Next several weeks, according to a person close to the president. Weve got a lot to get to this afternoon. Two of our reporters, contributing to that report, nbc news chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson following the latest from the white house and julia aimsl ain. We we spoke a couple hours ago, one of your question es, would the president have anything to say aboard air force one. Did we know . Reporter he did not. Literally, ten minutes ago, chris, right before i walked out to speak to you we heard from one of the Deputy Press Secretaries, on airs one talking with reporters. He was asked be a the story we have been talking about here on this network most of the day. The story regarding preliminary ongoing discussions related to when and how and whether President Trump might end up speaking with members of the special counsels staff or may, for example, look at a potential compromise, like a written responsible to these questions rather than an inperson response. Let me te
President. According to multiple people shortly after President Trumps win, the president s fixer was pitching himself to potential clients. Like pharmaceutical giant novartis. A company that cohen immediately approached. Another one described as boiling down to this. I dont know whos been representing you, but you should fire them all. Im the guy you should hire. Im closest to the president. Im his person lawyer. It appears it worked for novartis. Cohen is accused of being paid nearly 2 million by Major Companies for socalled insight into the president s thinking. Taking millions from a client list that didnt just have novartis, it also included at t, korean air space and a Russian Oligarch with close ties to the kremlin. Sarah sanders today questioned b again and again about these transactions. And again and again, the answer to nearly a dozen questions was pretty much the same response. Do you know whether mr. Cohen ever approach ed the white hous as a representative of any of those
Did with fox news definitely dnl help things. I was misinformed. Have you made mistakes . I think this is something that needs to be corrected. Do you take responsibility . A mistake by my team. Do you take responsibility . Im fixing it. Do you take responsibility . Im fixing the problem. In the face of that, the president told reporters that he thinks pruitt is doing a great job. I think that scott is doing a fantastic job. I think hes a fantastic person. Trump denying today that he is planning to replace sessions with pruitt. Sarah sanders telling cnn the white house does not have any plans for personal changes at this time. Which is pretty much what this white house says every time there is a new rumor of a staff shakeup. It is not exactly a statement you can take to the bank. This is a president who proved again today that he will say whatever he wants wlfr he wants. This was going to be my remarks. It would have taken about two minutes. But that, would have been a little boring. A
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The United States commitment to nato is very strong, we mains very strong. But primarily because everyone, the spirit they have, the amount of money they are willing to spend, the additional money that they will be putting up. Germany has agreed to do a lot better than they were doing and were very happy with that. We had a very Good Relationship with angela merkel. Im meeting with president putin on monday and i think we go into that meeting not looking for so much. I hope that we are going to be able to get along with russia. I think well probably be able to. He is representing russia, im representing the United States. So in a sense were competitors. Not a question of friend or enemy. He is not my enemy. And hopefully someday maybe he will be a friend. Bill that was in brussels. Kevin corke is now in london. Good afternoon. There appears to be a disagreement over exactly what the president was able to get our allies to agree to. Where is the discrepancy and where are we now . Listen