kristen solstice anderson, a communication strategy. bill shine knew in the communication shop formerly of fox news and seems they got in a room together and decided here s how we ll explain this one after 24 hours saying nothing. it s going to be that you ve misspoke on one word and that you were misunderstood, that you didn t conjugate a verb the way you meant to conjugate a verb. is that the best they can do and really what the white house thought would convince the american public that, yes, the president of the united states does believe that putin is a bad guy who meddled in our election? there s a slice of trump s base that no matter what the explanation had been would have agreed with it. wom have bought it, said, great. he s put this matter to bed. i think there is another slice of people they were trying to speak to, which are those who believe that trump is prone to misspeaking. that s not a hard thing to believe. right? so in a way, they re trying to lean into a belief