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Hunkered down in his office working on a strategy. you also have the team led by raj shah among others who has long just been generally shepherding in kavanaugh's nomination and is dealing with this. then you also have all sorts of other players. the white house coms team and other officials in the white house. the president and, frankly, other aides getting input from republicans on capitol hill. and not everyone agrees on the exact strategy. there's a general sense that they're not ready to pull his nomination, that they do believe he needs to be defended. but it is a real debate over how sc...

And what the conversation was with james comey. and it goes to why the president fired james comey. earlier today i had a conversation with omarosa manigault newman about the tlers holt interview. here's what she told me. >> i want to talk about the lester holt interview where you said that the team prepared him well. then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believe to be the truth, that he fired jim comey over russia. so was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say that the d.o.j. had come up with this memo so that they co...

And then there's the issue about what happened to michael flynn and what the conversation was with james comey. and it goes to why the president fired james comey. earlier today i had a conversation with omarosa manigault newman about the tlers holt interview. here's what she told me. >> i want to talk about the lester holt interview where you said that the team prepared him well. then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believe to be the truth, that he fired jim comey over russia. so was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team t...

So was he being prepped to lie? >> he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say that the doj had come up with this memo so that they could justify the firing of comey. >> welcome back to velshi and ruhle. that was omarosa manigault newman. she expects a counter attack from the white house and believes white house staff was being recorded by the president. >> the whole thing, think about this. james comey taking contemporaneous notes. michael cohn, the president's long-time fixer tapes the president and omarosa worked with him at the a pren dipprent

The things we do every single day that puts ourselves in harm's way, and to have a partner that is so skilled at what they do is indispensable, and i couldn't ask for a better partner. he was being prepped by hope hicks and the coms team to say the d.o.j. came up with this memo so they could justify the firing of comey. >> he has -- >> that was definitely hope hicks' press secretary kind of thing. but i was really, really surprised that he would implicate himself. that's when you know someone is mentally challenged when they would even jeopardize their own livelihood by saying things that ar...