today, if someone asks me a question that involves donald trump, might it f be possible, i say yes. because it might. do i think trump s , excuse me, christie s open feed with trump s son-in-law, do i think that helps him? i would lean to think that keeps him out, but it s true. i hate to be so facile, but it s true. over and oaf again, he does stuff you would think no other person would do. here s the last little bit. governor christie talks about how the transition plan was late lit rally you know thrown in the trash. he writes all 30 binders were tossed in a trump tower dumpster. never to be seen again. so they dropped them. many say it was the nicest dump terror. again, i remember this happening. christie was the head of the
trump did need a firm structure. let s go to a few things he writes in this book about some of the folks who worked for trump. so about michael flynn. russia lackey and future federal felon. ow. obviously michael flynn was a very prominent perscription in the campaign as was christie. also someone who has pleaded guilty to lying to robert mueller. former epa chief, scott pruitt. greedy and inexperienced. honestly, not wrong. scott pruitt was a state elected official in oklahoma. he got run out of washington eventually. trump got rid of him was because he was feathering his own nest. then tom price, this is kind of hurtful. he was the head of health and human services. was the first of trump s cabinet members pushed out because he was taking so many expensive either first class or military
flights. jeff sessions not ready for prime time. kind of hard to argue with chris christie about that one. you could say sessions was deeply undercut by trump. then rex tillerson, a stranger, look, honestly, some of that is why trump picked him. he came in as head of exxon mobil. big guy, looked the part of secretary of state. so actually i think christie broadly speaking here is right. i think he s absolutely right about the contention that trump needed thveteran hands and pickeded a lot of people who didn t disservice. not sure it would have changed the presidency because honestly donald trump is going to do donald trump. but it might have helped. so if he s kind of calling a spade a spade, does this mean there could still be a little wiggle room if he wants one of the multiple vacancies at the white house. so what i ve learned from donald trump with the announcement of candidacy until
solid structure in place. far too often, he s found himself saddled the riffraff. remember, he was among first of a handful of republicans running against trump to shout down his campaign after a debate and throw his support behind then candidate trump. he s rewriting the playbook of american politics because he s providing strong leadership that s not dependent upon the status quo. so the best person to beat hillary clinton in november on that stage last night is undoubtedly donald trump and so i am thrilled to be here this morning to lend my support. i will lend my support between now and november in every way i can for donald. chris cillizza is in washington. chris cillizza, riffraff. who s he talking about? yeah, man, i still remember that endorsement day. donald trump promoted it. we had no idea it was coming then christie. who s he talking about? he s not wrong in that quote.
counsel s office had evidence supporting the claim that the president directed michael cohen, his former attorney, to lie the congress about trump to tower moscow. our reporting is that trump s attorneys were concerned about this. they knew what they had turned over to the special counsel. according to them, this was nothing to support that claim, so they did reach out. rudy giuliani would not say exactly and what form that communication happened and what the substance of those communications were, but we are told, my colleague laura jarrett is told, that the special counsel s decision to release that statement knocking down the central prem nis this story that they have this corroborated evidence supporting that trump lied to sorry, that trump told cohen to lie to congress, they made that decision on their own to release that statement, so while trump s legal team did