talking about. when i asked a short time ago what would you like to be talking about besides russia right now, they said well, we would like to focus on the foreign trip, the budget, but notably, president isn t doing any of those things himself. he has only one public event today on his schedule at least, that s a meeting with his vice president. here s what he was tweeting a short time ago. he said very simply, russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how a lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. so president trump back to his familiar ways. stephanie? i m not quite sure the russians are laughing. i want to stay on reports that lewandowski and bossie might join the administration. if that happens a source inside the white house tells me other staffers could leave as well. why? not because of ego or personality, but because there are people inside the administration who want to peter alexander s point to focus on policy and they are afr
campaign trail with his old gang, it will do nothing to advance the administration s agenda. in fact, it could bog it down more. possibly derail it. according to the source i spoke to inside the white house it is basically a choice between promoting the trump brand and governing the country. and as we said, for folks who want to focus on the country this could be the last straw. sparking defections from the current trump team. i spoke to someone who said this could be the moment where good people leave the white house. it all depends. while many were on the foreign trip with the president, steve bannon came home, reince priebus came home, and the talk of someone like corey lewandowski being back in the mix, that is campaign president trump, campaign trump, not president trump, who is surrounded by people who came there to do health care reform, tax reform, deregulation, which by the way we ain t talking about. i want to bring my panel in. my former colleague shannon, a white house corr
real hard time stomaching that leadership. right now i like reince priebus personally, i just don t think he has what it takes to be the white house chief of staff and somebody like corey lewandowski in a familiar role like that would be a strong leader. all right. carl, thanks for your thoughts this morning. i appreciate your time. thank you. president trump tweeting he ll announce this week if he will pull the u.s. out of the paris climate accord. up next, why the business world may not quite be ready to support a withdraw. it s time for the your business entrepreneur of the week. niah has a detroit based bottled tea business, local customers love her product but she wants to go national. she asked for your business make-over and now she s about to break through with a disruptive strategy and big-time distribution. for more watch your business weekends at 7:30 on msnbc. brought to you by american express open, visit express
the business of the country is directly in peril as of this. a yeah, corey lewandowski and other people come back, you will see more people peeling away from that? why do we say president trump has an issue with his communications team? it is president trump himself who undercuts the message, whether it s sending his team out, talking about why he let james comey go or to megan s point about germany, gary cohn talked down the president s claims about germany last week and then there he is, right back in there, about nato. i mean whether he talks about nato or trade, it shows that the president is ill informed about these issues. we don t have a one singular trade agreement with germany and by the way, steve mnuchin said last week we re not going to have a border adjustment tax and would you like to know tens of thousands of german cars that are manufactured here in the united states stephanie it s fascinating to me there s a lot of messenger shooting going on in this white house
communications team? you had spoken to them in the past? you know i have spoken to them in the past, but it s one of those things i would be honored to serve president trump and i ve always got his back as far as i can see, and i think that if he needed me i would be there but i haven t spoken any further since those. should corey lewandowski join the team? he s a smart guy, got the train rolling, put the ground win together for his win in new hampshire. he s a great guy. i don t know because of the controversy around him if president trump will sign him on, but i would love to see him in there. he s a very smart guy and great political operative . i spoke to people in the white house today they said if you bring cory back and president trump out on the campaign trail we will never get to the agenda and they would leave. you don t think it would cause a true a true break within the white house? no, i don t think so. i mean, corey lewandowski is a strong leader and people ha