brian. no, that s not how it works. jessica. sean, if i could follow up. about the fight against isil in this context. that s what the president talked about was the source of the information or i should say framework of the conversation he had with the russians last week. so is the president actively looking for new partners in the fight against isil? and is it his intent to look to partners that have previously been unconsidered because they were not part of traditional alliances or partnerships with the united states? i think it s safe to say that the president is going to look to anybody who wants to share our goal of eradicating radical islamic terrorism, isil, and other threats from around the globe. thank you, guys, very much. have a great day. we ll talk to you tomorrow in connecticut. you have been listening in to sean spicer s off-camera briefing. a little bit earlier today the white house decided to take the regular daily briefing off camera. nbc news and msnbc dec
isis, things he talked about on the campaign trail. but now administration officials are telling us that his hopes of this deal are really beginning to fade. this was first reported in the wall street journal. we re also told that there was actually a private meeting in the oval office with his new national security adviser, general mcmaster, and others in which the president expressed his frustration. this was after russia deployed cruise missiles last month in an apparent treaty violation and made the point that it s much harder to make amends with russia when they are being aggressive in that manner and taking these kinds of actions. but an official tells me that there s also sort of a broader backdrop here. they really don t feel like the climate is right for striking a deal with russia. they think there is so much media scrutiny right now in terms of anything the president says in regards to russia and with the combination of the house probe, the senate probe, and an fbi investi
translator: ronald reagan once, debating about taxes and addressing americans, said watch my lips, he said no. watch my lips, no. of course, just a fact check of vladimir putin. of course, it was not ronald reagan it was president george h.w. bush who said, read my lips, no new taxes, and then he did raise taxes, but i digress. white house correspondent sara murray has some important, new information on why, what s behind the president s kind of fading hopes of restarting this relationship with putin. what s going on? reporter: that s right, kate. we know president trump as a candidate had a rosy view of russia. right. reporter: he wanted a better relationship with russia. now we re told by administration officials that those hopes are beginning to fade. they were initially hoping for some kind of grand bargain to deal with ukraine, to deal with syria, to deal with combating isis, but now the president is sort of feeling a little bit more glum about the opportunity to do th
i think you will see a lot on combating isis, the need to get rid of obamacare from the republican and point. it will be a difficult speech for democrats. we have been asking democrats if they are going to boycott that speech. they said they will bring in immigration activists and others who would have been affected by the executive order. no president delivers on all his promises. he did eliminate the tpp which is something obama failed to get over the finish line partially because of president trump on the campaign trail. you will see all those issues. trade, immigration. there are investigation on that. that republicans on capitol hill saying that s a distraction. they are worried that could blow up when we learn more about that.
east. he has not critized russia role in syria and taking part and being compliceit in war crime and helping bashar assad kill his people. he only said that russia is combating isis there. going forward. the syrian conflict is hideous and you can criticize obama and the fact he didn t earlier. it is a huge challenge for trump and a pris m of what russia is doing in the war. he s not given a lot of specifics of how he intends to combat islamic terrorism and extremism. what is job one for the the president once he takes office. it is to assess the situation and military floating and anything involved in this. and to abbe s point being able to take on russia in the way