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He felt sorry for manafort but then claimed falsely that manafort had little to do with his campaign. A reminder, manafort was the chairman of trumps campaign. Cnn chief justice correspondent evan perez sat the courthouse today. Evan, take us through the arguments this morning and the outcome here. Reporter well, jim, it was a very extraordinary hearing, obviously, because the government came in saying that Paul Manafort is a danger to the community. They said that he had a sustained campaign over five weeks in which he was trying to reach out to potential witnesses in this case and trying to coach them on what to say and essentially committing perjury before this trial. Hes due to go on trial here in september in the court here in d. C. , and hes got another set of charges that hes facing across in virginia, in alexandria, virginia, another federal case over there. So hes got two trials coming up, and until those trials get started, hes going to be sitting in jail. The judge said that she struggled with her decision. She took a 50minute break after the arguments between the prosecution and the defense. She said, this is not middle school, i cannot take his cell phone. She also said there was really no order that she could think of that she could fashion that would cover any potential violation by Paul Manafort. Paul manaforts lawyers argued strongly. They said that to revoke the bail would be a very harsh condition by the judge, and they also said that Paul Manafort wasnt intend to go try to coach witnesses or to try to witness tamper. They said he simply was talking to people, not knowing that they were going to be potential witnesses in this case. They asked the judge essentially to make the government name all 50 or so witnesses who were going to be part of this trial and then tell Paul Manafort that he couldnt reach out to those people. Thats the solution they were looking for, and they said he will not do this again. Its clear the judge was not buying that argument because she said that Paul Manafort had many, many chances, repeatedly violating orders, in her view, and she said what he was doing represented a harm to the system of justice and to the trial that he is due to have here in d. C. In september. So now hes going to be sitting in jail. Before the Court Proceeding was wrapping up, he was led out of the courtroom by u. S. Martials. They came back a few minutes later with his cell phone and his belt, his necktie that he wore when he came to court, and handed it to his wife. Were waiting to see when he leaves here in the courthouse. We expect hell be held in the jail over at alexandria, virginia, the federal jail there attached to the courthouse. And then the next time well see him is when he goes on trial in virginia in july and then here in september. Jim . Two trials for the president s former Campaign Chairman. Evan perez at the courthouse, thanks very much. Paul manafort not the only close associate of President Trump facing severe legal trouble today. There is breaking news about the president s former personal attorney and longtime confidante, Michael Cohen. Cohen has told family and friends that he is willing to cooperate with fellow prosecutors. He has also expressed anger about the treatment hes been getting from the president which has been distancing himself from the man who served as his personal attorney for 12 years. I havent spoken to mike in a long time. Reporter is he still your lawyer . No, hes not my lawyer, not anymore. I always liked michael. And hes a good person do you mind if i talk . Youre asking me a question, and im trying to answer. Reporter im just wondering if youre worried hes going to try to cooperate with law enforcement. Ive done nothing wrong. A very close associate of the president , he says he hasnt spoken to him at all. In fact, he called him in the last couple weeks. If he cooperates, how serious could this be for the president . As you said, Michael Cohen was the president s fixer for over a decade. He was his lawyer, so cohen is privy to a lot of the deals and meetings that hes had over this time. Cohen was someone who was involved in conversations about potentially having a trump tower in moscow at the very start of this campaign. Cohen also was involved with setting up this meeting with a ukranian legislature after trump won the presidency. And probably most importantly and most relevant to this is that Michael Cohen facilitated the payment to Stormy Daniels, the socalled hush money payment to stop her from coming out with a story about an alleged affair with trump just before the election. And the federal prosecutors who are investigating cohen, thats one of the things theyre looking at. That was included in the affidavits to back up this fbi raid of cohens home office and hotel room. So if cohen agrees to cooperate with investigators, he could fill in some blanks on the payments that were made about Stormy Daniels and potentially other women. Jim . Cara, as we understood, Michael Cohen kept a lot of recordings of his conversations. I want to bring in my panel. Were joined by mika henderson, laura coates and Cnn National Security analyst, former Senior Adviser to the National Security adviser under president obama. Laura, if i could start with you. I was jotting down a rough list of the things cohen would know about President Trump. Including business meetings with russians, personal affairs, payments with women he had relationships with or allegedly had relationships with, but also conversations with the president because Michael Cohen kept recordings. From a lawyers perspective, what danger does this put the president in if he decides to cooperate . Enormous legal jeopardy if the content of those conversation criminal in nature. The discussion about rigamaro, his everyday occurrences that were nonlegal, that wouldnt be interested to anyone else. But if its illegal, he has lost his bearings. Previously when he talks about this case, President Trump said hes not his lawyer, not anymore, and when he was his lawyer, it was a small sliver of the work he was doing. We had someone overseeing the documents who said not even a tenth of the documents shes been able to review has been attorneyclient privilege of any nature, but there has been things that are highly personal. So if this content is about criminality, he faces legal jeopardy. But if its about highly personal conduct thats going to be, you know, debatable in the public square, if its going to be humiliating in some way, then hes got a different issue ahead of him. Either way, Michael Cohen, if hes a cooperater and if donald trump is the person hes giving information about, and thats a big if giffven his alliances wi people, then there is enormous pressure on Donald Trumps side to say, hey, listen, i could help you in the future with a pardon. Your experience as a federal prosecutor, hes concerned. Hes got a wife, hes got kids, hes concerned about time in jail. When potential defendants are in that position, how powerful a motivator is that . Extraordinarily powerful. Remember, Michael Flynn had the family pressure component. His own son was facing legal jeopardy and it was a big move to be a cooperater. You think about lodge evidengev your family, their ability to sustain without you if youre the primary breadwinner. The prospect of being removed and wearing an orange jumpsuit and bread and water as opposed to eating lobster bisque is a big decision. The government does not want to expend a great deal of resources if they can get a plea offer to avoid trial. Theyll think about that as well. Mika, we have the Campaign Chairman in jail pending trial. Lets play what the president said about Paul Manafort earlier today. Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign, but i feel i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. They went back 12 years ago to get things he did 12 years ago . First of all, does anybody buy that the president s Campaign Chairman, including during the crucial time of the Republican Convention in 2016, that the president s claim he had nothing to do with him, does anybody buy it . Hes certainly trying to sell it. If you look back, as you said, Paul Manafort was the Campaign Chairman, was there from march to august, very important ask cruci and crucial in the campaign. Weve seen this between donald trump and his allies, folks who were in legal jeopardy in his campaign. We saw it with george papadopoulos. They referred to him as a coffee boy, a volunteer at one point. So this is what theyre trying to say. Essentially my name is in it i havent been in it in terms of Paul Manafort and trump. It doesnt matter to the Mueller Investigation, it doesnt matter what is happening with Paul Manafort there. It might matter to the court of Public Opinion and that is what donald trump is up to with everything hes saying. The principal battlefield for the president on this is sort of in that court of Public Opinion. Is it hard to keep up with all the news, presumably with that press meeting of the president earlier today. I was in tune to the president s comments about the brutal dictator he was sitting across from, and not just polite comments about him, but open praise. It seemed almost envy at the control kim has with his country. Today the president expressing a little jealousy as well about kim jongun. Have a listen. Hes the head of a country, and i mean, hes the strong head. Dont let anyone think anything different. He speaks, and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same. You spend a lot of time in the National Security sphere. What is the damage done by a u. S. President praising a brutal dictator in those terms . Hes strong, what a great achievement to take over this brutal hereditary dictatorship at the age of 27. What damage does that do internationally . Even if the president is joking, and he said earlier he was joking. He said he was joking about the salute, but this thing about kim being strong is something he said consistently this week, and he never said that jokingly. He has consistently praised kim jongun the way he has consistently praised Vladimir Putin and other strong men around the world. The irony here, he said earlier this year hes doing it as part of a strategy. He didnt raise human rights because he didnt want to offset the negotiations. Or hes being nice to kim now because he doesnt want Nuclear Weapons flying at the united states. The irony here is so many foreign leaders use manipulation and praise with donald trump. The quickest way to get donald trump on side is to praise him, is to stroke his ego. And now donald trump is doing that to kim jongun, maybe not realizing hes the one being manipulated. I just find this is sort of a strategy thing. It just doesnt stand up to the facts because going back years, President Trump famously praised china for its crackdown in tiananmen square. This was back in the 90s. He was not in negotiation with any of the chinese at the time. He wasnt involved with any specific negotiation with Vladimir Putin in recent months or even during the campaign when he described him as a strong leader in comparison to obama. And he did this with the leader of the philippines, right, who massacred thousands of drug dealers. Essentially said this was a great way to prosecute the war on drugs here and expressed admiration. So yeah, this is part of Donald Trumps personality, this idea that dictators should be praised and emulated because of their strength. Its very unamerican. Weve never heard this kind of praise for a dictator from an american president. Remember, what they do to people there, especially christians. They very much see donald trump as someone who is advancing their cause, but there he is, praising kim jongun, someone who goes after christians in his country. He knocked off a few of his relatives as well, but thats just a small thing. Coming up, the president says hes feeling vindicated in deciding whether he should get involved in the Justice Departments activities as a result of the Inspector Generals report. China vowing now to retaliate after the white house announces tariffs on 50 billion worth of chinese goods. The white house says this is not a trade war. The markets seem to disagree. 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Hes a democrat from tennessee also on the house judiciary committee. Let me ask you first, congressman cohen. When you look at this news of Paul Manafort, he is the former Campaign Chairman. At any moment in time, i suppose this one story would be all we would be talking about but theres so much happening here. How significant is this, in your view . Its very significant. Judge jackson who ordered him in jail back in april had a hearing on manafort and she made some remarks from the bench that were very questioning of the scope of the authority of mr. Mueller. Very balanced and fair. And i think for her to take the extraordinary position and order to put him in jail prior to his trial says there was a lot of evidence, a lot of evidence to make her make that decision. I think mueller has everything. And if i were cohen, and i am cohen, but im not the wicked cohen, i would be worried. Do you think folks at home separate Paul Manafort from the president . He was his Campaign Chairman, but the crimes involved here, the alleged crimes, go back many years before the campaign related to Money Laundering work that Paul Manafort did for foreign governments, including the russian government in ukraine. Does the president separate that from the months he worked for him in the campaign . I think he wants to believe that and his base might believe him on that, but he got the change in the platform saying we wouldnt have the weapons to go and battle the russian separatist and the Russian Military and that was done under the cover of darkness, and he wasnt paid for that. Any time they take a job like that without money, hes getting a lot of money somewhere else. The government is just a place to generate business. There is a lot of that going around, sadly. I want to ask you about another headline, the ig report. Looking at the fbi investigation of Hillary Clintons emails during the campaign, the president , of course, is claiming vindication here even though this report had nothing to do with the investigation, the Russian Investigation of robert mueller, but hes kind of tying them together. We had Lindsey Graham on the air a couple hours ago, and he made the point about how this damages the broader credibility of the fbi. Have a listen if you can. Heres what i think most people will take from this, particularly the republicans, to be honest with you. That the institutions investigating President Trump took a real blow here. The people who were showing bias against the president also were part of the initial Russian Investigation. But youll be kidding yourself if you think this doesnt do a lot of damage to the institutions that are now looking at the president. This gives a face to many of what the deep state looks like. Remarkable words from senator graham who previously has poopooed this idea of there being a deep state. Do you think thats a fair argument . No, i dont. I think it might hurt the fbi some, even though the fbi has not been seen through this report of having done wrong. Certainly comey was then subordinate. He was extremely careless, to use his words, about Hillary Clinton. Ironically he was the one that was extremely careless. But the fbi is an honorable institution, has a lot of really fine men and women working for it. If people get that, its because the president is trying to put it out because he wants to say that everybody in the institution is working on this Mueller Investigation is an iceberg. There is so much we dont know. There is enough to know that makes us see suspicion, theres smoke, theres fire. There is a raging fire going on. Mueller knows it all, and trump knows it all, and trump is trying to poison the jury pool. Despite the comments, the court focused on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. In fact, the strongest criticism is really of how director comey handled that investigation in the midst of the campaign. Do you think the criticism that it laid on comey for his handling of the clinton investigation, do you think that that is fair . Yes, i do. I called for comey to resign in october, and i felt it would tip the election to donald trump. When you mentioned Anthony Weiner and laptop, thats a pretty horrific picture, and Hillary Clinton, it made a lot of people who were hillary supporters go, maybe theres something there, theyre investigating. I felt that was the clincher. How can you say that credibly to see it was fair for the ig to handle the Hillary Clinton investigation, but not fair to lay blame or at least some responsibility on the way theyve handled the early stages of the russia investigation . This was not the fbi so much, it was comey. Comey took it upon himself outside of fbi regulations and rules to open that investigation within two weeks of a president ial election. He violated the rules and he felt he needed to do it. He was our savior. And he went beyond. That wasnt the fbi. The fact is, the president , where he says this report vindicates him, this report had nothing to do with the Mueller Investigation and didnt vindicate him. The warriors win over the cavaliers vindicated him as much as this did, and im surprised the president didnt say steph curry did it to vindicate him. I didnt know there were warriors fans in tennessee. The president falsely claimed the Inspector Generals report clears him and his campaign of any wrongdoing. Well hear from a republican on the House Committee and see if he agrees with the president s pronouncement. No matter where or when you served, tmobile stands ready to serve you. 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The ig report yesterday went a long way to show that, and i think that the Mueller Investigation has been totally discredited. In fact, the ig report had nothing to do with the Mueller Investigation, did not look at the investigation into collusion or obstruction of justice, but the president continued to make that claim. In fact, the report was on the agencys handling of the clinton email investigation. It found that former fbi director james comey broke protocol, but that comey and others in the fbi did not let any political bias influence the broader investigation of clinton emails. Let me bring in cnn justice reporter laura jarrett. She is at the Justice Department today. The president said he was exonerated, but in fact this report did not look at the questions that the president claims. Reporter thats right. Its not the purpose of the review. As you mentioned its all about the fbi and the Justice Departments actions leading up to the 2016 election. There is certainly not a single page in that entire 500page report that weve all looked at that speaks to the president s exposure on either the issue of collusion or obstruction of justice. What there is is a detailed account of james comeys actions all throughout the 2016 election season, and what it finds is that he was repeatedly insubordinate and that he essentially ignored doj protocols. What the president is appearing to do is leverage that to say, you see, all along i had a reason to fire him. The problem with that, of course, is that not two days after james comey was fired, the president went on nbc, and he said the reason he was fired was because he had russia on his mind. Now, on the committee question there is a distinction in the report on two different periods of time, which appears to have been lost on many here. The issue is that all of the actions that prosecutors took leading up to james comey coming out saying he was not recommending charges against clinton, the Inspector General looked at all those, and he said he could see how a reasonable prosecutor could get there based on all the facts and prior cases. That was reasonable, it was grounded in facts and law, and it was not politically motivated. The problem is that there is a delay in the fall of 2016 when the fbi essentially doesnt do anything with the emails that were found on Anthony Weiners laptop, the disgraced former congressman. Because of that delay, the Inspector General cant find any credible reason for why it happened. What he does have are some problematic Text Messages from an fbi official and an fbi lawyer who essentially say they want to stop the president from getting elected. Because of that delay, and because peter strzok, the fbi official, said he prioritized the russia investigation over the clinton investigation. The Inspector General said he cannot conclude those without bias, jim. The Inspector Generals comment on the ig report was not the only statement he made on the white house lawn. Listen to what he said about family separation at the border. I hate the children being taken away. The democrats have to change their law. Thats their law. Thats the democrats law. We can change it tonight. We can change it right now. In fact, the separation of families taking place now is a direct result of the zero tolerance immigration policy that trumps own administration put into place just last month. Senator Lindsey Graham said on our air a short time ago that the president could end this, quote, with a phone call. But one of his more incredulous statements involved the leader of the north koreas brutal regime, kim jongun. Hes the head of a country, and i mean hes the strong head. Dont let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same. The president later said he was being sarcastic about that comment, but its not the first time this week he has praised kim jongun as a strong leader. Joining me now from capitol hill is utah congressman chris stewart. Hes the republican on the house Intelligence Committee. Thank you for taking the time. Good to be with you. You haireard the president s comments this morning that the report which actually looked at the investigation of Hillary Clintons use of a primary email server, that exonerated him on collusion and obstruction of justice. Thats not, in fact, what this report looked into. Whats your response to the president s claim . He just spoke too broadly. As you said and your reporter said earlier. This had nothing to do with the Mueller Investigation and nothing to do with russia and charges of obstruction. It was very anywhere yo. It wasnt even about the department of justice. It was in a rolenarrowly confin Inspector General looking at the activities. You read this report, it makes everyone look bad in this. Director comey has gotten lots of people disappointed in him. It does show senior members of the fbi expressing feelings about President Trump during the campaign. In your experience, as a member of the Intelligence Committee, do you believe that kind of bias is widespread within the fbi, which is what the president is claiming there, and that fbi agents and officials allow that bias to influence the work that they do with regularity . Thats the charge the president is making. A couple things to your comments. To say these are political opinions or even just to use the word bias is an understatement. I talk to people all over the country all the time, democrats, independents, people who disagree with me, and they dont speak with the same type of vitriol that their agents did. They dont call opponents retarded. They dont use defamiliatory descriptions of people. This is beyond bias, i believe. Ive had fbi agents reach out to me for months now, being a member of the Intelligence Committee and having been involved with this, who make this point. They say, look, these leaders, these few individuals, they dont reflect the rest of us. We dont feel the same way. And i think the fbi is probably a center to maybe a slightly right center organization, and the reality is these Senior Leaders simply didnt reflect the thinking and the emotion and the body of the fbi at all, which is ironically one of the concerns i have with director comey as to why he surrounded himself with people who had such visceral opinions and were so willing to express those opinions when they were involved in the investigations that were, at their heart, political. Let me ask you this. Comey is gone. Hes been out as fbi director for more than a year now. The president is president. Hes still president. Is he damaging the fbi and the Justice Department by making these broad claims about bias there, deep state, et cetera . Well, again, i think the reason the president is doing this is because the ig report came out. I know hes spoken about it more often than that but thats been focused thats the reason hes doing it. Im asking if you think hes doing damage. It depends on his comments. Hes made a lot of comments and i would want to take them individually. By the way, i havent heard him say that. The time ive heard him discuss it hes talking about specific individuals. You havent read his twitter feed. Hes made very broad comments about bias in the fbi and Justice Department. Youre right about one thing, i havent read his twitter because i actually dont twitter so i dont read it. But the ones im familiar with, hes talking about specific individuals. But i will say that for any one of us inside the entire fbi when i was in the air force, there was very specific allegations made against the leadership of abu dhabi. We had the responsibility to hold them to that just like we do the fbi, and we have the responsibility to hold the military or the department of justice and realize not all these organizations are maybe behaving like that. I have to ask you about the president s comments this morning and this week. I just got back from singapore covering the summit between President Trump and kim jongun. The president a number of times has praised kim as a strong leader, expressing add mirgs for him in taking over what is a hereditary dictatorship as some expression of success. Whats your reaction to those comments . I dont know. Look, kim jongun is a tyrant. Hes one of the most evil men in the world right now. You can be a tyrant and evil and despicable, and i suppose you can be, at the same time, a strong leader among your people. I mean, Vladimir Putin is a good example of that. Hes someone that i think is a kbg thug, but hes a very, very powerful leader hes powerful because theyre powerful because they use the organs of state to attack dissidents, they put people in jail, they kill people. Kim jongun has killed his own relatives when hes been politically threatened by them. Hes killed thousands of people, and like you said, his own brotherinlaw. Im not justifying that. Im just saying you can be an evil tyrant put into power by this state and using that state to opress your people. Vladimir putin understands his people, he understands the. Of course hes strong. Hes calling him strong with a positive spin on it when theyre strong in the worst way, are they not . Especially for an american president. Thats what i mean, theyre strong in the worst way. Ill let the president address his own comments, but i think you and i agree theyre strong in a very despicable manner that makes the world a dark and dangerous place rather than supporting any positive aspect of life. Congressman chris stewart, i appreciate you taking the time today and taking the tough questions. Thank you, sir. Enjoy the weekend. Coming up, the white house slaps 50 billion in tariffs on china, and china now promising to retaliate. The white house is disputing chinas claim of starting a trade war. War or not, were going to talk about how it could affect you and me. A big, juicy steak. A bloomin blonde ale. And for you to pick up the check. Give dad the fathers day he wants at outback steakhouse. Outback steakhouse. Aussie rules. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. Ill take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. New ensure max protein. In two great flavors. In the movies, a lot of times, i tend to play the tough guy. 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Thats real money, and the chinese will retaliate in turn, and then the white house is now considering more tariffs that they could do if china follows through with its retaliation, and thats what a trade war looks like, when you just escalate over and over. The u. S. And china in 2016, they traded about 16 billion. Is that a dollar figure that if youre imposing tariffs, presumably china does the same thing, that folks at home are going to notice in their pocketbook . Theyre going to buy an air conditioner or something and all of a sudden its 100 more . Will they notice it that quickly . You probably wont right away, because youre not buying Aerospace Products that will be on it. Over time, yeah, you have to include televisions which were left off the list this time. Those go up 25 . Were seeing this with washing machines right now which the president did put tariffs on earlier this year. The price has gone up. We will see, in our own pocketbooks, the effects of these tariffs if they escalate wide enough and if they get to a wide range of products. I dont think folks at home realize how much stuff they buy, right, even if it doesnt have a made in china thing. At the same time this is happening, lo and behold, ivanka trump, the president s daughter, was granted seven new trademarks in china recently. I was going to say is it credible to draw a line between those two things, or is it incredible not to imagine that china is granting these trademarks as a gift to the president . This is the difficulty of presidency where the president and his family, who are so wrapped into the white house, are also still so wrapped into a business that has its own interests in these National Security economic decisions going on. We dont know. Thael thats the real answer is we dont know what the lines are between those decisions and what the administration is deciding right now. But we have these questions in part because of the nature of the president s business and his familys ties. Thats why you have conflict of interest rules because you dont really know, you just try to remove the whiff of that, right . Absolutely. Jim tankersly, thank you so much for breaking it down for us. Coming up, help wanted at the white house. Another highprofile departure announced just today. Why this administration is having trouble filling the vacancies. Vacancies. Thats next. My name is Cynthia Haynes vacancies. Thats next. And i am a senior Public Safety specialist for pg e. My job is to help educate our First Responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. Everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. I live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. Once i moved here i didnt want to live anywhere else. I love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other peoples lives. Together, were building a better california. There is new cnn reporting today, painting a picture of rampant staffing shortages in the white house, only made worse with seemingly endless flow of aides leaving. Just this morning, cnn confirmed that house legislative director, mark short intends to leave the white house in the weeks ahead, and with the mid terms just a few months away, the white house struggling to fill vacancies in the west wing. Pamela brown, one of the reporters who broke this story, joins us now. How big is this outflux . Jim, my colleague, sara westwood, and i have learned that the white house is quietly reaching out to prospective hires, advertising vacant positions on job websites, teaming up with a conservative group to hold a job fair this afternoon, and considering ways to consolidate different jobs. This is a white house struggling to attract and retain talent as staffers leave and others plot their exit soon. As you pointed out, mark short, the white house director, told his staff just this morning, jim, he plans to leave the white house this summer. Other senior officials are said to be eyeing the door around the mid terms, a fact that could compound the difficulty the white house has already had in recruiting talent from republican circles. Seasoned gop staffers cited a number of reasons why so many people have turned down the job offers or expressed disinterest when contacted by this aministration. Theyre saying that basically, there is anxiety over the russia probe, fear of having their careers tainted by associating themselves with President Trump. This is coming from people who have been contacted and turned down jobs in the white house. And just this afternoon, the white house is teaming up with a conservative group to recruit republican congressional aides for administration jobs. According to an advertisement for the event provided to cnn, a white house official says the high number of rsvps for this fair, more than 900, jim, shows there is a high level of interest in working for the administration. But you have that coupled with these other efforts, putting job positions on job websites for white house roles, positions, like policy analyst, international economist, positions in human resources, and the tradeoffs. So its painting this picture of a white house going through every avenue they can to attract people. And having a tough time in some cases. Job fairs and job websites. How out of character is this with past administrations . So i actually spoke with someone who worked in the president ial Personnel Office, was a director several years back, mark friedman, worked under the obama administration. He says it is unusual to have a job fair to post jobs on job websites. He says that under the obama administration, that did not happen. He said at any given day there would be 20 or 30 people applying for a job. So and there was already a network of talent they could tap into. So he did say, you know, there were times where perhaps there would be an open door where they would go people from the president ial Personnel Office would meet with gop staffers about roles. But he did say that this is unusual, the steps being taken under this white house. Well say the president is going to be reaching out on linkedin, right . Well see. Pamela brown, thanks very much. That is it for me today. For our international viewers, amanpour is next. In north america, newsroom with Brooke Baldwin is next. A hilton getaway means you get more because. You get another day in paradise. Get a sunset on a sunday. Get more stories to share. Get more from your Summer Getaway with exclusive hilton offers. 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