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With each passing day, the Russia story seems to balloon and grow a whole new facet for the media to talk about. During NBC’s Sunday Today, fill-in host Hallie Jackson noted how it was wearing down the President. “President Trump is calling this Russia story “fake news,” you've got Republicans like Lindsey Graham now saying they're not going to ease up on this investigation. New revelations about Mike Flynn,” she stated before asking Chuck Todd, “Let me put it this way, its opening day in baseball, so what inning are we in with this Russia story, Chuck? What do you think?”
“Oh, I think we're only in the second or third inning at this point,” Todd joked as he alluded to all to the potential headaches President Trump was going to have, “President himself, obviously, he's consumed by the Russia story because all you have to do is look at his Twitter feed to see it.” Todd’s solution for Trump was for him to imitate liberal icon former President Bill Clinton.
“He has to figure out how to borrow a page from the Bill Clinton playbook of the 90s,” he argued, “Bill Clinton had plenty of scandal clouds hovering over his—his White House at any given moment.” He praised Clinton’s ability to act like the investigations were not happening, he also issued a warning for Trump:
He may have been seething about it behind the scenes, but he compartmentalized it for better or for worse. And he tried to find a way to put it in a box and focus on other things, and focus-- In fact, that that was sort of his way, he would sit there and dismiss questions about the investigation and say I'm focused on the agenda for the American people. Somehow, the West Wing has to get their arms around the Russia investigation. Get the President to accept the fact that it exists, and compartmentalize it and focus somewhere else. Until he does that, it's going to consume him.
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