for 2:45 eastern time. where sarah sanders is sure to face questions after excerpts of former fbi s director james comey s book about the president. let s bring in axios political reporter jonathan swan. this is one of those stories that you knew it was coming. there was a book release date and it was going to come out sooner than later and here we go. it s the weekend when all of washington will be talking about this. what s the scuttlebutt down there? all of that is true that you just said. but the white house did not prepare for this in any serious way. dana: really? no. dana: it seems to me the rnc is really quite organized with all of their lyin comey takes. they have got a website that had some quotes from some democratic officials. the white house internally was very slow to kind of get their act together on this. their strategy to the extent that one exists is portray him as a partisan political figure and to use two words he s a liar and a leaker.
he didn t wng the nda and he didn t engage in an affair with stormy daniels. now that as far as is over. he is actively trying to force this lawsuit back sue private arbitration. he doesn t want the public to know anything with what happened between him and zpormd this move, moving to it stormy daniels, may allow him to silence her and for this entire matter to be arrebitratearbitra than tried in federal court or state court. do you think that some sort of intimidation tactic? do you think because the judges are appointed by trump and they re more conservative? is that all what s fact organize in? if you believe what the scuttlebutt is. it was assigned to the judge, a very well respected judge in the state court. but the rumor is she had aspirations for the federal court. they removed it.
if you broke a law, you re a criminal. if your name is clinton you don t get a pass. you re confusing people. no. by calling them criminals when the only crime they broke is their presence in the country. breaking the law. they haven t murdered or thieved. many of them have. 100 of the of 230. but hundreds of others. this mayor is in the in trouble she told me. what level of the white house and they re looking into legal action against the mayor. aiding and abetting. scuttlebutt and she announced it.
greg: true. you didn t hear a lot of scuttlebutt but that is because a reporter would have been ostracized by her peers. if the white house were a bowl of soup the press was a ladle in the spoon never stopped. [laughter] that is a mixed metaphor and it s a terrible metaphor. now you have the press chasing down every hot more so let s be honest, there are a lot of them because it comes white house is the most transparent thing since brian seltzer s hair all right, i think we have a flash forward ever since we iran reginald add s popularity is skyrocketing. let s take a look at the numbers. it s only been a few minutes but we have undecided, 2%, oprah and liz are tied at zero and reginald is at 90%. that s a testament to the power of the show.
greg: true. you didn t hear a lot of scuttlebutt but that is because a reporter would have been ostracized by her peers. if the white house were a bowl of soup the press was a ladle in the spoon never stopped. [laughter] that is a mixed metaphor and it s a terrible metaphor. now you have the press chasing down every hot more so let s be honest, there are a lot of them because it comes white house is the most transparent thing since brian seltzer s hair all right, i think we have a flash forward ever since we iran reginald add s popularity is skyrocketing. let s take a look at the numbers. it s only been a few minutes but we have undecided, 2%, oprah and liz are tied at zero and reginald is at 90%. that s a testament to the power of the show.