The white house has now responded. Lets get to it. Good monday afternoon from the deck today. President trumps legal team is getting ready for a possible interview with special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his russia investigation. Thats what sources confirm to john roberts. President trump talked to reporters about the investigation over the weekend during a meeting at camp david. The president attempted to shoot down claims that he might obstruct justice when he tried to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself. The president said everythings done is 100 proper. He also suggested hes willing to talk with mueller. The president said again, there is no collusion, no crime. Special counsel mueller is looking to russian meddling in the United States election and possible ties between team trumpand moscow. John roberts is live on the north lawn. Good afternoon. Lets stipulate that no request has been made from Robert Muellers office to President Trumps legal team for an interview wit
Lawyers. Friends of mine from the middle east that say we used to go to syria. The place to go. Look what happened. Its so sad. But id like to see syria come back. We have a long way to help like with respect to the iran deal. Youll see what i mean by that over time. A lot of things will happen. [question inaudible] well, i dont know, i want to have peace in the world. Thats what i want. More so than the Nobel Peace Prize or any other prize. Id like to see peace. Ideally in the middle east, but in the entire world. We have a chance of doing it. North korea will be very important. Its a tremendous part of the world. It has tremendous potential. It has tremendous potential for its leader and its people. Well see how it works out. Right now were dealing with them. As i said, were dealing as though nothing happened. Theyre dealing with us, were dealing with them. Theyre working out times and meeting places and everything. In the meantime, if i read your various media, i find that maybe its
Goodbye to senator john mccain on the senate floor as his longtime friend Lindsey Graham stood next to mccains desk draped in black with white roses. Its going to be a lonely journey for me for a while. Im going to need your help. And the void to be filled by johns passing is more than i can do. Dont look to me to replace this man. Look to me to remember what he was all about and try to follow in his foot steps. If you want to help me, join the march. If you want to help the country, be more like john mccain. I believe theres a little john mccain in all of us. The little john mccain practiced by a lot of people can make this a really great nation. Shepard the tributes keep pouring in from both sides of the aisle and all corners of the world. For the war hero and lion of the senate that died over the weekend after ending treatment for brain cancer. Mike emanuel knew him well. Hes live on capitol hill. Mike . Good afternoon, shep. The one in particular we were waiting for is from republi
Thanks, greg. [applause] this is really an incredible time for our nation. We are respected again. We are respected again, like we havent been respected in many, many decades. We have the best economy and our history. The stock market today just hit another record high. That is i think 103 times since ive been president that weve hit a new high. And hopefully next year at this time we will hit many more. But thats not a bad number, right . Up to 103, and if im off just a little bit, like 102, it will be headlines. Trump exaggerated. Thats why i always say, i think. With republican congress, we got 4 million new jobs since election day and lifted 4 million americans off of food stamps. Those are tremendous numbers. [applause] jobless claims are at a 50 year low, and the stock market as i just said is at an alltime high today. Africanamerican, hispanicamerican and Asian American unemployment rates have all recently achieved their lowest levels ever recorded. And thats pretty good. [appla