others is a good thing, not a bad thing. he went on, they can help solve problems with north korea, syria, ukraine, iran and even the coming arms race. bush tried to get along but didn t have the smarts. obama and clinton tried but didn t have the emergency or chemistry. remember, we said peace through strength. that all comes amid multiple reports that president trump s top team included in his briefing materials em blazened with the words do not congratulate written in all caps which is president ignored. if this story is accurate, that means someone leaked the president s briefing papers. leaking such information is a fireable offense and likely illegal. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news john kelly is frustrated and deeply disappointing. so it seems to me that the white house, john kelly and others are
something besides convince him it s good for him and he can sell it. that s the lesson republicans have learned and that s how you have to get this president on board with what you want to do. i this i think that think it s more important to get it done than it is to fight over this. i think there are important victories in here, just not the ones trump wants, the investment in nih funding is massive, $3 billion is a lot. and that was a concern. the $3 billion for opioids falls well short. the $10 billion for infrastructure falls well short. and there s election security money in there as well. i think in the end, though, if you were to tell me this is not the bill that trump or anyone in the house gop would craft and the people who were the fiscal hawks for eight years of the obama administration have now give an huge tax cut largely to the wealthy and they spent more than obama did. there you go. he is once again a democrat. yes. coming up, which member of trump s nat
and because of that rock solid attory bus of it to the russian government, it is notable, it is of interest that when prum made his surprise, congratulatory phone call to the russian president yesterday, apparently that didn t come up at all. we also know thanks to this freaking unbelievable reporting from the washington post last night that in president trump s briefing materials, his national security do not congratulate. nevertheless, he persisted. he offered his congratulations, and he was directedly his national security individualers to make sure he condemned putin for that poisoning in the u.k. of a former russian spy and his daughter on the streets of
off the fact that he expectations to meet with russian president putin sometime in the near future. well, tonight karen deyoung, john hudson, and josh dossey of the washington post white house advisers have not been instructed to prepare for any such meeting. further, they say there were no plans to mention anything of the sort. trump s briefing materials for the putin call did not include any reference to a meeting. tonight the president is defending that congratulatory phone call to putin and the white house is now vowing to hunt down whoever leaked out information that led to that washington post report that trump ignored his national security team s advice not to congratulate him on his re-election victory because it was a sham election. late this afternoon the president offered his interpretation of that conversation via twitter. i called president putin of russia to congratulate him on his election victory. in past obama called him also. the fake news media is crazed becau
wasn t me. hey, tough guy. the other thing that has happened today, after this remarkable do not congratulate reporting, is a reported freakout about it in the white house, not just about the president s behavior but about who leaked it. who leaked this very specific detail about the materials, about what the president was told to say in that conversation with putin. who told reporters about what was on the president s note cards? i mean obviously, that s not the kind of material that circulates that wide limit there aren t that many people who have access to the content of the president s briefing materials but like the font size and can tization of words in those materials. and it s an interesting personnel and palace intrigue story as to who might have called a reporter to exclaim whoever what ju over what just happened. but the bigger plot point here is not just who leaked it, who did it, but why? i mean, it is a small circle of