Reporter we do know that something that President Trump had been considering, what were being told by Senior Administration officials the Deputy Attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of Hillary Clintons emails. They said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. But theres questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, its information that President Trump has celebrated in the past, but its serge not new information. The letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. Can you explain what it cede said . Reporter i want to read you the portion that i think is
particularly confusing in President Trumps letter to comey, in this hes dismissing him. He said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i a
East coast, President Donald Trump has a busy week ahead of him. On monday hes expected to take questions from reporters in a joint News Conference with the visiting Prime Minister of italy. Mr. Trump will likely be asked about his latest twitter rant against the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. The president now claiming mueller has multiple Conflicts Of Interest in the russia investigation. In addition to that, there are still questions about the tapes the president s former attorney just released as well as mr. Trumps threat to shut down the government to get funding for his border wall that he said mexico would pay for but in fact he means the taxpayers will pay for. Cnns Boris Sanchez is traveling with the president , or he was in new jersey. He has more on mr. Trumps twitter tirade. Thats hard to say. Reporter cnn has reached out to the white house to get clarity on specifically what President Trump was referencing when he mentioned Business Conflicts with the Special Counsel Rob
not true. there have been some recounts that have advantaged republican candidates in this cycle. what is happening here with the president? he clearly doesn t like the possibility that he might not that republicans might not get this senate pickup in florida. it appears to be part of a broader strategy. right. well, it looks like what he s trying to do is undermine the process so that if these recounts, which as you note, are legally mandated, if they go against the republicans, if as more votes are counted, the democrats gain ground and ultimately win in florida in particular, then he will raise doubts about those victories. he will say that they are fraudulent, that the republicans were disadvantaged. but he s wrong because the recount process is mandated by the states. it s known to anybody who wants to go and look at it. it s laid out very clearly. publicly available information. so the state is simply following, and going to be
many voters around the country are watching this and wondering, you know, whether we re seeing, again, another slow motion saturday night massacre. you know, you talk to voters around the country, and they say that the russia investigation doesn t have a direct impact on their lives, but they don t like it when they see the president making what are blatantly political moves to protect him and to put a shield around the white house. and i have to say that his conduct in that brief gaggle, you know, again calling out a female reporter, is exactly what alienated so many college-educated women in the election results that we saw on tuesday night. i mean, this is a this is going to be a huge problem for republicans going forward as he continues this kind of conduct. over the last year, talking to women voters all around the country, this is exactly the kind of behavior that they hate,
be the end of his presidency. but i do think, in the other world, the other world is democrats take control of one house of congress. and whatever that leads to, it doesn t lead to the thing i just described, right? so that s, that s a very black and white. the president recognizes that those are the stakes in the midterm, i think, in his moments of lucidity, he recognizes those are the stakes and that s why he s going to campaign the way he s going to campaign. for people who care about this, on either side, these midterms matter. people need to vote in a way they normally don t in midterms. i know a lot of strategists, democratic strategists say, the russia investigation doesn t always connect because there s no message, there s no mueller is silent. this op-ed from someone inside the republican ranks, highest levels of conservatism, working for donald trump, this seems like it has a potential to connect. i don t think it does. no. and this is my moments of democrats need