works at the same time that at&t did with cnn parent company. the doj gave a thumbs up to the fox disney deal. and he congratulated the ceo claiming the deal would create jobs. the president spoke with the earlier today. congratulating him on the deal. and thinks that to use one of the president s favorite words this could be a great thing for jobs. now, experts in the field say mergers like that create the opposite effect when it comes to jobs. what s true, is that in the abss we see the president doing exactly what he said hi wouldn t do. playing to big corporation for personal gain. i am not behold to any special interest. nobody owns trump. i m not controlled by all the people that control cruz. that control hilary. with me, it doesn t work that way. okay? nobody controls me.
i have been very clear that i have had nothing to hide. i have been very clear. there was no collusion. there was no cooperation. no coordination. that you knew about. if i told you about manafort was doing and stone, you wouldn t have said there was no collusion and no problem, right? look, i think i can t justify what paul or roger. i know. i have nothing to do with that. when i was there, i was never contacted by a government official who the obama administration was in charge of the ballot and security, integrity during the 2016 election. i never got a phone call that said russians are trying to hack the campaign. the fbi came to you and told kwou exactly that in july. the fbi told you exactly that. i was gone in july. i know. it s part of the record. the fbi never came to me and said paul manafort is someone we have an interest in. or potential bad actors.
you said there were areas you wouldn t talk about. i said i will talk about anything that happened at the campaign. of course i will. i have been open about that. i ll do it all the time. that s what my expertise is. any information that transpired at the campaign. as long as you re playing straight you ll be fine and we ll see where it goes. and police it. there s no reason for overreach on any level. a couple quick other things. if they vote against the emergency declaration, what does that mean? it means the president will veto it. clearly. they don t have the votes in the house or the senate to over ride the veto. and it s very common for congress to send bills to the president and veto. this would be the first. for him. mcconnell insulated him.
has the trump tree over there in prime time television to attack whoever goes against him. are you worried about that? you have to worry about getting your butt whooped on cable television all night. first of all i work at cnn. secondly i m not worried about that. there s clearly room for dissent in the republican party. that s how you started the the base of the party the grassroots wants something to be done and the brand of the president when he ran for office he said i m different. hillary clinton would follow the rules and not get anything done. fair point. he said he would be better. and wouldn t play to corporate interest. he took care of fox. and attacked at&t. he s playing favorites. they say whatever he wants. and he follows their lead. i want to go back to the point. the majority of rank and file
if you ever used to think of the oval office as a dignified place, today the reality of what it s become became clear. today the oval office was used as a backdrop, like the fake board on the set of the apprentice. one of participants even questioned the president s manhood. the whole thing started when the president called cameras into the oval office during a meeting with house minority leader nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. he called the cameras in. it wasn t that they were accidentally there, and it was planned. the vice president was there, too. you wouldn t really know it, because he sat silently staring