cnn, deputy washington bureau chief virginia mosley married to tom nites a former deputy secretary of state under hillary clinton. white house press secretary jay carney married to claire shipman an abc news correspondent. and vice president biden s communication director shayla murray married to neil king one of the wall street journal s top political reporters. joining us now from north carolina to sort it all out bernie goldberg. does this trouble you at all, bernie? not in and of itself, bill. it s complicated so let me explain. first, you know, there are a lot of critic hogs have been saying that too many reporters are in bed with this administration. based on what you just said, it s literally true. i mean, if you are a reporter and your wife works at the white house, yo
even though the tornado had passed, floors and ceilings were unstable and there were gas leaks. but jerome taylor and the nurses were able to get shayla on a flat board and down the stairs and out. she was taken to a hospital in norman. within hours, braydon emmanuel taylor was born at a healthy 8 pounds 3 ounces. what do you think of the nurses and what they did? those nurses are amazing. you know, they they re definitely doing the job they were called to do. you know, to put my life before theirs. i know that s what you re supposed to do. you know, as a nurse. i went to nursing school so i know that s what you re supposed to do. but to be more concerned about me than them, i know that s that they re definitely doing the job that they re called to do. for this tiny troublemaker he ll probably sleep through anything now. and a final piece of symmetry
these guys, 1006 graduate the, got to shake hands with secretary of defense robert gates and he gave a great speech before. we are going to talk about that in a second. we think that the hat toss is literally just seconds away. we think maybe about 30 seconds away, according to my producer, shayla. but there is just a lot of anticipation, and all built up to this. jon, as you mentioned, it s the visual and symbolic end to the four years at the academy. jon: i know that one of the reasons they toss the hats at west point, too, in the case of this past weekend s commencement, it was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the nation s top military officer, who gave the commencement address and he also forgave any infractions, shall we say, that these cadets, the west point cadets, may have been guilty of, convicted of. and it s very interesting, because today, secretary gates made a big joke, he said that he was going to grand amnesty to any mid shipmen whose antics
they take care of us. we do things that we like to do. it s just like a normal family, just not biological, but it s still there. what do you think your life would have been like if your dad wouldn t have adopted you? because i know things weren t easy for you and foster care is really, really tough. you know, do you ever think about that, like, whew, i am one lucky girl? yes, i think about it a lot because if we weren t with them things would definitely be more hard, more rough, be tough. but i m glad that we are with them so i really don t want to think about what it would be like. i don t blame you. i know that shayla behind you and anna don t have mikes on, but they can sort of hear what i m saying. they ve got big smiles, that s for sure and we have breanna on dad s lap. do me a favor, steania. ask breanna what she likes about
he is part of the white house. he s the chief of staff. he did it on his own, fine. but let me say this to you, donald trump when he said what he said, clumsily or not, the reality is that the family processes it that way, certainly there should have been a follow-up call to explain because both sides could be right or wrong but why are we driving this narrative with name-calling and lies and bringing kelly out and so forth and so on? that s not making him look good whether it s a race issue or not. it makes him look like he s on the ground fighting when he is the president and he ought to be presidential and console her in chief. he continues to fail in these situations. i don t let him off the hook, shayla. both sides could have misunderstood and ought to be talking but they ought to stop driving this narrative of negativity. that s what s wrong with this country and that s what you get with the truck white house. shannon: i will give you a chance to respond to that because no th