about her being toned off because if you read the book it s almost like she had no conception of how could i have lost and why spray so close that i said to her, people around the country didn t like her message and they were broke and they hated obamacare and she s looking at me like no, that wasn t it. there is a tone deafness that is startling but if you interview her it s just like your immediately written off like no, that s not it. it s getting worse. they didn t edit me but i had questions that i wanted to ask and i didn t get to. i wanted to ask about e-mails and where they all went and i didn t get to that one but i did ask her that and it went viral because there is no acknowledgment of her to even say maybe i did miss the bullet on this and maybe i did all these areas of the country i didn t go to and maybe that was a problem and now this stuff with women and i want to say knock, knock, is anyone there?
and that general kelly perhaps may not have the kind of operational wisdom that we thought that some thought that he had. there s such a political tone deafness. you have this political bomb in the proverbial basement of the white house, an alleged wife beater this close to the president at the height of the me too movement, and it doesn t occur to the chief of staff that this might be a political problem for them and that maybe they should ask rob porter to leave as soon as possible? to that point, phil rucker, i don t mean to be sassy here this morning. more than anything, i m sad, and i m sad in part because of your article that i read, and there is a great quote where it says, when a washington post reporter asked a white house aide if john kelly could have been more transparent or truthful, they said, quote, in this white house, it is simply not in our dna. let s say that again. it s not in this white house s dna to be transparent and
him in that tweet over the weekend, when he was asking about allegations and how they can damage people throughout their careers. so, i pressed sarah sanders on that. here s what she had to say. is there a tone deafness there? being on the wrong side of things? i don t think the president, being on supporting due process for any allegation is not tone deaf. i think it is allowing things to be investigated. and a mere allegation, not be the determining factor. he s not taking aside necessarily one way or the other on any specific issue here. he s talking about mere allegations shouldn t be the determining factor for any individual that there should be due process. i think anybody here, if they were accused of something hold on, jim. hold on. hold ton. i m saying, anybody here if they were accused of something, would want the opportunity to go
moore senate race in alabama and others. as dana said, she was absolutely right, the president, more than anyone else, knows how to use that megaphone in terms of tweeting or going on television. he spent almost an hour in front of the cameras today talking about infrastructure. never mind the message that s been almost completely overshadowed by this mess of their own making. at the beginning of the white house briefing our colleague, jim acosta asked sarah sanders again if he and the white house was tone deaf about this. watch what she said. is there a tone deafness there? is there just being on the wrong side of things? i don t think the president, being on the had the opportunity to talk about it on friday supporting due process for any allegation is not tone deaf. i think it is allowing things to
that megaphone in terms of tweeting or going on television. he spent almost an hour in front of the cameras today talking about infrastructure. never mind the message that s been almost completely overshadowed by this mess of their own making. at the beginning of the white house briefing our colleague, jim acosta asked sarah sanders again if he and the white house was tone deaf about this. watch what she said. is there a tone deafness there? is there just being on the wrong side of things? i don t think the president, being on the had the opportunity to talk about it on friday supporting due process for any allegation is not tone deaf. i think it is allowing things to be investigated and a mere allegation not be the determining factor. he is not taking a side, necessarily, one way or the other. now, not taking a side necessarily one way or the