good fix on what they think of the administration. and so this is all happening on context where president trump and his people are saying, look, we ve got a version of the facts. you have to believe us, and big majorities of americans say we don t believe you. we think you re liars all the time. you have to understand says the president s team when we did this, we re doing this for a public reason, not for the president s self-interest. big majority of the country says we think donald trump puts his self-interest ahead of the countries. we don t believe you. the last thing, we re going to mobilize our base and they will defend us. and as we saw from mississippi where the president s party just won 53% of the vote in be bellwether mississippi and in kentucky, the president s base is too small to save him. you lay that out as someone who s worked in and around these republican politics, obviously the white house whatever their public statement is going to notice that, particularly in
turning now to an extraordinary development inside a courtroom in washington today featuring opening arguments in the trial of roger stone. prosecutors with the trump justice departments laying out a case suggesting president trump may have committed a new crime in office by lying to the mueller probe. this was all part of the blockbuster opening statement by former mueller prosecutor himself aaron zelinsky now a regular do j, line prosecutor. he s telling jurors they can convict stone for lying to congress because stone lied about the fact that he twice spoke to trump before the 2016 election, something trump shot down by telling mueller i have no recollection of any communication with stone. we ve heard allegations trump was lying about that before. what s new here is that it is trump s own justice department insisting that it s false in
now they re saying, oh, that would be totally fine if they asked about that. he also said right then that there was nothing about biden in this, but now we re hearing testimony that they wanted that statement to mention burisma, that they wanted the statement that ukraine would put out to specifically mention that so that biden would be implicated, that biden has been all through what they were trying to do. so all of that stuff is coming back on them, and i think what you re seeing now is the white house is kind of scrambling. they now have hired two they re bringing in two people to join the communications office. one of them is pam bondi of florida attorney, and so she s coming in to basically help to do their messaging for impeachment. and this is a white house that has said they would never set up a war room for impeachment because the president did nothing wrong. david. when you get into a scandal in the third year of an administration, that scandal takes place across a bac