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Come from the podium. the podium used to really mean something. it used to be the message not just of the white house but of america, and now so often what we ve heard from there is at odds with the facts. nbc s peter alexander at the white house. peter, thanks so much. let s bring into the conversation nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw. tom, always good to see you, sir. sean spicer will be back at the podium today. one wonders what he can possibly say given the fact that he was the first on tuesday evening to put out the statement that president trump fired director comey at the recommendation of jeff sessions, the attorney general, and rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and the president coming out to lester yesterday and saying, no, that s actually not how it happened. i had already made up my mind. it seems to me the white house is trapped between these two stories. what can they say today? well, what they ll say is what they always say, that they ll have some ....
And take judicial notice that their statements have been false. it is that obvious. yes. this is not they can t blame that on the media. they have to blame that on trump. and they re not doing that yet, they re just not there. and i think what could change, what i m looking for over the next 24 hours or so is what are the republican reactions to this report that my colleague, michael schmidt, had in today s new york times that trump demanded loyalty from the fbi director. that strikes me as something that is much more problematic than the evolving story of how trump came to decide that comey needed to go. but i think that what s important to understand here is why you re not seeing more of a reaction from republicans, more of a call for an independent investigation. right. is the sense that every time trump does something, there is an overreaction, a hyperventilation on the left. and i m not saying that it s not warranted in this case, but every little thing that he s ....
Trump country about what they re saying in coffee shops this morning, but sooner or later there s got to seep in some doubt about whether we can continue like this. this is quite a chaotic time and an important time not just in the presidency but in the country. joe? you know, tom, i think i told you before, was a big nixon man, loved richard nixon and loved him till the very end, but there was a point even at the very end where my father said enough is enough and said we ve got to back away from this guy because he s not fit to be president of the united states anymore because of what he did. i guess, tom, the question is we haven t even really begun the investigation in earnest in a public way, but what do you suspect would move trump voters off of trump the way nixon voters eventually moved off of nixon? because everybody claims that trump is new, trump is special. richard nixon, as you know better than anybody, knew how to ....
Think is the bigger story, donald trump and the trump white house has admitted on camera they fired james comey because they wanted to kill the fbi investigation that was reaching into trump s affairs with russian associates. they admitted that on camera. so i don t know what republicans are going to do today on capitol hill that are still foolishly following this man off the cliff. i don t know what conservative talk radio hosts are going to do, how they re going to try to switch the blame. two days ago they were so sad and pathetic when they were trying to blame it on a deputy attorney general. go back and listen to their tapes, listen to the apologists, they took trump s lie, swallowed it hole. he forced them to spit it out. this man ends up making fools of everyone that works around him. so we ll see. ....
Morning? well, i think that donald trump s comments yesterday in a strange way blew the lid off of his own cover-up, at least in terms of there are sort of two cover-ups going on at one point. first was the question of the attempt to obfuscate what the motivations were and the process by which jim comey was fired. and then there s the larger attempt to try to short-circuit the russia investigation, both of which had the look of cover-ups to me. yesterday trump by basically admitting what he really was doing by firing comey by implication and making, as we pointed out earlier in the show, making fools and liars out of the people in his administration, that cover-up no longer is operative. we now can see pretty enclosureenclosure clearly what the president has admitted to directly or ....