said that he didn t know that matt whitaker held these strong positions in the past. he also said that he would not intervene if whitaker decided to interfere in the special counsel s probe. listen to this. if whitaker decides in any way to limit or curtail the mueller investigation, are you okay with that? look, it s going to be up to him. i think he s very well aware politically. i think he s astute politically. he s a very smart person, a very respected person. he s going to do what s right. i really believe he s going to do what s right. but you won t overrule him if he decides to curtail? i would not get involved. all these people that say i m going to end the investigation, you know, they ve been saying that now for how long has this witch hunt gone on? reporter: now, fred, chris wallace pressed president trump, asking specifically when he found out that whitaker held these views about the special counsel. the president didn t answer
to go down that road because of the legal implications. the president did say there were questions he did not like and questions he didn t answer. can this investigation be legitimate without everything answered from the president? probably not, christy shs and i think that s the point of it. he thinks and his lawyers think they re trying to set him up. and they re watching for those questions and i think ticket why he s huddled with his lawyers much off the week to figure out how these questions are going, how they re playing out and if they are trying to trap him. his lawyers have been hesitant from day one to put him out there. this is why he s submitting these questions in writing. so anything else, they re a little freaked out that he could go unhinged if he is to answer the way he would want to answer.
secret service and other people in law enforcement for making sure that the headlines today aren t more horrific. pamela brown, let me ask you, president trump was he spoke about the threats earlier. he didn t answer a question shouted out by cnn about whether or not this is an act of domestic terrorism. what was your take on that? well, a couple of things. first of all, just to define an act of domestic terrorism, it s an individual or individuals inspired by an extremist ideology, whether it be political, religious, or social in nature. that s the fbi s definition, and the president did not answer that question from my colleague, jeff zeleny. he looked him in the eye and didn t answer it. we did hear from the president about this call for unity, the fact that we all need to come together, which is pretty rich considering the rhetoric we have heard from this president. i was speaking to white house officials today who reject any notion that the rhetoric could have somehow contribu
majority, but certainly not as large of a majority assay a 13-point advantage would. so you talk about not taking one pollen running with it. that was a problem. the other problem though was polling didn t accurately reflect what people, how people were going to vote. there were a lot of trump voters who didn t answer polls. they didn t feel comfortable sharing their inclinations. do you think we can see that again? taking poll averages, if people aren t telling us who they are going to vote for, what do they matter? sure. look, polls garbage in, garbage out. but if you look at the 2018 cycle, we have special elections most predominantly in alabama. and i looked at the numbers and what you have found is the democrats is out performing the polling not republicans. so i think one of the key lis lessons from 2016 isn t so much to think republicans will out think the polls, that polls have margin of error and we should adhere to that and it could
okay? one. one is getting a chance tomorrow. this is et up as he said she said. really by definition a rush to judgment. all right? despite the president professions of an open mind it s clear brett kavanaugh is the victim and there are gold diggers out there who make up lies. i have had a will the of false charges against me. false charges. i know friends with false charges. people want fame, they want money. they want whatever. so when i see it, i view it differently. it s happened to me many times. there s a lawsuit actually against him by one of the women that s been given legal sufficiency to move forward. had talked about four. the rule of trumpism as being a factor of three. he s off. he was asked about his daughters and whether that helps him understand the victims of sexual abuse. didn t answer. the message this language sends to women. he doubled down about how bad false accusations. and asked about the message to men.