president was also asked about whether he thinks mueller will be fair to him. take a listen. we re going to find out. we re going to find out. are you concerned about it. here is what we ll say and everybody says. no collusion. there is no collusion. now they re saying oh, well did he fight back? did he fight back? sir. did he fight back. john. it s obstruction. here the think i hope so. how define collusion in maggy asked this earlier during the briefing with sarah. you define it for me, okay. i can tell you there is no inclusion. i couldn t have cared less about russians having to do with my campaign. the fact is you people won t say this but i ll say it. i was a much better candidate than her. you always say she was a bad candidate. you never say i was a good candidate. i was one of the greatest candidates nobody else would have beaten the clinton machine as crooked as it was. but i was a great candidate. some day you re going to say that.
and again it gets back to maggy s point and your point which is this is a person who likes to tell people what they want to hear. which is why republicans go crazy when he s in a room with democrats because he tells them what they want to hear. and i think he wanted to tell the public, i m in charge, and i m really a good guy. which is why he tweeted out now, which i said very clearly. next more breaking news. what newly revealed testimony does to the president s claim democrats were the ones who colluded with russia. and high level departure from the white house. for my constipation,
hold on. let s pause with force him out. there has been a lot of reports that rex tillerson was unhappy and looking to leave after serving a full year. let s hold off on that. it looks that way from the reporting in the times and elsewhere that this is him being pushed. don t forget this is an open conversation in washington, d.c. that the calendar might force him out. the language issues, but it s not handled ow most people would think. same on the president. rex is here. maggy is with us on the telephone. i hope you heard the conversation. fabulous reporting. number two, trying to get to the question, why now? i think why now, two operating theories and thank you for having me. one is that they recognize that the end of the year is near and they will have to make a change one way or the other. the question is whether they are going to tell rex till errserso
while and worked with the white house. their language today was very very different. corker certainly called the president unfit for office. flake clearly did. whether that leads to new criticism or rising criticism remains to be seen. david ks people may say this on capitol hill privately but to maggy s point, unless they plan to leave office, doesn t seem like you re going to hear a lot of people standing up and saying this. i think we probably will not hear from a lot of other republicans, anderson. but a some day like no other, does have significance. we now have two additional republican senators whose broken sharply with the president, cries from the heart, just a moral indignation with what they ve been living with and kept silent about. the president has three people who have broken with him, corker, flake and mccain.
that s why i think people are saying, this is a hard enough job as it is. it s tough, almost a way of life, you have to be in two places, away from your family a lot. can i have a bigger influence somewhere else, looking at how mean politics were getting and little focus starts to go on the things that matters in people s lives. politics in this town have gotten away from things that matter in people s life. i hope this ends soon. maggy, it also raises a question about where does the republican party go. what does it look like two, four, six years from now? what we ve seen over the years now the parties in its primaries, there have been a significant am of people that have run. the president has not been committed to that agenda, and that s a problem for him, he s concerned about his base levering him. he ran a hard hard line in his