it was ostensibly the meeting of the president and the top ceos in the country to talk about job growth and manufacturing. but when the president is trump, this is what happens. mr. president, good to see you again. hi, jeff. great to be here. look forward to working with you. jeff watched me make a hole in one. can you believe that? should you tell that story? we were trying to talk president trump into doing the apprentice. that was my assignment when we owned nbc. president trump goes up to a par 3 on his course, he looks at the three of us and says you realize, of course, i m the richest golfer in the world. that s a comment. then gets a hole in one. [ laughter ] i have to say, you know, i ve seen the magic before. i said i was the best golfer
habit held a town hall claimed town hall anger isn t about him anyway. they re filled with rage. not at republicans, not even at trump. they re filled with rage at the american people, at the voters, for daring to elect a republican president, a republican majority in both houses. weird, they re not really yelling at other voters so much at these things but perhaps no one had a more offensive reaction than representative louis gohmert of texas who invoked gabrielle giffords as an excuse for not holding a town hall saying the house sergeant at arms advised us after former congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot at a public appearance that civilian attendees at congressional public events stand the most chance of being harmed or killed, just as happened there. that prompted this response from giffords herself to the politicians who have abandoned their civic obligations i say this have some courage, face your constituents, hold town halls. the resistance to president trump an
said we re against every one of trump s nominees. in northwest arkansas, a woman asking tom cotton to do something to get president trump to release his tax returns. what would you do to help bring that about in congress to show this man s tax returns? the way we determine who our commander-in-chief in this country is is through elections. and we just had an election. [ audience reacts ] this is a hotly contested issue during the election. and donald trump still won. the former president showed his birth certificate, my god. [ crowd chanting tax returns ] many republicans are simply refusing to hold town halls, senator marco rubio of florida caught on camera at a hospital today walking away while asked why he isn t meeting his constituents. are you going to have a town hall? there s a constituent town hall today. we need to hear from you, senator. texas senator ted cruz who
up next, new reporting the breaking news tonight. the white house reportedly asked the fbi to publicly refute resent stories about president trump and russia. reince priebus asked the fbi to knock down the stories and fbi director james comey rejected that request. the fbi says they won t comment on that story either way but a government official tells nbc news that a white house official ask andrew mccabe in a hallway meeting of the white house if the fbi could knock down aspects of the report. the official says mccabe declined to discuss the case in any way with the official. this comes days after white house chief of staff reince priebus told our own chuck todd he d spoken to the fbi about the times report.
weird, they re not really yelling at other voters so much at these things but perhaps no one had a more offensive reaction than representative louis gohmert of texas who invoked gabrielle giffords as an excuse for not holding a town hall saying the house sergeant at arms advised us after former congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot at a public appearance that civilian attendees at congressional public events stand the most chance of being harmed or killed, just as happened there. that prompted this response from giffords herself to the politicians who have abandoned their civic obligations i say this have some courage, face your constituents, hold town halls. the resistance to president trump and the gop agenda in the streets and town hall seems to be having an affect on the legislative issue before the country right now. the republican effort to repeal the affordable care act which so far has stalled a bit in congress. in a quinnipiac polling on january 12, 48% of american