a perfme for politics monday, with tamara keith of npr and amy walter of the cook political report, we are happy to have you both back together again. you >> yeah.n a long time. >> tamara back from having a baby. >> yes. he's cute, three months ago. >> we're so glad to you have yback. >> tha. >> wdz and have the two of you together, omarosa, you, heard amy, you heard her commentses aboueverything from the president being racist to the white house trying to shut r down what did you make of it? >> i'm not reay particularly surprised by this, this is somebody who has made a career out ofbeing a reality star, i think she is doing an excellent job of keeping at persona going of i'm going to reveal only a little bit and reveaora little bitand reveal a little bit por about the drama. i thought it was fasyonating the watalked to her, over and over again about this blind spot or this pernl at that she said she only became aware of once she was out of white house. but remember she did not make a decision to leave willingly. she was fired from the white house. so now all these months later she ca

tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr, and richard painter was chief white house ethics adviser for george w. bush. why now? what's specific about the potential departure of mcgahn that's got so many people worried, or is it just one more thing that's making them worried? >> ali, it's just one more thing that's making them worry. this fear has been building for a while now as it looks increasingly likely that democrats have a real possibility of taking over the majority of the house at a minimum in november's midterm elections. and people around the president, his allies, including some of his advisers inside the white house, are very concerned that could lead to a barrage of subpoenas, of investigations, of inquiries into ethical misconduct in the administration, into increase perhaps into the president's businesses, and most dangerously, into possible impeachment proceedings, depending, of course, on what sort of report special counsel robert mueller issues regarding obstruction of justice. and so there is concern that trump is not prepared for that, that he hasn't hired the k

and what his passing means for a heated arizona election, with our regular politics monday team: tamara keith of npr and amy walter of the ook political report." welcome to you both. this back and forth between president obama and senator john mccain went on right up tthe end, and actually beyond the end a little bit. ta we plyed a little bit of the final message read this morning in arizona and he had some words that could be interpreted as a message about president trump. >> certainly. there was a passage, and i've written it down so i apologize for look doing, but he says we weaken our greatness when we confuse patriotism with tribal rivalries that have zone resentment and hatre violence in all corners of the globe. we weaken it when we hide behinh walls rathern tear them down. president trump obviously talks a lot about wall, and this -- you kno, it wasn't officially a message to president trump, but it certainly reads that way. and this comes as president trump put out a statement on twitter that did not say anythatg nicll about john mccain, at least initially, and then today the was a l

here to help make sense of it all, we turn to tamara keith of "npr" and elianaliohnson of "co."come, so is if a big deal hat trump tweeted this yesterday, somethiat he said in the past. >> it is something that he has precisely said in the past. it seems this is lkly related to a "washington post" article over the weekend that said he was concerned that his son done 58d-- donald trump, jr. would be at legal peril apart of the mueller investigation. i think it is interesting that the president is emphasizing t at he didn't know abit 234 advance-- in advance. this comes after an port that michael cohen, his former personal lawyer and fixer had said that he might be willing to tell the fbi that donald trump did know about it. so the psident is sort of emphasizing that in particuchla. >>rin: is this a big deal am you heard jeh secretary youly say how could this be a bheig deal. >>irst thing to note is we know bob mueller is looking too this, would certainly be a big deal if bob mule prer to find that the president's son who was an integral part othe campaign were criminally at fault