before they came in the room? i was going to fire comey. there s no good time to do it, by the way. they because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. you had made the decision? that i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. there was he made a recommendation. he s highly represented. very good guy. very smart guy. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing that there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it s an excuse, by the democrats for having lost. there s no good time to do it. one might argue right after the president was elected he could have done it but as things are getting hairier with russia he seems to have. megan murphy the editor of bloomberg business-week the issue is on newsstands right
to people whether it s in the city of milwaukee or whether it s in the northwest corner of wisconsin, when we re doing that talking and when we re communicating our message of opportunity inclusion, hope, and optimism, that s whe we win, and we fell short onthat, and that s why we have to redouble our investments in organizing. tom perez, former labor secretary and current candidate for dnc chair, thank you for joining us. it s always a pleasure to be with you. thank you. this is the cover of this weekend s edition of the washington post magazine. kellyanne conway, they never saw this coming. conway, also the focus of a new yorker article on newsstands. a lot of attention for one of the presidential most important cou counselors. is that a good thing? we ll ask our political panel, after this break. when played backwards at 1/8th speed you can clearly hear.
kind of talk the same. they are both in schumer s case very hard working. i think it s an advantage of we are looking for some advantage in this current mess. but it s not something either of them is really proud of. you know, a couple of weeks ago in their first white house meeting, trump recalled some fund-raiser he held for schumer s committee five or six years ago and boasted he raised $2 million. schumer piped up from the audience and said, well, it was only 238,000, actually. so they know each other well enough to get under each other s skin, too. michael, is schumer cover going to fly off the newsstands? i ll be curious to do how well it does. i m counting you on you to buy to buy as many as you can, mark. we can t count ourselves by a newsstand. i get that. it s a good cover. for us the important thing
something going on here, right? i mean, all that stuff that i just showed you was leading up to the election. right up through election eve. since the election it s been this. trump takes charge. success in just 36 days. he smacked down arrogant china, he saved jobs. then it says what s next? peace between israel and its enemies. obviously. meanwhile, up in the left-hand corner there, poor 117 pound bill clinton he may have beaten alzheimer s and parkinson s which they said was killing him a few weeks ago but he s dead again, this time he s caught the cancer. these are the kinds of pictures they run of bill and hillary clinton and look at the pictures they run of donald trump. that s november 28, december 5, december 12. and actually this is what s on newsstands now.
something going on here, right? i mean, all that stuff that i just showed you was leading up to the election. right up through election eve. since the election it s been this. trump takes charge. success in just 36 days. he smacked down arrogant china, he saved jobs. then it says what s next? peace between israel and its enemies. obviously. meanwhile, up in the left-hand corner there, poor 117 pound bill clinton he may have beaten alzheimer s and parkinson s which they said was killing him a few weeks ago but he s dead again, this time he s caught the er. these are the kinds of pres they run of bill and hillary clinton and look at the pictures they run of donald trump. that s november 28, december 5, december 12. and actually this is what s on newsstands now. look at that. if it s starting to seem like this is not just a bizarre turn