Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
Speaking on behalf of the administration on the message of that day. So in those instances, they feel like they dont need to have a press briefing. But as you and i both know, there have been many occasions where the president has a spray or something in the oval office, talks to reporters a little bit and they still have a press briefing. There are a number of questions that need to be asked, one of them being this daca issue. But wolf, as you saw early this morning, the president likes it when the news sort of fits his tailored message. That is why its no mystery, i guess, that he was defending Sinclair Broadcasting early this morning and going after news outlets like our own which, of course, like to ask those questions they dont want to answer at the press briefing. All right, jim, thank you. Jim acosta reporting from the white house. Were also following the progress of that caravan. The caravan, as its Accident Call as its being called, seek
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Detail she actually had a plan on toughening this body that would prove these kinds of comforter hooked on my controversial deals. She is very knowledgeable on the subject shes a hawk on this issue. For her to pretend like i dont know what was going on stretches credulity and thats one of the reasons we need to have an investigation and really to this point, we have not had a congressional hearing on this. We have not had a grand jury as far as we know. Its just shocking to me that there has been no investigation on this whatsoever. Tucker just to be clear, the dots we are connecting are not very far apart. The chairman of this uranium country is also on the board of the Clinton Foundation and the coastline of the clintons. The Podesta Group lobbied on behalf of this company. Am i getting these facts wrong . You are exactly right. Heres the bottom line. As this deal was coming for approval in 2010 the clinton
foundation received from nine shareholders in this Uranium Company that was s
Ukrainian government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The Declassified Memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. Lets discuss this with julian selzer. Good morning. Good morning. The constant attacks against the word collusion. The word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. How significant is this development . It doesnt seem there are any new findings here, but it shows
there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. This just provides credibility for mueller looking into t
Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here