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Being honest about their interactions and relationship to senior officials in russia. >> eli, let me give you an example of communications problem, someone who tweets that president obama had trump tower wiretapped during the presidential campaign, that woulbe, you know, like a wicked bath communications problem and, of course, thats all donald trump. >> i mean, this problem goes to the top. mike is not the problem. if they bring in david, its going to fall on this president whether or not he ca...

Senate perhaps, you know, to get this tax reform package through. its a lot of work, and its being done right now. things dont get done overnight, unfortunately. this isnt a tv show where its all done in 22 minutes. >> jen, i want to ask you about your successor, mike dubke, who was -- i guess hes still white house communications director for president trump. you were that job for president obama, and i thought about you today because when i covered the obama white house i would remember there w...

Anything? thats a question some people are going to ask. as it would anyone else who is being mentioned for the chief of staff job. >> i think your point is right, greta. i think what is being talked about here in a shake up is addressing a communications problem. and this white house has actual agenda problems and investigation problems that need to be addressed. so, its not really like, hey, were going to switch a few chairs in the white house and change the name tags around, this stuff will g...

Sign for the white house. because it is an acknowledgement that they are in a state of permanent crisis. they have decided they have to institutionalize crisis response 27/7. thats not a good look especially less than six months into your administration. and as julie was saying. this is not a communications problem. but trump still thinks. >> its a problem. that does it for "inside politics." the news continues after a quick break with my colleague wolf blitzer. maybe you shouldve done more rese...

>> well see what he said. well see what he said in his people swro. we are so far beyond the moment where this is just a communications problem. at the beginning of the week people were saying will he fire sean spicer or not. who cares. thats not relevant to today. whats relevant today is what the evidence will show and whether the republicans continue to line up behind trump or not. but, you know, this idea that you can have a white house shuffle, that you can put new players in place and that ...

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 e-mail issue. and theres a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up t...

Didnt believe them because they have just a record of being dishonest. i dont know how you correct it. >> alex and tim both say this is not a communications problem, this is about the substance. it is like if i open a restaurant, john, and the restaurant has a rat infestation and i say the problem is the marketing, the sign outside. if i put a sign outside, the restaurant will be fine. no, the problem is the rats and i think that is the take-away i experienced this week is it is not about what t...

Presidency that donald trumps press team did not know what was going on, and the reasoning behind his decision to fire james comey. this was the presidents fault for not keemg his team in the loop for telling them what happened and making sure they were prepared to go out and tell the american people what this all meant, so hes making excuses but i think hes tweets speak volumes about what we might see from the press team moving forward. there are reports that sean spicers job might be -- >> go ...

Thats an old republican story. >> absolutely it is. >> oh. thats what theyre saying in kansas right now? >> taxes and deregulation. im trying to figure out what is -- >> all right. >> jennifer, you want to weigh in before we go? >> there are a lot of democrats [ inaudible ] and hillary clinton she had a plan on ways you could improve obama and bring down costs, particularly on prescription drugs. so there are democrats that do have ideas on how to fix it. they didnt have the -- the trumps health...

Well for him on the campaign trail. hasnt worked as well for him in the first 100 days. this is pretty good advice but its hard because the easiest thing to do in a communications problem at the white house is get the president to go out there and tried to fix it because hes your best salesman. i think this is probably pretty good advice. he has good cabinet officials he could utilize. >> bob: he could use betsy devos and ben carson. >> eric: your thoughts on whether trump should change his tact...