personance to the president. jeremy dimon is traveling with the president tonight and he s out front live in west palm beach, florida. jeremy, this sounds like the president may be getting to throw giuliani under the bus, no? that certainly is the key question, biana, the president is distancing himself from rudy giuliani, and the mayor becomes increasingly central to this ukraine scandal and we have seen how central rudy giuliani was to these efforts to pressure the ukrainian government to carry out these politically motivated investigations. as you just saw gordon sondland there describe how the president directed him to speak with rudy giuliani and rudy giuliani then directed u.s. officials to pressure the ukrainian government to carry out these investigations. look, we know how seriously the president takes loyalty, but oftentimes loyalty with this president is a one-way street. we saw this previously, of course, with the president s former personal attorney,
r there s a lot in there. the idea that the transcripts are going to be falsified. it s a lot. schiff may be related to the fact investigators want to hear from a host of officials in the coming weeks, many in connection with holding up assistance to the ukraine. one of them, the president s acting budget director aintends to defy his subpoena and otwo subordinates will do the same. rick perry is refuses to cooperate and john bolton is scheduled for thursday but seemingly resisting so far. in short, the testimony that made last week so significant could be in short supply in this coming week. meaning some of the unanswered questions in the ukrainian affair could remain that way for now. there s plenty of them right now. cnn s biana has more. reporter: was it a perfect
biana, you remember he met with chuck and nancy, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, the democratic leaders in the senate and the house. he did meet with them. they came out of that meeting thinking they had a deal on the d.r.e.a.m.ers that the whole issue of the wall would be left down the road. there would be border security but the wall would be down the road but they would go ahead and get legislation passed that would allow the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay. that famous budget deal where chuck and nancy were the president s best friends and the white house seemingly had to walk back what transpired because it turned into a he said/she said versus what the president and the administration said and stunned republicans who were in the room. again, this was one day and one day only, but you could make the argument that it was a very good day for the president, not only in terms of what transpired in front of cameras but also the news that just came out about steve bannon leaving breitbart. this be
relationship forward. that means compromise. nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, rebecca, she was out today speaking over at the u.n. and she was sounding just as tough on these sensitive issues as the president. well, absolutely. she needs to echo the administration line, the administration tone. so she s speaking on behalf of the president. it makes perfect since she would be in line with what he is saying and the way he is saying it, but there are potential repercussions for the united states abroad and, you know, we haven t necessarily heard from the president that sort of deep thinking, the explanation of why he is saying what he is saying. a sense this is part of some broader strategy and some some rash tweet he is firing off. go ahead, biana. i was wondering if you saw anything that pakistan said or did in recent days that resulted in the president s first tweet of the new year going after pakistan the way he did. well, that s the question so many are
and you can interpret it, given that what was discussed at the meeting, that the news of this dnc hack was eerily weird. obviously the congressional committees and bob mueller are going to want to know more about this interpretation from goldstone. this latest twist is eerily period. biana, what do you think that goldstone wanted when he recommended that president trump create a page on this russian social networking website? well, the website is the most popular website. has 460 million users worldwide so it s not trivial. but why would a u.s. president want to set up similar pages and going on to similar sites in other countries. with regards to