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>> the president has gone to fox news channel before and is that a strategy? doesn't work when he says things like that? >> democrats need to take pause for a minute and the demonization of others is not an effective winning strategy. in 2016 the central theme of the campaign in the mainstream media and hillary clinton was to demonize donald trump and those associated with him. fox news channel and rush limbaugh and other conservative media talk radio like rush would not exist if there was truly fair and balanced news coverage. you have every major network acting as a wholesale subsidiary of t...

April? how does she combat things like maureen dowd's column in "the new york times" which took her apart. >> that was quite the column. your question is really appropriate. from what i've heard from democratic think tankers and even the hill was that there was a very little actual outreach from clinton and her aides with respect to disseminating talking points and that's part of the problem not having a functioning campaign right now. this will all change once she staffs up and has a communications operation. until then it's a real tricky task. how do you go about getting someone out there to...

Robert mueller issues regarding obstruction of justice. and so there is concern that trump is not prepared for that, that he hasn't hired the kind of lawyers to his legal team who can really manage an impeachment battle with congress. he certainly has in rudy giuliani a fierce and vocal defender and somebody willing to wage this public relations battle with mueller, but he's not exactly what a lot of trump allies believe the president would need in an impeachment lawyer. but there's also concern that the white house itself has not built the infrastructure necessary to manage all of these inves...

Lawyers to his legal team who can really manage an impeachment battle with congress. he certainly has in rudy giuliani a fierce and vocal defender and somebody willing to wage this public relations battle with mueller, but he's not exactly what a lot of trump allies believe the president would need in an impeachment lawyer. but there's also concern that the white house itself has not built the infrastructure necessary to manage all of these investigations and these subpoenas. the white house counsel's office had 35 lawyers at one time, now it's down to 25. mcgahn is leaving, but so, too, have ...

>> well, john, i wouldn't describe it as a small cadre. i think part of the challenge for reince priebus he has a large footprint within the west wing. he brought many of his allies into the white house and the erosion of some of his inner circle you saw katie walsh depart earlier this year and now sean spicer. you have some of his other loyalists under scrutiny in the communications operation because he has this large footprint, all of the chipping away really cuts at his capital, his stature within the west wing because you compare him to steve bannon the chief strategist or jared kushner th...