they re talking to you, when they re talking to lobbyists, when they re talking to donors, it s a whole different world. are you saying that i m trying to follow your logic. you re basically showing a parallel in that we re talking about the president of the united states saying one thing, and his press secretary sort of saying another, and a lawyer saying another, and that s just like the dysfunctional congress who says one thing to us on tv and another to the constituents? are you equating the two? the well, robbie had mentioned the control republicans have and the dysfunction over there and i certainly agree there s dysfunction over there but it s because a good swath of the republican senators didn t tell the truth about what they were really going to do on obamacare when they finally had the opportunity. and so now, at a slim margin of 52-48, because they aren t keeping their promises, and that s it, they can t pass a repeal of obamacare. so, now go down the street to the
whether or not you consider yourself under oath or anything, those comments are actually considered very legalistically bound. so therefore you cannot deviate. now they are getting more information out of the president, they are getting a better understanding of what he did. saying that he dictated, which is a very clear word, that statement. it puts the president, essentially, in that room. and now investigators have the opportunity to follow the trail right back to the white house. but having a press secretary sort of give misstatements to reporters, having a lawyer go on television and say whatever they said, those are not legally bound. and julie, even if president trump wins the legal battle against the subpoena, for example, is this letter to mueller about the political aspect of the investigation? absolutely. the timing of this is essential because it comes right before, well, not necessarily right before, but before the 2018 midterm elections. and if the president s legal t
coverage of president trump, and his campaign, and they are calling that, sean spicer called it demoralizing. it isn t often when you hear a press secretary sort of go in depth on those kind of feelings, but we indeed heard that at what was a very substance-filled briefing earlier today a lot of issues were tackled. spent an hour and 15 minutes in the briefing room, answering a lot of reporters questions including yours, as well. jim acosta, thank you very much. and now to capitol hill, where the senate is taking action on some trump nominees. let s go to to the scene. the foreign relations committee just voted to approve the former exxon mobil ceo rex tillerson. reporter: that s right. by the narrowest of margins, too, wool cwolf, an 11-10 vote. the reason why they were able to approve this on a party line vote is because of senator marco rubio, announcing today he would