are all kinds of directions that this is going in, and eventually something is going to come out of it, right? , this is not the drip drip drip that adds up to anything, it seems to be moving pretty quickly. this is a pretty direction the nothing that the president fired james comey, because he felt like james comb yes what too hard was laughable even when they were trying to sell us that from the white house and days later the president did an interview on television and said the russia situation was on his mind when he made this decision to fire comey. so they tripped all over themselves as they were doing this in the moment, and then obviously that decision led james comey to want to leak his memos about his conversations with the president to ensure that a special prosecutor was and the own deputy attorney general had to turn the level over, the original letter drafted by stephen miller, the
well the breaking news tonight a report in the washington post . the president himself dictated the misleading statement about donald trump jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer. the washington post is reporting when the story first broke, the president s advisers wanted to tell the truth in case full details came out. but according the post the president decided to go a different direction. he dictated the statement claiming the meeting was about russian adoption. earlier i spoke with one of the reporters breaking the story tom hamburger. so the phrase dictate is one that my colleagues phil rucker and ashley parker who, as you know, cover the white house full-time, picked up from their sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way.
sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way as you know, he s not an e-mailer. he suggested the language in the statement that was ultimately used and ultimately released to the new york times. and to a certain extent had to be walked back or amplified upon in the coming days. it s interesting, i mean it s not clear to me, the president s attorneys i believe had previously said that it was donald trump jr. and donald trump jr. s attorneys who had been the ones crafting this statement that the president had nothing to do with it and that they denied the initial new york times story which said on air force one, this had been discussed among his advisers and the president had signed off on it. the idea that the president was more involved than that, that s something that runs counter to what the president s own attorneys have said. are there any did
know the scene of how it was? was it on air force one? and to what extent, you say the president dictated the statement, he sort of had somebody write down his remarks as to what the statement should be? the phrase dictate is one that my colleagues, phil rucker and ashley parker, who as you know, cover the white house full time, picked up from their sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way. he s not an e-mailler. he suggested the language in the statement that was ultimately used and released to the new york times. and to a certain extent, had to be walked back or amplified upon in the coming days. it s interesting, it s not clear to me, the president s
first of all, i have to talk to maggie, i don t think it s in the report, but was this unsolicited? was it in response to the question? why is he talking about jeff sessions today? it s obviously my point is, why give this interview today? today of all days, where health care is obviously the thing, this interview is right after the lunch with the senators about health care? nobody ever stands up to donald trump. we had him humiliate senator heller at that lunch and then he does this. i would love to see jeff sessions walk away at this point. and make on principle walk away. what s the principle? well, i think i think one of the reasons he went after jeff sessions is he blames jeff sessions for the rabbit hole of the russia investigation as he sees it. he said jeff sessions decision led to ultimately to