isis, trying to get back on a path of peace in the middle east and, of course, the questions will be for the united states allies in the region. does this revelation, this bombshell, threaten the president s relations with u.s. allies abroad? he will undoubtedly get tough questions with the meetings he is going to have with foreign leaders. ty icaltypically, chris, as you know, because you traveled with former president obama, presidents typically hold press availabilities when they are abroad. we anticipate we will get to ask him some questions during the foreign trip. and likely, a lot of them, particularly in the early part, will resolve around this latest controversy. we re waiting for h.r. mcmaster, national security adviser, to come to the podium to brief us on the latest developments here. i ve been talking to senior administration officials throughout the night and early morn skpg they re not only concerned about the fallout with allies but with lawmakers on capitol hill, as we
a news story somewhere. reporter: by americans do you mean michael flynn, the former nsa? any american. reporter: are you referring to flynn? i think specifically there was i think the more important question on that was, there were three americans of which the only name i know is manafort, the other two i don t know, but they appeared in a news story, and the questions that we had ten days ago when that story broke, for many of you who attended the different press availabilities that i had, the question was whether or not we were going to investigate those americans. and at this point, here at the committee, we still don t have any evidence of them talking to russians. reporter: do you have all the evidence at this point that you expect to receive or would you say your still in the preliminary stages of receiving and reviewing that evidence? well, we re working on we had the scoping of our investigation finished. and then we re going to move into actually receiving the
do we even know at this point, going to look like between the press an this incoming administration? will be much more contentious than what we ve seen with president clinton, president bush, president obama. there s a bipartisan consensus for basics like holding press conferences, and having press availabilities. that consensus is not something that donald trump is ascribed to during the campaign. there s no reason to believe he would now. quick example, george w. bush had more than 200 press availabilities during his eight years. barack obama also had about 220 press availabilities during his eight years. either press conferences or times where he could yell questions at him. that s pretty much the same whether it was bush or obama. will we have the same kind of total with trump? that s doubtful. in that time, that s doubtful. he will, of course, president obama having his final press conference tomorrow. that will be an interesting moment to see what messages he wants to replay to
here s the other thing hillary clinton did in her statement. she turned it towards, the american people have a right to have a conversation about the issues that really matter in their lives, and donald trump has robbed the american people of that experience. you have debates where you didn t talk about climate change, jobs, barely, didn t talk about immigration. we re talking about something that has been litigated and decided by the american people. so when hillary clinton turns her positive vision for the country, that s leading us down a track to the closing argument and the american people picking who they want to be commander in chief. one of the things that the clinton campaign has played with a wide margin. they ve swung far in both directions. the question of how much they make their candidate available to the press. we had hillary clinton not taking very many questions, not doing a lot of press conferences early on in the campaign, and they took a lot of heat for that, th
doing all the events bunched together in the same place. they were all in the same place. the front-runner among them turned into the monster truck who grabbed all the attention and smashed the other cars. even as they were all starting their events, donald trump decided to make a late announcement that he would be doing one of his now patented live press availabilities. you re not exactly sure just what will happen except for the fact that you can count on him to be very insulting. and very blunt terms to at least one of the people running in the race. 50 gotten under jeb bush s skin? i don t know. i will tell you this. you mentioned the word skin. he said the other day one of the dumber things i ve heard ever in