that we agree with the vast majority of the cia analysis on this. 98% of it but on one caveat and it s important one, i realize that but on one this thing, we don t agree with the cia and their final analysis. i don t know any member of the committee who doesn t at the end of the day support that. now this is again, there s ambiguity in this conversation. if you re trying to harm secretary clinton, can that be viewed as promoting donald trump? again, it s difficult to determine what motives they had, whether it was one or the other but i would argue, frankly, it was both. they wanted to break down trust in the institution, they wanted us to not trust one another and i think there s clear that that s their primary motive here. it does seem that some parts of this report are being overhiked. do you think it s a mistake for people to focus on the idea that you guys have come to a firm conclusion that there s no collusion, that is not the case is what you re saying? i m saying that u
in government today, who doesn t understand that, is the president of the united states. speaking of your republican colleagues, this is what the president had to say about john mccain yesterday, i want to play that for you. senator mccain said the alt-right is behind these attacks and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in charlottesville. well, don t know, i can t tell you. i m sure senator mccain must know what he s talking about. but when you say the alt-right, define alt-right to me. you define it, go ahead. as no, define it for me. let s go. senator mccain defined them as the same group what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? do they have any semblance of guilt? so that s the way he responded to it and then later disparaged john mccain of all people right now. what is the alt-left?
staff? we had your reporting and others of your colleagues saying that they were surprised and shocked by the president s comments, he was supposed to speak, doing an infrastructure event, that got drowned out. if they re shocked, what are they doing about it? well, andrea, when the president doesn t follow the plan as he did not yesterday, that does put the staff in a position of having to figure out how to react and respond to it. today we had very little from the white house except behind the scenes people talk ing about the discomfort they feel, and the the difficulty in dealing with these issues, which are so volatile and charged and heated. at the same time, we have not heard from the president on this today. he did tweet about heather heyer, calling her a beautiful and an incredible person and she will be remembered by all. so he sort of reached out about the memorial. but we expect in the next couple of hours the president will be leaving here at trump tower, i can tell you
snow in different chairman roles to build relationships. it s not like he is new to the party but he doesn t have a longtime relationship, not. going buddy of president trump. i want to go to the east room, where the news conference will take place. peter alexander is standing by. now that we may have some sense from the president himself that he may answer a few questions let s talk about what is royaling out there. although as we have seen in a break from tradition there often are peep who are called on who doesn t ask the questions that may be the vast majority of people otherwise in that room might ask. but let s talk about lineup of things that people want to get answers to. there are a lot of questions that folks are going to want to answer today. i m told by officials here it s not entirely clear the president will be allowing for questions on this occasion. that s still to be decide as they indicate. their intention is to focus on the selection for the new labor secretary p
in the end work toward a common cause which is getting donald trump elected as president of the united states and they were successful. donald trump tends to put people together and let folks fight it out. we ve seen that in his campaign. possible by having a variety of viewpoints in the west wing that trump believes that is a way in which he ll get sort of better decisionmaking. what i m curious to see is how the rest of the west wing fills out, who comes proefr the rnc, who doesn t, who from the campaign comes over, who doesn t. who ends up over by the rnc running that branch. so there s stale lot of dominos thatave to fall into place here setting aside, again, the cabinet and the administration positions that are yet to be filled in. we expect movement on those soon. we have to be talking to the trump children i m guessing to