shop that is contending with a president who keeps a busy schedule. what s unusual about sean spicer s role is that he has to answer for a president who frequently traffics in conspiracy theories and often shows a disregard for the separation of powers. and so they re trying to answer for his behavior towards james comey, and there really is no way for them to try and ratio l rationalize or justify trump s tweets or his flip of the script yesterday, when he conceded that, yes, russia was, in fact, part of his decision making, when it came to firing james comey. and in doing so, they just invite more scrutiny on themselves and raise more questions than they answer. michael, to you. and i know we have you on and we ll get to how you likened the president in the cnn independent piece to a 6-year-old child. but first, this nugget from tapper and his reporting of this dinner between comey and the president, where, again, this is a he said/he said thing. where comey says, the president
of whether there s a tape or not. you can t wiggle out of this. well, now to members of congress, two democratic members of congress have already written a letter, saying, if there are tapes, we want to see them or hear them. michael deantonio, thank you very much. and bill and sabrina, thank you both of you, as well. thank you. another big question here. did the president obstruct justice with regard to his actions involving comey? former nixon white house council, john dean, joins me live, and we ll ask him about this threat over tapes. also, once again, president trump praises his fired national security adviser. why he says he waited 18 days to fire him. and you know who this is. it s not exactly the guy we saw today behind the podium. surprising new yorkers today, this is just outside of cnn. what s going on with melissa mccarthy and saturday night live this weekend. we ll be right back.
comey s ability to lead the fbi. so we re not members of the 168 are not asleep. they re awake, they understand what s going on, but they don t care about the punditry of ana navarro. they care about the people who sent them there. the party faithful will come out to vote in 2018 to give us more electoral victories for the gop. ana, do you want to respond to that? no, i really don t. you know, first of all, i don t respond to personal attacks from colleagues. second of all there was no personal attack. you know, what am i that was not a personal attack. okay, you ve said your piece. it s now my time. what am i going to say to somebody who refuses to hear what s going on in our country? do you think that donald trump s approval ratings are at 36% because people are not bothered by this? do you think the credibility of the president is where it is and of the presidency because people are not bothered by this?
this kind of income, this kind of power, this kind of glamour, but for donald trump. so then they become very attached to him. you know, you see this in this fellow keith shiller, who s his his body guy. his body guy. he attached hills to trump around 1990. and has been there ever since, like a barnacle on the hull of a boat. you know, he just you called him a human blanket or a baby blanket. yes, he s a security blanket for donald trump. you saw him push jorge ramos out of a press conference, physically looming over him and shoving him out of the room. this is the kind of thing trump expects of the people who work for him. it s why the white house is struggling. they don t know they re to adhere to real protocol and common sense and reality as everyone sees it or to follow the president s lead.
people in the white house heard that, that was an oh, my god, he didn t say that, moment. it happens frequently. and it s got to stop, if he wants credibility among the citizens of the united states of america. well, how about, file this under oh, my god, did he tweet this, moment. sabrina, this was for you. he tweeted, as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. sean spicer was basically bemoaning the coverage from the press this week, and meantime, the press is bemoaning the white house for the shifting stories. and why don t the american, you know, why doesn t the american public deserve accuracy from surrogates of the president? well, it s there s just no sense in saying that they should be held to the same standard as previous administrations when it comes to telling the truth while they re standing by that podium. sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders are speaking on behalf