While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
she was eight years old. she really spanned all sorts of platforms of entertainment. like you said, she was able to stay relevant and seemingly every young. she has certainly never looked like someone who is in her late 90s to me. he said she was the longest person ever working in television, she earned a spot in the guinness book of world records for that in 2018. so many accolades for this woman, and so many people will be so sad to hear of her passing. you know, movie theaters across the country where gearing up to devote a day to her on her birthday, january 17th. perhaps they will still do that. you know fans will flock there. she has a star on the hollywood walk of fame. i can only imagine people going there right now with flowers and notes and all kinds of
times exactly like you said. we just watched that obituary and you really saw so many phases of her career from her early stages to hosting saturday night live. as you know, there are many people that can be so cool into their 90s, right? i know a lot of people who can t be cool at half that age! anita: [laughs] as she got older and played some of these character parts, she would often recite these lines that were pretty saucy, maybe drop a couple of words we can t say on television. and people would say, betty white, i can t believe she said that! she played off that, as well. it seems to me that she could have had a very nice retirement 20 years ago. there was something that kept her going. whenever interviewers asked her the secret to longevity, she would say vodka, hot dogs, and french fries. which is pretty cool the way to look at life. anita: [laughs] no doubt. you said you were watching a movie with betty white. i didn t quite hear what you are
spirits to the screen. i really don t know anyone who didn t admire and love betty white. how about you, gillian? gillian: i like what you said about the gleam in her eye. she really did. she was totally a tv bad i don t know if i m allowed to say that. and a trailblazer in tv. i don t know people realize she set the record, the longest running woman on television. that s a record she takes with her, nobody can break it. what s interesting is her career began in 1939. when you think about the state of television then compared to now, it s incredible the scope of the work she s done, the way people looked and talked and acted on. it s all changed and she was able to adapt herself. she was relevant and engaging and people loved her then and she was relevant and engaging and people loved now. so it s really incredible. anita: it is. you talk about the scope of her work, she started in radio when
age, where nobody on or off the record or even in the gossip-wide gossip columns had anything derogatory to say about her. she seemed to be an authentic person. and a lot of people, exactly as you say, they could be the greatest character actor in the world and then you read that they were terrible offscreen. since she didn t have any children, i think she just kind of devoted her life to the pursuits that she had, such as animals, and to be entertaining. and she never stopped being entertaining. i m sure she must ve had a couple of clunkers somewhere in those 99 years, but nothing immediately springs to mind. gillian: a little while ago, howie, a couple moments ago you talked about her adaptability. what other qualities do you see in her that made her so, i guess, amenable to this career? television and movies can be terribly competitive for people. a lot of people sort of end up