the house. in early 2017, the speaker comes up to the white house with mike pence, the vice president, to explain how tax reform is going to work in all of its wonderful detail. this does not interest the president very much and after the conversations gone on for a while, he literally gets up while paul ryan is in middescription and wonders out of the oval office and down the hallway into a side room where one can hear the television being switched on and eventually mike pence gets up, goes down the hall, brings the president back and they finish the conversation. there are a number of stories like that about paul ryan and donald trump. how about john kelly? john kelly came in and initially the author cliff simms felt the general would impose discipline and bring military rigor to the operation and indeed he does, the author also says, i wonder how long this can last. it doesn t and shortly before john kelly s own departure, one of the last things he does, some
dramatic lengths. he took possession of notes from a translator, and he ordered another to keep the details of the meeting private. his actions stifled his administration s ability to understand what he and putin talked about. according to the associated press, president trump has been irked by the reporting by the times and the post. today, he pushed back on the post story. it s a lot of fake news. that was a very good meeting. it was actually a very successful meeting. and i have those meetings with everybody. i just know nothing about it. well, neither do we. i m joined by michael mcfaul, and jonathan lemire. ambassador, tell me what normally happens when two top chiefs of state get together, representing their governments. what happens normally when they meet, even if they re sitting in a side room somewhere? so normally, and remember, i worked three years at the white house with president obama
america but there is a reality and there are some ill feelings among some of the people in the front row. and i have to say that where you usually have a president s club and even people that ran against and maybe one beat the other, that doesn t seem to have been extended to president trump when you see them sitting in that front row. bret: although i will say listening to karl rove depict the situation inside blair house with the bush family, it tells a very different story than what we saw between president trump and then candidate trump and the bush family as he was running against the former florida governor, jeb bush. martha, we re waiting for the casket to be removed. it will be met here by the bishop and then will make its way into the cathedral for a very planned-out service that will have a lot of beautiful music throughout. martha: the family of president bush will be waiting in a side room and then they will be seated and walk down the aisle as this procession
republicans. they were not crazy right tribalists. so here s the question to you. wait a minute, how about ronald reagan? wait a minute, how about ronald reagan? you knew him. i knew him. don t have to go i love those people you mentioned. let me ask you about you. last time around, i met you up in new hampshire and you called me off into a side room. i think it was off the record. you were very optimistic you could win the nomination up in new hampshire. i think you got good relations with the newspaper up there. where would you stop trump if you were to would it be new hampshire? where would any republican have a shot at saying, okay, this is not the real republican party of ronald reagan, even? you re not our guy. where s that going to i m sayin. sometimes it s been lonely. that this is not the republican party that i knew and i joined. our party is pro-trade, pro-immigrant, believes that our connections and allies around the world are critically important not only for
i would not take one of those glass from mark kavanaugh brett kavanaugh, excuse me. i saw him around the punch containers. i don t know what he did. but i saw him by them, yes. in her declaration, swetnick wrote, i also witnessed efforts by mark judge, brett kavanaugh, and others, to cause girls to become intoxicated and disoriented so they could then be gang raped in a side room by a train of numerous boys. i have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties, waiting for their turn with a girl inside the room. these boys include mark judge and brett kavanaugh. what did you see? well, until what happened to me happened to me, i didn t put two and two together. but i would see boys standing outside of rooms, congregated together. sort of like a gauntlet. and i didn t know what was occurring. but i would see them laughing, a lot of laughing. standing in lines outside of