the way he ran the trump organization he s given larry and john bolton a lot of leeway to do the hiring and firing that they please. we saw the scuffle with the united nations ambassador this week. something that some officials in the white house saw as a sign of his asen dance in the west wing, but others saw overconfidence because hailey outranks him being she s a member of the cabinet confirmed. and bolton is hiring and firing however he wants. reasserting his authority over
manufacturing james comby of manufacturing the entire russia probe based on a, quote, fraudulent trump dossier, again, reasserting the completely false assertion that the only reason the fbi was investigating donald trump was the dossier accusing the former director of the fbi of in venting an investigation against the president of the united states. to do all of that on the record has got to be the most unusual thing a lawyer has ever done. i m not a lawyer, so you tell me if i m wrong. you re absolutely not wrong. it s completely bizarre. and it s completely strange because john dowd because this isn t public couldn t have had the i.g. report, so he doesn t know any more than you or i or anyone else what s in the report to make it a fireable defense. as we said earlier, we haven t had the defense put forward yet. he was fired without the ability
can t recommend things to a department, but the departments do not often take kindly to being told what to do by the president. he refers to the deep state. well, i m actually glad there is a deep state department, because they are professionals and career people and don t start political prosecutions and i think they will do the right thing in the long run. mark, some new reporting in the with the with the about devin nunes the house intel chair who had to recuse himself. he was cleared in that investigation. but this report says nunes is reasserting had himself into the russia probe and blocking subpoenas of aj jeff sessionss trump junior among other things. mark, there has been a lot of criticism about the house probe being politically tainted. are all republicans united in the approach on that investigation? i don t think they are united. congressional investigations, the three that are ongoing, this
when you have the job, people try to keep you from doing the job. and after you ve had the job, you spend the rest of your life defending yourself. so everybody understands, it s highly partisan. always been that way in american history. from george washington, andrew jackson laura: but the left is having a melt i don t know over trump. the american economy is soaring. you know it, i know it. retail is soaring. we re re-establishing and reasserting ourself as focusing on america first. we re still working with other countries, redoing the trade deals. things are looking up. so the democrats have to go to identity politics, trump s mental, mueller investigation. identity politics, trump s mental, mueller investigation. that s your party. you proud of that party? that s the party. i m basically a military guy, laura. i did run for president. laura: you could have run as a republican. i don t know why you re a democrat. when i talk to democrat i
it. when you have the job, people try to keep you from doing the job. and after you ve had the job, you spend the rest of your life defending yourself. so everybody understands, it s highly partisan. always been that way in american history. from george washington, andrew jackson laura: but the left is having a melt i don t know over trump. the american economy is soaring. you know it, i know it. retail is soaring. we re re-establishing and reasserting ourself as focusing on america first. we re still working with other countries, redoing the trade deals. things are looking up. so the democrats have to go to identity politics, trump s mental, mueller investigation. identity politics, trump s mental, mueller investigation. that s your party. you proud of that party? that s the party. i m basically a military guy, laura. i did run for president. laura: you could have run as a republican. i don t know why you re a democrat.