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White house staffers. the president will spend about $430,000. the rnc you might recall has already covered fees for the president and his son, don jr. in that amount. joining me now to break down more, democratic strategist, nicole rapport and republican strategist, great to have you on. we know both of you, as we look back over history, this is not a precedent because of watergate. are you surprised because if the loyalty issue of your benefactor paying your legal fees, they have a good reason not to imcripple nai imcripple nai imincriminate their factor. >> i will believe it when i see it. ...

There kind of pushing that narrative. but i think this report is pretty true that, you know, he and other people, i think, are kind of testing the waters, and i think a lot of donors in particular, people who haven't been satisfied with the way president trump has been conducting business are kind of looking to him and saying, okay, what if, and kind of playing those parlor games. and i think that's a typical washington kind of story. >> lexi, why feel even the need to respond to a speculative article that could be considered sort of an inside the beltway parlor game? do you think anyone at th...

>> wolf, he has had such a wild ride with trump, right, for two years, right? first when he was at the rnc and he was being pressured by a lot of establishment republicans to sort of brush back trump, do something about him, stop him. then going in for trump when he was the nominee, protecting his nomination at the republican national -- >> convention? >> convention. it's been a long 24 hours. and then in that famous access hollywood moment, reince was the one guy who waive erred and suggested he should drop out. he had this loyalty issue. then fighting to get that chief of staff job, fighting...

Through tweets. i think comey was very compelling. i think both my colleagues on both sides of the aisle thought so. he was open. he answered all the questions. so i think frankly the burden is now on the president to come forth definitively and say what happened. >> well, there's a few ways he can do it. what you're saying is he should make a statement under oath. where? at the white house? come up to capitol hill and say that comey was lying as far as the loyalty issue and the michael flynn issue was concerned? because that's what his lawyer said yesterday? >> i think that's ultimately what ...

He said he wrote those contemporaneous memos detailing the conversations he had with the president -- >> that by itself is remarkable that an fbi director would say that about a sitting american president. >> the sitting american president's private outside attorney, marc kasowitz came out afterwards, had a little statement that he read over the national press club in which he said comey is a liar on both the michael flynn, let it go issue and on the loyalty issue. he said comey is lying, that it's not true. now comey was testifying under oath. if you lie under oath before congress, that's a c...