Truly made two opinions crystal clear. Number one, he thinks there was no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia, and the special counsel will treat him, he believes, fairly. Msnbcs Garrett Haake is live in west palm beach, so garrett, this is a print interview, apparently no advisers in the room. Trump and the reporter. We get unfiltered thoughts. Takes through the highlights of what the president is saying. Reporter sure. So you have donald trump and a reporter at a table in his restaurant, as you said, essentially unfiltered for 30 minutes. The way the interview was conducted, its a lot of trump driving the bus here and giving his own thoughts. He returned time and time again to themes were all familiar with now, talking about his electoral victory, how he says repeatedly Something Like 15 or 16 times that there was no collusion in the campaign. He accuses democrats of potentially colluding with russia. And he talks at some length about the Mueller Investigation, and this i
Huh, all right. Trump style. Theres as we know, willie, Christmas Tree from comcast. Its all very moving. Always a tear or two in our eyes. But, you know, still, its something, yesterday, shock waves still over what happened in alabama with doug jones, people still talk to me about it. How it may same the election. You still got a tax bill thats up in the air. Donald trump, once again, strangely, embracing his, or actually his most reliable political allie Vladimir Putin. It was a twoway street yesterday. Vladimir putin gave that press conference, praising President Trump. He gave vlad sld a cal vladim putin a call. Dont fideutsche is with us. Senator at large lee gallagher, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignacious and White House Reporter for usa today heidi pryzbilla. Mika has the morning you a. Joe, i want to go to a piece in the Washington Post titled newtonian physics. And joe, we have tim ryan, congressman tim ryan coming on in a few minutes. The Dem
Up, and those include the tax overhaul that Congress Passed this week. Big Companies Say they are giving bonuses this week because of that and the president is touting that as all the rage and hes expected to sign the tax bill today. Meantime, the president must sign the stop gap spending bill that law mackemakers managed to last night. It frankly punts the really tough decisions down the road about a month. More on that in a moment. First, our jeff zeleny at the white house. Reporter poppy, time is running out for the president to do much more work here at the white house before he leaves for his maralago resort in florida. He will leave in an hour and 20 minutes or so, and yesterday we were told he was likely to sign the tax bill into law before leaving the white house, and now its unclear if that is going to happen. His advisers say it may or it may not happen. The reason for uncertainty over it is technicalities, the senate overnight passed the final bill to keep the government ope
Undercuts and undermines an argument many in his party have been making that theyve been attempting to discredit and undermine muellers investigation calling it partisan, so this goes against that but at the same time the president repeated a lot of complaints and criticisms hes had about the investigation. Among those complaints, the investigation is bad for the country. President trump telling the times it makes the country look bad and puts the country in a bad position. The sooner its worked out, the better it is for the country. President trump also told the newspaper 16 times in just 30 minutes there was no collusion with russia. He also said some congress men have been unbelievable in h pointing out what a witch hunt the whole investigation is. The president s comments coming amidrising tensions between the u. S. And russia. The tone growing more confrontational. Cnns International Correspondent frederick pli reporter actually, yes. We just got off the phone with the kremlin a c
Up from christmas ready to go at it again. Trump tweeted, wow, fox and friends, dossier is go bus, clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier. With us to break this down, garrett hague, whos in palm beach with the president. And we have reporter julia ainsley. And the advisor of the new York Democratic party. And the advisor of the bush cheney campaigns. There were comments about andy mccabe, the Deputy Director of the fbi. What does the president have to say here about the dossier and about mr. Mccabe over the weekend . Reporter Andrew Mccabe sort of sits under the nexxus of everything that gets under the president s skin, he was Deputy Director of the russia probe, especially with his old boss, james comey, hes someone who has told congressional investigators that he can corroborate james comeys account that the president had asked him for loyalty before he was fired. Mccabe is also embroiled in the clinton investigation as well, in part because his wife was a democratic candidate for sena