and, look, i think that he has a way out of this. and the obvious way out is to hold a press conference, which i think he s got to do. answer questions. and then recuse himself. and don t forget. this is somebody who during the whole hillary clinton e-mail brouhaha said that lynch, then the attorney general lynch, ought to recuse herself because she met on an airplane with bill clinton and a special prosecutor ought to be appointed. what goes around comes around. this was his solution for that problem. and maybe it should be a solution for his own problem. and i wouldn t be surprised if that s how it evolves. it seems to me that the easiest solution for him at the very least is to recuse himself. and i don t think that would be particularly difficult for him to do. a couple of times when he didn t notify the senate that he met with the russian ambassador, we played the exchange with
been a fair charge. this was his first full-fledged press conference as president and he did it in the traditional way even though he excoriated us and called us dishonest, he did answer questions. there is a lot we learned. it was like the president was on the couch. i felt it was a display of a human being with all of his frustrations even some charm, humor, a lot of grievance. i think we learned a lot. ed: i ve been in that room before, on the receiving end of a withering attack you ve always had a better seat though. ed: president obama once charged unfairly that i was in support for mitt romney. that is a way to try and throw you off your game. the president said stop talking, sit down. did you feel it s a nerve-racking thing, you are on live television, how did you feel that moment and were you angry that he told you to sit down? i m going to say something
whole thing for the press was when jim acosta stood up and said, i don t hate you, we don t hate you. he looked pathetic. like he was trying to curry up to his captor. on a more serious point, though, i think that when you look back at the past eight or 16 years at white house press conferences, i quit counting at 20 plus questions. just gave up. i don t remember a president more open, willing to take questions, answer questions, and also, he went in there, martha, most presidents go and with a list of people they will choose from. in other words, a list of questions they want to take, a list of reporters they want to take approved questions for him. he went in there and took questions from everybody and anybody who loves the first amendment and loves the free press isn t thrilled by that. they should be. we have never seen anything like this in modern television. martha: julie, you are thrilled, right? [laughter] i didn t realize,
when jim acosta stood up and said, i don t hate you, we don t hate you. he looked pathetic. like he was trying to curry up to his captor. on a more serious point, though, i think that when you look back at the past eight or 16 years at white house press conferences, i quit counting at 20 plus questions. just gave up. i don t remember a president more open, willing to take questions, answer questions, and also, he went in there, martha, most presidents go and with a list of people they will choose from. in other words, a list of questions they want to take, a list of reporters they want to take approved questions for him. he went in there and took questions from everybody and anybody who loves the first amendment and loves the free press isn t thrilled by that. they should be. we have never seen anything like this in modern television. martha: julie, you are thrilled, right? [laughter] i didn t realize,
he continued with the strategy, i think that would ve been a fair charge. this was his first full-fledged press conference as president and he did it in the traditional way even though he excoriated us and called us dishonest, he did answer questions. there is a lot we learned. it was like the president was on the couch a month i felt it was a display of a human being with all of his frustrations even some charm, humor, a lot of grievance. i think we learned a lot. ed: i ve been in that room before on the receiving end of a withering attack you ve always had a better seat though. ed: president president obae charged unfairly that i was for mitt romney. did you feel it s a nerve-racking thing, you are on live television, how did you feel that moment and were you angry that he told you to sit