sure. every day i work with george bush who was an honorable, decent, caring president of the united states. when we d have discussions in the oval office, the question that he would raise in making a decision whether it was to expel saddam hussein from kuwait or whether it was dealing with a budget matter, he would always ask what is in the best interests of the american people. dana: and, of course, anita, you know well this letter that george h.w. bush writes to incoming president bill clinton where he says there will be very tough times made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. i m not a very good one to give advice, but just don t let the critics discourage you or push you off course. you will be our president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wish your family well. your success now is our country s success. i am rooting hard for you. and i read in 43 s book about 41, a portion of my father. he says at one time after the
house and the senate on the budget matter that it was just adding, selling fire to the markets. do you think that s true? i think the markets were already going a little bit crazy long before we got to this moment. we ve been seeing the signs of it for days. i don t think it s related to the budget agreement. i think it s more about the concerns of the economy. lots of questions about the impact of the tax bill. so this is always the danger of the president going out there and measuring economic progress by exactly where the stock market is day to day. i haven t heard my tweets about the stock market lately. it was confused tweeting yesterday about how good news can be interpreted as bad news. the market is its own little beast here. but now there s talk that the federal reserve would a new federal reserve chairman has to assess what is going on, the
excuse me for interrupted. you know if there s going to be a deal, he has to work it out, not just with his own cabinet, not just with republicans. he has to work it out with democrats. democrats can prevent the 60-vote majority you need in the senate. you only have 51 republicans. why not do what he s suggested he would do, get them all over to the white house, get them into a conference room, orin the oval office, and work out a deal? it shouldn t be that complicated. look, the president had a discussion with senator schumer just yesterday. that was yesterday, what about today? what about today? wolf, wolf what about today? wolf, the terms that the democrats are laying out are completely uncertainly. that s just a fact of the matter. what they want to do, and what they are planning to do now, is continue a shutdown of our government over unrelated immigration matters. it is simply not a budget matter. they re shutting down the government, they re risking our military. t
republican leaders on the budget matter. daca, et cetera. he seemed to be in possession of his faculties there. nothing like a certain book portrays him to be. what do you think? i haven t read the book, but all that is just silly. look, anyone who is on the phone in conversations with president, as i was repeatedly, in2ke79sdz on key parts indepth on key parts of tax reform, to have understand this is a president who really gets the economy, understands the burden, and complexities of the tax code and was shaping and continues to shape the work that we re doing. so i ll just tell you, if everyone has the same i know these issues well. when president trump is winging with me, i ll tell you, that s a leader who is engaged. and dlird for the first time in 31 years new tax code. neil: steve bannon out at breitbart, are you surprised? i don t know, i haven t followed that as clearly probably as others have. i ll just tell you this, this
i think james comey is more credible of the two. at the end of the day, james comey is more credible to the american public. donald trump is a fighter. you know, saying from the rose garden that he wants to testify and wants to sit before a special prosecutor and testify is counterintuitive to me. he has managed to succeed this far by being counterintuitive. who knows. rick, msnbc learned that comey in the closed session told senators about a possible third interactions with jeff sessions and russian officials. one that sessions did not acknowledge. he only acknowledged two. what does that mean for the attorney general? i think thomas, if that is true, the attorney general is in real trouble. the attorney general is due to testify on a budget matter on capitol hill next week. he will he will be on the hill tuesday. he will be asked that question. he better have a good answer to it. we don t know. supposedly it took place at the