committee about her role in unmasking members of the trump campaign last year. sources tell cnn that lawmakers, even republicans, were satisfied with their testimony and concluded she didn t do anything improper. i want your response though to president trump s comments just moments ago in which he again said this, he said, and i m reading specifically, direct quote, she is not supposed to be doing that, what she did was wrong. i don t think the president of the united states understands the concept of unmasking here. and he s basically grasping for something, i can t specifically speak about her testimony, of course, but i can say when she left the room, i think from what i could tell, all of us were convinced that she had acted professionally and well within the law. and your republican colleagues agreed? based on what i could tell from their questioning and their
live pictures from the white house briefing room. at any moment sarah huckabee sanders will take to the lectern, answer reporters questions including about the president s controversial decision to end the daca program. affecting 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers here in the united states. live coverage of that momentarily. meantime, there is other breaking news we re following. new signs that north korea s preparing for yet another major missile test. the south korean lawmaker saying that south korean intelligence detected movement, projectile could be an icbm similar to the two launched in july capable in theory of reaching the mainland usa. a north korean diplomat today called the nuclear and missile test gift packages addressed to none other than the u.s. direct quote. and japan s defense department saying that north korea s nuclear test over the weekend was likely even bigger than
there. he was responding to a question. but, again, i think it s foreign to note with respect to this that you know, and i saw a couple comments yesterday, senator coops took issue with a couple of the comments that we made. let me read to you i know you love this when i do it. senator coops, direct quote, quote, i have no hard evidence of collusion. end quote. director clapper, quote, to my knowledge, end quote. senator tom cotton, quote, not that i ve seen and not that i m aware. this is in reference to any type of collusion with russia that occurred. morale, quote, there is smoke but there is no fire. senator chuck grassley. both right, no evidence of trump clueding. we ve now gone over this on multiple occasions. at some point there is a distinction between an investigation that goes into russia s involvement in 2016 and this continued narrative that
the president and the director comey was fact checking the president in real time, essentially saying he was incorrect in his tweeting. is the president affected? let s be clear. he was answering questions. i mean it s not like he was out there. he was responding to a question. but, again, i think it s foreign to note with respect to this that you know, and i saw a couple comments yesterday, senator coops took issue with a couple of the comments that we made. let me read to you i know you love this when i do it. senator coops, direct quote, quote, i have no hard evidence of collusion. end quote. director clapper, quote, to my knowledge, end quote. senator tom cotton, quote, not that i ve seen and not that i m aware. this is in reference to any type of collusion with russia that occurred. morale, quote, there is smoke but there is no fire.
eldest son. tag romney tells the boston globe that his dad never actually wanted the top job and he was reluctantly convinced to run for president. he wanted to be president less than anyone i ve met in my life is what tag said, direct quote. he went on to say that his father is a very private person who simply does not like attention. that s a stunning remark, the money, the time, the scheduling, the scrutiny, the investment. the people around you who come along for the ride. if you don t really want it, why would you jump and devote two years of your life running for the toughest job on the planet? i was at the romney headquarters election night and i can tell you that when they learned he wasn t going to be president of the united states, he looked sad. he looked disappointed. he looked like somebody that really wanted this and it was not going to be. so just seeing the reaction and everything that went into it. and tag said that ann tried to convince him of this too, to run.