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Hunkered down in his office working on a strategy. you also have the team led by raj shah among others who has long just been generally shepherding in kavanaughs nomination and is dealing with this. then you also have all sorts of other players. the white house coms team and other officials in the white house. the president and, frankly, other aides getting input from republicans on capitol hill. and not everyone agrees on the exact strategy. theres a general sense that theyre not ready to pull ...

And what the conversation was with james comey. and it goes to why the president fired james comey. earlier today i had a conversation with omarosa manigault newman about the tlers holt interview. heres what she told me. >> i want to talk about the lester holt interview where you said that the team prepared him well. then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believe to be the truth, that he fired jim comey over russia. so was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being preppe...

And then theres the issue about what happened to michael flynn and what the conversation was with james comey. and it goes to why the president fired james comey. earlier today i had a conversation with omarosa manigault newman about the tlers holt interview. heres what she told me. >> i want to talk about the lester holt interview where you said that the team prepared him well. then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believe to be the truth, that he fired jim comey over...

So was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say that the doj had come up with this memo so that they could justify the firing of comey. >> welcome back to velshi and ruhle. that was omarosa manigault newman. she expects a counter attack from the white house and believes white house staff was being recorded by the president. >> the whole thing, think about this. james comey taking contemporaneous notes. michael cohn, the presidents long-time fixer ta...

The things we do every single day that puts ourselves in harms way, and to have a partner that is so skilled at what they do is indispensable, and i couldnt ask for a better partner. he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say the d.o.j. came up with this memo so they could justify the firing of comey. >> he has -- >> that was definitely hope hicks press secretary kind of thing. but i was really, really surprised that he would implicate himself. thats when you know someone is m...

4th week was slow in the first half. but donald trump officially hired former fox news president bill shine to head the white houses coms team. remember he was fired after the roger ails sexual harassment scandal. and scott pruitt resigned and i wasnt here for it. it only took 504 days and more scandals that i have time to list. and also president trump challenges elizabeth warren to a dna test to prove her native american heritage. and he made fun of former president and recent widow george h.w...

Came out. it is who did this? they are discussing shrinking their coms team. as many as a dozen can go. we heard before there were going to be changes in personnel after leaks, after the president gets upset about them, and it has very rarely happen. i can count on one hand the number of people that gets pushed out. this feels a little bit different. they have canceled this large morning communications meeting which is the meeting where this comment was said. it leaked out. there used to be 30 p...

Hes just picking up the phone and calling press people. we called him from the middle of show and he just started talking. hes accessible, but if youre the coms team youre just going crazy because you have no idea what hes saying or whos hes saying it to. theres supposed to be a separation of powers. >> this is declaration of assistant attorney general who says at no time did i receive orders introductions or orders related to the file a complaint from any of the following people or entities, pr...

Talking. hes accessible, but if youre the coms team youre just going crazy because you have no idea what hes saying or whos hes saying it to. theres supposed to be a separation of powers. >> this is declaration of assistant attorney general who says at no time did i receive orders introductions or orders related to the file a complaint from any of the following people or entities, president donald trump, the executive office of the president or any related rematives rem representative of the sta...

Happened to draining the swamp? >> weve seen examples of this in other departments and agencies is that the prime objective of what theyre there for have been forgotten. theres stance that scott pruitt and his team would like to talk about. you forget i was in a security detail and we never used a siren, tried to get anywhere, other than being stuck at the same stoplights with everyone else. the biggest mistake he made is the fox news interview. it happens one of two ways. either the principal s...