DEFLECTION IN LIGHT OF THE NEXT STORY NOW.
>>> PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS TO CALL TO THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO REFUTE RECENT COVERAGE OF HIS
ADMINISTRATION FROM A REEFBAL PAPER.
AFTER TWO AIDES WERE INDICTED AND A FORMER POLICY ADVISER PLED
GUILTY T. PRESIDENT WANTED TO ASSERT, I'M NOT UNDER
INVESTIGATION, AS YOU KNOW. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HIS CHIEF
OF STAFF JOP KELLY SAID ON MONDAY.
>> WE'RE IN GREAT HOPES THAT IT WRAPS UP.
IT IS VERY DISTRACTING TO THE PRESIDENT AS WOULD BE TO ANY
CITIZEN TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR SOMETHING --
>> TRUMP ALSO SAID OF THE INDICTMENT OF HIS FORMER
CAMPAIGN CHIEF PAUL MANAFORT. QUOTE F. YOU LOOK AT THAT THERE
IS NOT A MENTION OF TRUMP IN THERE.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US T. PRESIDENT HAS A BONE TO PICK
WITH THE WASHINGTON POST FOR A STORY ABOUT HIS REACTION TO THE
CHARGES ON MONDAY ENTITLED UPSTAIRS AT HOME WITH THE TV ON,
TRUMP FUMES OVER RUSSIA DIERNLTHS REPORTING HIS ANGER
MONDAY WAS INVISIBLE WITH THOSE THAT INTERACTED WITH HIM.
HE TOLD THE "TIME'S" I'M NOT ANGRY AT ANYBODY.
A NEW REPORT IN "VAPTY FAIR" IS UPSET FROM THE ADVICE FROM
SON-IN-LAW AND UNPAID ADVISER JARED KUSHNER WHO REPORTEDLY HE
CALLS BAD BLOOD. >>> SPEAKING TO STEVE BANNON, A
SOURCE BRIEFED SAYS TRUMP BLAMED KUSHNER FOR HIS ROLE,
SPECIFICALLY THE FIRINGS OF MIKE FLYNN AND JAMES COMEY THAT LED
TO BOB MUELLER'S APPOINTMENT. WHEN ROGER STONE TOLD HIM TRUMP
WAS GIVING BAD POLITICAL ADVICE, TRUMP AGREED ACCORDING TO A
SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
ALTHOUGH I SMELL ANOTHER DIRTY LAYER TO THIS, WHICH WOULD BE
STEVE BANNON TRYING TO PUSH OUT JARED KUSHNER WHO KNOW, IT'S
JUST A MESS. >> SAM, HE WAS SAYING THAT JARED
WHAT'S THE WORST POLITICAL ADVISER IN MODERN AMERICAN
HISTORY AND WE'VE HAD REPORTS FROM SEVERAL VOURS AND OTHER
JOURNALISTS THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TRYING JUST DAILY TO
PUSH JARED AND IVANKA OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> TO SAVE THEM. >> DAILY.
>> WHICH I DO THINK ALIGNS WITH THE NEWS REPORTS THAT HE'S PACK
IN REGULAR CONTACT WITH BANNON, BECAUSE IF YOU REMEMBER, WHEN
THAT TRUMP TOWER MEETING WAS REPORTED, WE NEVER GOT TO THE
BOTTOM OF HOW THAT WAS LEAKED OUT THE FACT THAT KUSHNER WAS --
HAD PLAYED A ROLE IN SETTING IT UP AS WELL, SO BANNON WAS
SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN BEHIND THAT AND BANNON IS SUSPECTED TO
BE BEHIND WHAT'S GOING ON NOW WITH THIS OFFENSIVE AGAINST
KUSHNER. >> IT'S SO COMICAL TO SAY JARED
KUSHNER IS SUCH A TERRIBLE ADVISER, HE MADE BUILDINGS AND
HEAPS NOT A POLITICAL ADVISER, THAT'S NOT A KNOCK, I DON'T
KNOW. >> WE'VE ALL BEEN SAYING THAT,
EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SAYING THAT. >> YEAH.
>> SIX MONTHS. >> MANY MUCHEN CAME IN, IT'S
LIKE -- >> OH MY GOD WHAT A MESS.
>> THEY HAVE NO --P THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WORK MAGIC.
>> I MEAN. >> THE FOREIGN PILES TEAM, SOME
OF THE LOWER LEVELS, ARE YOU LIKE, WHAT'S GOING ON?
>> GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS CAME FROM NOWHERE.
I TALK TO HIS PROFESSOR AT DePAUL, WHO SAID HE WAS
ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE WAS A FOREIGN POLICY
ADVISER, HE WAS A TERRIBLE STUDENT.
>> JARED KUSHNER SAID HIS PROFESSOR SAID HE'S AN OKAY GUY,
BUT NOT TO BE IN CHARGE OF FOREIGN POLICY.
>> I DON'T THINK STAFFING IS THE MAIN ISSUE WITH THIS PRESIDENCY,
IT IS AN ISSUE. >> IT'S A HUGE ISSUE.
>> IT WAS WEIRD WHEN DONALD TRUMP KEPT GIVINGG JARED AN EVE
LARGE PORTFOLIO IN THE OPIOID GOVERNMENT AND REMAKE THE
GOVERNMENT. IN THE END, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A
WISER THING FOR HIM TO HAVE DONE IS TELL HIM GO OVER THE STAFFING
PROS SAYS, FIND REALLY SMART PEOPLE.
BRING THEM INTO THIS GOVERNMENT AND HELP ME OUT.
HE JUST DIDN'T DO THAT AT THE BEGINNING.
IT COULD BE THE ORIGINAL SIN. >> THAT WOULD HAVE WORKED EXCEPT
FOR THE FACT THAT BOTH JARED KUSHNER AND DONALD TRUMP BELIEVE
THAT THE FEWER PEOPLE THEY HIRED THE BETTER.
THEY DIDN'T TRUST ANYBODY IN THE STATE.
THEY DIDN'T TRUST ANYBODY ANYWHERE.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT RUN BY VERY INEXPERIENCED HANDS,
HEIDI, THERE WAS ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY THING, WE WILL BE
TALKING TO GAPE SHERMAN ABOUT IN THAT PIECE THAT BANNON HAS
ALREADY GONE A QUICK RUN THROUGH THE CABINET AND BELIEVES THAT IF
THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY'RE GOING, THAT IF THERE IS A VOTE
ON THE 25th AMENDMENT, THAT TRUMP WILL BE VOTED OUT.
>> WELL, THE TIMING ON ALL OF THIS IS STRATEGIC.
AND THAT'S WHAT IS SCARY. I THINK PEOPLE IN THE WHITE
HOUSE IS THAT BANNON IS ALSO TALKING ABOUT THIS TAX CUT
INITIATIVE KIND OF BEING THE TRIGGER.
RIGHT, IF THAT DOESN'T GO THROUGH THE PARTY KIND OF STARTS
TO EXPLODE. PEOPLE TURN ON EACH OTHER.
PEOPLE TURN ON THE PRESIDENT AND IT ALSO CORRESPONDS WITH THESE
CHARGES COMING OUT. >> THE LIARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> RIGHT. >> RIGHT?
>> HERE'S WHERE WHEN YOU GO INTO A MEETING, WHO IS WEARING A
WIRE? >> WE DON'T KNOW.
>> NEITHER DOES THE PRESIDENT. >> FASZ NATEING THAT THEY SAY
RUSSIA. THEY RUN OUT OF THE ROOM.
WHICH IS, BY THE WAY, A SMART MOVE.
>> I'D GET OUT OF THE ROOMLY WOULD SAY IF ANYBODY EVEN TALKS
LIKE -- >> YOU SEE ALL THE STATES.
>> GO BACK TO THE USSR, LEAVE. >> THAT'S THE THING ABOUT THE
KUSHNER TIMING, ALL OF THESE IN TERMS OF HIM BEING HELPLESSLY
MISMATCHED IN THIS ROLE ARE TRUE.
IT ALSO IS TRUE WHENEVER THIS WHITE HOUSE FACES A CRISIS,
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE SACRIFICE.
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE STRUNG UP. SO HOW IS JARED KUSHNER, TO BE
FAIR TO BLAME FOR WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW WITH THE STAFF OF
THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION? >> I HAVE A QUESTION, YOU THINK
POWELL AND COHN, DO THEY HAVE AN EXCUSE?
>> I GOT TO MAKE COFFEE. YOU ARE RIGHT, THOUGH, SO JARED
KUSHNER IS NOW BEING NAILED FOR ONE OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE, THAT ITSELF THE FIRING OF JAMES
COMEY, MIKA AND I HAVE SEEN THE INTERACTIONS WITH DONALD TRUMP
AND JARED KUSHNER ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP DOES WHAT
DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO DO. .
>> EXACTLY. >> IF DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T WANT
TO FIRE JAMES CAMY, FOR ANYBODY TO SAY, DAD-IN-LAW, THAT SOUNDS
LIKE A GREAT IDEA THAT IS SO DISINGENUOUS BY STEVE BANNON TO
RUN AROUND. BY THE WAY, I GOT SAY THIS, I
HAVE BEEN CALLING STEVE BANNON MR. 33%, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE HE'S
SORT OF, HIS STRATEGY HAS PUT DONALD TRUMP AT 33%.
YOU GOT TO CALL HIM MR. 8% NOW. STEVE BANNON, WILLIE, HAS AN 8%
APPROVAL RATING IN AMERICA. WE SHOWED THE POLL YESTERDAY.
8%. SO I'VE JUST GOT TO ASK, IF
YOU'RE TAKING ADVICE FROM A GUY THAT HAS AN 8% APPROVAL RATING,
HIS APPROVAL RATING. I THINK MITCH McCONNELL'S
APPROVAL RATING IS DOUBLE STEVE BANNON'S.
SO IF YOU ARE TAKE, IF YOU ARE STILL TAKING ADVICE FROM A GUY
THAT HAS AN 8% APPROVAL RATING IN AMERICA, THEN YOU ARE
ACTUALLY PLAYING INTO THOSE SUGGESTING THAT YOU ARE NOT FIT
TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
LIKE THE 25th AMENDMENT SPINNING KIND OF A LITTLE MORE SNUG THIS
MORNING. >> WELL, HE HELPED MAKE HIM
PRESIDENT, EVEN THOUGH DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T LIKE TO ADMIT
THAT. DONALD TRUMP KNOWS THAT STEVE
BANNON HELPED PUT HIM WHERE HE IS TODAY.
ON SOME VISCERAL LEVEL -- >> DONALD TRUMP RIGHT NOW?
>> PRESIDENT BANNON YOU MEAN? YES, NO ON SOME VISCERAL LEVEL,
HE BELIEVE THERE IS A THE INSTINCTS OF STEVE BANNON GOT
HIM WHERE HE IS, AT LEAST IF
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