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Better and differently. >> harris: what were they focused on? if there was different messaging from the administration and the white house early on. this is a defense of this from the attorney general based on the bible. president saying it is happening. i don't like it. i want to deal with it. other members of the administration saying it wasn't happening. >> john kelly making the argument they would use it as deterrent. kirstjen nielsen was asked if it's deterrent, she said she was offended by the question. it's partly a messaging problem and partly policy problem. this isn't they described ...

Manager mueller. >> neil: you think that would be a mistake, senator, if he did? >> absolutely. there's no doubt that we should let this investigation play out as it will. the reality is, this president has been focused on jobs and cutting deals in ways that will hopefully create more take-home pay for the average american. this is a new focus for this country for the last ten years. we've been focused on a lot of things. not necessarily on the fact that the economic recovery has not reached middle america. so his focus today i think has been right on point from a messaging perspective. we nee...

Senate intelligence committee behind closed doors and now when he comes out we expect to hear him speak. >> reporter: especially when you look at what happens tomorrow, when jared kushner goes back to the hill to talk to members of the house intelligence committee. there is a gaggle, a group of reporters and photographers that have gathered. this is traditionally where you might see mitch mcconnell and senate leadership make statements, they can come out, make a few remarks and head back inside the west wing. that is where we expect to hear from jared kushner when he returns to the hill and wr...

>> harris: i have to say our democrat iic representative actually agrees this is something that didn't hit bulls eye with the messaging. you had some thoughts for the attorney of how he should have handled this. >> i think from a messaging perspective, he did not do what he needed to for president trump. i think he said a number of things that were not actually accurate. he said jim comey said the president did not try to impede the investigation. jim comey did not say that. he very specifically did not say that. he basically said the opposite, that he ignored the president. i think this is no...

Context. >> our panel remains with us. peter, vivian, and matthew. matthew, we'll begin with you. on this week where we had the so-called two sergeys in the oval office, where we had the russian news agency tass wandering around the oval office and taking what stood for hours as the official hours. henry kissinger shows up in the oval office and, oh, by the way, the man running the russia investigation is fired by the president. this is about optics and is it about another lost week to this matter? >> i mean this week was a disaster for the white house. there's no other way to put it. from the...