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Associates, your top allies, you keep them close, and you keep them loyal. you don't want to give anyone a reason to start cooperating with investigators and to turn against you. and if spicer really did quit in anger, and if he's feeling angry and vengeful, he's someone who could be extremely useful to investigators. and he doesn't even have to know actual facts of criminality. he just has to be someone who can give investigators a road map of who is influential on what decisions. what people are allied. what people are involved in russia matters. so it is an unusual thing to, you know, provo...

When donald trump says to the world, well, we're going to negotiate a better deal, you know, he's going to go out and find a better deal? i mean that's like o.j. simpson going out and saying he's going to go out and find the new killer. everybody knows he's not going to do that because he doesn't believe in it. if he did believe in it, you wouldn't pull out of paris. >> commentary editor for the washington examiner and a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute, tim carney. >> we want to start by asking you about the news of the day. so far this morning donald trump in a tweet stor...

>> russia's president, vladimir putin there, once again denying the kremlin interfered with the 2016 presidential election. denying it to nbc's megyn kelly in st. petersburg. even saying to do it, to meddle in the election was so easy, a kid could hack the election, was the president's assertion. i want to bring in commentary editor for the washington examiner. and columnist, deputy, editorial page editor for the "washington post." i'll start with you. president putin there tried several angles to defend the accusations of meddling in the election. here's another one. >> translator: even in th...

Room. also with me, tim carney, the commentary editor for the washington examiner, and tamara keith, npr's white house correspondent. kelly, first to you. how is this firing of comey and the controversy over the interview with lester holt where the president said that he had had this dinner with the now fired director of the fbi -- how does that resonate inside the white house? >> well, they believe that the president was able to, in a more thoughtful, lengthy way describe some of the interactions, not the tweet length where sometimes he has a burst of a thought that can be hard to interpret. ...

Turning back, of course, to that question of syria, the abrupt reversal from president trump on syria. this coming at the same time as all sorts of turmoil within the white house is spilling into public view. already this week, steve bannon's demotion from the national security council principals committee. also reports following that that said his days in the administration could be numbered. now another report that trump may be ready to change his chief of staff, reince priebus. joining me now to talk about this and more, tim carney, commentary editor at the "washington examiner." michael zi...