the senior captain of the marine corps and for the white house communication detail that's their navy lieutenant colonel of the u.s. army. >> the last question this evening several viewers have asked this. why did you decide to write the book on camp david and what was one or two things that were fascinated that you learned while you were researching for the book? >> thank you. on the day of command there's a photo of my wife and two daughters ages seven and four and my wife michelle and she hands me this journal and the oeste thing in the journal are scrawled notes from my two daughters saying dear daddy please write stories about the president's. i had never thought of it so after every visit weekend or event i would sit down and write down what happened. i did it after the clinton administration and the inauguration and i put that away in my desk. i never thought i could write a book. over the reunion weekend a lot of the former training officers were there and they were all meeting each other some for the first time and some had known each other for years and i here heard many of

we have a white house communications agency they're called -- in charge of communications -- that's a joint command coming out of the main command, in downtown. >> can you tell us a little bit about how camp david has changed over the years? it's very rustic when fdr first comes to camp david. there has been notable additions to the complex. you mentioned there is a chaplain. there is a chapel like camp david. talk a little bit about the buildings and activities, how that complex has changed over time. >> go back to fdr again, why the navy has it is because he took the sailors off the uss potomac, they did not have a job and took them with him to camp david. he also -- for his own security. fdr only went there during the long winter months. truman, not a fan of camp david, prefer to go to key west. put a permit around the place, had the trees pushed back from the cabins, and then, during eisenhower's time, it was -- he was installed in all the cabins. a very rustic, they have still maintained that. but over the years, the families and administration, -- president nixon during his time

and for the white house communication agency detail that's their. maybe a lieutenant colonel typically in the u.s. army. >> and our last question this evening. several of viewers have asked this. why did you decide to write the book on camp david. and what was one or two things that were just fascinating that you learned while you are researching to write the book? >> thank you. wonderful final question. on the day a change of command, there is a photo of my wife and two daughters. ages seven and four. and she hands me this journal. and the first page of the journal is a scroll of two girls, breonna and ryan saying do daddy, please write stories with the presidents -- someday arkansas will read about them. so it's humorous, i would never thought of it. and so after every visit, weekend or event i would sit down and i just kind of write down what happened. so i did that through the clinton administration, at the end of it, i did for the inauguration of bush. and i put that away and my desk and never opened it for 17 years. never thought i could write

joining me now is the white house communications director kate bedingfield.nk you so much for being with us. what role did president biden play in this deal? >> well, remember, these are some of the core things that president biden campaigned on in 2020, these are things that he promised to make progress on when he asked the american people for his vote. so he was incredibly gratified last night to see this breakthrough that senator manchin and senator schumer and so many others worked so hard on for many, many months. as you just laid out it is a historic step forward in our fight to tackle the climate crisis, it will help us meet the carbon emission goal by 2030 which is absolutely critical as our planet is burning. it is enormously important and it's also going to bring down costs, going to bring down health care costs and it's going to reduce the deficit. so it's going to do all this have while ensuring that corporations are paying their share share of taxes and that no one making under $400,000 a year sees a tax increase. these were core promises that pr

president to show more urgency on the issue and your issue had a telling quote from the white house communicationso had a response from the democrats over the weekend. tell us about that. >> yes, i think we were all surprised at how forceful the white house came out in response to our story. in paraphrasing, the white house communications director said that joe biden's aim is not to satisfy demands of the left wing of the party, liberal activists, who they said were often out of step with the mainstream democratic party. and that quote got a lot of attention, because many advocates, lawmakers, advocates, feel that there is no distance between the base of the democratic party and the left plank, that abortion rights, abortion access, are a key plan of the democratic party and that is one of the things that the party is most united on there. are a lot of policy issues where there is distance between joe biden and activist base of the party, gradations of how people think the president should act on a whole range of issues and abortion is one that we often zoo hear much about -- don't hear much about

i want to get to the former white house communications director alyssa farah griffin. she knows the former trump aides will be testifying tomorrow. alyssa, i'm glad to see you here today. a lot is being made of the prime-time hearing. that's a big deal in itself. but about these two witnesses, tell me what you think of their ability to testify credibly tomorrow. >> so, i think it was extremely start of the committee to pair these two witnesses together. i know matt pottinger was the senior most national security aide on site in the west wing on the day of january 6th. robert o'brien was not in the white house. this is a person with an incredible career, credibility across the aisle. he served as wall street wall street bureau chief. he went on to be one of the most renowned on a bipartisan basis. oon the other side, you have my friend, sarah matthews, who is a tried and true republican. she was hand picked by the trump campaign to come to the west wing. she worked with republican leaders on capitol hill. you can't claim it's a never-trumper or a r.h.i.n.o. so, they bri

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tonight, we have a former white house communications director in the administration, who very publicly pleaded with the ex president during the insurrection to call off them up. condemned us now, she begged on twitter, you are the only one they will listen to. for our country. we actually have a trio of trump world and committee insiders this evening to help us walk through exactly what to expect, including someone who led a national questioning of two key witnesses that we will be hearing from tomorrow. remember, this is a congressional investigation. i could go on for many more months. committee members are promising the probe are not winding down, only ramping up with so much new information coming in. it seems almost daily. remember, when it ends, whenever that is, it ends with a report, not a verdict. you will have a conclusion, not criminal charges or some sort of answer of who did what, when, why and what you should do about it in a court of law. that power lies with the justice department. there is news on that front apparently tonight, as well. there is now a huge question mar

the latest staffer to leave the white house, communication team head for the door, is this why the whiteget messaging right or is this just normal churn? >> joe: this guy, michael larosa, probably signed off on the hispanics are tacos thing, perhaps it is a good time to excuse one's self. there is normal churn in white houses, particularly when it comes to those on the communication team. to do it now and have that be part of the news cycle when you have midterms 100 days away, we see folks leaving, it's just a bad look. if you were committed to your job, wait until after midterm and finish things out. many staffers in the white house know it is coming, red tsunami november and they don't want to be around when it happens. i don't want to be here, you got to keep the trains runs on time. i'm taking a four-day weekend down to the jersey shore. >> todd: avoid the sharks, enjoy your time, but avoid the sharks. >> joe: and wear looser pants, you don't want things ripping at an unfortunate time. >> todd: again, noted. senator ted cruz capturing disturbing footage from the boarderce, one of th

the agencies but yesterday kate wedding bedingfield has been at bedrock for this white house, she's white house communicationsextremely experienced but everybody in the democratic party, including the white house is blaming communication for all of their problems in their low poll numbers and i can see why she wanted to leave. >> first of all change in the white house is regular. the average tenure of a senior white house aide it's about 18 months. you and i worked in a place where people stay longer because of the environment that the united states created. the volume of this is highly unusual and i think that phil's departure. this been one of the longest standing aids for joe biden and has been part of his operations for a significant period of time and her departure precipitously they're changing this communicator but they're not changing the policies that put them in this bad place. i also think that we have something going on here with jean-pierre, the press secretary. i don't mean to be hypercritical but she's a disaster. the sake was pretty darn good come of this was pretty darn bad. my suspicion is t

this is kate beginfield the white house communications director from the firing position of begin.owhere to deal with her husband and children, and behind them are the smoking ruins on them and work with the press, which biden never managed to learn to perceive and preparation for debates and interviews that the boss plainly and does not lead and does not give and vague agenda everything is turned upside down, however, in the democratic party. this is just welcome and the senator from rudailand tiara mage sensitively feels the request in an inverted position, she dances twerk in tiktok, agitating for herself with the work of all her developed muscles. the eight-second video has already gained 2 1/2 million views and the number of memes is growing, like the rest of the democrats is not clear, but the tiara, the magician in the fall in the elections, seems to be doing well. this is the quintessence of everything that modern people believe in. democrats, not a single video has ever explained the essence of the democratic party. as clear as the twerk upside down from the maggb foc tiar

white house. bad optics. and you know they don't like bad optics. it could explain why kate bedingfield the white house communication. would you want to stick around to answer for the first son being charged with money laundering? i don't think so. it's a big mess to clean up like the more than 150 flags placed on financial transactions made by hunter and joe's brother jim. janet yellen is doing her best to stop these flags from becoming public. but who knows how long she can keep it going. and somebody has got to answer for a shady oil deal between the biden administration and chinese energy company that happens to be linked to hunter biden. back in april, biden sold nearly a million barrels of oil from our strategic reserve to a chinese state-owned company unipec also known as sign peck. sinopec. that ended up going to china instead at home. the french woman was asked about it today but she didn't really know what she was talking about. >> was the administration aware that some of that oil ended up going overseas? >> so, when it comes to, um, the oil, it is something that oil companies decide -- we cannot control

mercedes schlapp, acu senior fellow and former trump white house advisor for strategic communications, a former biden campaign surrogate as well. all right. mercedes, i thought that democrat said it succinctly talking about all that's going on and how they have to get along with each other. does it matter what they say in public if they don't get along in priefsh senate it all comes out in the wash. >> democrats are stressed out about the mid-term elections. it's a sign if they aren't asking joe biden to go on the campaign trail with the candidates. you see distance happening between many of the democrat candidates and the administration. this is polar opposite with what we see with president trump and even governor desantis who is out there endorsing candidates and campaigning for republican candidates coming for the mid-term elections. it is really hard for the party, the democrat party right now to come together because their focus has been so much on climate change, on the abortion issue, and they are missing the big point here that 75% of voters think the economy and the inflatio

. >> alyssa farah griffin was the white house communications director for then-president trump from april through december 2020. >> we actually had to pull together a meeting in the oval to remind him many of our voters particularly senior citizens were going to vote by mail, and that we were deterring people from turning out and from voting in the way that they would. >> all this caught the attention of congresswoman liz cheney, a rock red conservative and daughter of former vice president dick cheney. at the time she was number three in house republican leadership. the conference chair. >> it concerned me because we wanted people to be able to vote as republican. i wasn't concerned about it from a constitutional perspective at all. those concerns clearly came later on. >> there are going to be millions of missing ballots. >> cheney's constitutional concerns came about five weeks before election day. >> then-president trump was asked if he'd commit to a peaceful transfer of power. >> will you commit here today for a peaceful transfer of power after the election? >> well, we're going to h

white house say about that if ryan didn't show. >> the white house says they are in contact with ryan about a variety of different issues. >> bret: okay. secondly, you have got the white house communications director kate bedingfield announcing she is leaving. why is she leaving? >> the official word from people here is that she wants to go spend more time with her husband and kids but this departure comes just a few weeks after the president said in an interview that he has done a lot of big things and just hasn't been able to communicate them well. so, a few weeks later, they are going to have a new communications director. it is also notable though, that when jen psaki left a few weeks back, the president immediately put out a statement praising her. now we have a statement about bedingfield leaving from the white house. there is praise from the chief of staff ron klain. there is praise from the adviser anita dunn. nothing from the president. bret? >> bret: yet. we will see. peter, thank you. stocks were up today. dow gained 70. the s&p 500 rose 14. the nasdaq added 40. up next, two men caught with enough fentanyl to potentially kill a small town are now missing. we will explain and br

former white house communications director, alyssa farah, said she is aware of other white house staffers that the doj has contacted. the washington post reports that investigators now have their hands on the phone records of former aides, including mark meadows. it is all a signal that the investigation is entering a new phase. nbc news confirmed today that the doj is actively investigating former president trump's actions leading up to the sixth. his response, the call on the doj to investigate the 2020 election, which he continues to say was rigged and stolen, when in fact, it was not. all bs claims, according to his own attorney general, bill barr. >>> the suspected fourth of july parade shooter in illinois now faces 17 indictments. the lake county sheriff's office announced the charges today. they include first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery with a firearm. the suspects arraignment is set for next week. it all comes as lawmakers on the house oversight committee forced gun manufacturers to testify on capitol hill. >> it seems to me that if a company really car

this morning, an acquaintance of hers, former white house communications director and current cnn politicals, quote, aware of other white house officials who have been reached out to by the department and are planning to cooperate, and quote. she was more specific when asked about it this afternoon. >> there was someone else in the broader network who i consider mid level that could support some of what they are looking into, specifically around similar questions to what's short was asked about, which is the pressure campaign on mike pence in the days leading up to january 6th, those games up things like fake electors, and even some of these creative ways the certain officials at the department of justice wanted to bypass the law to try to hold on to

and the biden white house are not doing enough on these issues that matter so much to americans, especially to democrats perhaps. on the matter of abortion rights, white house communications director told the washington post biden is focused on helping women and building a coalition, adding, quote, joe biden's goal in responding to the dobb's decision is not to satisfy activists out of step with the mainstream of the democratic party, unquote. that comment is getting a lot of notice this weekend. i'm wondering what you make of it. >> well, let me begin by pointing out to everybody listening that illinois is now an island, an oasis in the nation protecting women's reproductive rights. there's more we need to do. the federal government should be doing more. i've talked to the president about this, and he took some action in that regard with some executive orders the other day. but democrats need to be pushing for a national law that protects reproductive rights across the nation. we are going to, you know, have an influx of women coming to illinois. we already are as a result of shutting off reproductive rights for women in virtually every state around us. just look at the

attorney for the southern district of new york and former trump white house communications director. you know all these players. let's start off with the new detail. someone coming out who was there in the motorcade corroborating the account by cassidy hutchinson of a heated altercation. >> this was very significant. maga world and trumpworld used this story, the one piece of hearsay in her entire testimony, to weaponized against her and try to undercut her credibility. now to have somebody come forward and actually be able to corroborate that bit of evidence, it only lends the extreme credibility she has. congressman raskin said earlier this week that come after sitting down with pat cipollone, he corroborated a significant amount of the testimony from cassidy hutchinson as well. i have said from the outset, but the facts play out. i have the highest level of respect for her integrity. but there were also be people who come out and show she is telling the truth. the pushback we're seeing from trumpworld is not under oath. it is simply people trying to protect themselves. >> it is im

the white house is pushing back on those critics. white house communicationst," biden isn't to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the democratic party. it's to deliver help to women who are in danger and assem by a broad-based coalition to defend a woman's right to choose. joining me is washington post journalist behind some of this reporting. tell us why the white house, and let's start at the beginning with this, is took the white house a while to come up with a response. they were not expecting this ruling when it came out. why were they unprepared initially? >> like you said, they believed the ruling would come at the end of the term. they believed the supreme court would be one of the final decisions so president biden was getting ready to leave for europe, g7 and nato. his speech was signed off and they they would he would deliver that speech upon returning from madrid. the day of the ruling, people were want prepared for it to come down. they thought they would have an extra week to prepare. you saw some

witnessed, are they the person was, that the photographer, is the person that manages the white house communicationse switchboard, do they know where that walls that happened -- the dereliction of duty there. do they have firsthand testimony? and in terms of that, he's probably aware of that. giving cassidy hutchinson's damning testimony came, knowing trump, they're going down the list. this is how it works with this inner circle, i've seen it firsthand, there go down a list and say who's vulnerable. what information to these people know, we need to get to them first is what i'm thinking. that's why my thinking went. >> i don't know how we know it's the president. >> you're right. i don't have, i couldn't charge this at all. let's assume for the sake of argument, there's a foundational reason that they knew that it was the president of the united states. okay, let's assume that for a second. i know it's an assumption, you need to connect the dots as well, if that's the case should he be worried? >> yes, look i want to be clear donald trump's not getting arrested tomorrow for witness tampering. i'm w

so this reinforces what former trump white house communications director alyssa griffin revealed hereday. remember, griffin is a close personal friend of cassidy hutchinson, the former west wing aide who delivered that explosive testimony earlier this week. >> cassidy came to me and said there's more i want to share with the committee. a couple months ago i put her in touch with congresswoman cheney. she got a new lawyer and that's how this testimony came about. people need to understand trump world was assigning lawyers to a lot of these staffers who themselves don't have -- >> assigning lawyers? >> i should say covering the cost of lawyers for people who don't have big legal defense funds. >> joining us now is michael moore, former u.s. attorney for middle georgia and former federal prosecutor, also the host of "the on topic" podcast. thank you for being with us. michael, trump world paying for lawyers. legally is that sound? >> you know, i'm glad to be with you, first. there really is not a problem with an organization paying to have a lawyer or lawyers represent people that may ha

in a "washington post" story the white house communications director put up this statement saying joe biden's goal in responding to dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream democratic party. it's to deliver help to women who are in danger and assemble a broad base coalition to defend a woman's right to choose. now just as he has assembled such a coalition to win the 2020 campaign. this was a whoa moment to me when i read it because the administration has been so reticent to go down that path despite regular conversations with frontline democrats asking them to take this kind of stand. do you feel like this is a good strategy, and is this a turning point for the administration in terms of how they deal with their own party? >> well, i think this is a turning point for democrats and it is the big wild card in american politics right now which is just what does overturning roe v. wade mean as far as election day? it is a wild card in 2022. you said earlier it's almost a fait accompli. the republicans will take congress. i don't thi

and actually, what it reflects is that this white house is not prepared to meet the moment that they are in. that statement by the white house communicationsaling that the progressive issues that the base of this party cares about are not the priority of this administration. that's why you see a 64% disapproval rating for this president. that's why you see these articles and these calls about having a different person being at the top of the ticket for 2024. these are challenging times that the country is facing right now. on top of the economic issues, on to of inflation and to not have a president who is aggressive, who is on the offense about issues that the base cares about is really unfortunate. it's just not meeting the voters where they are right now today. >> there are a lot of people who argue. they do have a story to tell. they just need to be better prepared. so who or at least what kind of person do you think they need heading the communications office now? >> it has to be someone who has been in the ground in the states. someone who has their ear to what activists are saying. someone who has the ability to work with all member

security, closely covering january 6th and the investigation and alyssa griffin, former trump white house communications director. thanks to both of you. ryan, let's start with mark short, highest ranking white house official we know of to testify before the department of justice, he also testified before the january 6th committee. doing so friday. he said it's the only time he's done so. how significant is the development? >> it's hugely significant. this is the first time we know of any white house official testifying before the grand jury for the justice department's investigation. and it's mark short. so it goes right into the inner circle and the "wall street journal" is also reporting that greg jacob, the chief counsel to vice president pence and the prosecutors had a line of questioning which was about the january 4th meeting in the oval office that's going right to the heart of it, that's very legally significant because it's the moment, as evan said, where eastman is confronted and says in front of trump, i admit, it's not legal what i'm advocating. >> and you know what's amazing, this meeting,

my producer evan flagged this statement given to the washington post from kate, the white house communications director talking about the activists out there saying joe biden's goal responding to dobbs is not satisfy activists consistently out of step with the main stream of the democratic party. it seems, though, in a sense, she is effectively trashing or criticizing the left and response to the handling. >> i think what she's saying and i've been on calls with the white house about this as they have tried to guide what it is that the white house is trying to do is that because the overturning of roe v. wade was so agegregious in its effect, t white house can't fix it all from one day to the next and in fact, some abortion activists, not all of them but some abortion activists, the same way they're activists on the other side go too far. what she's saying and the white house says is look, we'll do everything in our power to continue to protect women and if you look at what the president did in his executive order, that is exactly what he's dictatcari. he wants to make sure for example, the ac

were they the person who runs the white house communications?w the switchboard, the actions that happened? the dereliction of duty there? do they have first hand testimony? she's probably aware of that. given cassidy hutchinson's outstanding testimony, knowing trump they're going down the list because this is how it works with this inner circle. i've seen it first hand. they're going down the list and saying, who's vulnerable? what information do these people know? and we've got to get to them first is what i'm thinking. that's where my thinking went. >> again, i just don't know how we know it's the president. >> i don't know. >> i hear you -- >> it's up in the house -- >> you're right. i don't have -- i couldn't charge this at all. but let's assume for sake of argument there's some foundational reason that they knew that it was the president of the united states -- let's assume that for a second. i know it's an assumption and they have to connect the dots for me as well. if that's the case, should he be worried? >> yes. donald trump is not gett

friday, i'm a peacock show, i spoke with dan fight for who served as white house communications directoristration. he's also the author of battle in the big lie, how fox, facebook, and maga media are destroying america. he tried to answer those questions. >> nobody messaging can stop the supreme court, whose majority have been reported -- from doing what they're doing. when you have to do, is you can't just take a vote. i think it's important to tell people to go vote for a plan. how do we get there? how do we fix what's this dead? i think the president did this very specifically, it took a little time to get there, but he says give me good to senators, i will support getting rid of the filibuster to codify roe v. wade. we're gonna use executive actions, we're going to campaign and work in states where we can protect abortion access for people. have an actual plan to do it. i think this is a good -- you can say just go about, you had to say go about here is how it's going to affect you. here's the plan for how we undo this. even if the plan is going to take time, is going to take work, i

. >> yeah, so, having said that, i want to read to you's statement from white house communications directore to the washington post. they published a piece on biden's kind of response, slow response, many would argue to the roe decision. quote, joe biden's goal in responding to dobbs, that is the decision to overturn is not to satisfy some activists who've been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the democratic party. a lot of people are angry about that quote. do you think that's the kind of messaging the white house should be using right now? attacking activists, attacking the base, rather than the republicans? so, that is the key. we have to be clear who our common enemy is. it's republicans, it's not the activists, and certainly not people who are getting people engaged and ready to vote this november in this critical midterm. so, while we could take up time trying to figure out of the statement was right. it is important to know that we are all in the same team, and we have the same common enemy, and that is republicans, who promised to do this for decades. >> before i let

alyssa fair griffin served as white house communications director under trump, and elliott williams is a former deposition si assistant attorney general. welcome to all of you to the conversation. elliott, let me start with you. drawing the direct line from the former president from the administration to those responsible for the physical violence there at the capitol, did the 1/6 committee do it. >> from the doj perspective, i would say no because drawing that direct line means he's getting the information himself not through intermediaries and so on. it's important to step back and think about all the other things they have laid out, namely, possibly witness tampering, obstruction of official proceedings and on down. so it's not, victor, we should be very careful to note that only linking the president to the acts of violence would be the only crime that he and others in the white house around him could be subject to criminal exposure for. but that direct link is going to be very challenging for the president. >> alyssa, in terms of the witnesses being pressured not to speak, we know

megan, because you mentioned the out of step, line i have to read the quote, from outgoing white house communications. quote she gave to washington, both on the record, about their strategy. joe biden's goal in responding to the supreme court decision,, it's not to satisfy some activists, that is consistently out of step with the democratic party. what do you think when you read that line meghan? >> it was not my favorite quote that i read in 2022. i don't know that i would have assigned my name to such a thing. i think it's deeply offensive. also not true. nothing anybody is asking for that is not a step, that has not been a mainstream democratic position, since the clinton administration. people want access to abortion. it's okay to ask for what you want. to dismiss this as sort of out of touch activism, is incorrect. but these are the people that you need. you need us. we are -- asking for crazy things, like codifying roe at the other level. that is not crazy. he needs to win, we should be working together on a solution, as opposed to queuing up the firing squad on this one. >> amanda, one of the

and i want to go now to the former trump white house communications director. our senior legal analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and juliet keim the former assistant secretary of homeland security. ellie, you hear bannon's defense nine months after defying the subpoena for the first time. what do you make of it? >> well, steve bannon's options and his defenses are narrowing by the day. i think heading into this trial steve bannon was expecting to turn this into a political spectacle, to make the speeches we just saw him make outside the courtroom, say they're targeting me because i'm steve bannon, because i'm unpopular and where is bennie thompson and all that. the reality is what happens inside the courtroom is a very different ball game and this judge has run a strict courtroom and he's not allowing any of that nonsense into play, nor should he because it's not relevant. that's left steve bannon to argue essentially i thought the subpoena was an opening invitation to negotiate. i think the prosecution's response

until december 2020, she was the white house communications director under president trump. and alyssa, you were also friends with cassidy hutchinson. thank you for being here. >> thank you, sara, for having me. >> we've talked about this before. you worked directly with former president trump's chief of staff, mark meadows. from your experience with him, would it be uncharacteristic of him to try to do something like this? he's being accused of someone in his camp trying to intimidate a witness in this testimony, that witness, obviously your friend, cassidy hutchinson. >> listen, the mark meadows of maybe half a decade ago when i first worked for him, this would be unheard of. but the mark meadows that i think began to come out when he was in the west wing and really revealed itself in the final months, it completely tracks with diend of behavior he was engaging in. beyond just obviously the direct things that applied to cassidy, this potential intimidation, he was bringing in some of the worst of the worst conspiracy theorists to give them an audience with the president. h

this morning, an acquaintance of hers, former white house communications director and current cnn political commentator, alyssa griffin, said she is, quote, aware of other white house officials who have been reached out to by the department and are planning to cooperate, and quote. she was more specific when asked about it this afternoon. >> there was someone else in the broader network who i consider mid level that could support some of what they are looking into, specifically around similar questions to what's short was asked about, which is the pressure campaign on mike pence in the days leading up to january 6th, those games up things like fake electors, and even some of these creative ways the certain officials at the department of justice wanted to bypass the law to try to hold on to victory. >> and the short, she referred to their, former pence chief of staff, marc short, who testified before the grand jury, the federal grand jury. greg jacob as well they are on the right of your screen. served as a top lawyer to the former vice president. he also testified. which doesn't confirm the

joining us now cnn's political commentator, alyssa fair griffin, she served as white house communications director under president trump. welcome back, if these republicans are willing to praise pence only in private and condemn trump only in private, does it matter what they say if they don't come out and do this publicly? >> well, this kind of underscores just this dynamic that's existed for the last five years within the republican party where privately the vast majority of elected republicans want donald trump to go away, but they can't publicly say that, and i would know the republican study committee, which my former boss mike pence was a former chairman of, many of the members present themselves did not vote to certify the election. yet, they're praising his bravery for doing just that. so there's this inconsistency within the republican party that they continue to grapple with, but i would say this. the fact that he did get a standing ovation and that he's meeting with these party officials i think shows that the former president is weakened and that the party is recognizing it's

. >>> let's bring in cnn political commentator and former trump white house communications director alyssaarah griffin, john avalon and norm ieisen wit us as well. what do you think about now that doj is looking specifically and asking questions about donald trump's conduct? >> i think it's a significant development and i think marc short, former vice president pence's chief of staff and greg jacob actually sitting down with the grand jury and testifying is a hugely significant step. i've said this before, but marc short is basically pence's eyes and ears. pence is a studied practiced politician who does things like have their chief counsel and chief of staff with them in virtually all meetings. marc short had tremendous visibility into every step of this pressure campaign leading up to january 6th and would be able to speak to that. i think that -- and then you pair that with what the attorney general said and we could be moving -- this is the most confident i've felt and i'm not the lawyer at the table -- that we are moving forward a potential indictment of the former president. >> and w

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certification of jo biden's election when bands refused to testify until now, claiming his white house communications were covered by executive privilege. the final phase of the corruption trial of argentina's, vice president is getting underway and boiler sarah's. christina de kirschner is accused of profiting from dozens of public works contracts that were allegedly awarded and inflated prices. 12 others on trial alongside her and verdicts are expected by the end of the year with daniel shy, miller is in what us air is for us to bring you up to bring us up to speed with this corruption case. daniel will is a case that actually began in 2019, but as you mentioned were entering the final crucial phase with the former president. christina fernandez the kitchener 12 other defendants including 2 former cabinet ministers, the verdicts and if necessary, sentencing. we are, we're expecting to see a before the end of the year, but she is a huge figure in argentine politics. she was the president from 2007 until 2015. her husband left the kitchen or was president before her. and it's quite likely that she wi

to see content pieces, about what they intended to do beforehand and were those communications with people in the white houseircle, i want to see facts about communications and sort of conversations to conspiracy beforehand. not the president just told me to show up. >> i remember one moment there was the testimony that someone said look the president asked me to do two things, one was a vote for him the other was, on january 6 and i remember having a bit of the same reticence of skepticism that you had with this possibly being enough in the court or the case i was prosecuting, he can't claim he doesn't really know all of what is going on in terms of being totally ignorant of the facts around it but we will have to see what happens next, thank you for your time as always it is good to see you. >>> can't claim he doesn't know at least who the next witness is, he will testify before the committee and he knows them because he is the former white house counsel. the question will be will pat cipollone be able to potentially do may be the most damage to him yet? stay with us. i just love our new alexa. dad,d, it's

white house. we are now seeing a major shake-up with the communications director stepping down from her job as white has not been named. this is a notable departure and one of several we have seen in recent weeks from within the west wing. speak to thank the report. coming up, the effort to expel wolf district attorney crossing a major hurdle setting the stage to oust him from office. an organizer for the movement joins us next. ♪ ♪ like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? it's how some people describe... shingles. a painful, blistering rash that could interrupt your life for weeks. forget social events and weekend getaways. if you've had chickenpox, the virus that causes shingles is already inside of you. if you're 50 years or older ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingles. every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watching you. the internet doesn't have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clearing and

white house is one of the highest places for any pr official. you go from the white house to any massive important communication job, pr, et cetera. the fact they're not able to field messaging gurus on this and she's staying on for longer suggests to me that people don't think they'll be working in the biden administration for more than two more years. >> look, she's welcome to come on and tell us. >>> we'll get more into the bad news bias argument after the break. paul krugman is standing by. we'll go live to arizona for this. there are two very different types of republicans running in primaries this year. y i'llll show you how to spot the differences. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me♪ ♪nothing and me go hand in hand♪ ♪nothing on my skin♪ ♪that's my new plan♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ achieve clearer skin with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin, even at 4 years. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. ♪it's my moment, s

you have to clean up things the president has said, that is a constant in the white house communication office. >> no, not me. >> you know, that -- the team has a big job in front of them obviously with this president and see what 2024 brings. >> john: a lot of names are being kicked around, should he decide not to run or the party convince him not to run, and all much younger than the president. kamala harris, 57 years old, amy klobuchar, 62. pete buttigieg, jamie pritzker, 57, andy beshear, and alexandria ocasio-cortez, turn 35 in october, 2024, and could stand for election. could any of them beat the republican candidate? >> i don't see any stars in the line-up. >> we could have any republican but i don't see a star in that line-up. you have gavin newsom spending money on ads, in florida and texas trying to tell people to move to california from states where they have lower unemployment and people are happier generally in texas than they are in california. none of them overwhelm me, say it's a movement. what 2024 is going to be, is a change election, right. you are going to have to s

it is worth noting as we talk about the white house messaging operation communications director was expected to leave the administration and she has extended the tenure in that key position. white house official saying not over concern of the president but this is certainly a sensitive moment to have a key departure like that in the administration. >> all right. thank you. >>> there are growing concerns about how the united states is responding to the monkeypox outbreak as we continue to deal with covid. the w.h.o. declaring a global health emergency over monkeypox saying that a coordinated international response is required to stop the virus from spreading further. more than 16,000 cases reported in 70 countries and in the united states alone nearly 3,000 cases in 45 states. roughly a third of the cases are in new york. reported in men who have sex with men anybody can get monkeypox. there's two cases of chin and eight cases with women in the united states. the demand for vaccines is far greater than the supply we have. with us is health and human services secretary becerra. thank you for j

kate bedingfield is out as white house communications director. karine jean-pierre will move into her behind the scenes position, and john kirby starts doing those daily press briefings. pure speculation but logical nonetheless. it's thursday, july the 7th -- ringo starr's birthday, by the way -- the year is 2022, and "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪ [laughter] stuart: i can't believe it. if ladies and gentlemen, i can not believe it. i just said it's ringo starr's birthday can, and lauren said, who's relationship -- ringo starr? he didn't die. what a way to start my birthday show. [laughter] lauren: tell me all of the beatles' history i must know. stuart: the producers are screaming at me already. [laughter] let's get to serioustuff. [laughter] on your screens, ladies and gentlemen, the price of a gallon of gas, 4.75 for regular, that's down 10 cents from the last week. are you done yet? [laughter] look, those prices on the screen, they're still near, very close to record highs. so why is president biden -- i believe this is true -- he

it was a c-141 cargo plane and we were part of the white house advanced communications team that covered the refuel stop of air force one. returning from from china to anchorage, alaska we actually left before the presidential party left. and it was about a six-hour stopover in anchorage. so we actually were the traveling white house and we answered the switchboard the anchorage white house once air force one touched down at elmendorf in anchorage. i just thought i'd throw that in as a side light. i i would like to mentioned something today march 17th is the day that richard nixon walked out of the diplomatic entrance of the white house? all of the members of the leadership of the bipartisan congress were there to wish him well, and he goes out to andrews air force base. we get on our plane we go to our various staff tables. and the stewards had taken and put a little tv on one of the tables. and on that table was the picture of the plane that we were on. and you see it taxing down. and turning and getting ready to take off it was it was so heavy because it had to go all the way to honol