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On the recordFebruary 13, 2017
The White House has to get ahead of this. The problem is they haven't been forthcoming, and that's really hard to regain credibility when you've lost it in the first day of a scandal.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Paul Begala discusses the White House's handling of a scandal and the importance of transparency.

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