people they talk so say, not surprising on the heels of robert gibbs. how the government is handling economic policy. however, my net kvs confidence higher. two driving factors, job prospects and this is the biggie. i feel like my house might be worth nor next year. that changes sentiment. even if you are not selling. if you think your house will increase in value, you feel weal wealthier. >>> car sales are up four straight months. what's driving that? >> the average vehicle on the road now is 11 years. that's a long time, so it's facing the point of no repair if you will. so you have pent-up demand. you look at gm's numbers, for instance, the silverado, 30% increase in sales. sales to small businesses, up 40%. that's because construction and housing are coming back. people are buying trucks. >> despite the fact that gas continues to soar. let's talk about this one here. this one has a lot of folks worked up. say it ain't so. watered down bud? >> yeah. and i think people have been worked up. since 200ly when a belgian brazilian conglomerate bought the b

robert gibbs, this is your debut performance on the last word. we have a motto that's very republican. it is not what you say but how you say it. keep that in mind. >> i have to say that lead in provides an exceedingly low bar for which i can roll right over. you know, chairman priebus may have cued it perfectly. >> months later, he figured it out. >> might have spent less paper figuring out the two or three things they did right in 2012 rather than all of what they did wrong. i think they have a herculian task on their shoulders because it isn't about how you say it. obviously spending $10 million to do outreach with the same message will result in the same outcome. they have a huge problem in what they say, not in how they say it. and i think the biggest problem for the chairman of the rnc is he is not going to make any of these changes. as you mentioned, there's one policy recommendation. and there's a lot of change the color, change the logo recommendations. the rnc isn't going to make any of the policy decisions, that's all going to be made

they don't want to come under attack from the gun lobby. >> what is that about, robert gibbs?e boss? like on the tv show. is la pierre the boss or the republican party its own boss? >> i think you've got republican congressmen that are far more concerned about a primary challenge than they are anybody -- >> these are u.s. senators in for six-year terms. they're supposed to be the guys in robes that think deliberately, big picture. they won't touch anything on gun safety. >> i think, look, this is going to be an interesting issue because -- i think it has been for a while. the public supports this at 92%. if something the public supports 92% can't get through congress i think it does give you a sense of the real structural problems that we have in terms of gridlock. >> but they don't -- let me go back to steve. your party doesn't even want to catch the nuts. i mean, it's one thing to say everybody has a right to own a gun. and can be completely pure about it. the second amendment means carry anything you want if you can carry it. the right people have the right to buy a gun if

seems as if robert gibbs was at least fabricating the truth for lack of a better phrase, for two years. >> i don't think he was fabricating, he just didn't tell all the truth. maybe they were saving the-- >> now he gave it away now by saying he was told not to do it. >> maybe they were saving the secrets to be leaked to the new york times or wikileaks. >> well, the issue is now they tell us. now he tells us that he's gone over to the other side, i'm not going to call it the dark side, but you kn, this is a guy who's joined msnbc and he wants to make some news and demonstrate his distance from the white house, so the way you do this is to say something that was obvious, that is that he was not going to talk about it. >> what is the benefit of him saying that? i mean, msnbc is still going to employ him no matter what. i don't understand, there must be something going on which i don't think the press explored about his relationship with this white house or i don't think he would have said it. >> there's no benefit to this white house if you're trying to portray yourself as the most open a

robert gibbs, stay with us if you can.uck todd joins the conversation along with buzzfeed's ben smith. up next with the market at an all-time high, we'll bring in financial expert miles nadal and nasdaq ceo bob gryfeld. first bill karins. >> overnight, very impressive stuff, especially mountainous areas in west virginia and virginia. i-95 is like this magical line. it's like the highway that divides the rain and the snow. it goes from philadelphia, baltimore, d.c. through fredericksburg. the green shows you where it's raining. the white shows you where it's snowing. pretty much everywhere west and northwest of i-95. heavy, wet snow. east of 95 you're getting all rain. d.c., so far has seen so but at 36 degrees, it might as well be rain. no accumulating snow yet in d.c. i think the timing for when the heaviest snow will come through the d.c. baltimore areas, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. that's your best shot of that heavy, wet, accumulating snow that could knock out power. we'll watch that for you. later today all rain, jersey,

[laughter] just listen to former press secretary, robert gibbs. >> when i went through the process ofming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. you're not even to discuss that it exists. >> stephen: though, truth is, the secret got out a long time ago. i don't know how, but it was leaked to at least 4,700 people. [laughter] i just don't get why the administration is so ashamed of its extrajudicial robosassination spree. [laughter] after all, a whopping 83% of americans approve of it. even among liberal democrats 77% endorse the use of drones. and those remaining 23% of liberal holdouts are just the same spoilsports who eventually ruined the iraq war, the japanese internment camps, and the 1902 law permitting the irish to be catapulted into the sea. [ laughter ] why don't these liberal peace-humpers get how successful our drones have been? i mean, over in pakistan drone strikes have made travel to the tribal areas so perilous for western al qaeda recruits, that terrorists are actively dissuaded from making the trip.

>> i want to bring up robert gibbs, former press secretary of the white house. >> jon: you go to the class. he has earned his msnbc official retro framed analoglasses. you know who wears wire rims, wait. gibbs has been functioning as an administration mouth piece and now he's flipping. can we trust him? mr. gibbs when you were working as press secretary you answers questions about drones thusly. >> i don't think u.s. officials have confirmed the predator drone air strikes. >> i'm not going to get into these matters. >> drone strikes killed eight germans in pakistan today. do you have any information about that? >> i don't. and if i did -- if i did, i wouldn't get into it. >> jon: shire tip for you aspiring truth sleuths out there if somebody says i don't foe about that, and even if i did, i wouldn't tell you, that person knows something about that. this guy is going to have to prove to us his changes his information hides ways dusm know about that? >> when i went through the process of becoming press secretary one of first things they told me is that you are not even to acknowledge t

never -- if people had information about particular names or spies, et cetera, we would never, robert gibbsouse press secretary wouldn't do that, but i hear and i think robert actually made a very compelling argument for first amendment principles because over time these things do make people cynical about the government. >> the key point here is political pressure. i want to talk about that right when we come back. [ male announcer ] zzzquil™ sleep-aid. it's not for colds. it's not for pain. it's just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. ♪ zzzquil™. the non-habit forming sleep-aid from the makers of nyquil®. ♪ 'cause germs don't stick on me ♪ [ female announcer ] band-aid brand has quiltvent technology with air channels to let boo boos breathe. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] quiltvent technology, only from band-aid brand. use with neosporin first aid antibiotic. only from band-aid brand. every room deserves to look us what our great.te color is? and every footstep should tell us we made the right decision. so when we can feel our way through the newest, softest, and most color

. >> exactly, robert gibbs and i spoke to them together. >> sean: robert gibbs, my good friend.nate democratic budget is going to add 50 grand in debt to every american family, karl, that's not a budget. >> no, no, well, it's a budget, but it's a budget of the democrats. in fact, sean, this might be really illuminating. if you take a look at the senate democrat budget, this year they want to spend 184 billion dollars more than the republicans proposed. next year, 348 billion dollars more than the republicans. and this year, they want to raise taxes by 20 billion dollars through the republican budget, doesn't raise taxes. next year they want to raise the taxes by 40 billion dollars, again, the republican budget doesn't raise taxes and then on the deficit this year, the democrat deficit would be 164 billion dollars bigger than the republican deficit. and next year, 308 billion dollars, just to give you a sense of it, by 2015 the republican deficit would be down to 125 billion and the democrat deficit 433 billion. there's a big indication of the difference between the parties when

me today here in washington, d.c., former white house press secretary, and msnbc contributor, robert gibbs, national political reporter at the "washington post," malika henderson, bbc world news anchor, catty kay and "washington post" columnist and msnbc political analyst, the inimitab ablable eugene robinso. >>> four months after the gop's loss at the election, the results are in, cause of death, massive full-body trauma. >> our message was weak, our ground game was insufficient. we weren't inclusive. we were behind in both data and digital. and our primary and debate process needed improvement. so there's no one solution, there's a long list of them. >> one of the central themes is that, surprise, the party must not appeal only to old white voters to solve this problem, rnc chair, raince priebis. immigration, we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. if we do not, our party's appeal will shrink to its core constituencies only. and yet the gathering at cpac this weekend highlighted just how difficult it will be to change the fundamentals or really change anything at a

joining me now, robert gibbs, former obama white house press secretary. well, the president promised all sorts of transparency, came out against lobbying initially. when he first ran for office. now here he's doing what democrats have a accused republicans for doing for a long, long time. having these lobbyists and business people being able to contribute unlimited amounts of money. >> first and foremost, the group won't take money from lobbyists. unlike political c-4s, involved in trying to tear down the president's agenda, every contribution and every amount will be disclosed. and -- >> after the fact. >> well you can't disclose it before they give the money. and no corporate contributions will be taken. i think, andrea, it is the best opportunity and the best set of decisions to come to how do you keep millions of people that were excited about the president's agenda and politics involved, obviously that cost money. great care must be taken, though, to insure that as you're doing that, you are not also harming the larger brand. >> you're successor and

last week, former white house press secretary robert gibbs said something on this show that i don't think got enough attention. he said, he thinks that john brennan believes when it comes to drone strikes that they should be handled by the military and not by the super secretive cia. >> i think what john believes is, when we need to deal with any aspect of military activities, those military activities should be conducted by the pentagon. and i think that, again, is a change in the program, because, again, john understands where we are is just not sustainable. >> that's a big deal. if it is true that the new cia director doesn't think the cia should be killing people with drones, that the military should be doing it instead, that's a big deal. but you know what would be a bigger deal? is if the president agreed with that. should we see the president's nomination of john brennan to run the cia as a sign that the president agrees with that and that that change is going to happen? >> i believe so. >> the nomination of john brennan should be seen as a sign that president obama may take drones

because it meant so much to us all let me say this is the state run media of let's see david axelrod robert gibbs a propagandist and of course we have ed schultz let's rip dick cheney's heart out stop on it and shove it back at them and let's not forget throw up our like chris matthews well guess what mr williams the rest of the country appears to be disappointed with you because according to a new rasmussen poll only six percent of americans view the news reported by the mainstream lapdog obama mania media as very trustworthy and you don't want to know what we find so disappointing the fact that you your liberal mainstream media cohorts the people that work on your network burying stories about how the administrations for example bullies the press. i have no words of is that fox news that the bone to pick with brian williams but truthfully it's hard for me to even fathom what he's saying here that the only the liberal media is the mainstream media so under his logic all liberal media is the mainstream making fox the target for you i think not you know the funniest thing about hannity is incohere

because it meant so much to us all let me say this is the state run media of let's see david axelrod robert gibbs a propagandist and of course we have ed schultz let's rip dick cheney's heart out stop on it and shove it back at them and let's not forget throw up our like chris matthews well guess what mr williams the rest of the country appears to be disappointed with you because according to a new rasmussen poll only six percent of americans view the news reported by the mainstream lapdog obama mania media as very trustworthy and you don't want to know what we find so disappointing the fact that you your liberal mainstream media cohorts the people that work on your network burying stories about how the administrations for example bullies the press. i have no words of is that is that the bone to pick with brian williams but truthfully it's hard for me to even fathom what he's saying here that the only the liberal media is the mainstream media so under his logic all liberal media is the mainstream making fox the target for you i think not you know the funniest thing about hannity is incoherent ran

former press secretary robert gibbs talked about the issue. >> when i was press secretary.e first thing they told me you are not to acknowledge the drone program or discuss that it existings. >> the president has seen our denial of the existence of the presently when it is obviously happening undermines people's confidence over all in the decisions that the government makes. >> if he spoke that clearly when he was press secretary, we would have all loved him. the fact he said is serious if you think about it the fact that the president and administration instructed the press secretary not to acknowledge a very significant program of dealing with terrorism. this is an administration for a long time didn't want to acknowledge that we were at war with terse -- terrorist. that is not transparence yewe need some. the debate in washington goes on. barbara lee has a proposal will make the government safer and bigger. she introduced legislation for a creation of peace building that would include the creation of a cabinet level condition of secretary of peace building. according to

>> the man of whom you speak is robert gibbs, the president's chief spokesperson. it's reprehensible. now you understand why this question came about. it the government speaks glibbly about it and did it because he yes in yemen -- >> shepard: my point is if we have to ask this question even, we really, really need some mirror work. >> arthur and i will tell you most of the time, when a lawyer for the government is in the courtroom, they spend their time justifying the government evading and avoiding the constitution rather than complying with it now. now seeing that played out in a potentially fatal way. >> shepard: knob nobody freaked out when they called an american citizen overseas and i don't know why. i cooperate figure it out. >> when the evidence against him is so overwhelming. if it's so overwhelming, indo it him and charge him. >> antibiotic seconds. >> some say there war cia agents who could have arrest him. >> shepard: stay with us. (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking, i get one vi

we heard from robert gibbs, the press secretary for the president, saying he was told not to talk abouts the problem, we're seeing repeatedly a lack of transparency and why we're having to ask questions over and over and sitting at the well 13 hours asking questions. >> we did get reaction from senator rand paul on a politico interview. take a look. >> i think they're on the wrong side of history on this one. they are of the believe that the war is everywhere, so they kind of agree with some of the things that the president has been saying. >> chris, your impression of all this, do you think they'll be on the wrong side of history as rand paul says? >> i have to say i get some enjoyment watching john mccain explode for the umpteenth time. he did it with my old boss, you know, when senator manchin questioned or continuing buildup and troop commitment in afghanistan. he said we need to focus on the united states. that being said, i think senator paul, you know, he pushed credibility in terms of the example, but he raised, i think, some serious questions. did he go too far in terms of his

. >>> robert gibbs is an nbc news political contributor and president obama's first press secretary. nice to have you with us, robert. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing well. >> give us a sense, nobody likes the cuts. everybody says they didn't want them. but i don't think we can say there was much of an effort to stop them. there is one 11th hour meeting. you've been there. behind closed doors, what happens? was this anything more than political theeter? >> i do think they spent more time discussing how to deal with the next deadline which is at the end of this month and basically the funding mechanism for government throughout the rest of the fiscal year goes into effect. i think by the time leaders came to the white house yesterday the dye had been cast for several weeks. this is more about how to operate our fiscal situation going forward. >> there's been a lot of talk about the president trying to get the message out there that he needs a little public outrage to carry this down the path he would like to see. yet, we see him changing the message saying this isn't going t

. >> oh, let me see, this is the state-run media of let's see david axelrod, robert gibbs, propaganda ed schultz let's rip dick cheney's heart out and stomp on it it and back in him and thrill up our leg, chris mathews. guess what, the rest of the country appears to be disappointed in you. a rasmussen poll, only 6% of the america feels the media trustworthy and the fact that you and your liberal mainstream media cohorts who work on your liberal networks how the administration, for example, bullies the press. according to the new york post, a veteran journalist, jonathan alter, a liberal i had a young reporter asking tough important questions of an obama cabinet secretary, she was doing her job and they tried to bully her and in the e-mail they called her the vilest of names, the b-word, the c-word and we can't put up on the screen and the reporter claimed and told it would be investigating. they were hemming and hawing and said we'll look into it. nothing happened. pretty unreal and john sununu, even congress has a better rating on the media, how are you. >> have you heard two more im

the democrats, robert gibbs was involved in the president's first campaign.he president just went through another campaign. he said we litigated this. i put my message out there. so did mitt romney. so did the republican party and i won re-election. the country agrees with the direction i want to go which the president calls this balanced approach that includes raising taxes. republicans say look we gave you that in the fiscal cliff fight. we raised some of the rates on the wealthiest americans. we're not going to do it again. to some extent i think the democrats are right in republicans in certain districts do fear a challenge from the right and not going to budge no matter. what i think there's a philosophical difference they've been lit galt for over two years now over the side of the government. this is a test. the tea party is probably the group in washington that's probably pleased right where the sequester is right now. i think you're going to see going forward can we live with these cuts? with that going forward first of ten years worth of potential c

fresh from cairo, msnbc contributor and former white house press secretary fresh from washington, robert gibbs, and msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman, the notorious michael steele. earlier today, venezuelans flooded the streets to mourn the death of hugo chavez. the accusations over his death have already begun. namely, blame someone else, preferably, the united states. yesterday vice president nicolas maduro took to the air waves to accuse two american diplomats to destabilize. also the cancer that killed chavez was an assassination plot by his enemies. absurd, we definitely, definitively, reject it. the accusations would have made chavez proud. he was expert at rallying support for his political objectives. here is chavez speaking before the u.n. in 2006 following an address made by george w. bush. >> translator: yesterday, the devil came here. right here. right here. and it smells of sulfur still today. the president of the united states, the gentleman to whom i refer to as the devil, came here. >> chavez literally demonized america, moammar gadhafi, mahmoud ahmadinejad. despi

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robert gibbs, of course, saying that when he got on, he was told not to acknowledge that the drone programd. so i think he did his cause a real favor, and he very much is i think linking to a lot of the conversation that you saw going on among ron paul supporters as he was running for president in 2012. and conservative republicans really see rand paul, i talked to some of them today, they see him as the second coming of ronald reagan. a real movement conservative. somebody who can galvanize the right and really arctticulate t vision of the tea party, of limited government in a way that ron paul really couldn't. they're very excited about -- >> i know, i agree with you nia that people are saying that but anybody decent in the republican party is supposed to be the new ronald reagan just like anybody decent in the nba is the second coming of michael jordan. so that's always going to be the new meme and they need it to be the new ronald reagan because they haven't had a president to be proud of since ronald reagan. but in general rand paul is working with the sowing of deep fear of american

last week, former white house press secretary robert gibbs said something on this show that i don't think got enough attention. he said, he thinks that john brennan believes when it comes to drone strikes that they should be handled by the military and not by the super secretive cia. >> i think what john believes is, when we need to deal with any aspect of military activities, those military activities should be conducted by the pentagon. and i think that, again, is a change in the program, because, again, john understands where we are is just not sustainable. >> that's a big deal. if it is true that the new cia director doesn't think the cia should be killing people with drones, that the military should be doing it instead, that's a big deal. but you know what would be a bigger deal? is if the president agreed with that. should we see the president's nomination of john brennan to run the cia as a sign that the president agrees with that and that that change is going to happen? >> i believe so. >> the nomination of john brennan should be seen as a sign that president obama may take >>> a

and we found a piece of tape of helen thomas and robert gibbs. this is back in 2009.his is just several months after the president took office, back at the very beginning of sort of the more open and transparent administration that everybody was expecting. so with that in mind, this happened that long ago, let's listen to this she is responding to a story about reporters being told the night before they were going to be picked in this town hall that was supposed to be open spontaneous thing. here is that exchange. >> that is his point. white house controls. we have never had that in the white house. we have had some controls. >> i was going to say. i let you amend her question. >> i'm amazes at you people who called for openness and transparency -- >> we haven't even heard your questions. >> doesn't matter. it is the process. >> it is a pattern. >> which question did you object to at the town hall meeting, helen? what is the pattern? >> the pattern of controlling the press. >> how so? any evidence currently that i'm controlling the press? >> by calling reporters the n

take a listen to the president on friday followed by former white house press secretary robert gibbs.g. the american people may have the capacity to do that. >> many people in congress are far more concerned about a primary challenge from their right in the case of house republicans than they ever are about being in a district where a democrat can beat them. so right now there isn't a lot that compels working across party lines right now. >> and so my question to you, amy, first, that is eve fn the president calls on people to do for the greater good, isn't the fear of being primaried really, personally at home, isn't that going to take precedence and trump these polpoliticians? >> i can understand why the former press secretary is trying to shift blame. let's talk about the problem congress is facing with sequestration. house republicans gave the president is opportunity to pick and choose these cuts more wisely. now we're moving to a government shutdown. i think the american people are sick of the blame game. they want to see our leaders actually take action. to have the president o

you had robert gibbs come out and say that when he first took the reins as press secretary, he wasn't allowed to acknowledge this thing even existed. you had rand paul there, 13 hours, drawing attention to this by using absurd sort of examples, jane fonda, in a cafe being struck down by hellfire missiles. but i think he did his cause some good around drones, but also, looks like he's going to run for president in 2016, he's at the forefront, i think, of a real movement of tea party folks and people who were concerned about government overreach. >> well, we'll see if that comes to pass for 2016. but before that, perry, look at all the republicans who weren't behind the filibuster, notably john mccain. he took the senate floor to publicly chastise rand paul for this. how is this playing out within the party as a whole? >> we're seeing this big divide among republicans. you remember back in the bush era only six republicans in the house actually voted against the iraq war. i think if you had a similar kind of war now, there's a bigger wing of the republican party that is very antiwar, mo

i read today that axelrod is oining nbc and robert gibbs is joining nbc, and we know that george stephanopoulos is now at abc. it is amazing -- and you wonder what the press does not really get going. my attitude toward cable television and all these reporters going on cable television is simple. if you took away all these guys, this clause, "i think," none of them could say anything, because none of them know very much. so i am there in 1968, freelancing. mccarthy, i do four or five months there. i am freelancing in 1969. nixon is in. nixon campaigned on that great campaign slogan, had a plan to end the war. it turned out that his plan was to win it, but we did not know that. so i'm minding my business. i had done a book, chemical and biological warfare, but i was married, had a kid, and if i made $8,000 in 1969 it was a lot. my wife was a social worker. four gallons of gasoline for a uck. also heating oil was 18 cents. you could live. in late 1969 i got a contract from random house to do something on pentagon waste. i am doing it. it is money in the bank. i get a call one day. it was from som

. >> robert gibbs, david axelrod and of course, the right goes crazy about this. know, there is kind of a -- there is going to be a deep liberal progressive democratic bench of contributors at msnbc heading into the next elections in 2014 and 2016. >> bill: we were hoping at one time that current tv would surpass msnbc in terms of a progressive strong network but -- alas, alas, that's not going to be. the other big media story and you've been right in the middle of it at politico. you can follow dylan at politico.com. front page, will you see lot of his stuff there and his own blog. but is the bob woodward story. >> yeah. >> bill: you were one of the first to say -- politico is the one who put the story out there right. bob woodward's criticism of obama as to who came up with the idea of the sequester. and then woodward complaining he had been attacked by -- threatened. you were the first ones to write that maybe woodward's cry of alarm was not merited. >> yeah. you know, throughout the day after this piece came out in which woodward is saying not saying but basic

i talked to former white house press secretary robert gibbs. he's now an msnbc contributor. place. take a listen. >> at this point compromise is a word in washington that if you say you have to bleep out. it's a bad word. and many people in washington are far more concerned about a primary challenge from their right in the case of house republicans than they ever are about being in a district where a democrat can beat them. so right now there isn't a lot that compels working across party lines right now. and i think what the president is betting on is that this pressure publicly through ending some services that people find obviously necessary, reducing our military readiness and reducing our economic the growth is really the only tool that he has in his arsenal to move republicans back to the table. hi cannot compel them to do something that fundamentally they don't want to do. oo historic day at the supreme court this week. wednesday the high court heard arguments on undoing parts of the voting rights act. at issue is a provision that requires some states with a history of

. >> i want to get your take on something that former press secretary robert gibbs said about the dronegh the process of becoming press secretary, one of the things -- one of the first things they told me was you're not even to acknowledge the drone program. you're not even to discuss that it exists. >> now, critics have come out and said where is the transparency in this administration. this was supposed to be a very transparent administration. others have said well, wait a second. this is national security. you don't go out there at the podium and talk about the drone program and which terrorists we're targeting so they know where they can run and hide. where do you come out on this controversy this week? >> well, there certainly have been plenty of leaks with respect to national security, so i wish this administration had been as tight lipped about everything as they have been about drones. not telling the media with all due respect is one thing, but not telling congress what method you use to decide whether or not to kill americans overseas is a very different matter. our framers se

cornered by reporters after this, white house secretary robert gibbs attempted to defend the kill list, which is secret, of course. you have to remember, if we're going to kill noncombatants in america or people we think might someday be combatants, the list will be secret, so you won't get a chance to protest hey, i'm not that bad. i might have said that one time, but i'm not that bad. all right. i have objected to big government, not all government. i don't -- i'm not fomenting revolution. i was critical at that meeting. i was at a tea party meeting and i was critical of the president, but i'm not a revolutionary. please don't kill me. should we live in a country where you have to be worried about what you say? should we live in a country where you have to worry about what you write? what kind of country would that be? why is there not more moral outrage? why is there not every senator coming down to say you're exactly right, let's go ahead and hold this nomination, and why don't we hold it until we get more clarification from the president? connor freedersdorf of "the atlantic" writ