it remains to be seen what compromises president trump will be willing to accept. i m joined by national political reporter vivian and aaron blake, reporter for the washington post. vivian, you first. it sounds like a big positive coming from the president, but trust is the issue here. two days ago in davos, marc benioff said, trust is everything in corporate america. when it s lost, everything else is. there s no trust in washington. there s no trust around the president and his word. that s right, stephanie. it s not completely unfounded. there were so many mixed messages going into the government shutdown last week, as far as what the white house s view of the immigration status was. so a lot of lawmakers, even as they appear to be coming closer to compromise, are on edge, saying they ll believe it when they see it. obviously, we re waiting to see what the white house lays out in that plan on monday. obviously, the border wall is the big give from the democrats.
said, look, the president was speaking hurriedly before leaving for davos. he s stressed that any decision will be made in concert with the president s legal team. he also stressed the president is willing to cooperate. so ty cobb really putting the focus back on the fact that these negotiations are ongoing. remember when we first started these discussions about the president potentially having an interview, we talked about the possibility of submitting written responses to questions. the president, though, making it very clear, he wants to sit down in person and have this conversation. there s also a new statement from the president s outside counsel talking about documents and interviewing that have gone on between white house staff and team mueller. reporter: this is from john dowd, who told our peter alexander that they have been more transparent than, effectively, any other administration in this type of an instance, in this type of an investigation. let me read you a part of
economy to be one of the biggest and best most efficient economies in the president has done. he s gone around the world. mike, that s something anybody could have assumed that he was going to do. what else do you know about what the president trying to accomplish on this trip? we re told the president will have a three part message. by the way, an interesting little behind the curtain from axios was the french president who helped lure the president here. we ve been surprised president hasn t done more these out of box appearances. people were talking about should we go into the lions den of davos. in a call with president marrone, the president played on his ego a to be fun. the vice president also encouraged him to do it. the president is excited about coming here. the first as you indicated, earlier, we saw in that clip from gary cohn, he ll start by
we re awaiting white house briefing as president prepares to take off for davos, switzerland where he ll be talking with world leaders and major business ceos. trip coming after hearing major economic progress. how can that impact midterm elections in november?
on these e-mails text message. it causes them to doubt over things coming out of this investigation. regardless whether it was a true technical glitch which sounds like it was, it will help the president is bolstering his point casting doubt on this administration. the competency of the fbi. exactly. one other thing about davos, our friends at fox, there are heating pads in the seats. this is a very comfortable place to report on davos. the conversations that i ve had both in the big congress center and receptions, people are very curious to meet the president. we thought this isn t his crowd, which is part of the appeal for him. not very exciting. i can t imagine. this is like the best thing that happened to davos years and years. i got to tell you this morning