There was more bad news on that front. A new poll found that 38 of americans approve of the way donald trump is handling his job as president. 56 disapprove. It also found that just 24 trust almost all or most of what they hear from the white house. 73 say they trust some or nothing at all of what they hear from the white house. Hours before that poll was released the president wrote on twitter the trump basis is stronger and bigger than ever before. He saved his toughest criticism from a sitting u. S. Senator. It started this morning when he wrote interesting to watch senator Richard Blumenthal then never in u. S. History has anyone lied or defrauded voters like
blumenthal. He told about his conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. He cries like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion. More than eight and a half hours later he finished with this. I think senator Blumenthal Shauld should take a long vacation in vietnam so he could at least say h
years. how am i doing? i m president, right? i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact when i decided to do it i said to myself, i said, you know, this thing with trump and russia is a made up story. no politician in history, and i say this with great has been treated worse or more unfairly. and i never asked once what the new nato headquarters cost. i refused to do that, but it is beautiful. you were referring to the testimony of james comey vindicating you. no collusion. no obstruction. he is a leaker. i heard it was 17 agencies. said boy, that s lot. do we even have that many intelligence agencies? it s an honor to be with you.
you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. no politician in history, and i say this with great assurely, has been treated worse or more unfairly. and i never asked once what the new nato headquarters cost. i refused to do that, but it is beautiful. you were referring to the testimony of james comey vindicating you. no collusion. no obstruction. he is a leaker. i heard it was 17 agencies. i said boy, that s a lot. do we even have that many intelligence agencies? it s an honor to be with you. thank you. by the way, just a question. did president obama ever come to a jamboree? sometimes they say he doesn t
know, this thing with trump and russia is a made up story. no politician in history, and i say this with great has been treated worse or more unfairly. and i never asked once what the new nato headquarters cost. i refused to do that, but it is beautiful. you were referring to the testimony of james comey vindicating you. no collusion. no obstruction. he is a leaker. i heard it was 17 agencies. said boy, that s lot. do we even have that many intelligence agencies? it s an honor to be with you. thank you. by the way, just a question. did president obama ever come to a jamboree? some times they say he doesn t act presidential. with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln i can be more presidential than any president that s ever held this
russia probe and attacking comey, himself. no collusion, no obstruction. he s a leaker. he s saying he never asked for comey s loyalty at that now infamous dinner meeting. i hardly know the man. i m not going to say, i want you to pledge allegiance. so, dangling the possibility out there of tapes. refusing to say if he has recordings of conversations in the oval office. a lot to discuss now. i want to get straight to white house correspondent athena jones, political analyst carl bernstein, political commentator david swerdlick, national political reporter, mave reston. good evening to all of you. athena, i m going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, president trump is fighting back. he certainly is punching back, don. after comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one who s