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>> jesse: are really high level senior administration official or do you think this is a small ballplayer trying to make himself -- >> dana: great question. one would figure out a way to talk to report on background, i would say deputy level and above, you could claim senior administration official. i did love my friend well, i think hes out there working not in government anymore. he was a press assistant. he was giving a report or information about something happening and they said can i quote...

How did this all come about? >> my reporting suggests he did this under the direction of someone. im still reporting this out and not comfortable reporting definitively who exactly directed him to do this, but i can say that this was not an issue of a press assistant free lancing, if you will. >> is there any suggestion that all of this is adding to this sort of murmur that scott pruitt has got to go? the "washington post" reported this today -- "pruitt drew up a list of at least a dozen countri...

Yet another former tv personality joining the trump administration, but this time its not at all what youd expect. >> the shake it up chicago local popular television dance program? >> dont let the accent throw you. thats former disney channel star caroline sunshine, hired as team trumps new press assistant. best known for her role as tinka in the show "shake it up," one of romans favorites. the 22-year-old sunshine most recently served as a white house intern and also interned for house majorit...

Truthful about it, if not you can be prosecuted. there would have been a phone call into the white house councils office. in a normal white house, that would have been it. if he could not give a really good evidence that this was wrong and fabricated, he would have been out the door and it would have been handled quietly and that would have been the end of it. >> you were the communications director for it. >> yes, it happens in every white house, there are infractions that are seemingly minor. ...

Youre a press assistant, you have to explain that and get a waiver on it. its perplexing why this has taken over a year and why this was not known earlier, and im not sure they answered those adequately at this time. >> the two ex-wives, as we said, both talked to the fbi and were honest and forthright about the domestic abuse and relationships they had with rob porter. >> right. i think it is still unknown if the fbi found out about those things, if they would have briefed people within the whi...

♪ ainsley: its a common talking point among feminists claiming to support women unless, of course, you voted for president trump. listen. >> when i see women doing that, i think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves? why are they opening the door to have someone say that about them in their workplace. >> theres just no evidence that he has an understanding of what womens lives are like today. ainsley: our next guest argues feminism has very little to do with women instead arguing, quo...

You learn when you are at the bottom rung as a press assistant. and jason knows this. sean spicer, for that matter, knows this. what sean spicer does day after day after day is stand up at the podium and desecrate the podium with lies, i dont know, maybes. you know thats absolutely true, jason. >> jace wherein, ill let you respond. go ahead, jason. >> you cant say the press secretaries get up there and just throw an attack like this. >> i can. >> well, you can say that on the show, but i think s...

>> but he admitted to abc news this week that he did say it was possible that he did talk to the russians about sanctions. >> i dont recall every single word that i ever said. something may have come up in a conversation. i have no recollection and theres nothing specifically that i would have done that wouldve given people the impression. >> we will see what comes out in this transcript. the author of the gop gps, former press assistant to rudy gianni. welcome. >> first he says everythings lies...

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