Governor, but we didnt have it then. But i think if you look at the way you also used digital media, the white house photographer was still taking still photos in 20012003 and we didnt change that until 2004. And i still dont understand facebook. Ronald christie on twitter. And how could we utilize this technology with the staff. And you notice president obama caries a blackberry and president bush did not. President obama uses email, president bush did not. So i think by the time you get into 2006, 2007, the white house staff was a lot more sophisticated in dealing with the emerging technology but for our cousins now in the Obama Administration, it is night and day, the Technology Capabilities that they have and the tools they have at their disposal to get their message out versus what we had. Um, mike hayden, who was one of bushs cia directors gave an interesting talk earlier today about the cross roads of of change that is going on in terms of security end of all of this. And it str
President trump reiterates his campaign promise. Mexico will pay for the wall. But if mexico is paying, why did the white house just ask congress for 18 billion to pay for it . Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is, quote, like really smart. President trump is declaring himself, quote, a very stable genius this weekend after the release of an explosive new book claiming those around the president questioned his fitness for the job, seeing him as erratic and childlike. Speaking to reporters at camp david where he was meeting with republican congressional leaders this weekend, President Trump lashed out at critics and offered a fullscale defense of his own credentials. I went to the best colleges or college. I went to a i had a situation where i was a very excellent student. Came out and made billions and billions of dollars. Became one of the top business people. Went to television, and for ten years was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard. Ran
secretary scott mcclennan wrote one. there was the price of loyalty. how did the bush white house deal with them and what does it do internally to a white house, mark, when people are quoted attacking each other in books like these? well, it s difficult, but the worst thing that you can do is flatter the book with attention, and even worse than that, threaten to u sue the author. i guarantee if you want to raise sales for a book, threaten to sue the author. as michael wolff said when he heard that, where do i send the box of chocolates? so as a strategy what you don t want to do is reflect too much attention on something that is trying to get a lot of attention. but the fact is, you know, books written in the white house, either authorized or unauthorized, are generally never helpful, right? and especially in the first year of a presidency. first years of the most successful presidents are chaotic. so the last thing i think, you know, a strategist or adviser to the president would
hasn t spoken, which tells you something, the author says he has some tape which may be my bannon hasn t denied the quotes in the book. but, no, i think this has been a disastrous strategy that only raises more questions, but we should point out that even the day before this book appeared there was a series of tweets from the president, bizarre tweets that had everyone scratching their heads. so this book is however accurate some of the reporting is, it builds on a year s worth of experience with donald trump and a year s worth of reporting by a broad array of news oranges that make you think, yeah, maybe something is here. both of you have had to deal with books come out during the obama and bush presidencies respectively, one that raised questions about internal strife, et cetera. mark, former white house press