News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his comments or explain, you know, his view of the situation. But what he has been doing over the last day or so, specifically in a lengthy interview with fox news that aired last night and today, is really take the lead in the administrations response to all of these problems. Theres no question the white house staffers were caught by surprise by a confluence of bad news stories. Paul manaforts verdict and also Michael Cohens guilty plea, but President Trump has been the one left to test out various stra
this is inevitable not before the midterms but certainly could happen after. there has been a question ever since the president started attacking jeff sessions over a year ago that he would fire sessions. the question has always been, well, would the senate, controlled by republicans but very narrowly, would they even confirm a new this was seen as a political retribution act by the president. what s sort of tying all this together, and i think you can include the president, is nobody s really sure whether there are staff at the white house, supporters in the media and in the republican party. you certainly talk to republican party on ativperatives about thi have, nobody is quite sure what s coming down the pike next. everybody is kind of i think that is what has changed from tuesday, this sense that anything could happen. right, and we have to be careful to not overplay our hand before we know what everybody else has. most importantly what mueller