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>>> "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS REPORTING TONIGHT IN ANOTHER
BLOCKBUSTER BREAKING NEWS STORY THAT IT WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES WHO DICTATED THE EXACT WORDING OF DONALD TRUMP
JR.'S FIRST STATEMENT TO "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ON JULY 8th
ABOUT HIS MEETING DURING THE CAMPAIGN WITH A RUSSIAN LAWYER
WITH TIES TO THE KREMLIN ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE IN THE
ROOM THAT DAY, WHICH INCLUDED OTHER RUSSIANS AND THE
PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW AND SENIOR ADVISER JARED KUSHNER,
WHO DID NOT DISCLOSE THAT MEETING AS HE WAS REQUIRED TO DO
ON HIS APPLICATION FOR A SECURITY CLEARANCE.
IT IS NEWS THAT THE PRESIDENT DICTATED EVERY WORD OF THAT
STATEMENT, BUT IT IS NOT NEWS THAT THAT STATEMENT WAS A LIE.
THE STATEMENT OF DONALD TRUMP JR. AS DICTATED BY THE PRESIDENT
FROM AIR FORCE ONE SAID, IT WAS A SHORT INTRODUCTORY MEETING.
I ASKED JARED AND PAUL TO STOP BY.
WE PRIMARILY DISCUSSED A PROGRAM ABOUT THE ADOPTION OF RUSSIAN
CHILDREN THAT WAS ACTIVE AND POPULAR WITH AMERICAN FAMILIES
YEARS AGO AND WAS SINCE ENDED BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
BUT IT WAS NOT A CAMPAIGN ISSUE AT THE TIME, AND THERE WAS NO
FOLLOW-UP. I WAS ASKED TO ATTEND THE
MEETING BY AN ACQUAINTANCE BUT WAS NOT TOLD THE NAME OF THE
PERSON I WOULD BE MEETING WITH BEFOREHAND.
TONIGHT'S "WASHINGTON POST" REPORTING SHOWS THAT THE WHITE
HOUSE KNEW THAT THAT STATEMENT AS DICTATED BY THE PRESIDENT WAS
A LIE. AND WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE ON THE
VERY FIRST DAY OF GENERAL JOHN KELLY'S SERVICE AS WHITE HOUSE
CHIEF OF STAFF, THE WHITE HOUSE IS LEAKING LIKE CRAZY, WHICH IS
TO SAY LIKING LIKE YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE AND EVERY OTHER
DAY OF THE LEAKIEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.
DONALD TRUMP FIRE THE REINCE PRIEBUS AS THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF
OF STAFF ON FRIDAY AND REPLACED HIM WITH GENERAL KELLY
SPECIFICALLY TO STOP THIS, TO STOP WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT, TO
STOP THE LEAKS TO "THE WASHINGTON POST" AND TO "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" THAT COME BLASTING AT US VIRTUALLY EVERY NIGHT.
THE SOURCES CITED IN "THE WASHINGTON POST" ARTICLE ARE
ALL, ALL UNNAMED ADVISERS TO THE PRESIDENT.
AND "THE WASHINGTON POST" HAS MULTIPLE SOURCES.
WHEN DESCRIBING HOW THE MOST INEXPERIENCED COMMUNICATION
STAFF IN HISTORY, QUOTE, ADVOCATED FOR A MORE TRANSPARENT
APPROACH. "THE WASHINGTON POST" QUOTES,
PEOPLE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE
CONVERSATIONS. THIS IS A DAY ONE DISASTER FOR
THE NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WHOSE JOB IT IS TO PLUG
THOSE LEAKS. THAT'S JOB ONE.
THAT'S WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS FROM HIM THE MOST.
AND IT IS ANOTHER DISASTROUS STORY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE,
SHOWING THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO COVER UP THE TRUTH OF WHAT
HAPPENED IN HIS SON AND SON-IN-LAW'S MEETING WITH THE
RUSSIANS AT TRUMP TOWER DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
AN UNNAMED PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER IN "THE WASHINGTON POST" STORY
SAID, QUOTE, NOW SOMEONE CAN CLAIM HE'S THE ONE WHO ATTEMPTED
TO MISLEAD. SOMEONE CAN ARGUE THE PRESIDENT
IS SAYING HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SAY THE WHOLE TRUTH.
"THE WASHINGTON POST" ARTICLE THEN SAYS, ALTHOUGH MISLEADING
THE PUBLIC OR THE NEWS MEDIA IS NOT A CRIME, ADVISERS TO TRUMP
AND HIS FAMILY TOLD "THE WASHINGTON POST" THAT THEY FEAR
ANY INDICATION THAT TRUMP WAS SEEKING TO HIDE INFORMATION
ABOUT CONTACTS BETWEEN HIS CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIANS ALMOST
INEVITABLY WOULD DRAW ADDITIONAL SCRUTINY FROM SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
ROBERT MUELLER. IN AN EXAMPLE OF THE PUBLIC
COMMUNICATIONS MESSAGE THAT THE NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF,
JOHN KELLY, SEEMS TO BE CONTROLLING TONIGHT, THE WHITE
HOUSE IS REFERRING ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT "THE WASHINGTON POST"
ARTICLE TO THE OUTSIDE LAWYERS, WHO ARE DEFENDING THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS SON AND HIS SON-IN-LAW IN THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR'S
INVESTIGATION. WE CAN ONLY WONDER HOW THE WHITE
HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM WOULD HAVE RESPONDED IF ANTHONY
SCARAMUCCI WAS STILL IN CHARGE OF WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN HIRED BY THE WHITE
HOUSE. HE WAS THE ONLY WHITE HOUSE
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF ALL THE
COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT HAVING BEEN HIRED.
FRIDAY NIGHT ON THIS PROGRAM, I SAID THAT THE INCOMING WHITE
HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WOULD FACE A VERY CLEAR CHALLENGE ON
MONDAY, TODAY. >> I THINK WE HAVE A TEST FOR
GENERAL KELLY ON DAY ONE, AND THAT IS EXACTLY HOW MANY MINUTES
DOES IT TAKE HIM TO YANK THOSE WHITE HOUSE CREDENTIALS OFF THE
NECK OF ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI BECAUSE IF SCARAMUCCI WORKS IN
THAT WHITE HOUSE, BY DEFINITION GENERAL KELLY HAS FAILED TO
CONTROL THAT WHITE HOUSE. >> AND HE PASSED.
GENERAL KELLY PASSED THAT TEST TODAY.
IT WAS THE EASIEST TEST THAT ANY WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF HAS
EVER BEEN GIVEN. AND NOW HE HAS THE JARED TEST,
THE IVANKA TEST. THE JOB OF WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF
STAFF WAS CALLED APPOINTMENT SECRETARY UNTIL RICHARD NIXON
MILITARIZED THE TITLE TO CHIEF OF STAFF.
THE POWER OF THE APPOINTMENT SECRETARY WAS THE POWER OF WHO
GOT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT. THE APPOINTMENT SECRETARY WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE AN HONEST BROKER WHO MADE SURE THAT THE PRESIDENT
WAS HEARING ALL OF THE RELEVANT INFORMATION NEEDED FOR
PRESIDENTIAL DECISION-MAKING AND NONE OF THE NONSENSE THAT
INTERFERES WITH PRESIDENTIAL DECISION-MAKING.
JARED KUSHNER IS ONE OF THE HORRIFICALLY INCOMPETENT PEOPLE
IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHO ADVISED THE PRESIDENT TO FIRE FBI
DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY. IT IS GENERAL KELLY'S NEW JOB TO

ITS WAY TO THE PRESIDENT, ADVICE FROM A PERSON WITH NO AUTHORITY
OR EXPERTISE WHO HAS NOTHING HELPFUL TO SAY.
THERE IS A ROVING BAND OF SUCH PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW
WITH ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT. STEVE BANNON, KELLYANNE CONWAY,
JARED KUSHNER, IVANKA TRUMP TO NAME BUT THE MOST PROMINENT.
THE LIST GOES ON TO INCLUDE MOST OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN THE
WHITE HOUSE. NO OTHER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF
STAFF HAS EVER HAD THE JOB OF KEEPING MOST PEOPLE WHO WORK IN
THE WHITE HOUSE AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENT.
NO OTHER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF HAS EVER HAD THE JOB OF
DECIDING WHETHER TO REVOKE THE PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW'S
SECURITY CLEARANCE, WHICH THE SON-IN-LAW LIED TO OBTAIN.
THAT'S JOHN KELLY'S JOB NOW. JOHN KELLY IS NOW THE COMMANDER
OF A SHIP OF FOOLS. THE CHALLENGE THAT HE FACES NOW
IS UNLIKE ANY CHALLENGE HE HAS EVER FACED.
TOMORROW'S CHALLENGE AND THE CHALLENGE FOR THE DAY AFTER THAT
AND THE DAY AFTER THAT WILL BE WHICH

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