scandal gamed out how the president might answer questions posed by the special counsel s offices in an interview. this is from the washington post which obtained an advance copy of woodward s book and published an article about it today. quote, john dowd was convinced that president trump would commit perjury if he talked on to special counsel robert s. mueller. on january 27th, the president s then personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make his point. in the white house residents dow peppered trump with questions about the russia investigation provoking stumbles, contradictions and lies until the president eventually lost his cool. now, fast forward six weeks or so, and according to bob woodward, at least according to the washington post s account of woodward s new book, on march 5th, john dowd and jay sekulow met with the special counsel himself and with him mueller s deputy james quarrels. there upon dowd and sekulow
according to cnn s reporting to counter the narrative that this is president working and not a president cooped up in the residence watching tv and tweeting. and his supporters are certainly praising him for that tonight. at the same time, for nearly an hour, what must be said was pretty gripping television. viewers, as well as the lawmakers, also saw some of the president s characteristics, his fogginess on policy details and his eagerness during face-to-face moments to be liked. we also got to watch someone who builds himself as a master deal maker do what he says he does best, and it really matters. on march 5th, a program called daca expires. that gives people who were illegally brought here as children the right to stay and work here. the president has been trying to make funding for the border wall a condition of making daca, including 10,000 more i.c.e. agents, ending so-called chain migration and a crack down on
apparent conflicts of interest regarding general flynn. without objection. general clapper, on march 5th, you said the following to a question. here s the question. does intelligence exist that can definitely answer the following question, whether there were proper contacts between the trump campaign and russian tishls. you said we did not include evidence in our report, and i say our, that s the nsa, fbi, ci, a director of national intelligence that had anything, that had any reflection of conclusion between members of the trump campaign and russians. there was no evidence of that included in our report. chuck todd then asked i understand that, but does it exist. you say, no, not to my knowledge. is that still accurate? it is. ms. yates, do you have any evidence, are you aware of any