collusion he claims doesn t exist. and ordering republican lawmakers to quote, do something. now following those tweets, white house attorney ty cobb wanted to make clear that, quote, contrary to what many have suggested, the president s comments today are unrelated to the activities at the special counsel with whom he continues to cooperate. i want to get straight to my panel. crime and justice reporter, political analyst and white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and patrick heely. as we look ahead to tomorrow, it is important to note that mueller was building on intelligence from previous investigations. he didn t start from scratch. yeah. while he didn t start from scratch, we do know that he ordered some of the investigators of the fbi agents to go back and look at some new information or perhaps go over the information that they already had because he wanted it his own way.
and he s already painting a rather grim picture of the road ahead in a fiery op-ed in the washington post. senator mccain slams the gridlock, partisan divide and president trump. he writes congress must govern with the president who has no experience in public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct. we must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities we must where we can cooperate with him, but we are not his sub or nats. we must be diligent to serve as a check on his pour and should value our identity as members of congress more than partisan affiliation. with us to discuss those heated words, cnn political commentator and assistant editor for the washington post, david swerdlick. and here in new york, cnn political analyst, new york times editor patrick heely. president trump and senator mccain haven t exactly been buddies, to say the least, but still they re members of the same party, and those sound like fighting words, n
with you where i don t agree because they see that the president still has strength within the republican base, but also see that he s losing that strength bit by bit and shouldn t be lost this quickly in his first year if he was executing on agenda that made sense to more people that were outside the white house. david swerdlick, patrick heely, thank you for the conversation. up next, a cnn exclusive. first look at president obama s inauguration day letter to president trump. hear his advice and thoughts on his time in the oval office. don t miss it. you re live in the cnn newsroom. here s to the heroes america s small business owners. and here s to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here s to the heroes behind the heroes behind the heroes, who brought us delicious gyros. actually, the gyro hero owns vero s gyros, so he should have been with those first heroes. ha ha! that s better. so, to recap small business owners are
national security adviser hr mcmaster spoke with his british counterpart about sean spicer s comment about a fox news report that suggested british intelligence was helping to wiretap trump tower during the campaign. they had to apologize saying it was unintended. this is part of the bottom line with cnn political analysts and deputy culture editor of the new york times, patrick heely, i enjoy air quotes have been brought back into mainstream by the wiretapping deal. let s look at this as fact. you had strong and wrong, sean spicer say this is on you, media, plenty of reports. one of them that he mentioned was this fox news accusation about british intel. what does it mean if mcmaster had to talk to british intel and call that unintentional bringing them into this, essentially it s an apology. sean spicer can blame the media all he wants and sit in the press room and come up with different spin every day and use
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