election, there we re focused on our elections. we don t get to dictate how other countries operate. what we do know is that putin has been elected in their country and that s not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. we can only focus on the freeness and the fairness of our election, something we 100% fully support. and something we re going to continue to do everything we can to protect, to make sure bad actors don t have the opportunity to impact them in any way. when you said election meddling didn t come up in the call, i m curious, did the recent poisoning in the united kingdom come up in the call? i don t believe that was discussed in today s call. john? thanks a lot, sarah. over the weekend on one of the sunday morning shows, trey gowdy, republican of south carolina said when responding to the various tweets that the president had put out over the weekend, regarding special counsel robert mueller, he said, when you re innocent, act like it.
schools especially in the african-american committee. he told the group to begin discussing the problem which he sees as a civil rights issue. he wants parents to decide which educational options are best for their children. they launch into a wide-ranging discussion that included public and charter schools, homeschooling, schooling, dropout prevention and the basis schools program, states response abilities, in the current state of the u.s. department of education. the president s ultimate goal is to create safe communities, great schools and well-paying jobs. he believes each of these goals is linked to the others, in the trump administration is taking concrete steps to achieve them all. the president also spoke on the phone earlier today with prime minister mae of the united kingdom come up continuing the productive conversation when she visited. he had lunch with new jersey governor chris christie and his wife regarding combating drug use and at 2:00 the present will sign houtz joi
not only paves the way for iran to get a nuclear weapon but it could motivate iran s neighbors who feel threatened by iran and arab countries, sunni muslim countries they see as an enemy. they could now expedite their own nuclear program and then you get nuclear proliferation here in the middle east. that s certainly a concern a lot of folks have had in terms of the nuclear proliferation. when the israelis and arabs agree on things, you might want to pay attention to that. so many folks now have stepped this up like munich in the 1930s, nazi germany is on the rise and you had chamberlain, the prime minister of the united kingdom come and make a deal with hitler. are the stakes that high? is this a churchill kind of moment hear where you need someone like churchill versus chamberlain? and someone compared the prime minister to churchill. do you think that s a fair characterization? well, i d prefer it at this moment to talk about the issue
president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. and by doing so with vladimir putin, president trump insulted every russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country s future, including the countless russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist putin s regime. here now is how the white house tried to handle repeated questions about the phone call in today s briefing. did the president not raise the issue of russian election meddling in that phone call? i don t believe it came up on this specific call. i m curious, did the recent poisoning in the united kingdom come up in the call? i don t believe that was discussed in today s call. i want to follow up on the accusations of fraud in the russian election. why doesn t the president believe that s something he should be discussing with the russian leader? i didn t say we couldn t discuss it with the russian lead
the white house ask eed press secretary sarah huckabee sanders if president trump held putin accountable for anything. did the president not raise the issue of russian next meddling in that phone call? i don t believe it came up on the specific call. i m curious, did the recent poisoning in the united kingdom come up in the call? i don t believe that was discussed in today s call. i want to follow-up on the accusations of fraud in the russian election. why doesn t the president of the white house believe that s something they should be discussing with the russian leader? i didn t say we couldn t discuss it with the russian leader, i said it didn t come up on today s call. does the white house believe that the election in russia was free and fair? look, in terms of the election, they were focused on our elections. we don t get to dictate how other countries operate. what we do know is that putin has been elected in their country and that s not something that we can kick