viewing habits, whether they re four hours, whether they re eight, affect everyone down the chain. well, they do exactly. they re sort of an early warning signal to his staff what kind of mood to expect him in over the day when they see what he d been watching, what he s tweeting about from television in the early morning. it s part of his daily routine even in the oval office where he has a 60-inch set, what he calls a super tivo tracking different cable shows. even if he doesn t have the volume up, sometimes during meetings or while reviewing papers, documents, he ll keep the tv on, check the scrolling headlines underneath to see what is going on. as you point the out with your montage, what he sees affects what he says out in public. it s in addition for his twitter
when it comes to writers on the left, and much nicer label for them. anti-racist counter protesters. thunder kerry sheffield. yesterday the president comes out and says i can than this in the strongest possible terms. hatred and bigotry on both sides. and racial animus as well. these are white supremacists who started the conflict release yesterday. he s absolutely right as well. this is on all sides and that is the uncomfortable truth. you can tell yourself a comfortable life for an uncomfortable truth. and tivo, but claims matter are violent. they are putting professors in the hospital. a republican elected official in the hospital discerning college campuses, et cetera. this is violent and you got to call it what it is. when president trump says we are all americans here.
i think that will be the next stage. abby: i love how general john kelly is someone who has to be convinced to come and do this job because he was doing things. he had results that he could speak to. i imagine he told the president, i m only doing this role if you let me play the role of chief of staff and that means i need to have access to everything, your schedule, i have to crackdown, we have to figure out who are these leakers and also, really play a role in the agenda. you really want to help the president navigate what s going on on capitol hill, navigate the problems, how do we execute them, i have all the confidence in the world that have general john keane can t be successful as tivo s accolade on who can. harris: to see you and maria agree sandra: john kelly, not keene. harris: if you look at the total picture in all of this, what this says, it s going to be
well, i think it s a combination of those things. i mean, in fairness i didn t i didn t spend as long with the president as peter did. and also, it was i mean, i wouldn t say he let loose. it was a brief unscheduled visit. i was going to visit hope. she walked me in. i wasn t planning on it. he was watching i guess a tivo recording of fox & friends from four hours earlier. of course he was. i will say this. i m personally i like that he lets loose. i have a horse in this that i m a member of the press and i think that it s probably a more candid rendering than you normally get from the white house press office. you can say the tweets are the same way. obviously this is problematic if you work for him, you re looking for a more disciplined messaging operation. but i m personally speaking as someone who observes and covers him. do not object to that at all. i think it s actually i guess i call it refreshing. obviously what he says, the
aides are nervous over what they call the president s obsession with the russia probe. politico reporting the president has watched hours of coverage every day, sometimes storing morning shows on his tivo and complain nonstop. with me kathleen parker syndicated columnist with the washington post and josh, white house reporter for politico who broke those two stories. josh, it sounds like the white house is not able to sort of shake this. even though the investigation at this point, apparently the president s lawyers deny it, but the president at least is part of the investigation. but the other staffers are not. but they seem to be, nonetheless, shaken and distracted by it. i think that s certainly true. the president particularly. i think several weeks they tried to do infrastructure last week, work force development this week. but every day there s new revelations whether document retentions, you know, new threads in the investigation, the president s anger about the investigation.