he was disappointed that vladimir putin did not show up at the miss universe pageant. putin backed out at the last minute. trump wanted him to be there. one other thing that occurs in watching this is that we have a president who understands flattery, because he loves flattery. it appeals to him. so he is doing to putin what he would like putin to do back to him coming out of this meeting. i think he is really looking in an odd way for putin s approval here. that is why he starts out the day by saying, this is all due to american foolishness. this is our fault, is t is obams fault, but certainly it s not my fault. so don t blame me. it s quite stunning that you have a president who seems to be looking for putin s approval. and you have a group of hardline presidential advisers, most
for their own conduct. two sources tell me that is false. rosenstein essentially said if you hold me in contempt realize i will be able to defend myself. laura jarrett with the news tonight. thank you, i appreciate that let s discuss all of this with congressman eric swalwell a democrat on the house intelligence committee. first what s your assessment of this breaking news that rosenstein will brief the president on thursday? it s all right. it was a critical point. the president should be briefed on it. i m not bothered by it at all. donald trump just days before the election wanted to throw a parade for jim comey for re-opening the investigation and now to suggest that he s offended by the way he h it. what i m more upset about is t president refuses to be briefed on what the russians did in 2016 in the election and what they re willing to do in 2018. he s obsessed with comey, but he s not because that s about him but he s not obsessed about us and our democracy and what it tak
as a country as a whole since 2006. there s two points i would make, the administration has tried to pressure china particular and we know their relationship is very, very large. nearly 80% of thenorth korea s exports and imports come from china. that s why the treasurer secretary announced sanctions on china. you have a major economic summit with russia and china having as we speak when this latest provocation happened in north korea. is t second point i would make we re more than a week away from the u.n. general assembly and nikki hailey is going to have a big role to play her. her relationship with rex tillerson that relationship is
the media willing to go along with this agenda resulted in a flurry of misconceptions and unfounded claims about the true purpose of the amendment. he s trying to get to defending it for but the bottom-line is t the president-elect s twitter account changed the outcome. he seems to change quite a few things with tweets. there s a plant in indiana that s going to have more people working at it because of some tweets. this is a really interesting unforced error because the history of this office goes back to the last time the democrats took over the congress back when george w. bush was still president. nancy pelosi had the slogan drain the swamp. and proceeded the movement by the democrats. they put in the office. as it develops, quite a few democrats ran afoul of this. there was bipartisan opposition to this. precisely my point.
the media willing to go along with this agenda resulted in a flurry of misconceptions and unfounded claims about the true purpose of the amendment. he s trying to get to defending it for but the bottom-line is t the president-elect s twitter account changed the outcome. he seems to change quite a few things with tweets. there s a plant in indiana that s going to have more people working at it because of some tweets. this is a really interesting unforced error because the history of this office goes back to the last time the democrats took over the congress back when george w. bush was still president. nancy pelosi had the slogan drain the swamp. and proceeded the movement by the democrats. they put in the office. as it develops, quite a few democrats ran afoul of this. there was bipartisan opposition to this. precisely my point.