comprehensive and fishing economy decision. if you re trying to determine what is our mandate here, are we allowed to do whatever we want. or do we have to fall within these constraints that the white house has said up, i don t think we have the answer to that question. look at this remarkable press conference we saw today, there were a lot of caveats the president had. i want him to do whatever they want to do within reason. what the senate says they can do, it s always caveat. the white house is saying, we re broadening the scope, the fbi can go where the facts take them. there s a part of that that requires the fbi to go back to the white house and request permission before they continue to expand their vision. i don t think this changes anything. we see a spin machine that s in overdrive. this doesn t look good for us, it s not a good look for us to look like we re micro managing it. but the fact that the bureau has to go back and ask, mother may i. the president speaking of
at the chaos and thinks it should be solved like that and that hope hicks could do it. there were a lot of calls for bring back hope hicks. when the washington post published the reporting of kellyanne coming in with bob woodward. the messaging that bill shine could have somehow undertaken and closed down the story story was dead, donald trump himself by having that reporting and hearing his voice and what he s saying, made it all but impossible for a white house spin machine to play it. i think that s exactly right and what trump wants and what hope was able to do to a degree was to save him from himself and he won t allow anyone to do that anymore. and i m not sure that she could have necessarily pulled a rabbit out of a hat on this. it s just a matter of time and it s focusing on, you know, it s
there were other people that could have been in the room and that it was up to journalists to go look at that. connell: let s go to former white house chief of staff to president george h.w. bush john sununu. thank you for joining us here on labor day. on this particular topic, what do you make of how lanny davis has been around washington for years and years is handling himself now? look, this story gives great insight into the spin machine that the clintons and the obamas have developed over the years. they want to put something out whether it s true or not. they create, first of all, a network of people that will confirm the story to the press. people who may really not have any idea what they are going to confirm but having been primed by the likes of lanny davis are ready to give the nod when the
this is all a part of the spin machine, it s not a part of a legal defense. and, no, i think it s highly doubtful that the people around the president would ever allow him to sit down with director mueller, although it s important to note that an awful lot of what s going on could be brought to closure if the president would agree to do that, as he has indicated in the past he would be willing to do, but has not been thus far. so i m not at all optimistic that the president will sit down with him. in fact i think his lawyers would maybe even be guilty of malpractice if they allowed it because of the peril that it would put the president at. but that would be the appropriate thing to do. congressman denny heck, thank you for taking the time tonight. you bet, jim, thank you, sir. outfront next tonight, the republican nominee for governor of florida accused of making a racist comment. the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up. what president trump is saying about that co
kind of photo? and they were like she was president a which are of what was going on, the policy, she wasn t caught up on it. it s all over television. wa? it was all over treflgs. donald trump i mean. this is what happens. she has this spin machine is an ability to try and duck is we have been. this week she hasn t been able to duck and we have been around it. time to draw a box around the idea of her as an adviser to the president. okay. she has no policy experience, no experience in government. she is her father s daughter. her experience is in selling real estate and handbags. she has no experience to draw on as a policy expert. her power is entirelily dependent on the power her father gives her. if she choohe chooses not to li yaunk trump gets to enjoy the power and prestige of a white