prosecutor, it is exactly why the president should have been concerned. now we have a situation, the special prosecutor is supposed to look at a collusion between the donald trump administration and the campaign and the russian government, all right. and instead, now, they re getting into was his reaction to this, was some words he said to somebody, obstruction of justice. this special prosecutor has only come up with a couple of things and they were all happened before the election, before there was an election. manafort who the special prosecutor has indicted and gotten to agree to some sort of plea bargain, he s he s been looked at he hasn t before he had any association. paul manafort has not pleaded guilty. that s why you don t want to have that s why you don t want to have a special prosecutor. please, you might let me make my
what we have learned, the revelations that have come out of this book, scott? well, i think it s just confirmation. i didn t need fire and fury or this book to tell me about the president s ecbo and the madhouse there and the infighting. all of this has been reported. the book is really just a confirmation of it. but what stings and what is really hard for the gop and the white house and others to swallow, vis-a-vis their attacks, it s coming from someone who is had a front row view, right, of the fury and this nonsense that s going on at the white house. their attacks, the more they attack as someone once said, a protest too much. it might be true. we donald trump and his administration has no relationship with the truth. and so this is going to be a good read, but it s going to be a good confirmation or corroboration of what we know of donald trump s leadership so far. carrie?
korea. well, interesting report coming out about the relationship between president trump and china. already tense relations may be getting worse. according to the financial times, on monday, president donald trump will label beijing an adversary engaged in economic aggression against the u.s. mr. trump is apparently frustrated that his personal relationship with chinese president xi jinping has not led to a more balanced trade relationship or significant progress in reining in north korea. when we come back after this short break, special counsel robert mueller again under fire by the trump white house. this time, it is about e-mails the white house claims mueller shouldn t have. the special counsel s office has responded with a rare public denial. we ll have that for you as we push on here on cnn newsroom.
fishman, that will cement his place as russia s sole sovereign. this fixes putin s standing as totally unaccountable russian someone half deity, half human. at the exhibition, we find dasher and masher, at 20 years old, they can t remember life without putin. translator: without him, it would be like being without hands. can t imagine anyone else in his place. he s some kind of a superman for us because i think he inspired our generation. reporter: despite the prospect of new sanctions, a winter olympic ban, and the economy that is barely growing, two russian polling agencies put putin s approval ratings at more than 80%. president whose true superpower is his public image.
trump might try to dismiss mueller. let s listen to what she had to say and i ll get your thoughts. the rumor on the hill when i left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week, and on december 22nd, when we are out of d.c., he was going to fire robert mueller. so there you have it. and you said that would be political suicide. is that really a possibility at this point? we donald trump, anything is possible. i think what you heard from jackie speier and adam schiff, ranking democrats, is, one, a genuine expression of concern, and, two, it is a warning to trump. don t do this. don t bring on the constitutional crisis by trying this friday to get rid of mueller and to make this all go away over the holidays. this would be the biggest showdown in american political history since richard nixon tried to do the same thing over watergate, by firing the special