Romania. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts was there. He starts us off the night, as he often does, on the north lawn. A lot of anticipation as to what if anything President Trump would say at that press conference this afternoon in the rose garden about his hired fbi directors testimony on capitol hill yesterday. It turned out, he said a lot. In the rose garden with romanias president clouse cloue johannes the president saying he would be happy to tell the details of his meeting to special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath. 100 . The president had just said he never asked comey to shut down the investigation into michael flynn. I didnt say that. So he lied about that . Well, i didnt say that. They would be nothing wrong if i did stay up according to everyone i read it today, but i did not say that. He also aggressively shut down the notion that he ever asked comey for a pledge of loyalty. No, i didnt say that and i didnt say the other. It was clear over all the president wa
Election is getting the lions share of attention. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live in hamburg, germany, with the story. Hi, john. Julie, good afternoon to you. Three Top White House officials, the president s chief economic advisor, mcmaster the National Security advisor and treasury secretary mnuchin just briefed the press pool aboard air force one on the president s time at the g 20. Gave an upbeat assessment. Treasury secretary said that the president in the bilateral meeting he held was quote absolutely brilliant. There were eight of those meetings in total here at the g 20, another two in poland, described as very very substantial discussions not just relationship builders before he hit the Atlantic Ocean the president tweeted, quote, leaving hamburg and washington, d. C. And the white house. Just left chinas president where we had an excellent meeting on trade north korea. Trade and north korea. That bilateral meeting which was the last one at the g 20 went 90
For me, this was Opposition Research. It mightve been concrete evidence for all the stories that i had heard that were underreported for years. I wanted to hear it out. Really it went nowhere. Its apparent that that was what the meeting was absolutely about. Jesse why he was meeting in the first place . My take away, someone has information on our opponent. Things are going a million miles an hour. We just won indiana. Things are going a million miles an hour. Hey, i heard about all this but maybe this the something. I should hear them out. Jesse we heard from the russian lawyer he met with, she denies working for the kremlin. Donald trump, jr. , was told and the russian government attorney was flown over from moscow. The russian government attorney. Does that mean you . No. Im simply flattered but i have never worked for the government in the first place. Jesse so, lets talk about donald trump junior for a second, kimberly. We have known him for quite some time. It looked like he seem
Nonsense. Theres been so much overwrought claim. There are people talking about treason. I cant believe the New York Times had an oped yesterday in which treason was mentioned. People are saying it could be treason, which is facially absurd. It just doesnt rise to that level. Dana Corey Lewandowski thinks the white house needs to get much tougher on cracking down on leaks. Anybody and i mean anybody should be removed immediately, i dont know who the leaker is. If someone was speaking to the media or leaking information which could potentially be detrimental to the president and his administration, i would fire them on the spot. Dana juan, if i would go to your first you would think donald trump, jr. ,s meeting was wrong, possibly unethical but to jump to treason, does that undermine the democrats points . Juan oh, yeah. This is the world of hyperbole. Unsupported, unsubstantiated. The other side wants to say that the democrats, liberals, the left are just in saying to the point where t
Arthel and we begin with President Trump back on american soil after spending bastille day in paris on his third overseas trip. The president hitting the links today not to play a round himself, but to watch the womens u. S. Open taking place at Trump National golf club in bedminster, new jersey, as new details emerge about his sons meeting during last years president ial campaign with a russian lawyer. Kevin corke is live from new jersey near the president s golf course. Hello, kevin, nice to see you. Reporter you too. Great to be with you, as always. Interesting, were a little bit away from the actual golf course, but clearly the white house is watching very carefully how this weekend playing out. Sort of a twopronged approach, if you will, to this ongoing controversy about russia. On the other hand, they want to keep the president on message, talking about his agenda. On the other hand, theyre trying to beef up the staff so they can deal with the ongoing russia investigation. We cer