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Squeaky clean. There were complaints. Meredith vieira says he kept sex toys in his office. Hoda and savanna knew about thi this. And at msnbc, they said it was kind of a open secret. I know thats been a band phrase. Some of it was consensual but a lot of it was not. A lot of it was humiliating, degrading, harassment, borderline sexual assault. It looks like they have a problem because when you combine them spiking the Ronan Farrow Weinstein peace with them spiking the Juanita Broaddrick bill cli...

Administration, not only conducted by white house officials but allies of this white house want to know who anonymous is. How much weight is the white house taking these. You say theyre printing them out and basically showing them to him. Reporter my understanding is that, yes, he is, remember, this is a president who likes to have Cabinet Meetings where he goes around the room and Cabinet Officials and secretaries praise him for the work hes doing. This is very much in line and character with t...

We run everything straight by the book. Not sure what book hes talking about but not much book on governance that seems to be going on in this white house or anything this anonymous official describes. The president is said to be volcanic about it and said nothing this afternoon going to a trip to montana where he will be speaking tonight and Sarah Sanders spoke about this gutless loser and the times for being deceitful of this act and tweeted the times phone number. Sarah sanders called on him ...

Messenger, you can kill the message. we have to keep our focus on whats in the contents of that piece as well as in that search. >> if the white house is focusing on the search to distract from what the actual person was saying? >> i do. i think theyre smart enough to do that and very good on these kind of issues and know how to distract and throw dust in our eyes? dont you think trump also want to know that? >> of course he wants to know. we dont need to become obsessed with the search. >> i ag...

>> other officials were tripping over each other to put out denials. >> this white house has mastered the art of deflecting attention. they do it very well. >> it would be accept to believe use a lie detector test and ask people whether or not theyre talking to the media. >> its stretching our democracy to a breaking point. >> no country can survive a president who lies like this. >> i broke the senate rules by reading that e-mail. >> it would be a mistake for any member who say heres how i will...

Deflecting attention. they do it consistently and do it very well. >> is it possible it actually plays into the presidents hands and the notion hes surrounded by people who are trying to thwart his will, his agenda? >> it does, or it can, because indeed, one of his themes and those of people around him, think there is a deep state conspiracy against president trump an that theme is being repeated because of this letter in the "new york times," this piece in the "new york times." whats really goi...

Series of sanctions and other tough measures both advocated and put in place by the u.s. government. i think the real question is is what is president trumps strategy going into the meeting with putin? and the real danger here is that he doesnt have a strategy. >> you know, president trump, though, in this tweet blaming your former boss for not really doing enough when it comes to the russian meddling situation, what are your thoughts about his comment there? >> i think hes deflecting attention ...

A classic trump tweet, may be a new nickname, he let that happe happen. >> juan: maybe he was working for the white house and this was a way to get trump to stop tweeting. >> jesse: it was john kelly. >> kimberly: obviously you do it on purpose. yes, come on. couldnt you tell? >> juan: i thought he was trying to protect himself in case it turns out he did something that was in violation of american law. >> kimberly: so you do believe hes lying? >> juan: i dont know. deflecting attention. >> bria...

You dont want to say anything about the senator calling -- suggesting you have been gelded before the world and its not anything that bothers you? >> i checked. im fully intact. >> karoun, for me, that answer works. what do you think the optics are? hes only out there because hes told to be out there and told to be showing an unified property. >> this is a little bit odd. >> i feel for you, karoun. it is tough material. >> he is trying to put a lid on everything. they are trying to show some uni...

Children, they say i have to deal with it. on the tapes theyre discussing how they would kill them, putting them in jars of toxic solution, leaving them struggling for their lives, lee in the clinic. >> one of the doctors you exposed was asked for a response and he told the "washington post" that groups like yours are terrorists, that you and pro life advocates are like terrorists. how do you respond to that? >> well, i mean, first of all ourir 24-week pregnant investigator who went in, who was ...