organization, and he never followed up. not really a business dispute. what is this claim where he said deep like or love between comey and mueller? as far as i know and as far as anyone has been able to tell they were business colleagues. they were ten years overlapped but they are not personal friends. in fact, mueller has more of a friendship with trump s attorney general william barr than he would have with comey. so they had an opportunity to have a friendship obviously with their association at work, but they didn t have one, just to be clear. right, yes. so before speaking to reporters the president made a stunning admission. haddy tweeted this. i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. it seems like he realized what he admitted there because he came outside and said this bit of revisionism. no, russia did not get me elected. you know who got me elected?
whatever the number was, that part of it they got backlog, caught up because so many of the people that president trump brought in, his friends, his business colleagues have extensive business holdings, have extensive foreign ties, because of the nature of their business careers and security was struggling with it. that s not normally what you have with people holding security clearances. most people don t have that. so it s very possible that for at least some of it, this was just an issue of a backlog of them struggling to figure out what to do one way or another and kline was trying to clear it out. what i am particularly worried about hopefully as the reporting continues on and i look forward to hearing more of it is whether or not improper political considerations were brought in here, particularly for the president s children, ivanka and jared kushner, particularly for people like michael flynn, who we know had issues with reporting stuff on his sf-86. we know sebastian gorka, at
the republicans were efusionive of their praise of the president. this has been an extraordinary year of accomplishment for this president. something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. you re one heck of a leader. the bill cuts taxes for the middle class, but those tax cuts are set to expire in 2025. the corporate tax rate has been slashed from 35% to 21%, and that s permanent and a priority for the president, who has insisted that cut will grow the economy. ultimately what does it mean? it means jobs, jobs, jobs. maybe, as of now, the tax cut is unpopular. largely perceived as disproportionately favoring the wealthy. what we got is a tax give away at rates that frankly none of my former business colleagues actually ever believed were necessary. you may see a short-term sugar high, but i believe this policy
give-away at rates that frankly none of my former business colleagues actually ever believed were necessary. you may see a short-term sugar high, but i believe this policy has been done so quickly, behind so many closed doors, that it will take a decade for us to unravel some of these policies. among the policies inside the bill, a measure that kills the individual mandate in obamacare. that s the fine on those uninsured, designed to keep everyone enrolled and rates therefore lower. we have essentially repealed obamacare. no. you haven t. but you have wounded it, again. this is something i m very proud of. great for our country. great for the american people. thank you all. the president who likes to boast he keeps his promises signed the bill three days before christmas. and his senior counselor kellyanne conway insists the american people will grow to
saying that because attorneys were in the room, there was no reason for him to disclose his information because it was covered by attorney/client privilege. that s something democrats balked at. now at the same time he was asked about the response that initially was misleading with the trump tower meeting when the donald trump said it was mainly about russian adoptions. it turns out the white house was involved. at least to some extent. donald trump jr. said he texted with hope hicks who is now the communications director for the white house, did not talk to his father about the response, but talked to hope hicks about the response. and given the fact we now know that was note a fully accurate picture about what happened it s raising a lot of questions among investigators about whether or not the white house was trying to work to mislead the public and potentially even the investigation. we ll see what the white house has to say later today. thanks. meanwhile an unidentify the wh