that statement, the president made clear that he needed that statement to go out because he was not happy with the content of what mulvaney said undercutting the president saying there was a quid pro quo. i was told that the president wasn t angry at mulvaney and wasn t frustrated. he just wanted it cleaned up. that changed over the weekend according to people i m talking to. and one source says it was because the president as he is prone to do, this is his, you know, how he consumes information and that is a lot. he consumes a lot of information. it was raining here in washington. he probably was watching i m told he was watching a lot of news coverage. not just mulvaney himself out on sunday trying to clean it up but the tone and tenor of the questions to him and the discussion about how bad it made not just mulvaney look but the president. that has irritated the president more than he even was at the end of last week.
much farther than that. it is hurting joe biden out there with primary voters. brian: answer was yes. they were upset during the obama years. they thought it was a problem. and the state department employed this guy in particular. what mulvaney was said when asked by george wallace what do you think coming out and backing up the president s claim about some issues with hundz s investment. he didn t know about it. because obviously he was sidetracked with his press conference. ainsley: elizabeth warren is the top contender for the democrats. maybe this is hurting joe biden. brian: i don t think there is any question it is. if he was the frontrunner by far id think he would have been attacked on that stage last week in that debate. steve: if it s harming joe biden it s helping elizabeth warren. ainsley: correct. steve: meanwhile, if you watch the other channel and listen to the democrats there are similar things being said on impeachment. we put together a little montage on this.
quo? and you said it happens all the time. go back and watch what i said before that. but mick, you know, i hate to go through this, but you said what you said. there is not a quid pro jon karl. you described a quid pro quo and you said that happens all the time. again, reporters will use their language all the time. my language never said quid pro quo. all right. mulvaney s struggles, they re creating problems for secretary of state mike pompeo. would it be appropriate to condition george, i m not going get into hypotheticals and secondary dear things. it s not a hypothetical. we saw the chief of staff it, george. you just said if this happened. that is by definition a hypothetical. the chief of staff said it did. george, you asked me if this happened. it s a hypothetical. that was an awkward pause. usually when it takes that long to think of an answer, that s not a good sign. and tomorrow democrats may learn
of that foreign country. is the game here, david, that they are trying to normalize this behavior with what mulvaney said and now what pompeo is saying? phillip marlow has a line. don t go stupid on me. that is what is going to be happening here. mike pompeo knows perfectly well the difference between foreign interlocutor asking for a reasonable thing that countries ask between each other and a private official in a country stopping the formal relationship in order to get a private benefit for that person himself. heidi, i wanted to get your sense from your sources and from those you are speaking to on the hill. the house side of this trying to put forth the best case that has a chance of not only passing the house because of the numbers, but making its way to the senate. are they designing these articles in a broadway that perhaps gives republicans a chance to look at this and say i
in terms of the white house, there is rising angst in the building on a few different issues. the acting chief of staff s disastrous news conference, that s how it s being viewed in every corner of trump s world, you know, is still having ramifications now. they ve had to clean up they ve had to reverse themselves on g7 as you saw. no longer having it at the president s golf course in doral just outside of miami, florida. the quid pro quo issue which mulvaney laid out on thursday, tried to clean up in a statement later in that day, tried again over the weekend in the sunday show appearances, you know, has led a lot of people in the trump white house wondering if perhaps he will not be long for his job. we saw immediately the personal attorney jay sekulow distance from what mulvaney said. there have been people in the building who already were unhappy with how mulvaney had been handling the impeachment inquiry, according to our