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In being a traditional press secretary for a guy, a president who clearly sent him out to say things that were not true, starting literally on day one, going out there and saying in the briefing room that the crowd size was bigger than in president obama's inauguration. and it just was not true. >> we also saw the spokesperson for the outside legal team exit the picture. >> uh-huh. >> are these things connected at all? >> you know, i think they're connected in the sense that you are seeing at six months in a white house and a president trying to sort of find the right footing. but you're also ...

Produced this week? >> well, personally, i can confirm they did know about it. jared kushner's lawyers and outside counsel team released two weeks, which makes this statement the first statement that they released truly stunning, that they were in po sex of this e-mail that they put out a statement saying that this was all about russian adoption and left out the most salient details, which were sure to come out at some point. they were in the hands of -- this all came out because jared kushner had to update his disclosure form. this was all going to come out. it literally makes no sense from a...

That they produced it with? >> well, i can confirm that they did know about it. jared kushner's lawyers and the joits counsel team for at least two weeks which makes this statement, the first statement they released, truly stunning. that they were in possession of this e-mail. that they put out a statement saying this was all about russian adoption and left out the most salient details, which were sure to come out at some point. they are in the hands -- this all came out because jared kushner had to update his disclosure form. this was all going to come out. it literally makes no sense for the...

Answer to that from the president himself this week. john, back to you. >> either yes or no have been very difficult to say for the last month. joe johns at the white house, thanks so much. let's discuss with jackie, simone sanders, former national press secretary for the bernie sanders press campaign and alice. alice, i want to start with you. from a communications standpoint, how is jay, the lawyer for the president doing right now? is he sending a message you are comfortable with? you know what, don't listen to the president. i haven't been told he is under investigation. is this helpful to...

Things, the great reformers of the veteran's amin stradministr for 30 days say i am not going to send out a single negative tweet, he would be 100% better off than continuing on the road he's on right now. >> did the president cause for problems or even give the investigation more fodder by tweeting all that? >> yes. and i agree with newt gingrich 100ers. a tornado has come through d.c. and there is debris all over the place and a lot of this tornado is the president's own doing and his staff is trying to pick up the pieces and when they try, another tornado comes through. the president is his...