Today the russia investigation took a major step forward. For the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. Put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. He is arguably the closest man to the president. White house Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner spent more than two hours with the Senate Intelligence committee and then he made a Public Statement saying he never colluded with russia. It comes as trump pours the pressure on his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who rekuzed himself from the Justice Departments russia investigation months ago. A decision the president has not been able to get past. He wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own Attorney General, mind you, as our beleaguered Attorney General. And tonight the Washington Post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting
in the wind Bile Berating him publicly. It reads in Part Sessions was once considered one of the trumps closest advisers and enjoyed access few others had. Now he is left to endure regular public crimson by his base. It adds some in the white house are going so far as to toss out names of replace mts for sessions, names like ted cruz of texas and former mayor Rudy Giuliani both have distanced themselves from this speculation. Then tonight the president bored Air Force One and flew to West Virginia to give a address to 30,000 boy scouts. The reaction to what he said started as he was say going. It when it became clear offense giving a rally speech, adult speech to 30,000 boy scouts who go to hear the president relit fwat his election convictsry
include that its harder to win the Electoral College pan the popular vote. Heard the him talk about the socalled war on christmas, the effort to pass health care, and then some. By the way, just a question . Did President Obama ever come to jamboree . We won and won. So when they said there is no way to victory, there is no way to 270, you know i went to maine four times because its one vote. And we won. But we won. One vote. I went there because i kept hearing were 269. But then wisconsin came in. Many, many years, michigan came in. So and we worked hard there. You know my opponent didnt work
hard there, because she was told dsh the polls thats also fake news. Theyre fake polls. But the polls are saying but we won wisconsin. So i have to tell you what we did in all fairness is an unbelievable tribute to you and all of the other million and millions of people who came out and voted for make America Great again. And by the way under the Trump Administration youll be saying, Merry Christmas again when you go shopping, believe me. Merry christmas. Secretary tom price is also here today. Today dr. Price still lives the scout oath, helping to keep millions of americans strong and
healthy as our secretary of health and human services. By the way youre going to get the votes . He better get them. He better get them. Oh he better otherwise ill say tom, youre fired. Ill get somebody. On that note lets bring in tonights starting panel, White House Reporter for the Washington PostAshley Parker. White house reporter for the associated press, vivian salama, and fresh off Air Force One vaflg traveling with the president to West Virginia tonight eli stokols for the wall street journal. Eli before i toss the first question to you i want to show the reaction that started coming in tonight, some of it from people we know and colleagues here. We have some of the twitter feeds to put up on the screen. Starting with richard painter, the former ethics czar in the boy scouts must distance themselves from that offensive attempt to politicize scouting and turn them into a trump youth organization. Steve schmidt of the mccain campaign, this eagle squout is appalled. Mark salter i was a boy scout five or six years, the whole point of the experience was to teach kids not to grow up to be like donald trump. And one more from our own Nicole Wallace who was retweeting a twitter rant the president went on just tonight about Washington Post. She said serious question, mr. President , is this the tweet you started to type as an apology to the boy scouts before your rage toward the media took over . Eli we both covered a lot of events and youre in a hurry to get back to the motorcade and all kinds of things. Sometimes its not readily apparent at a live event exactly what it is youre seeing. Was it apparent in real time that this was a very adult kind of Campaign Trail Rally speech . Yeah, in abecause you could see the crowd after a campaign
in which we saw so many times in Candidate Feed off large crowds, tonight he maybe 40,000 people packed around that amphitheater. They were giving him a pretty good response cheering loudly when we walked out on the stage the first thij he did was criticize the media said we wouldnt report the size of the crowd. The second thing he did was adlib this line about who the hell wants to talk about politics when youre in front of the boy scouts . And that was a big flash being red light. Usually when paurs what donald trump says he will saylike you know a People Dont Know this thats code for i just found in out. When donald trump said im not going to talk about politics, you knew immediately that a lot of political red meat was coming for me a lot of meem night not have thought this was appropriate he was talking about killing obamacare. Joking et about Firing Tom Price process to a manhattan Cocktail Party and back they were giving him positive feedback im sure the president loved the reaction
he got and probably the News Coverage to the extent the networks stayed on it. Its starting to sound like he has a obsession relitigating the the Electoral College victory unbelievable we heard that again tonight. Ashley parker, we move on to the fact that one of the eagle scouts in his cabinet was not present tonight. We saw health and human services. We saw energy. We saw interior. We didnt see justice. Jeff sessions wasnt there. But Jeff Sessions is a man in the news. Tell us the latest on what you know. Sure that was a pointed absence that Jeff Sessions former eagle scout was not there. But he is sort of weathering a storm of his own right now. Which is basically the president is actively incredibly frustrated with him. And according to aides the president despite making his name on the catch phrase youre fired is not that good at firing
people. And so he is not necessarily going out and firing Jeff Sessions. He also realizes there would be a huge political controversy if he fires him. But according to aides who have a sense what he is thinking he is doing everything in his power to get Jeff Sessions to resign that includes the interview with New York Times where he trashed his Attorney General. And then this tweet today where he called him beleaguered. And also sort of asked in very sort of stark and stunning terms why Arent You InvestigatingHillary Clinton my political rival. The white house is going so far as the president has been floating names internally who he might be a good replacement for are Jeff Sessions and including ted cruz and Rudy Giuliani. Vivian youve grown 30 years in adjournism experience in six months and learn ag learned to toss out the phrase he would never dot dot dot. As all of washington try togs
war game out what this could be about. It could be about mueller. It could be there is someone in mind for the Justice Department. And it could be that he is waiting for congress to go on recess to appoint that person and really blow up washington. Or it could be just that President Trump does not really handle crimson and opposition weapon. Weve seen that. Every time someone pushes against him about a policy or any of his views he comes back swinging. And see that in the situation now with Jeff Sessions, and the fact that Jeff Sessions would take a step back and recuse himself from the investigation. President trump sees that as his way of succeeding to the possibility that there could be an issue with the campaign in terms of collusion, in terms of any kind of controversy surrounding them with russia. And so he has taken that very, very personally. And from someone who he once presumed to be loyal to him. That was a sign of disloyalty. That really affected their relationship. But whats more interesting now is what weve seen collectively. What my colleagues just talked about. What we saw today in West VirginiaAndway We Saw today with Jeff Sessions. I covered National Security. One of the things i hear from so many people here in d. C. And more broadly in the country that i speak to is what this is doing to our countries institutions when gou aefr the media, when gou after Cabinet Secretaries so publicly it starts to chip away at the institutions of this country. Its really starting to alarm a lot of people who feel this is not the time and particularly when we found ourselves so vulnerable to outside influences such as what happened with russia last year and you know whatnot. Its really starting to alarm a lot of people that the president is really just pouring gas on an open fire. Eli, since vivian mentioned natural security it actually plays into part of his twitter
fusel ade tonight. I dont think weve taken the time to make them all graphics because there was a flurriy obviously after the boy scout event. But i know you one of them caught your eye because it was about a mission overseas. Well about these payments to Syrian Rebels that the administration has stopped. Russia wanted the u. S. To stop the payments. There was a Washington Post story about that and late tonight after he got back to the white house the president tweeting here about the ending that program really confirming the program existed. It was a classified program he he has now declassified it as president s can do but he is upset again as like vivian mentioned an institution, the Washington Post, the media, request with the courts he looked today go back to the tweet this morning about beleaguered general Jeff Sessions should investigate Hillary Clinton his political opponents Sarah Huckabee sanders came back and answer the
question as few minutes with reporters. One of the questions she got was is the president serious . Does he really want the Justice Department to investigate his past political opponent. Her answer was well i would think he wants the Justice Department to investigate anything this they believe to be a potential crime. If you just play that back save that set that aside that is stunning. What we are seeing what weve been talking about since the show began is this president s anger at his Justice Department and Attorney General for investigating him because theyre not sure whether or not his campaign may have committed some crimes during the last election. Its really just sort of a stunning moment and stunning political tin ear Tone Deafness whatever you want to call it. Ashley at the risk of being accuse of naval gazing lets talk about our profession. Ive said around the newsroom the last couple of months the
last thing you want to be this year is a pull itser prize judge. Good luck there because i think we could double the number of them usually awarded for the reporting that has gone on in the First Six Months of this administration. There hasnt been this great a time to work for the because jeff bezos owns it amazon Washington Post since the montana mid70s. With that in mind when you hear a president say to this spirited audience of 30,000 kids in the most American Organization you can think of, boy scouts of america, when you hear him tell them their news media are fake, what the effect do you think that might have . Well, i think it goes back to the point earlier in the program just about the president either intentionally or unintentionally oh or probably some combination of both chipping away at a lot of these democratic institutions. And i would crew the media first among that. I think it has a kor ohsive effect. Its not with god people when people dont trust the media. The media used to be a place where people turned to for fact checks. They trnd heard something a politician said wanted to know if it was true or not or if it was going on with the community. But to be clear thats still the function we perform. But the president is sort of Throwing Shade i dont think thats good for democracy or for the people but for whatever he says i dont think as youve seen by the stories coming from sort of all major publications, the media is in no way cowed. Often when the president pushes backs against a story on tietz about it it means the reporters and uks publications are on the right tra track. Vivian as much as i read the toledo of you you are tasked with the fastest version of journalism. Ive seen all of you search for ways to put the new normal a lot of the old modifiers we used to use covering president s arent enough anymore. Well, one thing that is really important for all of us weve learned to do this in realtime is fact check. And its nothing necessarily personal to President Trump in particular. But its the fact that he is so active on twitter. And that lends a totally different dynamic to covering the presidency than it has in the past. Of course i wasnt covering the white house under previous administrations so its hard to compare. But certainly from what my colleagues tell me this is a lot faster pace. Youre getting in a lot more information. I get in early and covering tweets trying to decipher them sometimes were not sure what he is talking about. We spend the morning really trying to understand and interpret to the American People receiving the message can better understand what he is saying. All of those things are definitely new challenges, exciting but also you know sometimes very difficult. Vivian salama who at least one war time overseas posting im not sure which was more
difficult or daengs. Ashley thank you. Eli, thank you very much. Great Beginning Panel tonight. Coming up after our first break, Jared Kushner and the questions that remain to be answered in this overall russia investigation. Were just Getting Started on the Monday Edition of The 11th Hour. You know whats awesome . When only certain people can get it. Lets fix that. Lets give this guy gig really . And these kids. And these guys. Him. Ah. Oh hello that lady. These houses yes, yes and yes. And dont forget about them. Uh huh. Sure. Still yes you can get it too. Welcome to the party. Introducing gigspeed internet from xfinity. Finally, gig for your neighborhood too. Welcome back to the Monday Edition of our broadcast. The president s soninlaw, Senior AdviserJared Kushner appeared on capitol hill this morning where he was interviewed by Senate Intelligence committee
staffers. Behind closed doors. More on that in a bit by the way. Earlier, kushner had released an 11page statement. In it he admitted to four meetings with russians. He says he didnt know about the russia meeting in trump tower in advance with donald trump jr. And asked to be called out of it early. Later, at a white house lectern and with the white house as hisback drop he read a short statement to the reporters in the white house driveway. Since the first questions were raised in march, i have been consistent in saying that i was eager to share any information i have with the investigating bodies and ive done so today. The record and documents i have voluntary provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. Let me be very clear. I did not collude with russia more do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. And i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. Joining me noy jeremy bash former Chief Of Staff at dod and cia and importantly former Chief Counsel for the House Intel Committee and the former u. S. Ambassador to russia during the obama administration. Veteran diplomat mike mcfall guy i do this as round of questions as a Committee First round to both of you starting with you jeremy, the wording he used there and elsewhere in the statement. What was important to you to you about his wording and what words werent in there, perhaps . Well it depends on the definition of colluding. I think an important question that bob mueller will ask and that congressional investigators will ask is did anybody in the
senior levels of the Trump Campaign know the russian government was helping to intercede and help the Trump Campaign. Process obviously the nation flew that october 7th. Nafs the date 9 Homeland Security and director of National Intelligence said russia is the culprit. After that Jared Kushner and mike flynn had multiple meetings thats going sob followed up on. As of the june you 2016 meeting did Jared Kushner don jr. , Paul Manafort know what was stated in the email that the russian government was trying to help. Ambassador mcfall anything stand out to you from the wording or omission. Two things. First of all, that email weve all read it, read the subject line. They said theyre going to provide information to help the Trump Campaign. If the verb collude is not the right one is not the one that
Jared Kushner wants to use whats the right one . Because it sounds like collusion to me. What is that act . That was described . The second thing i dont want to get ahead of my skis we want to know the full disclosure what he said when we get a chance. But when he said very carefully in the statementdy not rely on russian funding for businesses, that was very striking to me. Because rely is a very strong word thap that suggests he is dependent on them. But he have Business Contacts with russians . Did he have investments with russians . That sentence left it open. We simply dont know the actual Business Operations that he had with russian investors skroo. Jeremy, were you surprised as one who has been around washington a along time as the stage craft of it . Someone pointed out the new leader of ireland was not afraided a lectern like that when he came out to meet with reporters and used a very ram shackle micron stand. The marine opens the door the president s soninlaw comes out at a very formal. There is nothing ambiguous about
that back drop. No question had he had full backing and support of the white house both literally and figure testifily. He did a good day from the perspective of legal team they controlled the narrative wrote the leverpage statement got the facts out on the table in the way they wanted to present. Of course we dont know what the questions were behind closed doors. But injury ultimately both committees are going to ask him to testify publicly if he is willing to put out a Public Statement they want to question him on the record under oath in front of cameras. Ambassador, knowing the russians as you do, if i appointed you Chief Counsel to any one of the committees and brought you in the hearing room having promised you that a strange russian woman wouldnt i troll i by sitting behind you with your family, what would you want to ask mr. Kushner again colored by the knowledge of the russians . I have two central questions, brian. One what was the content of that conversation . What did she bring . Its been alleged she handed over some documents. What were in the documents . We dont know the content of that meeting. Its been described to us that he wanted to leave because there was nothing there. Maybe he wanted to leave because there was something really scarey there and he didnt want to be part of it. The content is still mysterious. Second, i want to know woi he discussed with ambassador kizlyak the idea of going into the Russian Embassy to have conversations with officials back in moscow. Allegedly it was to talk about syria. Jared kushner has a joint portfolio but solving the syrian war is not one of those. Allegedly it was too sensitive for whom not to hear what was going on . I want to know what was behind that conversation that led him to come up with that idea or led ambassador kizlyak to come up with that idea. And jeremy, last question
goes to you, this actually was your job. So if you were in your old job as counsel to house intel, what do you want to hear. I want to know what role he played when sally yates the accurate aing Attorney General wardson the white house and the president that the russians were able to blackmail the National Security adviser . Importantly i want to know what what was his role on advising the president on whether to fire jim comey. Ultimately broien the issue of obstruction of justice with regard to president president s own actions visavis comey that is a larger had you in the investigation. After yet another eventful day on this topic we say modestly to viewers we dont think there are two guests in Television Better equipped to talk about in day. Than the two we have here. Jeremy, michael thank you so much after another break President Trump takes aim at fellow members of his party when The 11th Hour continues. Got a minute . Not for me, for you. New aveeno®. Positively radiant® 60 second in shower facial. Works with steam to reveal. Glowing skin in just one minute. Aveeno® naturally beautiful results®
ending the obamacare nightmare. They now have a chance, however, to hopefully, hopefully fix what has been so badly broken for such a long time. And that is through replacement of a horrible disaster known as obamacare. That was President Trump today before his trip to West Virginia tonight. Putting pressure on his own party to get a Health Care Bill passed. The senate will vote tomorrow as we said to advance bail, Repealing Obamacare however its not clear which version of the legislation will be on the floor as you may know a little civics republicans need 51 votes to move forward but appear short of it. We learn tonight as we said john mccain who has been in arizona after being being diagnosed with brain cancer will return to washington to vote on something called the moeks to proceed, first step toward bringing up the real hvg bill. His yes vote is critical. Joining us tonight politics editor for the root, jason
johnson back with us and lob lining libertarian jim sharp about a back with us jr germane place of arizona. Welcome to you beth. Jason in the break i asked you the question im going to ask you right now, how does Mitch Mcconnell approach a lectern and microphones if as people believe this could be a Suicide Mission . How are you going to move the four perhaps more republican deeffectens despite john mccain making this heroic journey back fl o from arizona. They have no chance. And this is a way to Swla Play KatePresident Trump and lack busy. Thats what theyre doing at this point. They dont have the votes to even proceed to debate. Here is the thing brian this is whats also key. When rand paul and Susan Collins a murkowski when the first one or two say no thats makes it okay. Makes it okay. Makes it easy fore everyone else to back out. I dont see it moving forward. Mitch mcconnell is wasting Political Capital on what People Dont Know. He susan consequently have moral authority. She is not a Bomb Throw Ner the back row. She is a prominent members. These not back ventures near not afraid of donald trump hear theyre not heller in nevada. Theyre not on marjleenle seat they outperformed trump in their own states. They can vote their conscientious and the voter will have their back. Jim we were thing about you a because im sure its been an emotional time in your state especially for republicans who love john mccain and are wonning hows in going to play out. But be your party your Political Party and trumps choice of words, he rarely chooses words by accident or on a whim. There is usually a leonard for everything. And today in his remarks he more than once called the Republican Party they, third person, as if not to be a member. Yeah, brian thanks. First off, is john mccain just a tough son of a gun or what. Im closing the show tonight with some of the best comparisons ive heard on how tough he is. So. Yeah. And you know though im not a republican i worked during my political time primarily with gop candidates. You know what this kind of makes sense because dprufrp is it kind of a johnny come lately republican. He garnered a lot of support from people really trurly populist. He is hoping to Drawen Oh The Base to push republicans who buoyant shouldnt be doing this to apiece donald trump but voters. They propzed voters this year a years and they said they were going to repeal and replace obamacare now they dont seem to be able to do it. They did it in 2015 they took
this same vote in 2015. But they did that knowing to it President Obama at the time was not going to sign in. So you know they need to do this for the voters they need to to do because they propzed not because they need to appeal donald trump. Jason this is another way in presidency upends the rules when youre trying to get something passed on the hill you go out on the root road and talk to the customers and you sell it to them process. He has not taken that ownership and listen who who is missing in our conversation and were guilt of this too often were not talking about the customers, the anxiety in states like arizona whats happening to Health Care Premiums availability . You know its two years ago at this point obama has a townhall. He goes to ohio. He answers questions. The number one sales person in this country right now should be donald trump and he is failing. He is i had hiding up in the bleacher like two muppets making fun of his own party. Rather than making people feel safe and secure. He doesnt just have to tell it
the americans. He has to go to the marginal senators if john kasich gets mad of you rob i will campaign on your behalf instead he is Throwing Totmans from the sidelines. I complete by agree with the other guest the republican parties hoes if to the base. The American People may not like what theyre doing. But there is this is a pledge and the fact after seven years they dont have an plan its an embarrassment how democracy supposed to operate. What if the president turned this just crazy Pie In The Sky thinking what if the president turned to the governors just to name a couple, colorado, ohio and tennessee, and said, you three level headed governors put your Heads Together and the senate has promised me that were going to coal he is around what you where the Rebuke Rubber meets the road you think are the Health Care Challenges were going to try to do the
best for your folks. Boy, i dont know. I dont know how that would go to be honest with you. He might want to consider talking to our governor weve seen the worst of what obamacare has to offer. Its unfortunate you know we have seen huge preemious increases were going to have only one choice in each one of the Obamacare Exchanges in our counties this coming year. Were seeing another increase even though we saw 16 increase previously. Pifrpg its a great idea. Especially because medicaid happens to be a big Sticking Point on this. And thats thats distributed at the state level. So i think it makes a lot of sense for him to bring kwofr governors in. I just dont think as much as his base likes to think he does, i just dont he is very good at working with a lot of other people to be honest with you. There is that. Jim, how can our viewers hear you on the web. Available at ktar. Com. And they can listen on the good
old fm dial on 92. 3. Thank you for coming on jason always a pleasure. Another break for us. Back with a member of the Senate Intelligence committee. And still ahead as we continue, new reporting on the president s new communications director. And another possible shakeup at the white house when The 11th Hour continues. Intelligence. Thats the procedure they go through, the Intelligence Committee with the kmarm and vice chairman. The procedure is the staff goes through different questions and tries to put the puzzle together the best they possibly can. Then we had of an informal briefing at 2 00. The members we had an informal briefing what they talked about. In until we get the transcripts in front of us at the formal meeting that decision will be made to bring him forward. I think there is enough interest where jared would come before the kpt, the full committee, the intelligence. What will your reaction be if the president Fires Mueller or if the president tries to pardon members of his own family. Lets talk about mr. Mueller first. I just i think there would be a severe reaction up here because of the person doesnt have a stellar reputation and the stellar career and give so much service to our country at the highest level and have the have the total cohesion of republicans and democrats believing that this person will
exercise the rule of law, protect the rule of law and act upon the rule of law. I dont know of anybody else that fits that category. So saying all of a sudden he doesnt fit that or he is unfit for serving and he would not be respectful of the decision he makes. I dont think that would be accepted at all or very well at all on both sides of the aisle not just democrats but democrats republicans alike. As far as the pardon, i think its just premature to talk about any of this. I dont know why this is even coming up were just trying to fine the facts. And people talking about pardons, it baffles me now to even be speaking about that. Lets talk about your constituents, the people of West Virginia, the president as weve already noted traveling there tonight process. Right. First of all, do they all believe obamacare, the a. C. A. Is dead if you ask them in would they say about a because we keep hearing that from the president and most republicans. And secondly, how many trips
home with you make without a deliverable, without something to say, were doing this for you because we shared your anxiety over health care . Well every demographic of my state is affected. If youre old, if youre young, if youre in the middle somewhere, if you had opiate addiction Mental Illness were helping so many. Senior citizens, nursing homes. You name it we are affected by this, the same at other rural states are too. So i have said, a vote to proceed tomorrow if thats where Mitch Mcconnell and the leadership from the republicans is taking us i would say a vote to proceed is a vote to repeal and the reason i say that there is no way that they can say were going ahead and proceed on the bill so we can fix it. If you want to fix the Affordable Care act i want to fix it. Put if in committee and lets work through the process where we have experts coming in we can dissect that bill and find out what makes it better from the people who are worked it before, the things that have failed and lets get the private sector wsh the private market if you will stabilized. Lets make sure that people that got health care the first time, the expansion, 20 Million People are now going to through education and management were going to show them how to use it effectively and efficiently and save money long the way. Do you think the Attorney General should should resign . Do you think he will . I dont think he should. He did exactly what he was supposed to. He rekeyesed himself from being involved in the michael in the investigation because he and Michael Flynn had a relationship and they were campaigning together and on the campaign trail. I think Rudy Giuliani said it he did the proper things by the rules of justice. I dont know what the reason would be. But i will say this. The president or the chief
executive i was governor of my state and i wanted to put my staff and have people around me. The president has that prerogative to do. Thats part of the job and he has to have a team that he believes in. And he will make that decision. I dont think what jeff did by recusing himself he did exactly what he should have done. Joe manchin thank you for being with us. Thank you sir. The late headline for the Washington Post on the man whose friends call him mooch. Also known to the rest of us as Anthony Scaramucci. The new White House Communications director. This includes what new changes may come. Well have the writer of the piece on with us next. Since thats been overused. Would i taken that meeting . Im not sure. White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci calling the president s 39yearold soon kid, and the russia probe completely bogus. Tonight, the Washington Post is reporting that scaramucci may be pushing a staff purge at the white house. Quote, he is meeting one on one with aides in an effort to understand each persons contributions. Thats within the communications shop. Scaramuccis planned overhaul is likely to leave priebus more isolated in the west wing. The coauthor of the article, Ashley Parker has agreed to stay even later with us tonight. Shes back with us. Ashley, thank you. As i ask you this next question, since you are all over social media, i want to show you
something tonight that is also all be the next Chief Of Staff and may be the priebus thats certainly what some allies of scaramucci have been floating. To be clear, if that does end up being the case, and i think were far from knowing this, hes four days into his job, is the communications director, it would add insult to injury to Reince Priebus who fought this
appointment vigorously and basically lost. And it was a clear sign the president was choosing someone else over his wishes, and notably, in this case Anthony Scaramucci as he made very clear several times reports directly to President Trump. So its a tough situation for reince to be in. Do you have evidence that these staff reviews hes conducting and again, west wing employees In The Name Of the president have the right to have a loyal staff of nonleakers, though it will tough to be in the Ashley Parker business after that. Do you have the feeling its all in the comshop or is his purview a little bit broaderer to encome fas west wing . He has a broad purview. One of the things that was striking is this white house can be divided into the family and the help. And the family is president
trump and his actual family, his daughter, ivanka, Jared Kushner, and continue family who are these aides whove been with him since the campaign, and theyre very close with him. And the help is the rest of the staff who works hard for him, but feels very expendable as were seeing this week even with Attorney General sessions. One thing that was striking is that Anthony Scaramucci comes in for whatever reason as family. What were hearing most about is the communication shop, that makes sense because hes the communications director, but i do think in theory his mandate, especially if he does a good job for the president might end up being broader. We cannot thank you enough. Your day starts earlier than hours, ill put it that way. We cannot is that you think enough for agreeing to stay late. Thank you so much. Well be looking for your byline again tomorrow. Coming up after our final break, we heard reference to this earlier. Just how tough is john mccain . Well take on that question whether the The 11th Hour continues. Shes nationally recognized
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