sarah sanders and reuters and the chief of staffs would not but it is interesting the way that played out today. the fact that the president felt a need to say that he likes his chief of staff is clearly an effort to tamp down any question or concern that he was upset with what he said last night. although, clearly the fact that he came out and used the words misinformed or not fully informed were taken as crist six by t criticism by the president and he doesn t take criticism very well. hope hicks in the room and testifying at congress. did that come up. reporter: no, it did not. we covered the interview wasn t with hope, but with the president. she s there as his communications director. but we talked about everything as i said earlier, from north korea, he did talk about russia in the context of north korea saying that russia was not being helpful in that and in fact was offsetting any helpfulness that china was providing and referring in that particular comment to fuel.
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syria, condemning them for the attacks and what happened in syria. they got ten votes. russia vetoed it, china abstained. you also had donald trump do something that probably surprised the putin administration. and that is sending additional military hardware to eastern europe as a sign that the u.s. remains committed to nato, that the alliance will carry out its policy, building a force to thwart any russia action in the region. what how do you expect the putin regime to react? well, indeed, in fact, on the same day that mr. tillerson was in moscow, the russian acting representative of the united nations vetoed the syria resolution and made a very crude and vulgar speech in language more appropriate for a third-rate beer house than for the united nations security council. i know many felt a since of shame that such a person is representing our country and speaking on behalf. i say that for myself.
senator sessions said in his questionnaire that he, quote, personally handled four civil rights cases. some of the lawyers who worked on those cases disputed that characterization and senator sessions himself, after his questionnaire was in, felt a need to file a supplement in which he clarified that he merely provided, quote, assistance and guidance to civil rights division attorneys on these four cases. now, if that s a distinction without a difference, i m not sure why senator sessions felt the need to clarify. but i want to move on. senator sessions, in late november, president-elect trump tweeted, quote, in addition to winning the electoral college in a land slide, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
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