He wants Hillary Clinton to be investigated, even though during the transition, he told 60 minutes that they have suffered enough, so i wonder if you could address that. Does he want the attorney general to go, he called him beleaguered. Ive never heard that. I know he is certainly frustrated and disappointed in the attorney general for recusing himself, but as weve said, i know that thats a decision that the president wants to make, he certainly wil will. Melissa Christian Fisher is alive at the white house with more. President trump has reportedly been speaking with his top advisors about firing his own attorney general. Hes made no secret that he was very unhappy with Jeff Sessions decision to recuse himself with a Russian Investigation, but will he actually follow through and fire him . This morning, almost every Senior Advisor was on message, coming out and saying that that decision is up to one person and one person only and that is President Trump. We also have the pleasure of t
The president is staying in the news. And the thing about this twitter stuff, its not that the president use it as, its that he gets himself in trouble with it. What we are looking for with the new chief of staff is not whether the president stops tweeting or sends out a bunch of boring tweets, its whether he stops tweeting things like president obama was wiretapping me. Jon laura engel is keeping tabs on the president , he is live dont act on my dock speak out we have just learned that the first lady will be in attendance for this opioid briefing today. Weve been giving a very close eye on the tweeting activity, as weve been reporting in the last 24 hours and this morning, Melania Trump set out a tweet that she will be in attendance for what her husband has called a major problem to address for our country. Mrs. Trump tweeting this. Opioids are destroying our youth and people, meeting with president of United States and secretary price today to give my support. The secretary of health
Governments. Jon Catherine Herridge is alive from the Hart Senate Office building on capitol hill. Well, thank you. And Jared Kushner arrived on capitol hill 80 minutes ago. The team was down on the c street and entrance to the office building. As Jared Kushner entered the building, he waved and smiled for reporters. We were told by senate staff are that they anticipate that Jared Kushner will be on the senate side from 12 hours answering questions from the democratic side and the republican side. They were not anticipating that senators would actually be present for the question and answer session. Earlier today, Jared Kushner and his Team Released a statement for the record if you will that the context during the campaign and during the transition period, he said that he had forwarded contacts with the russians, but no nothing improper. I will read one section for you here. It states in part, i did not collude or know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded with any Foreign Gover
Could go home and say listen, ill meet with the president , his door is open to me, i have met with him, i have talked to him. For me when i need to get things done for my state, it sends a very powerful message to democrats. Jon you had an interesting item in the playbook this morning that say democrats may be too giddy about the prospects and the 2018 elections and 2020, that despite the president s unpopularity ratings, it doesnt seem particularly good for democrats as well. Democrats have not been able to knock trump down a notch with a thought they would be able to do. His disapproval ratings are low, but he has democrats have not been able to knock him off his perch with the voters that matter. More immediately if you look at 2018, democrats are getting what they want and thats important here on capitol hill and ive talked to a lot of republicans have said to me in the last week, why are we handing the keys over to democrats . We waited a decade to get majorities in the white hou
Despite 20,000 miles, five countries, 13 days, the president has up early tweeting at 5 40 this morning. Although he has no Public Events today. That means we have to wait until at least tomorrow for this promised big announcement. During the trip to asia, the white house said the president would make a decision on whether or not to declare north korea a state sponsor of terrorism. It would have major ramifications about what the u. S. Government can do as related to north korea. We dont know if thats the announcement. The chinese are sending an emissary to north korea just after President Trump left the region. For the white house this week is a short one with the president just returning but not short on distraction. The president has yet to give any kind of comments about the latest allegations against roy moore and whether or not he would pull his support for the Alabama Senate candidate or perhaps support someone else. A Senior Advisor today making the point very clear to me that