is what she said when another reporter asked her, why doesn t the president just fire bob mueller. we want to see this come to a complete and full conclusion. i think we all know what everybody in this room would do if the president did that, and i don t think that s helpful to the process. how do you look at that differently this morning? we ve heard these denials from not only sarah sanders, but back when sean spicer was the press secretary. it is highly possible that sarah sanders didn t know about this, sean spicer didn t know about there. it all comes down to the president himself lied about this multiple times on the record, on camera, in front of reporters. this wasn t just a one-off where he was asked about it and said i m not considering it at the time. he said he s never given it any thought. that s a lie. the president thought about it. he tried to do it, wasn t able
focused on by muller, axios was the first to report in addition to the statements he made as white house spokesman, in addition to the known public statements abtout the controversial things that happened, sean spicer was reportedly also widely known to keep copious, very detailed, long-hand notes of everything that transpired throughout his time in the campaign and in the transition and even into the white house. he kept a detailed diary. learning that, it seemed impossible, i mean, as of just a few days ago, it seemed impossible sean spicer didn t yet have himself a criminal defense lawyer in the russia investigation. given the fact that his statements as white house spokesman are under the microscope and kept a diary. how does he not have a lawyer? now he has a lawyer.
long-hand notes of everything that transpired throughout his time in the campaign and in the transition and even into the white house. he kept a detailed diary. learning that, it seemed impossible, i mean, as of just a few days ago, it seemed impossible sean spicer didn t yet have himself a criminal defense lawyer in the russia investigation. given the fact that his statements as white house spokesman are under the microscope and kept a diary. how does he not have a lawyer? now he has a lawyer. as of today, daily beast is reporting he got himself a lawyer. as to how he will pay for that lawyer? stay tuned. so far, the trump reelection campaign and the rnc appear to be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars of russia related legal bills only for president trump and his eldest son, who is also named donald trump. they only pay for legal fees
through some company and we talked about the new cotton material on these shirts. chris, that s the truth. is it? i have something to say about that, chris, and that is if that were true, then why do we have a text message the day before april 19th, ed is texting rod to say, make sure your investigative report is up to date and finalized in pdf so we can bring it with us to our meeting with sean spicer, that s what happened. and that s what we did, chris. we had this meeting, ouimwe met 10 or 15 minutes. i will tell you how it ended. he said, i m not sure how i can help with the investigation. he said, rod, if you want me to put you in touch with somebody at the justice department, he gave me his business card. this is the business card. what i have done, he also gave me hills personal cellphone number but i have kind of whited out the last four business because i don t want to put sean s number out there. this is what he gave me and he said, if you need more help give me a call.
and that s what happened. so you went into that meeting to discuss this case. do you think sean spicer knew that s what the meeting was about? you know, i don t know. but if you listen to what ed butowski says, sean spicer knew about it. no, ed butowski said sean spicer didn t know about it. he just took the meeting as a friendly gesture because he knew them. let me say and there was presumably nothing else going on that day in the white house for mr. spicer. there s room for speculation. this is not the first time we have heard about a white house official taking a meeting they say they didn t know anything about but went to anyway, but this is not the court of public opinion. in a court of law you only know what you show. you have to demonstrate what sean spicer if you re going to include the white house in a concocted scheme, you have to show they knew about it and wanted to advance it and there s merit to the suggestion that the president of the united states