president s official schedule and when it happened, the press pool was taken by surprise. trump decided to take the meeting because quote putin asked him to so he said yes and then we had to learn about it all from arussia. the third time was in september from the new russian ambassador that said the u.s. president received me in a warm and friendly way. it was constructive and welcoming. that s what the returnussian ambassador told the news agency. the white house announced it afterwards, once the report from russian state media started getting around and it was the russian embassy that tweeted out this from the oval office. source prfrom the kremlin how donald trump would meet him. the white house denied they would meet but then they met just like the kremlin said they
28th, the first time we heard that was going to happen was from the kremlin. that was the first time. the first week. then it happened again. this time it wasn t a phone call, it was in person. it was in the spring right after president trump fired fbi director james comey, russia s state news agency tweeted out this picture of donald trump and russia s foreign minister shaking hands in the oval office. the foreign minister brought along the russian ambassador, as well. nobody knew about that meeting in advance, at least not in the united states. u.s. journalists were kept out. the meeting was not on the president s official schedule. when it happened, the press pool was taken totally by surprise, especially when russia state media started uploading their photos. the white house later said, he chose to take that meeting because putin asked him to. so, he said yes. and we had to learn about it from russia. that was the second time. the third time was in november.
questions. it was that kind of a display. it reminded me of something you might see in less democratic countries when people at the white house or officials of a foreign government attempt to get in the way of the press in doing their jobs. but essentially that is what just happened a few moments ago here. they were so determined to block us from asking questions that they got right up in our face and started shouting, no questions, no questions so the president could make an exit from the roosevelt room without taking any questions, wolf. we definitely heard what you tried to do with that follow-up question with the president. we definitely heard the follow-up question and we then heard the president look at you and point and said, out, as if get out of the oval office. you re a member of the press pool. that s your job to go in there, listen to what the president has to say, listen to what the visiting president of kazakhstan has to say. i was a white house reporter for seven years
who gets breitbart? i guess we might know. well, yeah, it is a decision that has to be made by the board and i haven t been able to confirm to the level of satisfaction that i would report it. i ve heard that there are those conversations are happening but again, i haven t been able to confirm one way or the other whether he s being booted out of breitbart or not. it s very hard when reporting on this stuff because people will swear black and blue one side or the other, and let s just say i m highly skeptical of all the information that s coming to me at the moment on this particular subject. so jonathan swan, steve bannon does know how to push trump s buttons and went out and said something similar that vladimir putin has said. he s a great man. trump parroting the compliment in front of the press pool. it seems possible they could kiss and make up. does that seem possible to you? oh, i mean, look, trump is a
executive actions or proclamations, he calls the press in all the time for this. he likes to do the signings before cameras. the first thought that may not happen that seemed odd, but, obviously, the press pool has been in there and we ll see if the president had any comments to make when, indeed, he was signing this tax bill. it seems pretty clear with no formal end of the year news conference on the schedule, that the president wanted to leave the image of all the republicans on the south lawn touting their big legislative victory at the end of the year as the lasting image as people go into their holiday season and take a break from work, that they remember the big victory the president has. i don t think he s looking to distract from that. i want to get your take on this, the president tweeting not just about the signing but also tweeting with all my administration has done on legislative approvals, broke harry truman s record, regulation cutting, judicial appointments, building