and that s where he landed at the end of the campaign. what we re seeing now is straight twitter trump. you sit him down in front of a microphone that s turned on and donald trump will talk about whatever donald trump wants to talk about. what he wanted to talk about today was anything but tax reform. he was convinced over the course of the weekend, he had dinner with sean hannity, sat down with jani jani janine from fox news. let s send you to west virginia, you can sit there and talk about tax reform and how good this has been for people. and not a single iota of news was made about tax reform today in west virginia, except for us saying that it was at a tax reform thing that he said the rest of this. let me press you. if it s such a good issue for him, why does he arely on lies about immigration? his entire campaign is predicated on the things he said about mexican immigrants in trump tower, it really is. he had his campaign launch june 16th, 2016, made those comment about mexic
talk about. what he wanted to talk about today was anything but tax reform. he was convinced over the course of the weekend, he had dinner with sean hannity, sat down with janine from fox news. let s send you to west virginia, you can sit there and talk about tax reform and how good this has been for people. and not a single iota of news was made about tax reform today in west virginia, except for us saying that it was at a tax reform thing that he said the rest of this. let me press you. if it s such a good issue for him, why does he rely on lies about immigration?
of the weekend, he had dinner with sean hannity, sat down with janine from fox news. he watched a lot of fox news. and he became convinced that immigration was a key thing for him to do before the election. yes, the republicans want to talk about tax reform. let s send you to west virginia, you can sit there and talk about tax reform and how good this has been for people. and not a single iota of news was made about tax reform today in west virginia, except for us saying that it was at a tax reform thing that he said the rest of this. let me press you. if it s such a good issue for him, why does he rely on lies about immigration? his entire campaign is predicated on the things he said about mexican immigrants in trump tower, it really is. if you look at the trajectory of his campaign, he had his campaign launch june 16, 2016, made those comments about mexico, was doing nothing for about two weeks, until univision spoke up and said, with you know, we re not going to partner with you
no, but it doesn t surprise me. i think these sort of things always happen. there s the old regime who let trump be trump, there may be sour grapes involved, somebody who at one point was donald trump s right-hand man on the campaign is now on the outside looking in. i think maybe there s a little jealousy involved. look, donald trump, for the crazy year that it s been, there have been a lot of chaos and, you know, charlottesville and the russia investigation you go through the litany of the erosion of norms that we ve experienced this year, but donald trump s finishing on a pretty strong note right now with the tax reform thing. so, you know, i think this is the kind of washington parlor game that it s not unique to the donald trump administration. i don t know about that, but, david, i mean, outlandish, crazy, unorthodox. you can call all that david, it is unusual.
the russia investigation you go through the litany of the erosion of norms that we ve experienced this year, but donald trump s finishing on a pretty strong note right now with the tax reform thing. so, you know, i think this is the kind of washington parlor game that it s not unique to the donald trump administration. i don t know about that, but david, i mean, outlandish, crazy, unorthodox. you can call all that david, it is unusual. is it unusual that corey lewandowski, who officially left the white house back in june, still has this much access and pull with the president? don, i think it s a little unusual and i think it s a little unusual that they re still roping him in in some of these discussions. but i agree with matt in the sense that it is an extension of this establishment versus outsider discussion that s been going on since trump was running for office. you know, lewandowski is, as matt said, on that let trump be trump school of thought, and you have other politi