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  • CORRESPONDENT JOHN ROBERTS

  • REPORTING LIVE FROM THE NORTH

  • LAWN.

  • JOHN?

  • >> THERE WERE REPORTS LAST WEEK

  • THAT JOEL GABBY WOULD BE JOINING

  • THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM TO

  • HEAD UP THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

  • WE HAVE LEARNED THAT TREY GOWDY

  • IS NOT GOING TO JOIN THE

  • PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM IN THE

  • IMMEDIATE FUTURE BUT STILL

  • HOLDING THAT OUT FOR POSSIBLY

  • SOME MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD.

  • FOX NEWS HAS BEEN TOLD ACCORDING

  • TO SOURCES THAT TEN DAYS AGO

  • GAUDI WAS INVITED TO JOIN

  • WHITE HOUSE STAFF TO BE THE

  • POINT PERSON ON IMPEACHMENT BUT

  • TURNED DOWN THAT OFFER FOR

  • FAMILY REASONS.

  • GAUDI HAD LUNCH WITH THE

  • PRESIDENT LAST TUESDAY IN THE

  • OFFER WAS THEN MADE FOR HIM TO

  • JOIN OUTSIDE COUNSEL WHICH HE

  • COULD HAVE DONE EXCEPT HIS JOB

  • WOULD HAVE BEEN TO INFLUENCE THE

  • DECISION-MAKING SESSION IN IN AD

  • CONGRESSIONAL RULES PROHIBITING

  • FORMER MEMBERS FROM TAKING ON

  • JOBS LIKE THAT FOR A YEAR AFTER

  • THEY LEAVE.

  • SO THE PRESIDENT TOLD -- OR

  • GAUDI TOLD THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM

  • THAT OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF

  • CAUTION HE COULD NOT TAKE THE

  • JOB UNTIL JANUARY THE FOURTH.

  • AT THE MOMENT HE IS STILL SLATED

  • TO JOIN THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM.

  • HOWEVER A LOT COULD HAPPEN TRACE

  • AS YOU KNOLL BETWEEN NOW AND

  • THEN.

  • >> AN ETERNITY IN POLITICS.

  • THERE'S BEEN SOME CRITICISM OVER

  • A PARODY VIDEO THIS WEEKEND.

  • >> IT WAS A VIDEO THAT WAS

  • DOCTORED.

  • IT TAKES A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE

  • CALLED "KING'S MEN," THE

  • SECRET SERVICE THAT STARS COLIN

  • FIRTH.

  • THERE IS A SCENE IN THE CHURCH

  • WHERE HE STARTS SHOOTING PEOPLE.

  • WHILE THE PEOPLE WHO DOCTORED

  • THE VIDEO SUPERIMPOSE THE

  • PRESIDENT'S FACE ON THE

  • CHARACTER OF COLIN FIRTH AND

  • OVER THE PEOPLE THEY SUPERIMPOSE

  • THE LOGOS OF MANY NEWS

  • ORGANIZATIONS AND ALSO THE FACES

  • OF MANY OF THE PRESIDENT'S

  • POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

  • THE VIDEO WAS SHOWN AT A

  • CONFERENCE HELD BY THE PRO-TRUMP

  • GROUP AMERICAN PRIORITY AT HIS

  • DORAL PROPERTY OVER THE WEEKEND.

  • IN A TWEET THE PRESS SECRETARY

  • STEPHANIE GRISHAM DENOUNCED THE

  • VIDEOS SAYING "THE VIDEO PLAYED

  • OVER THE WEEKEND OF THE

  • PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT

  • YET SEEN BUT WILL SEE IT

  • SHORTLY.

  • BASED ON EVERYTHING HE HAS HEARD

  • IT, HE STRONGLY CONDEMNS THIS

  • VIDEO.

  • THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS

  • ASSOCIATION ALSO CONDEMNS THE

  • VIDEO.

  • JONATHAN KARL SAYS, WE HAVE

  • PREVIOUSLY TOLD THE PRESIDENT

  • THAT HAS RHETORIC COULD INCITE

  • VIOLENCE.

  • AND THEY DENOUNCED THIS VIDEO

  • AND AFFIRM THAT VIOLENCE HAS NO

  • PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY.

  • THAT VIDEO WAS PRODUCED BY A

  • GROUP CALLED THE GEEKS TEAM, A

  • WEBSITE MEAN WORLD TO WHICH THE

  • WEBSITE CONTRIBUTES SAID THE

  • VIDEO IS CLEARLY SATIRICAL AND

  • NO REASONABLE PERSON WOULD

  • BELIEVE THAT THIS VIDEO WAS A

  • CALL TO ACTION OR AN ENDORSEMENT

  • OF VIOLENCE TOWARD THE MEDIA.

  • THE OWNER WAS BRIEFLY SUSPENDED

  • FROM TWITTER BUT IT'S NOW BACK

  • UP.

  • IN A STATEMENT OF PRIORITY, THE

  • VIDEO WAS NOT SANCTIONED BY THE

  • CONFERENCE IN THE FIRST TIME

  • THEY BECAME AWARE OF IT WAS WHEN

  • THEY WERE CONTACTED BY

  • "THE NEW YORK TIMES" WHICH FIRST

  • REPORTED ON THIS.

  • "THE NEW YORK TIMES" WHICH THEY

  • POINT OUT WOULD NOT REPORT ON A

  • ANTIVIOLENCE PANEL THAT WAS HELD

  • AT THE CONFERENCE.

  • AMERICAN PRIORITY SAYING IN A

  • STATEMENT, WE FIND IT SHOCKING

  • THAT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" WOULD

  • NOT REPORT ON ANY OF THE

  • SANCTIONED EVENTS IN THE ARTICLE

  • INCLUDING OUR PANELED

  • CONVERSATION LITERALLY

  • CONDEMNING POLITICAL VIOLENCE

  • WHILE CLAIMING TO BE UPSET OVER

  • A MEME THAT WAS NOT SANCTIONED

  • OR SHOWN ON STAGE OR APPROVED.

  • THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT A

  • DOCTOR VIDEO HAS FEATURED THE

  • PRESIDENT, THAT WAS THE OTHER

  • ONE FROM A WORLD WRESTLING VIDEO

CORRESPONDENT JOHN ROBERTS

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