told cnn that ms. davis has done nothing wrong. she has no knowledge whatsoever of any russian collusion, collaboration with wikileaks, or anything else improper having to do with the 2016 election. i know it s a lot. we re going to get to all of it as promised. let s bring in our lead-off panel to do just that on a friday night. matt apuzzo, prize winning reporter for new york time. barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. and eli stokols, white house reporter for the l.a. times. good evening to you all. thank you for your patience. matt, even though this is your story, so i don t have to bring you into an area of sourcing where you won t answer my question anyway, i m going to start with the lawyer for president, which i think is best for all involved. barbara, you can t be on cable news these days without using the word narrative. so here is the narrative that is emerging tonight. the special master senior federal judge goes through the pil
as of this evening, president trump has officially completed 18 months in office. white has a lot of competition, this week has been nominated as the most remarkable. since that meeting with russian president putin on monday, we have seen the president walk back comments he made on russian election interference and then walk back those walk-backs. here a friendly reminder of what has transpire over the course of just three days. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it s russia. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. the sentence should have been i don t see any reason why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a double negative. i accept our intelligence
mark short and joe hagan. i was under the impression that joe hagan had already departed, but you might be right. that s lemire i m quoting. these are people who also are widely respected not only within the white house, but this the white house who the president trusted but also were trusted outside of the building. hagan was something who came into the white house with years of past experience in past administration. mark short was the person who really helped shepherd the president s legislative agenda, played a big role in the supreme court nominations. and those are people who are really going to be missed, especially at a time right now when it is not easy to find people to fill any of those positions. you walk into the press office now, and there are a lot of empty desks. so the question now is who are they going to find to fill those positions, and what s their competence level going to be? it s true. it s not like working for other administrations. brian, i m going to
associated press, so great to have you here. thank you so very much. coming up, what they saw and heard in helsinki that led some of our guests and analysts to say things about an american president that they never dreamed they would say. we ll have that when we come back. if yor crohn s symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn t worked well enough, it may be time for a change.
are you not sure? is your view somewhere in the middle on this. when they ask that question, look at what came up. very interesting here. approve of trump s performance, that actually gets plurality support, 41%. that not sure option, nearly a quarter shows choez that coming from one very specific place on the political spruchlt it s those independents. this is the interesting thing. a third of them choose the not sure option. look at that disapprove option among independents. we saw it 60%. it comes way down. so what is that telling us? it s telling us among independents, when you push them on this issue, when you approve or disapprove, they move to the disapprove side. when you ask them, a third option, not sure. how confident are you in that view? you start to get a little waffling there. so it does raise the question among the independent voters how deeply held, how much will this linger? and that gets to my tease for sunday, because we got a brand-new nbc news/wall street