respectful and wear the right thing and do the right thing. i would be remiss if i did not ask you both about the and swat seen round the world, witnessed there in israel. okay. mary alice. you re friends. you know melania personally so my read on this, and you tell me if you re wrong, kind of getting edged out there on the welcome carpet. maybe it also wasn t appropriate to be holding hands at this moment. what is your take knowing her about what happened here? you know, melania is an incredible human being. she s a very kind person. she is standing by her husband, and she will always do the right thing. i think she was just taking her time. she s very reserved, and i know she s so honored to be the first lady, and i think that was just a funny little moment between a husband and a wife, and it s hard to walk in those high heels. she might need a helping and.
terrible atrocities they did and to drag any other comparison into this wasn t appropriate. why make the comparison at all? why bring hitler into this? again, i m not going to quantify it, wolf. it was a mistake. i shouldn t have done it. won t do it again. it was amazing to hear that robust apology from the white house press secretary. he did the right thing. he did the right thing. it was a robust apology and it was important you pressed him on that point. often time public figures make the general apologies and never say who they are apologizing to in this case, he clearly owed an apology at least to holocaust survivors and their families. they expect better from the press secretary. i this i this apology came so swiftly in part because the white house has become more sensitive to the fact that these verbal gaffs and mistakes are piling up on them and costing them trust with the american public. could be part after nof a ne strategy. you make a bad statement and you try to
intelligence committees and they are free to come over here and look at the information that the white house believes is helpful and they believe it backs the president s claim that there was surveillance going on during the campaign that wasn t appropriate. jim acosta, thank you so much. i want to play this interview between wolf blitzer and chairman nunes. this is back on monday. you know what s happened since. the ranking member adam schiff is asking for chairman nunes to recuse himself, basically saying what he thinks that chairman nunes is acting more of a s surrogate. here is wolf and chairman nunes from monday. who cleared you for admission. well, i m not going to get into how that process works but was it a white house staffer? look, wolf, i m for the going to get into sources and methods and how we review classified information. this happens all over the
obama is many of us felt like it wasn t appropriate. certainly with hillary clinton s investigation. i do think people should be there should be appropriate lines of communication. and i think many times conservatives feel like t story doesn t get covered. look, hilla clinton- think about this. the clinton foundation really was never investigated by the office of government ethics which seems to be on some kind of jihad to nominees to the trump cabinet. it s those kind of things that get juxtaposed that conservatives don t understand. democrats don t understand on the other side why conservatives would be outraged at president trump s chief of staff talking to the fbi when it s kind of similar to what happened in that tarmac meeting between bill clinton and the justice department. but i want to move on. let me be clear. okay. but i worked in a white house. certainly, the fbi and the white house talk. the question s does the white house prevent an fbi director from doing his job?
whatever they were, it really wasn t appropriate. so it wasn t good judgment. as you know, it could be a violation of a law called the logan act. it s 200 years old. it s never been enforced. so i think it s unlikely. being untruthful with the vice president and the american people is a pretty serious offense in and of itself, as sean spicer conceded. melissa: but you don t buy the idea that he said if he wassen reaching out and paving the way to begin having a relationship with these people in his new role, that he would be criticized for not preparing for his new job. that what he was doing, not only was he allowed to do it, he was sort of expected to be doing things like this. you don t buy it? if he was expected to be doing it, why did he hide it for a month? if it was all above board and routine and part of the transition, why was so much effort made to mislead people about it if it s okay then you don t cover it up. so that would be my best answer for that. melissa: along t