the truth of the matter is the president doesn t get a lot of the publicity he should and he has to become a bit of a self-promoter and you can t criticize him for doing that. you re laughing here. we did the entirety of the speech last night. just a tad. let me play an excerpt. they re all watching because i won this district by 22 points. it s a lot. that s why i m here. look at all those red hats, rick. look at all those hats. we re more popular now than we were on election day. this guy should win easily, and he s going to win easily. jess, he says the world is watching, they re all watching. what are they watching for? what is this race going to tell you and others? i think this race is an interesting one where democrats are viable in a race where they shouldn t be viable again.
when you add an investigation to a staff, it is so intense. if the focus 24/7 on the job you have while at the same time you have to make time to meet with your lawyers and go to the the l and meet with the house intelligence committee. that won t end because she is leaving the white house. maggie at the new york times is saying similar things, though this was planned for quite a while. it s good for a president to know who s able to go the distance in an election year, including a midterm election year. if you think you are not going able not going to be able to be there 100%, sprint to the finish to the election day to step aside and let someone else do it. i wish her the very best. she represented women while in the white house. she is very quiet and she doesn t seek attention. that s unusual in today s politics. kimberly: not a self
after leaving her white house position in december, her big brother asked her if she thinks the administration will be okay under the trump administration. her answer in one word: no. is that a fair amount of self-promotion? not at all. the president gave her a pretty important white house job. i know it didn t end well, she didn t get along with the chief of staff. he can t be happy to see this, or does he just think, hollywood, whatever. i do think she has a personal understanding of her job, and charlton knows that omarosa is a self-promoter. so while he may not be happy to see some of those, he ll know what omarosa is doing. and if there is someone who is kind of testy, i remember in the apprentice the two were
that was laughed at by anyone that heard steve talk about bannon. he s been saying he s a self-promoter a leaker. this was his coming out party. quite a party it was. i want to talk about some reporting you did earlier today. after days and days of waiting, steve bannon appears to finally understand just how much damage he has done to himself. he released a lengthy statement today to jonathan swan backtracking the comments attributed to him in michael wolff s book. he says he, quote, his support is unwavering for the president and his agenda. wolff, of course, quoted bannon as calling donald trump jr. s meeting with russians at trump tower in 2016 treasonous. bannon s statement reads in part, my comments were aimed at paul manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate. he should have known they are duplicitous, couning and not our friends. those comments were not aimed at don jr.
president under a hush fell this week to the media and hitting back and see the benefits talk to one of his allies. joining is not from new york, former white house mitigation structure, anthony scaramucci. we ll get into this latest steve been in a statement but since you famously clashed with bannon during your free time with white house and attacked him as a self promoter are you surprised to see his relationship with the president blow up like this? yeah, i sort of am surprised. i said what i said about him being more focused on his personal brand but i didn t think he would go out this far out into the stratosphere and do something like this. i am surprised. howard: so this crossed the wires bannon give a statement to the website in which one of the incendiary quotes in that both book is about the president s son, donald trump junior and the meeting with the russian lawyer. he said it bannon is now a