Im jake tapper live from held sinky finland and the ripples of the event that took place behind me are cascading around the world. As you know, President Trump met one on one with russian president Vladimir Putin for two hours. Before the event President Trump blamed the United States for the state of bad relations between the two nations. After their meeting the president stood next to putin and drew a moral equivalence between the United States and russia and told the world that he cannot be sure who to believe, the United States Intelligence Community or the russian president , on the subject of Russian Election interference in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. President trump stood next to putin and said he didnt see any reasons why russia would have done it. Of his own justice departments announcement of 12 indictments of Russian Military intelligence officials just on friday President Trump said the probe was quote, a disaster for our country. It was a stunning moment. Repub
What the president talked about today, the caravan in mexico and the asylum process rise to the level of a crisis that requires thousands of american troops to rush to the border . Or does a fastapproaching election have more to do with what he said today than slow walking Asylum Seekers . How you answer that question may depend how you view the president s truthfulness. Which is how we want to start with how the president views it. Have you always i do try. I do try, too. You say things about me that are necessarily correct. I do try, and i always want to tell the truth when i can. I tell the truth. Sometimes it turns out to be where something happens theres a change. But i always like to be truthful. That is the president of the United States telling abc news that he tells the truth when he can, which raises the obvious question when can he not tell the truth . For most president s, the answer is very, very rarely, usually safeguard some greater secret which might compromise national
President to florida. Let me get to the white house now. Cnns abby phillip is there. It seems like are we at a point where we can say the president is saying let bygones be bygones . It does seem like President Trump is not talking like a man who is preparing to fire someone today. In fact, inviting him onto air force one and saying it is going to be very nice to have him there, as he goes down to florida for this police convention. Now, the president , i was struck by how much he emphasized the Good Relationship he had with rosenstein. He noted that he didnt really know him all that well up until recently. But he said repeatedly, we have a very Good Relationship. He didnt answer questions about whether or not he was still thinking about firing him or if he intended to. And again, kate, i dont think that getting a ride on air force one is necessarily the way you would do that, so it does appear that President Trump is not necessarily gearing up for something dramatic in that respect to
It was a dire threat and urgent one. The question tonight is, does what the president talked about today, the caravan in mexico and the asylum process, rise to the level of a crisis that requires thousands of american troops to rush to the border . Or does a fastapproaching election have more to do with what he said today than slow walking Asylum Seekers . How you answer that question may depend how you view the president s truthfulness. Which is why we want to start very quickly with how the president himself views it. Have you always been truthful . I do try. I do try, too. You say things about me that are necessarily correct. I do try, and i always want to tell the truth when i can. I tell the truth. I mean, sometimes it turns out to be, where something happens, its different or theres a change, but i always like to be truthful. That is the president of the United States telling abc news that he tells the truth when he can, which raises the obvious question, when can he not tell the
Thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we could so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, were unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. This is what Robert Mueller intended to be his final word and it is not kind to President Trump. Yet, as we said, the president his defenders and attorney general have been mischaracterizing the report. Here is the president earlier today. So i said this morning, i said, i wrote it out and said lets see because im watching. Goes on for years and years and years. No collusion, no obstruction. Thats not good enough. Lets go more. 40 million interview 500 people. They got nothing. I could find something, i could take anybody in this audience, give me 40 million, give me unlimited fbi. Unlimited interviews. Unlimited interviewed 500 people. Listen to this, 2,500 su