into his office wanted to run the epa press shop like a campaign style media operation. is he succeeding? he hired a firm last winter that, to collect media clips and that in itself is not too unusual, but he wanted this firm, an overtly partisan campaign firm to attract explicitly track in oklahoma and right wing media and that is unusual in itself that he wanted to essentially build a campaign operation by hiring this outside no bid contract, and we got documents this week that shed additional light on that and i think it just adds to the speculation that he has a future interest in politics. congressman, what is your position on this issue of access this week? i know you wrote a letter
greatest inventions of all time. i happen to agree with him on that. it s that or the george foreman grill. but i agree with him on the tivo. i m fascinated by how much he watches news, watches himself. so many people i know at a high level choose not to look at themselves or read about themselves because it doesn t help them. at the same time he made the point and he described everything that s been said about him as well so he s paying attention. he made the point that he s been trying not to read everything about himself. he said at one point i can t believe i m able to do it, i m surprised i ve been able to tune some of this out. he found in office it s more different than in his private life in which his media clips were his life. he has more responsibilities here. he s trying to figure out how to fit the donald trump he knows and loves, this gut instinct person who has been very successful into the box of the presidency which has a different set of rule and restrictions.
help them. at the same time he made the point and he described everything that s been said about him as well so he s paying attention. he made the point that he s been trying not to read everything about himself. he said at one point i can t believe i m able to do it, i m surprised i ve been able to tune some of this out. he found in office it s more difficult than it was in his private life, in which his media clips were his life. he has more responsibilities now. i think that s another one of the big themes here. he s trying to figure out how to fit the donald trump he knows and loves, this gut instinct person who has been very successful into the box of the presidency which has a different set of rule and restrictions. there s a real struggle going on right now. you reported in the wall street journal, again fascinating details. you reported that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein wanted the white house to correct the record on the comey firing. is that part of or the
and there are people who will say, hey, look, i remember when everyone was saying that the shutdown was going to be the deathnell of the republican party in 2014. that didn t work. and there s another theory that says, no, this kind of rhetoric does lasting harm among voting groups. they hear it and it stays with them. which of those, do you think, is a more accurate description. well, it depends on the situation. in the case of the shutdown, you know, the thing that sort of saved the republican party in 2014 was that the sort of specter of obamacare was so bad, and the president was so unpopular, that it did sort of negate the shutdown, ultimately. but you can t always count on getting that lucky and something really good happening for your party. and, you know, these media clips are going to live forever. we ve already seen how quickly the democrats and the clinton campaign have turned around some of the comments by both trump and bush, and, you know, trying to associate governor b
election sets in. and there are people who will say, hey, look, i remember when everyone was saying that the shutdown was going to be the deathnell of the republican party in 2014. that didn t work. and there s another theory that says, no, this kind of rhetoric does lasting harm among voting groups. they hear it and it stays with them. which of those, do you think, is a more accurate description. well, it depends on the situation. in the case of the shutdown, you know, the thing that sort of saved the republican party in 2014 was that the sort of specter of obamacare was so bad, and the president was so unpopular, that it did sort of negate the shutdown, ultimately. but you can t always count on getting that lucky and something really good happening for your party. and, you know, these media clips are going to live forever. we ve already seen how quickly the democrats and the clinton campaign have turned around some of the comments by both trump and bush, and, you know, trying