some report immediately after the elections. and i think a lot of us read that and thought, where is that coming from? i think part of it he just wants to say, look, these investigations take as long as we need them to take. and if you look at the last two weeks cnn reporting, they re actually moving pretty part. manafort met with the special counsel nine times now. there s grand juries still convening. they re trying to figure out, let s not forget this, what they re trying to get out of president trump. he once said he wanted to testify and now he clearly doesn t want to. i put this in the context of defense in terms of homeland security. i put what he said in the context of what secretary of homeland security said last week, which is that they are monitoring a lot of attempts of hacking and other efforts on state and local election systems. so, what we have to remember is what this investigation is about is russia essentially destroying our democracy, making us not have confidence i
nikki haley to run for governor at the end of his term, which she did, and she won, and was serving as governor when donald trump selected her for u.n. ambassador. here s what mark sanford said about nikki haley s decision to leave the trump administration. something doesn t smell right. something is weird. i can t put my finger on it. you know, her head political guy used to be my lead guy. that guy keeps his nose to the political winds. he has an acute sense of what s going on. and so either there s another shoe to drop from the trump standpoint and she wants to get out of the way of, or alternatively, there was just inquiry, i guess, put in yesterday on private planes and given what she saw happen to price and what she saw happen to pruitt, maybe she just doesn t want to, you know, risk the possibility of blemish or the
i can t put my finger on it. you know, her head political guy used to be my lead guy. that guy keeps his nose to the political winds. he has an acute sense of what s going on. and so either there s another shoe to drop from the trump standpoint and she wants to get out of the way of, or alternatively, there was just inquiry, i guess, put in yesterday on private planes and given what she saw happen to price and what she saw happen to pruitt, maybe she just doesn t want to, you know, risk the possibility of blemish or the possibility of being pushed out as both of them were. on monday, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called for an investigation into seven free flights that nikki haley and her husband accepted last year on private planes from three south carolina business executives. the news of nikki haley s resignation emerged in stages
putting all their coins right now. it is not entirely political calculation on the president s part. i think when you think about donald trump you always have to think about the fable of the sorp onand the frog. he s it s his nature. i mean he doesn t believe women who accuse men of sexual harassment and assault. or doesn t want to. right. he never believes women, it s roy moore or bill o reilly or roger ailes or donald trump being accused. yes, it is a measure of political calculation but i think it s also who he is. thank you very much. we didn t get to talk about kanye west. which i know david is itching to talk about, kanye west, lunch at the white house on thursday. okay, thank you all. along those lines. we just talked about it. we didn t give it the time that it really deserves. it is a major political moment. feel like we just pulled the football away from david gregory. he was like yeah come on. and we were like and thank you. he has an entire kanye west
something doesn t smell right. something s weird. i can t put my finger on it. you know, her head political guy, a guy by the name of john learner used to be my lead guy, and that guy keeps his nose to the political winds. he has an acute sense of what s going on, and so either there s another shoe to drop from a trump standpoint, something that we don t know and that she wants to get out of the way of or alternatively there was this, you know, inquiry i guess put in yesterday on private planes, and given what she saw happen to price and what she saw happen to pruitt, maybe she just doesn t want to, you know, risk the possibility of blemish or the possibility of being pushed out as both of them were given the private plane question. so something doesn t quite fit. it s just so shocking, so surprising given, again, her aptitude and interest. i think she did a good job. i think she s surpassed a lot of