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The first is that, i remember calling up several white house officials when rudy giuliani started talking about the fact that the president reimbursed michael cohen. i asked them, did you -- does -- is the president happy with how this is going? is he happy he has to clarify? my understanding is that the president is still very much happy with the way rudy giuliani is doing his job. he brought him in not as a legal mind to really head up the case, but i believe, as a spokesperson, to talk about ...

At the same time that he made other payments to other women, right? >> its always distraction that this administration can talk about. we got great jobs report, there was some question about wage growth, this is a huge victory for this administration, but instead, we spent all the day friday and now saturday and sunday and now tomorrow as well. talking about this whole white house chaos, this whole crisis du jour that affects this white house. >> it kind of beg tsz question, who is the leader ri...

In local classrooms and creating new career training programs. antonio villaraigosa for governor. howie: sarah huckabee sanders got pounded in the white house briefing room after giuliani said the president repaid michael cone for the stormy daniels payment. in asking that question were you trying to establish sarah sanders was out of the loop. >> i had been told white house officials were surprised by rudy

Howie: i see a lot of commentators attacking sarah huckabee sanders as a liar, that she knew she was providing false information. >> she said in that briefing she was giving the best information she had at the time. and she admitted she had been 100% out of the loop. and the white house tried very hard to keep the presidents personal matters away from what they see as white house matters. she is the white house spokeswoman and she is there to talk about the white house. thats how they are deline...

>> secretary mattis. >> sorry, i lost audio. >> i agree with that, alex. governor said secretary mattis. i agree that. there is truth spoken off the -- on background with sources who refuse -- dont want to give their names, but unfortunately the public doesnt know who they are, the journalists may trust them, but we as -- as the public dont -- cant trust that either. >> susan, to sarah huckabee sanders defense, if you will, it doesnt look like she is being informed. >> thats why i said it is -- ...

Flood was completely out of the loop. this is really a question of leadership and judgment. and if donald trump, you know, decides to exercise a leadership strategy of chaos, then it is absolutely unsurprising that this would be reflected in his team and in the statements that they make left and right to various news outlets and publicly. >> and then the president explained giulianis error as, well, it was his first day on the job and he got his information wrong, well sort it out, kind of a no ...

Counsel team. and i dont know that i would pick rudy giuliani for that position. but needs to be somebody who can talk straight. when they make a comment, it needs to be accurate. >> to kind of trunk kacate that means to be in the loop. sarah sanders in being asked, you know, about clarity, she was deferring to well thats kind of what i was told back at the time. does it mean overall that she is not in the loop, that some of the front men and women for the president are not completely in step wi...

The press secretary and sarah sanders, in a sense, not being in the loop is one of the more serious issues, one of the more serious problems for a place for a press secretary to be parked at, that place of not knowing whats going on. >> amy, if youre the press secretary and youre not in the loop, how long can you want to continue being the press secretary who is not in the loop, who has to answer the questions without having information? >> thats the problem. you know, i think she has had her mo...

Starting to produce a sort of realization. we talk about whether sarah sanders is now kind of just looking at her body language, if she was starting to wonder what am i into? yes im out of the loop. listen to one of trumps trusted advisers, kelly anne conway. one has to wonder if she is coming to some realization or if she is thinking out loud with this realization. listen here. >> kellyanne, when did you first learn that the president reimbursed michael cohen to stormy daniels? >> i had no comm...

Umteen times in this briefing, isnt this confirmation there needs to be communication between the two? >> yes, it would probably benefit from son communicatime but im not sure they want that. the truth is they dont have a lot of good answers for what rudy giuliani said. we have been told from months in very carefully worded language from michael cohen that donald trump was put in the dark for this whole process, didnt know where the money came from, didnt know why he did it, he was entire lily o...