to mueller about evidence by calling out the camp david meeting. if this happened, it could have been one more piece of the puzzle that convinced him of that. greg, thanks for coming on. after the break, the assignment a lot of us wish we had. heading to a football tailgate. why? president trump slamming player protests as the season gets started. politics and sports harder to separate. we are live in one of the biggest midterm battleground states to see what fans have to say. stick around. an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it s a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here.
yesterday as sayre sanders was asked repeatedly does this include a wall and she kind of wandered around it a little bit. the president wants a wall. what that is different than the campaign. he has started to acknowledge that it doesn t have to be a 2,000 mile wall. it s not going to go from one border to the other border all the way through. it s going to have places where it s effective and places where it s not. that s important because the deal here when it comes to a wall is basically you agree to appropriate money. the democrats can say this is going to fences and some other type of security mechanism. the president says this is going to my wall. you have a fight about the semantics and everybody s happy and tell their bases everything is okay. a wall is something the president needs. what that is a little bit maybe smallner definition than what we saw in the campaign. the coverage coming out of that meeting was confusing which is why it took so long for him to respond to it.
one of the things the white house pushed back forcefully recent reporting including in the michael wolff book how much time the president spends, axios had a thing of executive time put into his schedule, how much sometime he spends in the residence and the dining room off oval office watching cable television. the president talking about his performance yesterday. and saying he got great reviews but yesterday, we had a bipartisan meeting with house members and senators on immigration reform. something they ve been talking about for many, many years. but we brought them together in this room. and it was a tremendous meeting. actually, it was reported as incredibly good and my performance, you know, some of them called it a performance. i consider it work. but got great reviews by everybody other than two networks who were phenomenal for about two hours.
partisan split for a while now. for grassley he looks at fusion gps and says you were working with the russian lawyer who was in the trump tower meeting staples you were working with steele. maybe there s a conspiracy to make trump look bad. they ve been talking about this issue quite a bit. by releasing this out there, she released a lot of air from the tires. this is taking a fairly central bit about what the republicans argument of painting what was going on here and compromising. it s not completely resolved by releasing this transcript but it definitely complicates the line of argument the republicans are making. and makes them have to kind of recalibrate a little bit at a point at which they were trying to spin things away from the president and back towards a real scrutiny of how law enforcement officials, the fbi specifically, was doing its job. and the president tweeting this morning he caused her sneaky dianne feinstein. a polite exchange with her on immigration. now he ca
of these difficult issues. he s not going to be doing that, and so now it s up to congress. there was a bit of a conspiracy theory yesterday or today. if you heard the exchanging with senator feinstein, she asked the president how about a clean daca bill? and the president said i would like that. but that was curiously missing from the white house transcript of the event. the president saying i would like that. the white house press office is saying there s professional sten oggraphers that do this. give them the benefit of the doubt. is that a mistake or did they no, we don t want that. giving them the benefit of the doubt might be where we need to go. it is a lot of career people literally stenographers listening to an audio recording of it. it was chaotic. that moment was chaotic. the meeting it actually happening with reporters in the room and there s a lot of back and forth and the president bir jecting repeatedly to say oh, that sounds like a good idea. and republicans