that the president s people will go to the hill, they ll go in front of the cameras, they will say all sorts of things about what the administration believes, what the president believes, and then the president will come in and completely undercut them. good point. chief of staff kelly is trying to say, listen, everything will be okay. vote for this, vote for that, and we will be there on the other side. i guarantee you those democrats, they are not trusting this at all. it s all hopeful talk. i wouldn t trust it. and it s not the first time a week ago or let me know if it s been a week. the fisa vote, he pulled the rug out from under his own national security homeland security advisor boss ert, who had that vote locked up. donald trump watching fox tweeted something idiotic about fisa being what spied on me. i was the vicktitim of surveille which was the substance of the tweet. one, is the chief of staff
bush white house, and a time magazine columnist. i have to start with you, you had my favorite tweet of the day. obstruction during justice. what were you referring to? if bannon s testifying in his lawyer is on the phone consulting with the white house while he s testifying about what bannon is or is not allowed to say, i m not exactly saying that it s legal obstruction, but it s certainly an unusual event in the history of congressional testimony. as in nothing like this has ever happened before to one s knowledge, and what we heard yesterday was that the behavior was so unusual that in the course of the testimony as bannon was testifying, the committee argued that it needed to subpoena him on-site. in other words, they were going to compel him to testify, essentially, as a hostile rather than a cooperating witness. so, and that s republicans as well as democrats. that s tray gowdy, the congressman from south carolina devin nunez. was getting angry at bannon
priebus, sean spicer, and legal spokesman mark corallo about don junior s infamous meeting with the russians in trump tower in june 2016. he obviously knows about things that are of great interest to both the mueller probe and to your committee s work. can you talk about how important he is as a witness into the russia question first? yes, nicole. i can t go into what he said specifically, but i can say that the invocation was inconsistent and that, you know, sometimes when it was convenient, information was discussed, that the privileges would have covered. but it also illuminated when he did that how important of a witness he is and how much light he could shed on just what happened. now, i know you can t tell me what he said and what he testified to, but does he have knowledge of how things like the statement that was crafted aboard air force one came to be? i mean, that was busted as a lie i think within 24 to 36 hours of it being crafted. does steve bannon have
that. but it s interesting the dichotomy of kelly softening the stance in the meeting today compared to what we saw last week where trump seemed willing to take the deal or was giving signals to linde i grahsey grah accounting of it, take a much harder stance. certainly there is reporting around it that john kelly may have been part of that. but you re on the substance. correct me if i m reading this wrong. i was just trying to figure out how donald trump is going to look at this. his chief of staff calls him uninformed, not fully informed. i mean, is donald trump watching, you know, did your chief of staff just call you dumb? that s my question for the white house. i ll certainly say this. there has been friction more behind the scenes between kelly and trump sometimes. we know the president has really bristled against the chief of staff s efforts to sort of reign in who can access him in the oval office, who can call him on this phone. kelly himself has expressed frustration to a
it really doesn t matter because before a grand jury he has to talk. and you ve already waeighed n on the politics. you re predicting a wave election for the democrats. how much of that is history and tide shifts? every president s party is distressed in the mid terms. and how much of that do you think the russia probe is going to go on and on and on? i think politico reporting bad news for gop, mueller probe could collide with mid terms. okay. i think half of what s going to happen is the normal effect of a midterm with the party in power, particularly if it dominates the congress and the white house. and then the other half, which will determine how large, how big a wave it is, will be an ad mixture of the mueller probe and trump s own personal behavior, and whether or not he depresses republican support by the behavior that a bunch of republicans don t like. and whether he, you know, energizes democratic opposition to such an extent that they drag