Peculiar way we count the two nonconsecutive administrations of Grover Cleveland in the 19th century. All 44 of those president s have been males. All but two of them have been white protestant males. , of the 44, have been elected to second terms, which is a room entry indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives beginning in the 18th century have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached and two of those in the lifetime of many people here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that, i mean the president is electedne of the 536 officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, and theers of congress, president and Vice President im treating as a single click on entity. So the president is one of 536
Attorney. The person trump jr. Was emailing was this fellow here. Music publicist Rob Goldstone. He said an attorney had quote, information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. Talking about Hillary Clinton and donald trump. And more than that, the emails indicate that donald trump jr. Was told in advance that this attorney was with or representing the russian government. As for that attorney, he met with my colleague, keir simmons, who tracked her down in moscow, in an exclusive interview she denied any connection with the kremlin but in an apparent contradiction to what donald trump jr. Has said, the Attorney Says the premise for the meeting was to discuss sanctions. Reporter what was the purpose of that meeting . Translator i never knew who else would be attending the meeting. All i knew that mr. Donald trump jr. Was willing to meet with me. I could recognize the young gentleman who was only present in the meeting for p
Rule out military action in venezue venezuela. But we digress. There was a lot more verbiage today on north korea, the main topic, including an apparently new threshold for what would be the u. S. Into the fight. Though its not clear the president is speaking for anyone but the president on this. As members of his team continue to talk about other options. What have you been able to do to reassure south korea given the recent tensions rising . I think as far as reassurance, they probably feel as reassured as they can feel. Certainly they feel more reassured with me than other president s from the past. It is a very bad situation. Sit a very dangerous situation. And it will not continue, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out, okay . Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump. Lots of good things could happen, and we could also have a bad solution. But we think lots of good things could happen. What would be a bad solution, sir . I think you know the answe
President this morning, bringing back up the old issue here that has not gone away, and that is obamacare. The president tweeting this morning, based on the fact that the very unfair and unpopular individual mandate has been terminated as part of our tax cut bill, which essentially repeals over time obamacare, the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care plan. The president s partially right here, the repeal of the individual mandate in the tax bill is a big deal. But in and of itself, it does not kill obamacare. Theres still 9 Million People who signed up this year for obamacare plans, the medicaid expansion, for example, is still there. And part of what hes also right about is if there are going to be other big changes to the health care system, they are going to have to be bipartisan. We know in the spring that some of the fixes, the stable zaiilis that Susan Collins and others fought for will be brought up to vote on. And the math
I think as far as reassurance, they probably feel as reassured as they can feel. Certainly they feel more reassured with me than other president s from the past. It is a very bad situation. Sit a very dangerous situation. And it will not continue, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out, okay . Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump. Lots of good things could happen, and we could also have a bad solution. But we think lots of good things could happen. What would be a bad solution, sir . I think you know the answer to that. When you say bad solution, are you talking about war . Is the u. S. Going to war . I think you know the answer to that. Have you spoken to the governor of guam . I have not. But they will be very safe. Believe me, they will be very safe. If anything happens to guam, theres going to be big, big trouble in north korea. Have you ordered any change in our military readiness . I dont want to say. I dont talk about that. You know that. One