but you do rend area judgment on trump. i will say as a reporter, if i m someone who has connections to the person that i m interviewing, i probably would mention that i m not saying that george stephanopoulos the washington post, every time that jeff bezos name is mentioned, they have a prent thinks, he owning this newspaper. should george stephanopoulos mention he had a relationship with the clintons for all those years? thing is a strong case to be made. the difference between stephanopoulos and hannity, it was widely known he worked with the clintons. it was not widely known today. thank you. surprising people. tom winter and thank you betty woodruff, kim wehle and yamiche alcindor. calls comey a slime ball. is this the corner of kensington in allegheny? is this a fight that helps the
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fantastic job. i think he s a fantastic person. i just left coal and energy country. they love scott pruitt. but the president s denying reports that he s considering actually promoting him to attorney general in place of jeff sessions. this morning tweeting pruitt is totally under siege, this after the list of scandals is growing. today the new york times reporting that pruitt reassigned or demosed at least three epa officials when they complained about how he was running the agency and has inside spending. betty woodruff, first to you. what is the health or safety of scott pruitt today? we re now close to 1:00 on friday afternoon, prime firing time at the white house. we haven t checked the tweets in the last ten seconds. that s true.
i don t think you fire the special prosecutor. you let him finish his job and because that s the way our system works. we are, after all, a country of laws. that is former secretary of state james baker telling andrea just a short time ago that there would be an adverse political impact if the president orchestrated the firing of special counsel robert mueller. let s get the inside scoop from our own andrea mitchell who is back. white house bureau chief. and msnbc political analyst phil rucker. and betty woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. andrea, you asked james baker that question. he had that fascinating answer, very strongly worded. it comes as we are learning that a group of nine senators sent a letter to the department of justice asking them to protect mueller. how much concern is there on capitol hill, throughout washington, that there is a real
house. the tape also caught him saying, it sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don t necessarily need to be true as long as they re believed. joining me now, brendan fisher, director of the federal election commission reform at the campaign legal center. and betty woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. betsy, your view of the significance of this and the what is revealed in the link there between an alternative facts approach to politics and a digital campaign that might be relentless at pushing misinformation. it speaks to the time we live in. and ultimately, the responsibility for how whether or not these ads work falls with the consumers. the people who see the ads. at the end of the day, these ads only work if americans don t follow politics closely enough, don t take the time to put in the legwork, fact check, and get a sense of whether or not the things that they are reading,