Strucktive and cooperative engagement with russia. As we know when the United States and russia are working together and getting along its good for the world and its good for peace. So its an opportunity again for the two World Leaders to come together and talk about a variety of topics. You know, mercedes, it is amazing. There is so much to talk about. We can do it with the positive news for an hour. With what has happened with north korea now meeting with putin, the Supreme Court justice. I mean the president is on a roll. Mercedes schlapp so good to see you again. Thank you so much. He is. All right. And while the trump agenda saw a lot of progress this week, the deep state continued to collapse and deputy a. G. Rod rosenstein was in the hot seat. Take a look at this. Why are you keeping information from congress . I am not keeping any information from congress. I want to know why you wont give us what weve asked for. Sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impressi
you know. it is a totally false accusation. i think she was married, as i read, i have no idea who she is, but she was married to a actually nice guy, johnson, a newscaster. there s a photograph of her. standing with my coat on in a line, kbgive me a break, with m back to the camera. i have no idea who she is. who she did is terrible. what s going on. it s a total false accusation, and i don t know anything about her, and she s made this charge against others, and you know, people have to be careful because they re playing with very dangerous territory, and when they do that and it s happening more and more. when you look at what happened to justice kavanaugh and you look at what s happening to others, you can t do that for the sake of publicity. new york magazine is a failing magazine. it s ready to go out of business from what i hear. they ll do anything they can,
you can bet russia is listening. second of all, the president is lying when he said he s never called the fbi. the third thing we have yet to hear from any member of congress who said they have been called from russia with information and never turned it over to the fbi. this comes as donald trump, jr., who organized the infamous trump tower meeting returned to capitol hill for more testimony and hope hicks the long time trump aide testifies next week before a house panel investigating president trump. none of that is the huge headline this morning. joining us now to talk about the huge headline is white house correspondent for the new york times and cnn maggie haberman. the president didn t enjoy the past three years of investigation from robert mueller. yet he s willing to do it again. he s learned nothing. his statement is no collusion, no obstruction of justice. so it s no collusion but it would have been okay if we did. this message, the whole thing
it s his show. the optics of it in the oval office, to have that happen in the oval office, i have to believe we had josh campbell on before. people in the fbi said this is something that will have been discussed in foreign intelligence services. of course. him saying the fbi director is wrong for saying that kind of meeting or contact is something they would want. he s once again publicly undercutting the head of the fbi to take sides essentially with the possibility of foreign help. somebody said on twitter and i thought it was a good point that it might be more stunning if the president actually did condemn this and say, of course not. that s probably true. i don t think it is a huge surprise. we have seen he generally views the principle of self-help first. and winning at any cost. correct. whatever it takes. that said, he s still the president. it was still a stunning statement. he hasn t had a director of communications for a while.
congress, members of congress, he said if you ask members of congress they all do this, too. not true. number one. you haven t heard any member of congress say, yes, i would do this. you haven t heard a republican member of congress say this is wrong, what he said isn t true. republicans are moving in lockstep with what the president said despite the fact those members of congress know that foreign interference the a different order of mag anyway tuesd magnitude. he s throwing republican members of congress under the bus. they have gone out on a limb for him saying the investigations are unfair, how can you accuse him of this? nothing bad would have happened. he takes a statement and makes it harder for his defenders. some will find a way to half condemn this. probably true. if the members ever agree to come on and we ask they can t say they would take it. never in my life has a single official, beside it is president, said they would take