alarm coming from president trump in that interview about the idea of russian systematically interfering in the election. and i think mueller said that a couple of times in his press conference and i think it is the most important things that we heard from him. and volume one of the report is still a very important part of the work that was done because everybody focuses on volume two with the obstruction but volume one is how we got here and i think even though chris wray is in a place where he probably can t say much at this point, you could bet, pamela, having you covering the fbi and the justice department alongside me, and you know that this is going to be a thing that they re going to focus on. whether the president wants to admit it or not, this is something that in 2020 will be a feature of our elections and the fbi is going to look to enforce the law. and by the way, now everyone knows that this is not okay. but the president wants to admit you can t say you don t know
with the osc and they are arguing a failure to punish kellyanne conway this time around would undermine confidence among federal employees that the hatch act is even an operable law. but the white house is responding by calling the osc s actions here unprecedented, unfair. we should note that it is quite a big deal for the osc to recommend removal of a senior white house official. they don t often, if ever, do that. white house counsel pat accept illony argued in a letter to the osc that the interpretation of the hatch act is in the white house s eyes, too broad and they are chilling free speech among federal government employees. now president trump, though, is the only one who could discipline kellyanne conway for her hatch act violation and the osc doesn t have that power and right now, pam, there is no indication that the president is going to follow osc recommendations to remove conway. that is not a surprise.
sarah westwood, thank you very much. president trump said he s just an honest guys who likes to tell the truth. the president s comments on truth coming during his new interview with george stephanopoulos. they bickered about a poll showing trump trailing joe biden in texas when suddenly their conversation took an unexpected twist. well, i don t believe those polls. there is no way he beats me in texas. but even your own polls show you re behind right now. no, my polls show i m winning everywhere. we re all seen the reports that 15 out of 17 states you spent $2 million on a poll and you re behind. on good morning america they had the phony polling information and i explained it was phony and you didn t do anything about it and it was late in the evening so perhaps you didn t but why does it bother you so much? because it is untrue. i like the truth. i m actually a very honest guy. cnn editor at large and toll
happened in 2016 involving the clinton campaign and the steele dossier. but the reactions are spanning around run the gamut. but for the most part, defending the president in saying that the president, if it came down to it, probably would go ahead and call the fbi. take a listen. i listened to the interview. what i heard the president say is that he would do both. he would listen, and he under certain circumstances would call the fbi. look, there are some exceptions to this, obviously. but unless they re like a rock only dumber, usually spies don t come to you and say, i m a spy, i m from russia, and i ve got dirt on my opponent. so you have to listen a while. and see what they re up to and then make a decision. i can t speak for the president. i can only speak for me. if a foreign agent approached me
pelosi. yesterday, the president gave us once again evidence that he does not know right from wrong. it is a very sad thing. very sad thing that he does not know right from wrong. he takes an oath to protect and defend the constitution but i guess it doesn t include him in terms of being to be held accountable to obey the law. well senator lindsey graham, one of the president s staunchest supporters called the comments a mistake but then moments later the south carolina republican pointed the finger at democrats issuing a statement that reads in part, quote, during the 2016 presidential campaign we had a major american political party hire a foreign national, cristster feel, to dig up dirt on an american presidential candidate as if that was not bad enough the foreign national compiled an unverified dossier that was then used by the fbi to obtain a warrant against an american