giuliani is trying to do is not really win the argument or even be right or correct, he s just trying to muddy the waters politically. and it s not just rudy giuliani, but it s also other trump friends and associates who are trying to accomplish the same thing for the president. listen, though, to what rudy giuliani said about the honesty of the president. he said it over and over again, that the president is not going to lie when he sits down with bob mueller. let s listen to giuliani on that. it is not true that a perjury trap is just when you re not telling the truth. a perjury trap is when you get somebody to lie about what you re telling the truth. the president would testify tomorrow if it was about the truth. the truth is, he had nothing to do with russia. i was on that campaign. he didn t talk to russians, he had nothing to do with russians. why won t he just sit down and say that? because you ve got people that are going to ask him questions about what did you say to h
because of things happening, whether medication or alcohol or whatever. he says he s going to testify now because he got a subpoena for the grand jury and then he s going to go into treatment. obviously we wish him well in that. but in and amongst all the noise yesterday, there were some things that were intriguing to people like you who follow this russia investigation. it is that sam nunberg, who s trained as a lawyer himself, seems to have gleaned some information about a direction that robert mueller s people could be heading? i think that he yes, robert mueller has to interview him. first of all, he may have information. he may have heard something that leads to something else or confirms something. that s the substantive point. second, he can t have somebody saying i defy you and getting by with it. third, if he didn t talk to him, even if he has nothing to say, he s the first person nunberg is the first person when this thing wraps up that would hold a press conference a
barack obama appear as though he was ignorant of the fray fomented by his administration to undermine the incoming president and his hands were absolutely clean. i mean, this is the same barack obama who told our chris wallace he didn t talk to anybody in the justice department about any of the investigations and, yet, we know from the emails from peter strzok and susan page the two fbi people not emails whose texts we have seen hundreds of times poet tus written in 2016 to the references to barack obama wants to know all about this. so there is some real. martha: the stapg we have is that is with regard to the russia investigation. yes there is a serious disconnect there. they must have learned something in the waning minutes of the obama administration which made them worry that what we now know they were doing would be discovered. so, in an effort to reconstruct history, she writes herself a memo, by the way dear susan rice, don t forget that barack
as the senators await clarification from susan rice, fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano said her words could carry legal implications and could create serious problems all the way to the top of the obama administration. to reconstruct history, to make barack obama appear as though he was ignorant of the fray fomented by his administration to undermine the incoming president and his hands were absolutely clean. this is the same barack obama who told chris wallace he didn t talk to anybody in the justice department about any of the investigations and yet we know from the emails whose texts we have seen hundreds of times, in 2016, the reference to barack obama, wants to know all about this.
it is day one of christmas vacation for president trump. so far he s spent his first day off golfing at his private club in florida. cnn shot this exclusive video of him setting from a putt. the holiday break comes as the president celebrated a major victory. he signed the republican tax bill into law. but even then when the president had every reason to brag, he didn t talk for long. unlike past presidents, president trump did not hold a year end conference. today we re learning that s not what president trump originally wanted. we re actually told his aides argued against it fearing he d be asked questions about the russia investigation. live in west palm beach, florida, right near mar-a-lago. so what can you tell us? reporter: hey, there, pam. that s right, advisers