united states. a brand new united states. you heard it there from the president. he is very upbeat talking about what he sees as a great big turnaround and he thinks it s all because of his election. no in-your-face populism, no looming russia cloud over his administration. we have a tremendous crowd and a crowd like they ve never had before. had oethe opposing party to won, some of you who backed, instead of being up almost 50%, the stock is up since my election almost 50%. rather than that, i believe the stock market from that level, the initial level, would have been down close to 50%. it wasn t until i became a politician that i realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be as the cameras start going off in the
released by senator feinstein related to fusion gps. is the president aware of this transcript and does he have any reaction to the fbi references within the transcript what was said by that gentleman? we certainly think it s a gross overstep by senator feinstein to release that transcript. there s been a lot of comments about obstruction of justice and frankly, the only people we ve seen trying to influence the investigation are former director comey and democrats in congress and that would include senator feinstein, representative schiff, who have goethe selectively leaked to the media witness interviews. we see that to be a big problem and something that should certainly be considered and looked at. and follow-up question. today ecuador announced its granting nationality to wikileaks founder julian assange. does the president agree or disagree with this decision by the ecuadorians? i haven t spoken to him about that. sarah, can i ask you, on iran
congress? i can tell you he has a pretty good insurance plan for himself, doesn t he? what we want in congress is to make sure everybody in the country has the same health care plan we do. my wife and i buy our health insurance on the insurance exchanges created by obamacare. we go into the exchanges and buy just like every other american. that s the way it ought to be. oethe other thing the presidt is trying to address is the opioid epidemic across the country. he wants to declare a mass emergency because of the lethal drug overdoses in this country. you have suggested expanding access to substance treatment in medicaid. do you think you could work with the white house and the senate at all on this issue of opioid epidemic? and do you think the president should declare a national health emergency? i think so. i can tell you with the people dying every day because of opioid and heroin overdoses,
back in july, he was actually partly inspired, it would appear by an american terrorist in yemen who was killed in that drone strike a few years ago. incidental incidentally, just a few weeks agoethe fbi director said they may never provide the motive publicly for that attack in chattanooga. may never be publicly known. a long time before we know the motive in this case. we may never know it. the president seemed to indicate at least the first part of what you said, it could be some time before they know exactly, when they re ready to tell folks exactly what the motive is here. so much more to be learned about this husband and wife duo. these attackers. evan, thank you, paul, thank you so much. coming up, we re going to take you back to san bernardino. waiting for a live update from the san bernardino police. this will be the first big update of the day on the investigation and what may be some more information into who did this and why. we ll be right back.
is how out of character this one seems in its lack of clarity and lack of pragmatism. the strategy itself seems incredibly muddled. it seems the president himself isn t that on board with military intervention. we ve all known president obama to be the reluctant warrior, but he s coming off now as a reluctant leader, which is a big difference and not a goethe good thing. his presser today he was lucid, analytical, tough. but he s talking about a heavy lifting and you re not feeling the heavy lifting. you re feeling woe is me. i m exhausted and tired. i didn t ask for this. it might be what abraham lincoln did at the battle of bull run but that was before television and the social media world. he now has to talk about peace with strength, what this means for the middle east. there is a bit of a coalition. he might as well call them the enforcers. turkey, saudi arabia, france and the united states working together to have a change there.