Stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. President then turned his attention as i mentioned to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. This is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying its too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. The reporter asked donald trump to compare Jeff Sessions to the previous administrations Attorney General eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. I dont want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. Holder protected president obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things that they did, and Hold Proer Tekted the president. And i have Great Respect for that. Ill be honest. I have a little more on that in a moment. Trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice
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that pragmatic realism can head in any direction as the need arises and as it shines a light on the president of the united states. and, natasha, on the russia probe, we saw a very canny president as i said in my introduction to this news, that is president who tweets a lot of things for reaction. just today he was clearly trolling and tweeting serious things of climate change for outrageous responses and he was experimenting in the russia probe, floating a new defense to the relationship of paul manafort which was joy reid covering tonight and then alan der show wits saying this. i wanted alan the other day and by the way says this is ridiculous. the reporter said he is good for you. trump goes on, he s been amazing and he s a liberal democrat. i don t know him. he s a liberal democrat. i watched him the other day. he said there s no collusion.
number two, collusion s not a crime. i want to signal out for the audience and get your analysis on the four words that i see are false. he said i don t know him. the washington post reporting just this month that the two men have spoken recently at mar-a-lago. your view of why it s important to the strategy to invoke alan him as an independent person and then falsely claim and easily rebuttal false claim that he doesn t know him? well, he feels the need to get some kind of legitimacy for the argument that there s been no collusion and even if there was it wouldn t necessarily be against the law. now, alan is not the most reliable person to make that kind of an analysis these days. he s been making the living going on fox news to be a commentator and good to donald trump and one sided in the analysis and critiqued constantly by outside legal experts saying, actually, it really depends. if there was some kind of
justice. what about an order to burn the national archives, to cover up the misdeeds? reports to the president of the united states s. that in the can he do that? and alan said that s an example of something the president can t do. i don t think his arguments are meant to be convincing but they re reassuring to the president. yeah. on the what i think you put well, the noncanny side back to the ambassador on the foreign policy. i don t mean to be doing presidential fan fiction and jumping around as much as he does in the interview but i have such great experts and wanted you more deeply on the asia points you raised and he talks about this with regard to china. he says, you know, he like it is president. he treated me better than anybody s ever been treated in the history of china. you know that. they re hurting us on trade. the only thing more important to methane trade is war. okay? and it goes to the point david mentions is that s not very
to the strategy to invoke alan him as an independent person and then falsely claim and easily rebuttal false claim that he doesn t know him? well, he feels the need to get some kind of legitimacy for the argument that there s been no collusion and even if there was it wouldn t necessarily be against the law. now, alan is not the most reliable person to make that kind of an analysis these days. he s been making the living going on fox news to be a commentator and good to donald trump and one sided in the analysis and critiqued constantly by outside legal experts saying, actually, it really depends. if there was some kind of conspiracy to collude with the russians, that s been a crime. he s been on conservative media and i invited him and talked to him about the russia probe. he has a view. why does the president in your view and then, david, follow on this, say so falsely and so