distinctive because of the translation coming over the headlines. exactly right. the translation rolled through the crowd. as everyone heard it there, all the dignitaries, world leaders, they began to laugh. you saw the president in a rare moment where he was obviously flusterred and tried to cover it up with a joke. that s where we thought today was going. a short time later, the press pool which i was part of today, were taken to a bilateral heating between president trump and the president of colombia. after their remarks, he took questions from us. i asked him after he answered one or two that was sort of pertinent to colombia, i asked him about kavanaugh. the interview last night on fox. and it was it switched. and he clearly was teed up and he wanted to talk about it. and in our reporting, this is something that s been building up within him for several days. that he initially when these allegations came out against the justice, he was sort of able to separate it from the
president. having a working dinner. they are happening at the same place. the first lady has been practicing diplomacy of her own. she ll continue with the president on to london, scotland and helsinki before returning home. we have yet to hear from her. we haven t heard her say a single word in the press pool. no remarks. but she s here in a supporting role and the people of europe tend to support her as they did the last time she was abroad last year at the nato event. looks like she s had a complete recovery from the kidney surgery. she had the operation in may and her doctors gave her a 30-day no travel situation so certainly trips abroad, long plane trips were not possible. this is her first. we traveled with the first lady to the border in arizona last week and texas the week before. those were shorter trips. this is certainly her first
like yourself are totally focused on how to deal with the nuclear threat from dictator. it s great to have you on the program. thank you. good to be with you. harris: thank you. all right, we want to take you some place special now. we had mentioned that the oval office, the president called the press pool. we want to tell you what is going on there. the president is pardoning posthumously legendary boxer jack johnson. and what he is doing with this is at the behest of sylvester stallone, the actor on his own social media moments ago said i m in the oval office with the president. watch this. we are showing you this. the president with the pardon. and so you know, jack johnson if you don t know the history, back in a time when the country was divided racially and a very marked fashion, this boxer was accused of taking a white woman across state lines. and so what the president is saying is you are pardoned of that.
spray for our lay audience, the press pool is the tight group of correspondents and camera crews who cover the white house every day and it s a spraying motion of the cameras so you can get a shot of all involved, lest someone come away with the wrong definition. jill, i want to play a piece of an interview with lesley stahl. this is lesley stahl talking about when she first went over to interview donald trump in trump tower. this is december 2016, after he won the election, something he told her then. we ll discuss it on the other side. at one point he started to attack the press. and i said, you know, that is getting tired. why are you doing this, you re doing it over and over and it s boring and it s time to end that, you know, you ve won the nomination. and why do you keep hammering at this? and he said, you know why i do it? i do it to discredit you all and
origin of this russia probe. you have rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who over sees the mueller investigation, trying to protect the process of a counterintelligence operation, all amid an ongoing investigation. it s an uneasy situation for all of these players. but they re dealing with a president who is combative as ever. bob, let s say on behalf of the press corps, the president tried to wave away questions about rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignitaries but we get no other access to the president, no other news conferences. having said that, what did you make of his lack of an answer until the question do you have confidence in rosenstein? he didn t give an answer, and that s telling because he s not expressing confidence at a moment where he could express confidence. the lawmakers who are close to the president like mark meadows and congressman devin nunes, they re very unhappy with rosenstein. the president fumes at times about rose