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Ball, until they have the chance to use it again as a stick to whack the press with. here s i think you ought to go well past that. kelly anne offered you the chance to come in, find out what s going on inside the white house, find out what s going on. i think you should remember an hour long special in which you go in and find out what s happening. it will be great for everyone, and a real service to the country. don baer, tara palmerieri. thank you for being here on this special edition of the program. thank you. sign up for our nightly reliable sources newsletter at reliablesources.com, all the days news wrapped up for you in your inbox. we ll be back here this time next week. for more conversation about the media and its role in society and politics. thanks for tuning in, and we ll see you next week. yeah. ....
General jeff sessions. and the president seemed to warn robert mueller not to look into his finances. there was so much news from this interview and so much intrigue about how and why it happened. back with me now, the panel, tara, dan, mike and scott jennings. scott, first to you on this new york times interview i would like to see the president giving more interviews and holding more press conferences since he hasn t done that since february. was this ill advised because of all the comments he made about the russians investigations? i m not a lawyer, but if i have to imagine what the president s lawyers are thinking about it, probably cringing a little bit because he did say some things in the interview that have implications for the investigation and implications for the people who will have to answer questions before congress and the special counsel. that s unfortunate. also unfortunate for jeff sessions some of the things that were said. so, i actually think the president is p ....
House. now he is also the chief speech writer back then for clinton. now worldwide ceo of strategic communications firm and scott jennings, cnn political commentator and former special assistant to president george w. bush. great to have you all here. we re going to stay with you for the rest of the hour because so much to analyze. first to you, tara, let s get honest about this. when you interview kellyanne conway or other aides on television, that person shouldn t be allowed on tv and what do you make of that? what do you make of how polarized the country is to the point where a lot of viewers don t even think we should hear from people like conway or scaramucci? i think they should be on television although they may offend some people who don t agree with them politically, we should be hearing from the people who work in the white house because at the end of the day, personnel is policy. whoever has more power in that ....
Interactions with the press, although i think in this particular case, it might have been a bit ill-timed to do a wide-ranging interview at this moment. although, i think the president should be as accessible as he wants be and as tara said earlier, he likes to do these things. this timing might have been off. to borrow the words of david french. seems like fox news and trump aides are prepping the battlefield for the moment the president maybe fire robert mueller. is the press taking that possibility seriously enough? are journalists sort of wrapping their heads around what a crisis this could be? i think so. i think sort of the political world and the media learned a lesson because it seemed impossible to imagine that trump would ever fire jim comey and then he did that, which was in addition taviolating important government norm was a massive and political and legal mistake. so, i think the press is rightfully taking trump s ....