implications of a president purposely misleading the american public. it s one thing for somebody in the administration to spin, make things up even, and obviously as we learned from anthony scaramucci, if you re too honest, that can also get you into trouble. if the president was involved personally in crafting a statement designed to deflect attention or the facts away from a meeting with russian individuals given the ongoing special counsel investigation, that is a political problem at the very least because it shows direct presidential involvement in trying to warn investigators off of what they might want to look into. look, the american public can accept a lot from a president. they often they often do not like if they find out or believe that a president did not tell the truth. like most things, there s a 60/40 split on this. and 40% of the american public doesn t want to hear about the russia story. 60% of the country feels it s
scramble and responding to the meeting. does this request impact communications? it sounds that way, kate. this request would apply to all communications between white house aides about the response to that meeting. you may remember, there were a series of stumbles in response to the revelations about the don, jr. meeting. our colleagues reported kushner s legal team, white house aides and other members of legal teams around the key players tried to manage the disclosure of the newly discovered e-mails and involvement in crafting a response that may have opened up the white house aides to special council scrutiny. the response to immediate inquiries about the meeting and how this worked out was, again, kind of bumbled. that is significant because usually a legal matter like this
one percentage point since may but it is still in the negative, as you see here, handling issued. presidents numbers are underwater, ranging from the economy to health care. tonight we begin with the president and the struggles of crafting a health care bill, battling back to try to fire up the senate g.o.p. chief white house correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. good evening. why housewares tells me me it was president trump and is chief of staff who cooked up the idea of the lunch here, putting a hard sell on senators to get the bill through. in the state dining room, president trump gathered together at the republican senators who would come for a spirited sales pitch on getting rid of obamacare. any senator who votes against his telling america you are fine with obamacare. being fine with obamacare isn t an option for another reason,
or make me feel like i m not really there. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. turning now to a very mysterious effort on capitol hill. republican senators are working on crafting a health care bill behind closed doors to replace obamacare. it s being made without input from democrats, being shielded
americans. tomorrow the president will welcome representatives and senators to the white house to talk more about what s next ob the legislative agenda, including repealing and replacing obamacare and crafting a revolutionary tax reform proposal that will provide relief to hard working taxpayers. on wednesday, infrastructure week continues with a visit to ohio where he will speak about his wide ranging vision for rebuilding our kocountry with a special focus on repairing our 12,000 mile inland water way system, which carries $230 billion in commerce annually while our dams crumble because the government can t fund the repairs they need. the president will present his sustainable slougs to this problem in ohio on wednesday. and because i know all of you are very. deeply concerned about the wirths of each of my children, i wanted toer carry on with tradition and announce that my son george will be 2 ob thursday so happy early birthday to george. and with that, i ll take your