confro confront china on trade and raised questions about where he stands on just about every major issue during a wild question-and-answer with reporters. and let s go through it with our political experts as we try to make sense of it. gloria borger to you first, it is like a flip flop flip now on gun control and the payroll tax, whether he ll visit denmark that is clear just a flip flop. but he s pretty consistent in one area and that is praising himself. so let s listen to this. no president has ever done anywhere close to what i ve done. i have been responsible for a lo a lot of great things. i m wonderful for the usa. i m the least racist person to ever serve in office. and the love for me as a representative of the country but for me. i was right and just about everybody admits that. i was put here by people to do a great job. and that is what i m doing. no president has done what i ve
insisting they re bad for the country. i ll talk with a member of the house republican leadership, north carolina congressman mark walker, who came out against the send her back chants at trump s rally in his state. and puerto rico protests. hundreds of thousands taking to the streets, blocking a major highway, demanding the resignation of their governor. now president trump is slamming what he calls puerto rico s grossly incompetent leadership. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re following multiple breaking stories after today s wild question-and-answer session in the oval office. president trump lashed out at former special counsel robert mueller who will be on capitol hill this wednesday to testify in public about his investigation. after first declaring he wouldn t watch the president admitted he might watch a little, then launched into a bitter personal attack on
nature of those settlements. the department of justice just last week announced that you are stopping that process and i just want to say thank you. that s something we ve worked on for a couple of years trying to get accomplished legislatively. the previous administration would not work with us on and you just implemented that. i want to say i appreciate that. let me also say that i have a question about the crime victims fund and the recession. help me understand the rescission back to the treasury of a part of the crime victims fund. bill: susan collins. has the president talked about a special counsel with you. the answer was no, he has not. shannon: he was also asked i believe also by her that if you were asked to fire him, would you do it? he said he would only do something that was legal and correct and i wouldn t go along with any order that i didn t think met those guidelines. we re getting some interesting information out of this
offers to seven potential employees, five of whom were correctional officers but due to the imposition of the hiring freeze, those positions were canceled by doj so they weren t able to go forward with that hiring. as you point out, this is a difficult job. can you explain why we continue to have a hiring freeze on correctional officers within the bureau of prisons? i appreciate that question. i think there may be some misunderstanding about this. the department froze the hiring at the headquarters in washington and at the regional administrative offices. my understanding the department allowed bop institution essential to continuing hiring up to their staffing levels. if people left they could fill the vacancies. i believe we ve left the discretion to dop to hire what is most critical to its
appropriations hearing that is going into different territory. let s bring in our panel to talk about. leslie marshall and john mccormack. welcome to you both. leslie, you have had a chance to look at this and we re looking ahead to the attorney general s testimony this afternoon as well. what piques your interest and what questions do you have and hope to have answered? the question i really have been happy with that were answered specifically is what you and bill were just discussing because as you know we ve heard a lot of rumor in the past 24 to 48 hours with regard to allegedly a firing of special counsel mueller and that the white house and even the attorneys for the president are advising him to stay clear of that. i think that s wise. as an american citizen i m happy with that decision. i think looking forward, though, with regard to the attorney general, we have to find out was evolved in the