Being in san juan. That does it for Andrea Mitchell reports. You can follow u us mitchellreports. Here is stephanie ruhle. Thank you very much. Former mueller is set to testify on the hill in less than 48 hours. What do lawmakers want want . Well be speaking to one of those members whos set to grill him. President trump is still attacking four congresswomen of color. Now calling them troublemakers. Well dig into trumps strategy. The 2020 candidate says the economys lights are blinking red. Well look at senator Elizabeth Warrens plan. President trump just spoke with reporters ahead of a bilateral
meeting with kazakhstan Prime Minister. He spent some time blasting Robert Mueller in front of congress. Mueller is due to testify on wednesday in front of the houses judicial and Intelligence Committee. Joining me now is kristen welker. She was just inside the oval office minutes ago. After the Mueller Report was released, the president said i am totally exonerated and all set and he moved on.
meeting with kazakhstan prime minister. he spent some time blasting robert mueller in front of congress. mueller is due to testify on wednesday in front of the house s judicial and intelligence committee. joining me now is kristen welker. she was just inside the oval office minutes ago. after the mueller report was released, the president said i am totally exonerated and all set and he moved on. now he s saying mueller is too conflicted to testify? well, he reiterated both sentences moments ago. i asked him if he was worried about wednesday and the testimony by robert mueller. he said he s not worried and he went into some of those talking points that you just talked about, no collusion and no obstruction and tried to paint mueller as totally conflicted. he made this point, steph. he s trying to argue despite the
it seems to me the only reason for doing that is to create some kind of public spectacle. the mueller thing never stops. there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no nothing. how many times do we have to hear it? president donald trump has continued to paint mueller s scheduled appearances as part of a vendetta from his political enemies. it never ends. it just keeps going on and on. i ve been going through this for two years, two and a half years. it took weeks of negotiations for mueller to agree to speak to the house intelligence and judiciary committees, in separate sessions. mueller says his testimony is the report. but his voice provides the report with political weight, legal weight. it s not just a text on a page. it s the story to be told by an investigator who was there day in, day out. is mueller s report an exoneration? as the president and attorney general believe? or a roadmap for impeachment?
biggest enemy is not any one of these democrats, it s the media. these polls are skewed. laura: it was the brightest morning in america, he should walked into every room like he hit the lotto. be optimistic and positive, don t get stuck in these issues that don t matter to most people. thank you so much for your analysis and polling is just one part of the 2020 equation. the other is what the news cycle will bring. the next guest says the media will be reflexively anti-trump but they won t have the reliable mueller story to obsess over, they might have to confront some hard truths about what really happened with these new investigations coming to fruition. victor, good to have you back. you have some big predictions
it underestimates trumps strength as you pointed out in the angle, with an economy that is this good, if it stays this good through next year, i think it s going to be a close election for sure. laura: when you listen to the sheer elation in the voice in the delivery of so many of these media pundit types, i guess that s all they have to hold onto, they can t talk down the economy, it s impossible to do that. mueller was a flop, they have to grab onto any strand they can find to find some optimism. they also point to some of the battleground state polls in the recent weeks that don t look good for trump, how does the campaign respond to those? i don t blame the president for being cynical about these media polls, he keeps a good collection of these polls on his website. you know how many electoral votes they gave us right before the election? 164.