the americans, the 4,600-plus americans whose lives were, in fact, lost due to hurricane maria in puerto rico so what i see here is that the president s clearly more concerned about himself than he is anything and anyone else. where this could have been a moment where the white house could have got really got a win on this, they botched it. all these unforced errors, we re now talking about the president s inability to make to have compassion and empathy and condemn something that is clearly wrong and also telling that sarah huckabee sanders today chose to elaborate and defend the president s comments when they have been very much so silent on so much more. michael, i know on twitter you offered went as far to offer roseanne a spot on a new streaming plat foform that you launched. a , explain why you think it would be wise to be in business with her at this point and do you think the president missed an opportunity here? first of all, on the
lowest unemployment numbers for blacks and hispanics ever and women in 18 years. rebuilding our military and so much more. nice. nice, indeed. more now on the president s reaction to the roseanne barr controversy from cnn s jim acosta at the white house. so, jim, the president s tweet, sarah sanders comments today, it is all sort of out of the white house s playbook. it really is, anderson. this was hardly a teachable moment today unless this was teach the country how things should not happen at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. i mean, this was a day when the white house press secretary came into the room and instead of saying, well, the president s tweets speak for themselves, which she often does say, she decided to go ahead and jump on the trump please apologize train and insist that a lot of people owe the president an apology. and of course, i tried to ask as she left the room today, she wouldn t take a question from cnn, but i tried to ask as she left the room, where are the presiden
spouse dead and the person deny say what, just goes oh, yeah. had he you don t have the immediate emotional reaction you feel like there is a there there. that bothered comey. i want to go back to the erosion had and the politics of personal destruction. it s not anything new. clinton/starr. the dnc went after starr. it has been going on and getting worse and worse and worse. that s why we are here. that s what the american public was sick of the part of politics we all hate. the white house is talking approximate, sarah huckabee sanders the white house spokesperson called comey a disgraced partisan hack. partisan is not the issue here. t s life long republican. the fbi director is a republican. the deputy attorney general is a republican. partisanship is not part of the
and they are an organization that has a good team of communicators in it. and right now you want a full-court press. trump is a brilliant communicator. he knows to discredit comey. he is using the rnc to effectively help him to do that and push out more than they can push out at the white house. it is the politically smart thing to do. what worries me is about how this further erodes the trust that we have in our national security officials. that s an unintended consequence of this. he is smart to discredit your opponent. that s what we teach, political 101. we are sinking into muck, all of us, we can feel night the difference here is these aren t just normal political components. this is the fbi director. the director of the fbi, the entire investigative and legal apparatus of the united states government. if you heard sarah huckabee sanders today she was to the just talking about comey. she said we have a lot of problems with the fbi, speaking in the present tense.
already volatile situation worse. in and ominous press briefing today it, sarah huckabee sanders today said multiple times that the president does have the power to fire robert mueller. do you believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller. certainly believes he has the power to do so. i know a number of individuals in the legal community including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i don t have any further announcements. they ve said it s rod rosenstein oversees the special al and only he has the power. we ve been advised the president certainly has the power to make that decision. i can t go anything beyond that. the new york times is reporting during the raid of cohen s office, the fbi agents were looking for records about payments to two women who calculated they had affairs with mr. trump and information related to the publisher of the national enquirer s role in