topic. for those who believe the white house isn t in chaos, this only serves to confirm this. after this week, omarosa s actions have all but confirmed that. the thing that has been so, so powerful for omarosa is that she had the, quote unquote, receipts. i love that she s introduced receipts into the lex con. nobody in mainstream media used this term in this way. i get a thrill out of watching you say the word receipts but it was a colloquialism and now has gone mainstream so she s managed to make receipts a household word but she s managed to make herself a central figure in water cooler conversation and that leads to book sales. joe, you re the only one that s worked in a white house here. omarosa actually worked in one. yes, twice. but this white house on monday and tuesday said nobody cares about this except the journalists in this room. you people should stop giving her oxygen, this is a nonstory. she s a whatever, whatever, whatever. the president called her all
about. she knows where the bodies are buried. she may have helped bury some of those bodies. she s known him for 15 years. so she knows the playbook more than anyone. she probably helped write the playbook with trump. if anybody they should be scared of, it should be indeed be omarosa. she s already said there could be more than 200 tapes. i think they need to tread very, very lightly with her. if they want this story to go away, i think they should back off. joe, at some point this does speak to the disarray in the white house, right? a white house with a proper staffing situation with people who have experience exactly right. this, this white house this just seems emblematic of the way this white house runs. she would have never been hired in another white house. that s a good point. yeah, if they had african-americans and the senior staff and staffers in substantive positions, they wouldn t have as big a problem as they do. but with her gone they have nobody of col
newspapers, he s instructed the jury to do the same. he s really someone who almost daily reminds us he s been in this for 31 years and he really wants to stay outside of politics. he says he s even been surprised by what a big deal this case is appeared the attention it s gotten. i don t think you and i are surprised by that as people who are following the news, but i think that those comments could be more in mueller s hat as he starts to look at anything trump has said to weigh in to potentially dangle pardons in front of manafort and others facing trial as well. joul ulia, thanks for your reporting on this. coming up it was a very different kind of week for the trump white house where russia wasn t the main story. on what s omarosa s political impact mean moving forward? she says more secret tapes are on the way.
popular among african-americans, not that i ve seen. but she s likely to sell a lot of books. and clearly, she s big enough now, a big enough personality to maybe command her own show somewhere. she s certainly made a name for herself so it s about money i think. lola, what do you make of this? she s on a book tour and successful publicity tour. she s dominated the headlines since she launched her publicity tour last sunday on meet the press. if you had to describe winners an losers, omarosa was the big winner this week and unfortunately for trump he was the big loser. we know that he hates being a loser. he lost to omarosa this week big time. do you think it has an impact beyond omarosa selling more books and maybe getting a show? do you think it s having an impact on the political cycle? this week the white house has struggled with messaging. it s clear the brennan security clearance being revoked could be an effort to get off of this
house has taken because of it. the president revoked the clearance of a former top cia official, then he admitted he did it because of the russia investigation. but it s not calming the waters inside the west wing. the new york times reports mr. trump s aides have been concerned they will make appearances on other tapes of which she is believed to have as many as 200. joining me now is joe watkins, former white house aide for president george h.w. bush and my old friend, lola, host of entertainment weekly. joe, i started talking about omarosa. we have faced, i ve seen it on social media, the media has faced a good amount of criticism for the focus that it has placed on omarosa through the course of the week. but this is something we haven t ever had to deal with before. clearly not. i mean certainly donald trump is used to dominating the news. it appears that omarosa