kellyanne conway is saying you, mr.uld absolutely not quit, and they should fight this. ii believe that there's never been a case of this situation that's ever been adjudicated, so tip my hat to jack keane and to kellyanne conway. to your point, e. mac, the biden administration says this is not about partyty registration, but it's about qualifications. if that's the case, i think you'd be hard pressed to ever find two more qualified than four-star general jack keane and former national security adviser h.r. master.at i'm willing to bet they are probably the two most qualifieds people to ever serve on these boards. elizabeth: yeah. theye won multiple distinguished awards as well. you know, the fight's going to be whether the president even has the power to do this. he's trying the fire them and kick them off boards like the west point academy -- air force academy, west point. russ vaughn saying you can't do this, and sean spicer is joining reportedly a lawsuit against this. do you think that'lldl work? >> look, i hope it

kellyanne conway, you, mr.nt, you should resign. this is the debate. why is the president doing this during the afghan crisis? keep it here on "the evening edit." >> i think it is imperative that we fight for this. one of the last places where we should be politicizing anything is our united states military academies especially at a place like west point which has the oldest board. that board was formed by then secretary of war james monroe back in 1815. there has been a long tradition of being non-partisan to insure we're offering the best possible advice and instruction to our west point cadets. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we've got you taken care of, sgt. houston. thank you. that was fast! one call to usaa got her a tow, her claim paid... ...and even her grandpa's dog tags back. get a quote. ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ to deliver our technology as-a-service. we did it again. verizon has

kellyanne conway followed that up by saying they were going to offer alternative facts. president biden decided those weren't the kind of people he wanted on these boards. >> so listen, john, i'm going to let you respond. the other john. because sean spicer said on his show, then you have kellyanne conway who is trying to glorify herself with a letter to president biden saying that i'm not resigning but you should. these people lost all credibility the last time i checked, right? in the last white house they trampled all over the truth. i'm sure that's in part why the administration took this move. but isn't it the purview of the president to say these are the folks i want on the board, and didn't trump do something similar? >> he did. he packed a lot of these boards and fired folks. but look, jen psaki set out a clear and common sense standard as it applies to qualifications. you can make a strong case that sean spicer, kellyanne conway are not qualified, that these were partisan hacks that were put in these positions to perpetuate a trump agenda. when kellyanne conway

let's c kellyanne conway puts it this way.appointing but understandable given the need to distract from a news cycle that has you mired in plummeting poll numbers. kellyanne conway says great, you're in a slump so whack us. is that what this is? >> i don't know how this reflects well on the biden administration given what jeff zeleny said, and now they're giving oxygen to folks who love nothing more than oxygen on these boards that i don't think a lot of people even pay attention to. it really is the timing is a little confusing. there's no love lost here, but i think part of the timing is that there was a june decision by the supreme court where biden thinks -- the administration thinks legally if these lawsuits do come from spicer and others, that they have strong footing because the decision in june from the supreme court was about this agency that said that it was unconstitutional, a rule was unconstitutional, because it didn't allow the president to fire the director. and made it so then he could fire the director and put

former president trump to resign, including former white house press secretary, sean spicer, and kellyanne conwaypicer is currently on the board of the naval academy, and conway is on the board of the academy of the french cavalry? [ laughter ] after virginia removed a 21-foot statue of confederate general robert e. lee from the state capital, former president trump released a statement saying the u.s. would have succeeded in afghanistan if lee had been in command. dude, he got his ass kicked in virginia what do you think the problem was? too many trees former new jersey governor, chris christie, spoke, tonight, at the ronald reagan library about the future of the republican party i guess it's always good to get an outside opinion taliban, yesterday, announced a ban on all protests and slogans that do not have the interim government's approval. hence pizza hut's new slogan in afghanistan. donald trump jr. claimed in a recent instagram post that former president trump, quote, "took more crap than any other president times about 1,000. wow, 1,000 that's even more than four score and seven. north ko

kellyanne conway followed that up by saying they were going to offer alternative facts.sident biden decided these weren't the kind of people he wanted on these boards. >> john, i'm going to let you respond. the other john. because spicer said on his show, then you have kellyanne conway, trying to glorify herself saying, i'm not resigning but you should. they've lost all credibility, the last time i checked. the last white house trampled all over the truth. i'm sure that's in part why the administration took this move. but isn't it in the purview of the president to say, these are the folks i wanted. and didn't trump do something similar? >> he packed a lot of these boards, and put his own people. but jen psaki said, you can make a strong case that spicer and conway are not qualified. they were partisan hacks put into this position. when conway says it's political to take her out of this office, she should look in the mirror. that said, it's a big mistake by the biden administration's own standard, taking out someone like h.r. mcmaster. someone with a long, dist distindis

kellyanne conway's letter seemed to think that she was going to push this on a little bit further. >> right. and it wasn't exactly a letter that was demonstrating that she was capable of doing a job in a nonpartisan way. but let me ask you because these terms from these board members are staggered. there were people from the obama administration on the boards when trump started who were not fired who are still there. one of the fired board of visitors appointees meghan mobbs wrote, president biden ran on a supposed platform of unity but his actions speak directly to the contrary. would keeping some of the people on the committee -- on these boards, wouldn't that be more in keeping with what biden promised he would do? >> maybe. but we talk about the trump administration as if these were the bush people or they were the reagan people. they was not like a normal situation. we had a president of the united states who was doing really irregular things. he had a hotel that foreign leaders were staying at to try to put money in his pocket, by our reports. and he got away with that. they put

kellyanne conway heard about this and she had a retort.he result is that faithful and willing public servants will be discouraged or thwarted from service. understandable given the need to distract from a news cycle that has you mired in multiple self-inflicted crises and a plummeting poll numbers. i'm not resigning but you should. steve: oh, zing. clearly the biden administration wants people on these boards who think that what joe biden does is brilliant. ainsley: they are supposed to be nonpartisan. brian: going to need a microscope or hubble scope to find anybody. steve: one of the people who was asked to submit their resignation, we don't know whether or not the former president's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster did submit his letter, but he was asked to quit. it's that super embarrassing. because he was asked to quit from the west point advisory board. this weekend he is getting west point's distinguished graduate award. they are giving him the award but at the same time the administration is trying to take away his job. bria

particularly kellyanne conway.ellyanne conway really deserves to be well shunned, for her years of brazen dishonesty, and service of donald trump. like when she christened the new trump administration by courting the term, alternative facts, about the crowd size of the inauguration. or when she criticize present obama, for letting the, bowling green massacre happened, under his watch. which was news to people in bowling green, because no such event ever took place. or when she misled the country about the criminal conspiracy surrounding the then president. even though it was not her most dangerous and destructive lie. >> the secretary said this morning, that we are ramping up, we're ramping up with -- why did they not do it was contained. >> it is being contained. do you not think it's being contained? you said it's not being contained. so are you a doctor lawyer when you're saying it's not being? contained its you said something it's not true. it's a farce. >> away you just said something that's not true. would yo

biggest audience, period, sean spicer and then kellyanne conway of the alternative facts. well, white house press secretary jen psaki saying this today. >> i will let others evaluate whether they think kellyanne conway and sean spicer and others were qualified or not political to serve on these boards, but the president's qualification requirements are not your party registration. they are whether you're qualified to serve and whether you're aligned with the values of this administration. >> so kellyanne conway proving that she is not exactly nonpartisan, firing off a letter to president biden saying i'm not resigning, but you should. this from the woman who served a disgraced twice impeached one-term former president. not only served him, she helped to get him elected. in november, months before he left office, the former guy dismissed several members of the policy board before their terms were up including madeleine albright and henry kissinger. now there are people in the group asked to resign today who seem pretty qualified. but there's also heidi stirup a former white

it includes sean spicer, kellyanne conway and hr mcmaster.cretary jen psaki on wednesday confirmed that this request had in fact been made. >> i will let others evaluate whether they think kellyanne conway and sean spicer and others were qualified or not political to serve on these boards. but the president's qualification requirements are not your party registration. they are whether you are qualified to serve and whether you are aligned with the values of this administration. >> the dismissal comes after the pentagon recently reorganized its own advisory boards following a purge of former trump appointees back in february. >>> the "washington post" reports former president trump will endorse a wyoming attorney who is considering a primary challenge to liz cheney. trump has vowed to unseat cheney since she voted to impeach him for his role in inciting the january 6th riots. trump's reported backing comes ahead of her formal entry into the race. the wyoming primary is still 11 months away. >>> and on the democratic side, former president bara

mcmaster, sean spicer, kellyanne conway, dave urban, et cetera.hem, some of those officials are refusing to hand in their resignations, setting up a possible legal standoff. i'm joined by mark murray. set the scene as far as president. what is typical, what is not when it comes to these kinds of positions on military advisory boards and letting people stay on or not. >> these are advisory boards for a lot hof the service academies you see like the air force academy, west point and the naval academy, and these positions do end up having set dates that you have a term that you serve throughout x-date, and for many of them, the former president, donald trump, ended up appointing people like sean spicer, the former omb director, and kellyanne conway to these positions as trump was ending his presidency or pretty much headed out the door. >> on the way out the door, right. >> right, and so, you know, the white house ended up saying they want their own people, people who align with their values, and also their qualifications that they see are important

particularly kellyanne conway.f brazen dishonesty and on seek weousness in service of donald trump. like when she christened the then new trump administration by coining the term alternative facts in defense of a lie about the crowd size of the inauguration or when she criticized former president obama, this is one of my favorite moments, for letting the quote bowling green massacre happen under his watch. which was news to people in bowling green because no such event ever took place. or when she misled the country about the alleged criminal conspiracy surrounding the then president. even though that was not her most dangerous and destructive lie. >> the hhs secretary said this morning that we're ramping up, we're ramping up with the commercial labs -- >> why didn't they do it while it was contained, get ahead of it? >> it is being contained. do you not thinking it's being contained? >> i'm not a doctor. >> you saying it's not being contained. you just said something that's not true. >> oh, you just said something

kellyanne conway, one of those appointees, will join us next. alsoon afghanistan and joe biden afghanistan and joe biden r skin and significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. talk to your doctor about dupixent. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: now tonight joe biden is trying to purge any trump appointees from the advisory boards of our u.s. service academies. nonpolitical positions providing even more evidence biden is needlessly politicizing even the military and trying to purge any and all conservatives from these prestigious schools. and of course, it's just another way joe biden is trying to distract from his monumental failures on everything from oh, the borders, oh,st energy independence, oh, and abandoning americans in afghanistan, weak job growth, covid f

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people like sean spicer, kellyanne conway, who posted her refusal letter on twitter in which she ironically a quote -- a break from presidential norms. you mean like the insurrection? charlie and a.b. are back. i don't want to color this conversation. this is stupid, too. i mean these are people who worked for a president who incited an insurrection and refused to leave. so i guess, of course, they refuse to leave their boards, dharlie. >> could i comment on the last segment briefly? >> please. >> what has happened in the republican party, the contrast between the way the republicans were willing to rally around the national interest in the wake of 9/11 and make significant sacrifices in terms of government power, even civil liberties, and their unwillingness to do the same with a coronavirus pandemic that has taken the same number of lives lost on 9/11 every couple of days now. this particular issue is -- it is silly. look, under normal circumstances presidents do not approve the appointments of their predecessor to these honoriveic positions but these were not normal appointments. let's b

kellyanne conway. and i'm not gonna say it any more times. i've seen "candyman."w what might happen. [ laughter ] sean spicer got the boot too from his spot on the board at the naval academy. he is planning to sue. to try to keep it. unlike kellyanne, sean spicer at least did serve in the military. he was in the navy. in fact, i went on wikipedia to find out more about his service and happened upon this detail i somehow missed. in april 1993, an article in the student paper, "the college voice," referred to spicer as "sean sphincter." [ laughter ] spicer submitted an angry complaint to the paper and followed up by pushing for college judicial action against the paper, for which he received further ribbing from the campus satirical publication, "blats." i guess that's where his love affair with the media started. [ laughter ] sphincter, or spicer, whatever you call him, was not happy to be removed from his post. and he went on newsmax last night to explain why. >> for 22 years i've had the honor of serving alongside some of the most talented, patriotic, and brave i

kellyanne conway, sean spicer.onder what you think about this, if this is something that actually -- is there going to be any blowback, do you think? >> well, this is one of those tricky situations, brianna, where there are definitely some names on this list where, if you're the biden administration, you're president biden's national security team, you think about sean spicer, the role he played, kellyanne conway. other names include h.r. mcmaster, those who served many years in the national security community. one thing that might be worth pointing out, what is the precedent here? the precedent is these people do serve out their terms and oftentimes the outgoing administration will make these appointments at the end so that their influence continues or the trump administration still in office was doing this. i think we might be focused on what is the precedent here. now, that said, of course, president trump broke all of these norms and we know that many of these people he put on these boards don't necessarily bri

and hijacking nonpartisan military boards after he demanded several trump appointees including kellyanne conway and sean spicer resign from military academy boards. and psaki defending the move. >> what any president's objective is, to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified and who align with your values. >> conway fighting back, quote, i am not redesigning and you shouldn't. 4 minutes after the hour, california recall video showing a woman in a gorilla mask related at larry elder. jillian: is happening as vice president kamala harris stumps from battle governor gavin newsom. how this high-stakes race is playing out. >> reporter: let's get to that video showing the woman attempting to hillary other with an egg while campaigning in venice barely missing but prompting a security detail to confront the woman wearing a gorilla mask. [bleep] >> reporter: following this tense exchange builder claims his bodyguards came under attack tweeting my security detail was physically assaulted, shot with a pellet gun and hit with projectile. the intolerant left will not s

and hijacking nonpartisan military boards after he demanded doesn't trump appointees including kellyanne conway and sean spicer resign or be fired from the boards of different military academies. and psaki defending the move. >> any president's objective is to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them and align with your values. >> conway firing back i'm not resigning but you should. she wanted at least three vowing to fight the purge of trump appointees by ousting other terms. >> turning the california recall, video showing a woman in a gorilla mask through an egg at republican front-runner larry over. >> this happening is vice president o'hara stumps from battle governor kevin is an. how the high-stakes race has just days to go. >> let's get straight to that video showing a woman attempting to hit larry elder with an egg while campaigning in venice. the egg missing elder but prompting security detail to confront the woman wearing a gorilla mask. [bleep] >> reporter: elder claims his bodyguards came under attack, was physically assaulted and

those ousted included high-profile trump administration officials including kellyanne conway, press secretaryicer and national security advisor h.r. mcmaster. as always when news breaks out we will break in. i'm trace gallagher. now back to "hannity." >> sean: joe biden struggles are now so glaring, it is so undeniable that even his own staff or putting him on mute, literally. according to a new report from politico white house staffers often for the president on silent or don't watch him live at all in an effort to quell their anxiety about what they might say or might do. this report already tells us what we know and that is that his presidency is imploding and why biden has told don't take questions altogether because he is weak, frail, cognitive mess and frankly, deteriorating daily. common sense americans, the world have all taken notice. listen to the welcome that joe biden got yesterday in new jersey that the media tended to ignore. >> [bleep] leave americans behind! [bleep] leave americans behind! we should leave you behind, you guys! you guys! >> sean: meanwhile, biden's failures abr

really quick one noticing that so revealing right after the election president trump calls up kellyanne conway his longtime advisor and said how did we lose to that guy, biting, how did that happen how did we lose? so for a fleeting moment he's privately acknowledging that he did lose he lost to biden. but in that same. he's getting call after call from giuliani people on the right in congress and it was stolen, it was . in that same. talking to conway and others in gosh i can't believe i lost how did we lose to that guy? he starts to sit maybe it was stolen, it was stolen that begins the drumbeat that fuels this entire transition. >> fascinating. another question, basically was the cabinet ever close to considering the 25th amendment or some way of believing in chan relieving president trump of his powers customer. >> know the standard is the president disabled? pence as vice president would be the one who would have to lead the charge on this. he steadfastly refused to do it. coming out of this experience and hopefully there can be lessons learned. as the 25th amendment sufficient for dealin

the normer white house budget director and former senior advisor kellyanne conway.t back saying this. your decision is disappointing but understand able given the need to distract from a news cycle that has you mired in self-inflicted crises and plummeted poll numbers i'm not resuming but you should. meghan calls the move purely partisan. >> i think it's imperative we fight for this. one of the last places where we should be politicizing anything is our united states military academy. i served along obama appointees and were very respectful. >> harris: jen psaki defended the president's decision. >> we're confident in our legal abilities here but i will tell you, john, no one is looking to have a battle here. >> traditionally these appointees do serve out the full three-year term though. >> it goes back to what every president's right is. to appoint individuals they choose because they are aligned with their values and aligned with the qualifications that they deem for any of these positions in any of these boards. that's what is taking place here. it is not persona

. >>> kellyanne conway and sean spicer lashing out at president biden after he called for 18 trump appointees why do you think the system needs to be repaired? >> the way the system works is it's a gift to political friends of a president especially as they are going out the door. these are the doors that advise non-binding advice to places like the john f. kennedy of performing artarts. all the military academy board of visitors have a number of seats that are given to the president to fill. at the end of every administration, you see a situation where people who have been loyal to the outgoing president, the outgoing administration are given seat ons the board but trump was egregious about giving the spots to people who had no real need to be on the boards. she was on the air force academy's board of visitors. their board of directors. she's never been in the air force. she had no connection to the air force. she was given it as a gift and i think this really highlights the fact that it's a system that is basically more about patronism than helping the institutions at this point. >> you say

. >> kellyanne conway testing positive for covid-19. >> thom tillis tested positive. >> reverend jene positive. >> chris christie hospitalized. >> tested positive for the coronavirus. >> oh, well. so long as the president is -- >> this is a fox news alert. president trump just tweeted moments ago that he and the first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus. >> well, he beat syphilis, he's sure to beat this. >> i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm doing very well. i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. and we have enthusiasm like probably nobody's ever had. our people that love the job we're doing -- >> i am doing bigly. i feel very very very very very very -- >> he's fine, what a relief. thanks, satan. this has been "this week in covid history." [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we have a good show for you tonight. from "the morning show," mark duplass is here. we have music from angels and airwaves. and we'll be back rightly with gabrielle union. so stick around! it's a wishlist on wheels. a choice that requires no explanation. it's where safe and d

and on page 125 after kellyanne conway gets covid-19, donald trump tells her, quote, you have 0% body fat, honey. honey you have -- if you have 0% body fat, you're fine. . and then there is the gem of mitch mcconnell gleefully calling donald trump a moron to his colleague in the republican senate, on page 26, the book has mitch mcconnell happily enjoying the 2017 story about donald trump's first secretary of state, rex tillerson calling donald trump a moron after trump left a meeting at the pentagon. page 127. do you know why tillerson was able to say he dnt call the president a moron mcconnell would dryly ask colleagues in his kentucky drawl? because he called him an f-ing moron. msnbc's stephanie ruhle correctly reported it at f-ing moron at the time. the peril described in the woodward and costa book is actually a range of perils from donald trump ordering the launch, possibly ordering the launch of nuclear missiles to donald trump nuking the constitution. those were the perils that we were facing. there has been much news coverage of the precautions the chairman of the joint chief

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why is there no distinction between the likes of kellyanne conway or sean spicer political operativesmaster who is receiving an award from west point later this week, why no distinction? >> well look, again, this really goes back to what every president's right is, which is to appoint individuals they choose because they're aligned with their values, because they're aligned with the qualifications that they deem or any of these positions in any of these boards. that's what's taking place here. it's not personal. i will say that there are some people, of course, on these boards who have supported or stood by silently while their former boss supported an insurrection. that's not really okay with us either. you're right, there's a span of individuals on these boards. it's really not more complicated than the president, his cabinet and team wanting to be able to appoint a fresh layer of people. >> as far as you're concerned, are they effectively off the boards now? have they been fired from these boards as of this morning? >> well, they've certainly been -- it's been conveyed to them as y

they include political figures like kellyanne conway and sean spicer and david urban but also formerenerals like hr mcmaster and jack king. as of last night, i think, they were removed from these boards if they did not resign. what do you think of this? >> yeah. i thought it was petty frankly by joe biden to do this. these boards of visitors for these military academies are pretty plum political appointments that presidents often hand out to people who didn't quite make it to the rank of ambassador. i did personnel for george w. bush and folks who didn't become ambassadors or cabinet secretaries often ttimes would find their way to these boards. some of these folks are highly qualified to be on it and they have terms and then when those terms go out the next president puts their people on. they're not part of setting policy for the federal government. i thought it was extremely petty. and frankly i think what joe biden has guaranteed when the next republican comes in, when ever that is, '24 or the next time, when ever, that whatever democratic appointments were made on the way out ar

my head scratcher of the week, gaining the honor for sheer audacity, former trump adviser kellyanne conway boot from an undeserved position on an advisory board to the air force academy, calling it a break from presidential norms as well as, quote, petty and political. that's right, the woman who coined the tern alternative facts is threatened about a break after her time in the trump white house. it started with a day one speech on american carnage and included such highlights of presidential norms as a travel ban targeting muslims, the very fine people on both sides, comments after charlottesville, referring to s-hole countries in africa and threatening to pull out of nato that don't raise presidential norms. she might want to focus on presidential norms that is spending the night of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 providing commentary for a prize fight for a fee, of course. my highlight, alexandria ocasio-cortez giving a tutorial on human sexuality on explaining why many women don't know they're pregnant by six weeks but she saved fire power for sarah palin. remember her, right? she tore i

. >> i'll let others evaluate whether they think kellyanne conway and sean spicer and not political. the president's are not the party registration, they are whether you are qualified to serve and whether you are aligned with the values of this administration. >> bill: kelly anne conway and sean spicer and h.r. mcmaster on the list. >> dana: if they had done it six months ago it would be one thing but to do it in the middle of an international crisis seems -- >> bill: three-year term. a lot said i'm not resigning. >> dana: we don't even have meetings so you can't fire me, i quit but you are not firing me. we'll figure it out. terrible timing and looks bad for the biden administration and looks petty. he said i'll be the one to reach across the aisle and bring people together. i won't be petty and do all these things. >> bill: january 20, 2021 washington, d.c. you're right. >> dana: on 9/11 fox news will remember the victims of the terror attacks. you can catch it live from lower manhattan this saturday. network coverage all day begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> bill: great piece s. vic

imagine that you have the text phone numbers of kushner or ivanka or kellyanne conway or donald trumpare doing? you are texting them and saying, stop it! stop the madness! this is dangerous. this is scary, we are frightened. they are after. us that is what they are worried about. and there is going to be a whole bunch of. them i believe. i'm guessing i believe this, but lindsey graham to mob boss kevin mccarthy and back, that have all kinds of communications trying to get trump to call off the mob. you know what? trump liked it. they could not get him to say what he needs to say to stop it so that police officers were not in a situation where somebody was trying to gouge their eyes out with a flagpole. he liked it. and that's what kevin mccarthy has already admitted. that's what mccarthy has already said. and his imitation of a mob boss is not gonna make that go away. >> right, after all they're pleading and whatnot, i'm sure your right, claire. he sent out a message saying, we love you. so. that's how impactful they. where we will stay on it. betsy woodruff swan thank you so much for

kellyanne conway said i'm not resigning, but you should and included the letter that she sent back. here is what jen psaki said about those terminations. listen here. >> i will let others evaluate. they are not political decide t eat on the boards. they are whether you're qualified to serve and whether you are aligned with the values of this ministration. >> options a requirement be to align the constitution in the centuries-old conditions of the u.s. military which transcend politics? >> absolutely. this statement alone. they want people on there. i spent 38 years in the united states military. i have a sense of what is neede in terms of the kind of officer we want to have coming out of the military academy. i oversaw the military for four and half years. with the challenges are, as do other members. it's unfortunate that it comes to this. we can't see to get out of the way. i think the american people are absolutely fed up with it. we value your service to the nation. >> thank you did the general th department of justice is planning to file a lawsuit against texas over the state's

imagine that you have the text phone numbers of kushner or ivanka or kellyanne conway, or donald trumpyou know what you're doing? you're texting them. you're saying stop it. stop the madness. this is dangerous. this is scary. we're frightened. they're after us. that's what they're worried about. and there's going to be a whole bunch of them, i believe, i'm guessing, but i believe this from lindsey graham to mob boss kevin mccarthy and back that have all kinds of communications trying to get trump to call off the mob. and you know what, trump liked it. and they couldn't get him to say what he needed to say to stop it. so that police officers weren't in a situation where somebody was trying to gouge their eyes out with a flag pole. he liked it. and that's what kevin mccarthy has already admitted. that's what kevin mccarthy has already said, and his imitation of a mob boss is not going to make that go away. >> right. after all their pleading and what not, i'm sure you're right, claire. he sent out a message saying we love you. so that's how impactful they were. we'll stay on it. betsy woo

so he went with steve bannon and kellyanne conway and steve bannon became what was called a chief strategistthe white house until he probably also came into the cross hairs. but the children, because bad stories were appearing about them on breitbart. so he was guilty by association with that and they were you know afraid he was leaking bad stuff about jared and ivanka. this is, you know, making fun of a woman that is a member of the media that cory lurn do youski pushed to the ground is red meat for trump's base. let's just laugh at the idea of sort of physically assaulting a female reporter because, you know, the media is the enemy. everything for trump's bottom line always comes down to money. everything is sacrificed at the altar of the buck. so he's very transactional this way when it comes to a donor. it is sort of easy to see why he says well this is not really going to stand. they threatened to take their money back unless lewandowski was dumped. i see the hundreds of millions of dollars he is actually raising on line since he lost the election and even more after january 6th as a si

the republican party, this is the party of kellyanne conway's alternative facts, where truth means nothing of little relevance to the republican party. and this is where you end up. this is a logical conclusion of the denying facts, living in a conspiratorial world and trying to curry favor with donald trump who is a lunatic. you end up with a lot of dead and sick people, and it's a monumental failure. >> i want to talk about where the republican party, your former party is right now. a handful of things in the last couple days. we have anthony gonzalez announcing he will not seek reelection. he stood up to trump. we have the california recall which came close in 2003. you were involved with that. this time appointing a rather trumpian figure nowhere near enough to depose of the democratic sitting governor. mike pence, revelations of the new woodward and costa book that he was perhaps not as novel as we thought, and tried to do trump's bidding. took a call from vice president quail to try to talk him out of it. and thankfully a small turnout at the rally in support of the insurrectionists

. >> kellyanne conway positive for covid-19. >> reverend john jenkins tested positive. >> positive for the coronavirus. >> oh, well. so long as the president is -- >> this is a fox news alert. president trump just tweeted he and the first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus. >> well, he is sure to beat this. >> i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm doing very well. i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. we have enthusiasm like probably nobody has ever had. our people that love the job we're doing. >> hello, america. i am doing great. i feel very, very, very, very -- >> turn it off! >> he's fine. what a relief. thanks, satan. this has been "this week in covid history." >>> good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, september 29th. we're following a number of developing stories this morning, including new allegations in another tell-all book from a trump presidency insider. among the claims, that the former president told russia's vladimir putin at the g-20 summit in 2019, quote, i'm going to act a little tougher with you for a few minute