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Its not about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or about these press aides wanting to talk to these people, explaining these things in oftentimes misleading ways. i think that goes through james mattis firing. the president said he fired me and mattis resigned. we also saw it around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. >> on this broadcast, any meeting in your family office that you have to have a russian translator present for should ma...

Other lawyers, other press aides, other staffers trying to put together a statement. thats just my little window into this level of confusion just that one night that was going on around this flynn firing. there were days of that. as we know from sally yates testimony about going to don mccann and mcgahn trying to figure out what the situation was. i know people in the white house were trying to figure out, had flynn just remembered, the vice president was brought in and the vice president was g...

Jr. we learned shortly after that that the president himself had played a guiding role in crafting those explanations, those misleading explanations about the meeting with the russian lawyer in trump tower. in this case we also knew that there was at the very least confusion about this. the morning after michael flynn left the white house we had kellyanne conway come out and say he had resigned voluntarily. it was only that afternoon, a day later after michael flynn had left the white house, tha...

The morning after michael flynn left the white house, we had kellyanne conway come out and say that he had resigned voluntarily. it was only that afternoon, a day later after michael flynn had left the white house, that sean spicer said the things you played in the video, that it was actually something that the president requested. i think what were learning as we learn more about these episodes is that its not just about chaos in the white house. its not about the left hand not knowing what the...

I was standing outside sean spicers office with a group of other reporters for hours trying to get an answer on what was going on. because that evening we all saw flynn go into the oval office, and we saw flynn come out of the oval office, and we were trying to figure out if that was it, if that was the moment he was fired. when i think back to that moment, i just think a massive amount of confusion going on in the white house in trying to get this simple answer had the national security adviser...

Sarah sanders and her press aides are not the most credible people either. this is an awkward situation where nobody involved has a reputation for being honest and telling the truth. you think about omarosa, lets go"the apprentice." her brand has always been about being a liar, a back stabber. she was famously fired three times on various episodes of "the apprentice." all of those issue, all the issues about her credibility, come back to the fact that president trump still hired her. "the washin...

Investigate. they take time for the public to absorb and im sure part of the thinking of the investigation counsel was to help educate the american people about what hes doing. and this is the kind of document that certainly is going to do that. >> let me ask you quickly as we wrap up, what was your reaction to rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general, going out there by himself to talk about this and make the announcement? >> well, its interesting they made the announcement through the justice d...

Staff would say this person might be talented, he might have two degrees from harvard and as bob said hes a rhodes scholar but well take a pass because of this history, although we dont know, we cannot know what happened definitively the entire story, two women are telling very similar stories about abusive behavior both verbally and physically so we dont want this to be a distraction. now, again, i wasnt part of the vetting process but the fbi sources say had this information and presented it i...

Is that true, mr. president? >> i want them to come in from everywhere. everywhere. thank you very much, everybody. >> just caucasian or white countries, sir, or people from other parts of the world, where there are people of color? >> jim, thank you. >> reporter: i dont know if you saw that at the end there, but the president of the united states in the oval office, in the white house, ordered me out, essentially ordered the press out. typically that is not something the president does. the wra...

Were escorted into the roosevelt room. and we tried to ask more questions about these remarks that the president made last week and on that occasion, it was startling because two press aides for the president stood right up in front of me and started shouting so loudly that i couldnt ask my question for the president. they blocked his view of me and blocked anything that i could be saying trying to shout me down. so it was another episode here at the white house that reminds you at times it does...