sad to say. he was insulting. particularly to the speaker. she kept her cool completely. but he called her a third-rate politician. this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe. a nasty diatribe. i m joined now by matt miller, who worked at the doj during the obama and holder administration. maya wiley, from sdny, and the daily beast s betsy woodruff-swan. good evening, everyone. matt, given all the inner branch interplay and something you ve dealt with when sometimes agencies have reasons they push people from testifying or how they testify, what do you see here in what is widely being described as a stonewall crumbli crumbling? i think the most important thing that s happened over the past week is that we ve seen that there are a number of people from the administration who have decided to put either patriotism or self-interest over protecting donald trump. and look, people come forward for different motives. i think there are some people,
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that. it is in fact a search for a scapegoat at least to a lot of people. they worry inside the white house whether they are finding is that they can throw under the bus and, you know, theres a lot of nervousness right now inside the west wing. peter baker, we will pull back the curtain and show how we put these shows together. you were a minute late because there was some breaking news. well, we just had speaker pelosi congressman hoyer and leader schumer emerge from the white house saying that they had been there to meet with the president to talk about turkey and syria but that apparently the meeting devolved into a very heated exchange between the president and the speaker and the democrats that they stood up and walked out because he was treating speaker pelosi so rudely. they say that he called her a third-rate politician and said that she would be sympathetic to communists related to isis in the region. they said that congressman hoyer
forces were worse than isis. the reaction on capitol hill today is, as we said earlier, intense. very intense. this afternoon, the house voted overwhelmingly to condemn the president s actions in syria. we ve heard from a number of senate republicans, some of whom were starting to find a rationale to defend the president s initial efforts to address the situation. today, simply expressed their dismay at now what s happening. senator lindsey graham, again just days after trying to praise the president s decision to sanction turkey is now promising he s going to be the white house s worst nightmare on this issue. and moments ago, democratic leaders emerged from a meeting at the white house with the president on syria and said that his performance was insulting to the point that some of them walked out. he called her a third-rate politician. he said that the there are communists involved and you guys might like that. i mean, this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe.