rosenstein. reporter: well, certainly think there are a number of white house aides who remember what it was like the day the president decided to fire james comey, where they essentially had to come up with the reasoning after the fact about how they were going to explain that. i think they ve had a number of surrogates, allies of the president outside of the white house who we ve seen publicly making the case the president should fire rod rosenstein. they re not all doing that in coordination with the word, but people want to be prepared if the president decides to go that route. how are they going to justify it? how are they going to explain it? and i think these are the inklings of maybe that reasoning. the question is, will the president read those memos? because with comey, obviously, when the white house came out that night to explain why he had been fired, basically this next day, the president completely contradicted what they said, that it was about russian yashgs wasn t
to go that route, and how it s justified and how do they explain it. these are the inklings of maybe that reasoning. the question is will the president read the memos. when the white house came out to explain why comey had been fired, basically the next day the president completely contradicted what he said. sa sara, thank you very much. the washington post s head lijs, trump allies are worried that they may have seized recordings business his attorney, mike at cohen whose office, hotel room and home were raided this week. what are you learning about the possibility recordings? what we are learning is that michael cohen, the president s longtime personal lawyer worked for the trump organization, often recorded his conversations, at times he would even play back recordings of conversations with folks to other people. he would even play them to
imagine would happen is devastating. i want people to know it felt worldly. i woke up on wednesday november 9th and felt like my phone wouldn t work because i was in a different universe. that the how much it impacted me. we had inklings it was possible but one in three chance, one in four chance, but still, you know, at a gut level you felt like you were going to win. there was some insurance we would win because it was so hard and it was so clear that she was the right i think that is president obama s confident assertions when he would get asked questions about trump and for awhile avoided the answers but eventually he would always end them assuring the country he s not going to be president. america isn t going to do this. america isn t going to elect him. women were pretty devastated and i certainly was and you saw something remarkable happen. women could decide it was right
inklings of difficulty. the nra doesn t necessarily oppose to basically enforce the law on existing background checks. not expand them just enforce them and people with criminal records should be allowed to buy guns. that had some struggles already. the senator from utah says he was beginning to try to block this bill. a similar bill passed the house a couple months ago but that was coupled with a gun prorights to basically allow people with concealed license to carry them across state line. that s not going anywhere in the senate. the senate is basically, one lawmaker can hole up entire pieces of legislation, whereas if the house it s a majority rule situation. house speaker paul ryan his
jobs. job numbers have been good. the most exciting news is we see wages beginning to go up. this is something we haven t seen in a couple of decades. if you look at it from an inflation-adjusted basis wages have been flat and expenses have gone up dramatically. it is what we were hoping for. a combination of getting rid of regulations and fixing a broken tax system that encouraged jobs and investments going overseas is beginning to make a big difference across the country for workers. jon: john roberts has had some inklings of what is coming tonight to expect a bright and optimistic speech and also says the president is going to slip in some things that people do not expect. i suppose you are one of those who might be surprised. any idea what the president might be hinting at there? talking about the economy is important. the next step in the economy in