same way. he thinks it is unmatched. if he could just get on the phone with people he can convince them of the merits of his argument. josh, thank you for your reporting. we had a report from iran where iran s leaders are making it clear they have no interest in talking to president trump just now. thank you very much. let s bring in maggie haberman. great to have you here. thank you for having me. is it your understanding national security adviser john bolton is too hawkish for the president s tastes and may be on thin ice? this has been a point of tension between john bolton and the president. both are people who ran for president on pretty different platforms. this was never going to be a surprise. john bolton wasn t part of the first round of presidential draft picks who president trump appointed for his cabinet for his top advisers. they have always not been allied on this point. president trump is very aware of what got him elected in the
we should be prepared for you to announce at the state of the union to announce what you re going to do? i m saying, listen closely to the state of the union, you ll find it very exciting. joining me now, white house reporter for the washington post, josh dossey. mitch mcconnell privately cautioned the president against declaring an emergency? here s a challenge for the president. she s not giving him a single dollar for the wall. the president is telling allies he can declare a national emergency. a lot of senate republicans led by mitch mcconnell are skeptical of that choice and saying they would not support it. and would vote against it. the president is in a big of a quagmire. in two weeks, the government would bring a shutdown again. and the president has to figure out what he s going to do. everything we know indicates
or so we re told right now. on that topic, i don t think there s going to be much compromise. now, the president could focus on other things and make the speech more of a jeremiah, and more of a different issues, dinner kind of tone. what that means going-forward is hard to say. previously, in years past, the white house has told us to expect an aspirational unifying speech and soon we re back in political warfare. even some of the president s allies can see, we re going to be back in the heart of the immigration fight next week. josh, thank you for your reporting. breaking news now from the state department. the u.s. will pull out of a key reagan era nuclear arms treaty. how russia is responding, you re live in the cnn newsroom. ily hi. went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf right away. a leaf is a hint that is connected to each person
but first, josh dossey of the washington post asked sarah sanders if the president was concerned that michael flynn did lie to the fbi. let s listen. michael flynn today pleaded that he did lie to the fbi, that he was working for a foreign government during the campaign. does that concern the president? he seems to be concerned michael cohen is a liar. is he concerned one of his top aides lied to the fbi and was working for a foreign government? not when it comes to things that have anything to do with the president. the activities that he s said to and again, we ll let the court make that determination to have engaged in don t have anything to do with the president. let s remember what the whole thing that this started is supposed to be about. it s whether or not russia influenced the election and whether or not the president had anything to do with it. we know that russia tried to create chaos within the election, but certainly not that they actually impacted it. the only r
helped to explain an angry outburst from trump exactly one week before thanksgiving that we covered on this broadcast. it included this language, and we quote, the inner workings of the mueller investigation are a total mess. they have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. they are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. the president is also speaking out tonight about mueller in a new interview with the washington post. two post reporters, josh dossey and phil rucker, sat down with the president in the oval office. here s what he had to say when asked if he ll try to stop the russia investigation. quote, the mueller investigation is what it is. it just goes on and on and on, trump said. when pressed is whether he would commit to letting the probe continue until its conclusion, he stopped short of making an explicit pledge. this question has been asked about me now for almost two years, the president said, at wh