tonight, trump's message to mueller. president trump sending a clear message to the special counsel declaring his belief that mueller will treat him fairly in the russia probe even as he insists there was no collusion. in fact, the president repeatedly drove home that point, saying the words no collusion 16 different times in the course of a 30-minute interview with a reporter from the newspaper he regularly calls a failing "new york times." now at a restaurant inside of his golf resort, the president gave this interview with remarkably without a single white house aide present. and making waves, the president did an about face from his charges that this investigation is a quote, witch hunt. taking a much more optimistic view saying about mueller, quote, i hope he's going to be fair. i think he's going to be fair. there have been no collusion, but i think he's going to be fair. trump also used the words fair or fairly at least eight times when talking about mueller and the russia probe. but for each mention of fairness came the insistence that a fair investigation would find this. quote, frankly, there's absolutely no collusion. ryan nobles is "outfront" tonight in west palm beach, florida, near mar-a-lago. stunning interview from in so many ways and so much to get through from it. >> yeah b there's really no doubt about that. even the way the interview came together is startling. the president happened to be at his golf club. a friend of his from news max was invited. the reporter from "the new york times" there for lunch. the president came upon them and just sat down for this lengthy interview. he touched on such a wide range of topics. you mentioned the special counsel investigation where the president took an about face where he called the investigation a witch hunt now saying he believes mueller will treat him fair. also something we should point out, what the president had to say about jeff sessions. he still seems to be upset over the fact that jeff sessions did not recuse himself from the investigation into russia. and then in kind of a bizarre turn, he found a way to bring eric holder into the conversation. the former attorney general, where he talked about the loyalty he believes holder showed president obama, holding back on certain investigations that perhaps the justice department could have looked at a little bit more har a shly. so i think in many way, you have to look at this interview as perhaps a presue of what's to come in 2018 for president trump. he's not going to back down on many of these big issues confronting him and he talked about finding ways to work with democrats. he talked about a really tough stance he wants to take with china as it related to north korea. if we thought this president was going to back down from some of these big issues as he start it is the new year, i think this interview shows we were sadly mistaken. >> i don't think that is in his lexicon. thank you very much. ryan nobles in florida. joining me now, democratic congressman of texas. sits on the house intelligence committee. nice to be with you on this friday evening. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> as you know, your committee is one investigating this. this is a president who has consistently called the probe a witch hunt. now he says over and over again he believes that mueller will treat him fairly. do you believe that the president was telling the truth before calling it a witch hunt or now? >> it's hard to read the president's mind and exactly what he means. he often contradicts himself and issues contradictory statements. but i believe and i know many people in congress and p american people believe that robert mealer is doing a fair and thorough investigation and that he should be left in place to continue that investigation to get to the bottom of the facts about whether there was any kind of collusion or coordination or conspiracy between any americans and the russians who interfered with the 2016 elections and also in the case of the p t, possibly whether there was any obstruction of justice over the firing of james comey and other issues. so most of all, as long as donald trump doesn't mess with robert mueller, i think we're all fine. >> all right. so you said though earlier this month on this network that you were concerned. that in your words, the president may be quote continuing to lay the groundwork fo debt rid of bob mueller. i wonder tonight are those concerns assuaged a little bit for you? >> no. not really. like i said, because the president flip-flops on dichbt thin different things, so his public statements sometimes contradict other public statements and also what he's doing privately. so i think the nation most of all needs to be vigilant and make sure this president stays in check and doesn't fire bob mueller. i do think over the last several months, he's been saying things to undermine the credibility of the special counsel and also the credibility of the fbi and our intelligence services. possibly to lay the groundwork to fire bob mueller. >> of course as you know, he doesn't have the power to fire bob mueller. he would have rosenstein do that. rosenstein has said under oath he sees no reason to do that nor has anyone asked him to do that. let's move on to something else. here's part of it. mr. trump repeated his assertion that democrats invented the russia allegation as a hoax. t as a ruse, as an excuse for losing an election. then goes on to say and he said, quote, there was collusion with the russians and the democrats. a lot of collusion. he's pointing to you. and your democratic colleagues. your reaction? >> yeah, i think that it's distraction. basically, he's trying to point the finger at the other side to distract from his own guilty conscious which becomes clear in the eight or nine or whatever number ofed word collusion in his interview with "the new york times." what we've seen from public record even is attempts and connections with and meetings with russian operatives dwurg the during the 2016 election among trump campaign associates and from donald trump himself openly inviting russians to interfere with the 2016 election, asking them to basically put out or find hillary clinton's e-mails for example. so we've seen what has been described as collusion. the question is who exactly did it and that's what we're investigating and what was its effect. >> i hear you on all the things you mention. i vividly remember that moment saying russia, if you're listening, find the 33,000 deleted e-mails. i would say there's no, are you, ago there's a smoking gun? there's one string, one thread, that connects all of those to make collusion. >> i think that it's become clear based on what's been made public r already and the admissions of meeting for example, that there was collusion. i would say to your point about this being a jest, when you're a candidate for the presidency of the united states, that's not something you joke about about. >> i don't know if it was in jest. >> openly inviting another country, an adversary yalal country to interfere with our elections. the president's got a big personality and may think it's a big joke, but when you're running for president, you don't do that. if you're running for community college board president, maybe it's fine. not the president of the united states. >> let me get you on bipartisan ship. i think all american citizens were happy to see a mention of bipartisan shichship. they hope it actually happens. the president did tell "the new york times" he hopes democrats will work with him on a deal for so-called dreamers. these young immigrants brought to this country as children by no fault of their own. the morning though, the president tweeteded this. that the democrats had been told and fully understand there could be no daca without the desperately needed wall at the southern border and an end to what he calls horrible chain migration and ridiculous lottery system. we must protect the country at all costs. would you will willing to support at least part of a border wall in exchange for protection for dreamers? >> i think democrats rb very clear we don't support a border wall across america. and that the issue of dreamers is separate from the issue of billing a wall. these are -- >> no n your mind, but not his, clearly. in his mind, clearly, no. >> i think you're right. but look. this is not a question of convincing the american people, for example. dreamers have the support of 80 something percent of the american people. >> 83. >> you're right. it is a question of convincing donald trump and the republicans to listen to the american people, but it's not a question of convincing the american people. >> swrus to be clear here you would be willing to give up then legislation that would protect dreamers. you know, because you won't fund any portion of a border wall. is that what you're saying? you will not give ground on a border wall even if it means giving up the hope of this protection for dreamers? >> if the president wants to use dreamers to achieve building his big border wall, that's going to be very tough deal to manke. >> appreciate your time. have a good one. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. so "outfront" next, the president says he can do whatever he wants. with the justice department. really? 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"outfront" now, former ethics lawyer, richard painter and former white house council, john dean. gentlemen, nice to have you with me. john, let me begin with you. the president says i can do whatever i want with the justice department. you say? >> i don't think he can. it's the justice department is a creature of congress who is actually created in 1870 after the civil war and they laid out what the rules are and the president's job is to faithfully execute the laws. that doesn't mean he can rewrite the laws. >> richard, this comment is interesting because it somewhat contradicts what he said about the department, the fbi in a radio interview last month. let's listen to that. >> the saddest thing is that because i'm the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be b involved with the justice department. with the fbi. i'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing and i'm very frustrated by it. >> notable though that he didmedid lament over that. what's your read on this? >> well, i think he picked the wrong country to be president of if he thinks he has absolute power to run the justice department however he wants. that may be the way it works in putin's russia and other places. that's not the way it works here. there are laws and he has sworn to uphold the law and the institution of the united states. he has the power to remove the attorney general. to remove all of his appointees in the justice department. to investigate that power. that's the way do it in the united states. he has no right to do that and to pressure the toerattorney gel to fire robert mueller to stop the justice department from investigating the white house and members of his campaign who were current ly members of h hi mgs. some of them. so he may not obstruct justice as president of the united states. he is not above the law and that's the bottom line. he is not above the law. he is not a king. he is a president. >> and to be b clear here, you know, mueller's boss, rod rosenstein, the testified to congress, john, as you know, that no one has asked him to fire mueller. one of the most stunning things of this interview was that the president said he thinks mueller is going to treat him fairly. this at the same time as a gr growing number of of republicans b have been b attacking mueller's integrity. >> if everyone was dismissed from the mueller team who was antitrump, you wouldn't have anybody left. >> mueller, i have said since day one, he's bad news. he's out for a scalp. he would love to get trump's. >> this has spun far beyond what mr. mueller's authority should have been limited to. and with we have to bring it back in. >> what do you think, john? do you think the president want those republicans to stop those attacks on mueller? and hear him on the fairness comment or not exactly? >> i think his comments were pretty clear. he was throwing friendly signals towards mueller but also encouraging those being critical of the investigation to continue being so. he called his base strong. he gave them praise for what they were doing. he certainly didn't rebuke them. but rather was sending in essence, a message to mueller that if you exonerate me, i think i'll think you're fair. >> also, john, just building on what we've seen in terms of a reaction, former attorney general, eric holder, fired back on twitter today. here's what he wrote. wrong dangerous. trump doesn't have absolute right to the doj, but women and men there have the right to follow the constitution of law. career doj people have absolute right to defy legal orders and they will. i know it. what do you make of that in. >> i think it's a very accurate statement. i once worked in that department. it's a, it's a storied department. it has really wonderful career people. who do want to uphold the law, who are public servants and they're not going to hear a president giving orders that are contrary to the regulations and rules that they are really pledges to follow. so i think holder has just nailed it and told the president how he should be thinking. >> richard staying on the eric holder beat for a moment, the president brought up eric holder, the former attorney general. he talked about being upset b about his own attorney general, jeff sessions recusing himself then said this. i will tell you, i will say this. holder protected president obama, totally protected him. when you look at the things they did and the, that holder protected the president, i have great respect for that. i'll be honest. when you initial ly red that, that he clearly sees part of the job of the attorney general as to protect the commander in chief, what did you think? >> well, the to protect the rule of law and what president trump is doipg there is casting dispersions on president obama without any specifics. in terms of what they did. there is absolutely no evidence of serious law breaking during the obama administration. there were one or two scandals that i kept my eye on during those eight years. i was the chief white house ethics lawyer under president bush. we had our scandals there. but president obama did not need protection from veinvestigation because president obama didn't break the law and have people working for him who were breaking the law and that's the problem here. is that president trump thinks that the justice department's job is to protect him from investigations into his campaign and then members of his administration and indeed of himself because he engaged in obstruction of justice when he fired james comey. that's not the role of the justice department. to cover for the president. >> you believe, just to be clear -- >> the constitution. well i think it's very clear in the statutes and in the constitution. you know, that we do not have a system where the justice department if you thifunctions politically protect the president. >> just saying it's your belief that the president obstructed justice. that's part of what mueller's team is investigating right now! yes, yes. >> president trump did try in this interview once again to really distance himself from his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. here's part of what he told the times. paul only workeded for me for a few months. he worked for reagan. firm worked for john mccain. bob dole, many republicans for far longer than me. and you're talking about what paul was many years ago bf i f heard of him. talk to me about what you think this strategy is here because we don't know that manafort has flipped, that he's talking. we don't know like we know with flynn that he is cooperating. >> i think he's trying to remain friendly with manafort. you're right. it doesn't look like manafort is cooperating at this point. and he's still on trump's side. but i think what trump is leaving out that's most conspicuous is he knew manafort's partner, roger stone, quite well for 20 years. during the whole time he's mentioned him. so i don't think paul manafort is the mystery man and that he's pretending, plus, he was there at the crucial time in his campaign when he secured the nomination. and that's a big role. >> it is a big role. any way you cut it. gentlemen, have a great new year's. thanks for being here. >> thank you, poppy. >> so the president ends the year where he began. preconsumed with his predecessor. president obama. mentioning the former president in yet another new tweet. we'll dig into that. also, 2017 was an epic year for the stock market. the president claims a lot of credit for it. does he deserve it? 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"outfront" now, doformer communications director, brian lansa and form rer philadelphia mayor, michael nutter. brian, because you know the mind of the president, having been his communications drirector, help me understand what this all portends for the new year. >> this is what a high energy president means. they're working on a lot of things. working through a lot of items and that's obvious reflected in the last 36 hours. whether it's the polls, post office. >> post office? >> this is a very active president. >> he thinks amazon ripping off the post office. >> i think the post office has been a defunct government entity for a long time and it needs to fix itself. as a true business man, he's look at the model saying it doesn't work. it's failing. we have pensions we are responsible for. how do we fund it going forward? this has nothing to do with amazon. everything to do with the post office that's been a ten, 15 year problem for government. >> he wrote about amazon in a tweet. mayor? how do you see it? >> thanks. nice try, brian. it would just be nice out of all of that, beyond public policy over twitter, if the president could actually work on some things that truly matter. to the american people. like unemployment. in many communities, like infrastructure. like trying to bring the country together. not just talking to the 30 or so percent of folks that represent his base. so you know, i mean it's kind of like a twitter machine. at this point. but it's all about distraction. all of it reflects back on him. so if it's not about him, it's not worth talk iing about in hi mind. and his sickness. so you know, none of it makes any sense. >> i will say a lot of americans wanted tax reform. it happened. this isn't an overly popular bill. i will say that. but he did get tax. brian, in this interview with "the new york times," he said something stunning. and let me read it to you. here's his words. another reason i'm going to win in another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if i'm not there because without me, their ratings are going to go down the tube so basically, they have to let me win. it went on from there. he is saying that he thinks the media is going to throw the election to him. putting aside the fact that the media can't do that, doesn't do that. what do you make of that statement? >> yeah, i'm in sacramento, california, where we had a celebrity governor, schwarzenegger. he learned something and i learned something from him early on. that the media loves these types of headlines with their celebrity politicians, whether it's arnold schwarzenegger or president trump. he is living in the media's head rent free. everything the media does is trying cover it on 13 different angles when he's just speaking linearly to you. the media needs trump to be successful just like the california media needed schwarzenegger to be successful. the other candidates that the democrats are putting forward are rather bore iing. they don't excite anything. they don't represent anything other than antitrump. any core values other than just against something. so i think there is a lot of truth that the media needs donald trump to keep their success going. like the media needed arnold schwarzenegger in california. >> what he's saying though mayor nutter, is he thinks the media will throw the election as if the media you know, has -- the media has covered this president very fairly and he says it's not fair. it's fake new, et cetera. now he's saying the media is going to help him win? >> yeah, again, it's the contradictions that flow through his mind. he contradicts his own contradictions. this is absurd as you try to point out to brian what the media needs is is a truthful president. what the media needs is actually to calm the country down a bit and start to bring people together as opposed to the deviciveness he represents. he has no netheory of governingr knows that voters put elected officials in office not with standing whatever their coverage may be. again, he's talking about polls, the do jrk. he just runs his mouth. on a regular basis. none of which leads to a child getting an education or a person actually getting a job who's been unemployed for a long period of time or repairing bridges and roads. that would be like work. >> he talked about infrastructure. >> sit at your desk and do some things. he talks, hasn't done anything. >> he says they're going to do this in the new year. let's weight. give the benefit of the doubt. see what happens. brian, to you. on the approval ratings. here's what the president tweeting today. my rating december 28th, 2017 was approximately the same at obama's, which was 47%. he's talking about a rasmussen poll does not meet cnn's polling standards. here are four that do. cnn's poll shows at n that same time, 35%. 54% for president obama. gallup. 38% for trump. 51% for obama. cbs, 36 for trump. 50% for obama. quinnipiac, 37% for trump. 46% for obama. you get where i'm going here. those are the numbers. those meet our polling standards. my question to you, why this insistence on comparing himself to president obama? >> let's address the polls. rasmussen poll was probably the closest one that picked president trump as being the winner. cnn didn't hit that mark and then nbc didn't hit that mark and neither did gallup. so start with that. he's going off something there. the second thing is everybody talks about the president is obsessed with president obama. the president made a promise to the american people to undo a lot of the dangerous policies of president obama and he's keeping his promise. i know thaes unique and bizarre, but this guy is a business fwi and he knows how to achieve goals. that was his goal when, that was the promise he made to the american people and that's been his singular focus. it's not focused on obama. focusing on the promises he made to the american people. it's enlight ping and different and very refreshing. >> so brian clear ly thinks all those polls are wrong. what do you say? >> yeah. well -- >> that's not what i said. i said rasmussen -- >> as accurate. >> right. >> polls are wrong. >> any way. he took the one that best made his case, but clearly, the president's also having some math problems, which he clearly could not have learned those lessons in philadelphia. he's everything is is going to be what's in his best interest. size of crowd. big as this, big as that. he's intimidated by president obama and if you have time, you could put up the clip of when donald trump visited the white house, president obama graciously welcomed him. he couldn't even look him in the eye. so he is intimidated and envious of the record of president barack obama and is constantly trying to compare himself to people whosk successful. >> gentlemen, thank you both very much. have a good new year's. >> thank you. 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"outfront" now former senior economic adviser, steven moore and democratic strategist and author of the essential bernie sanders, nice to have you here. steven, you advised the president on all things economic. and economy and markets. here is what some of the president's biggest supporters in the key state of michigan which he flipped, told me when i asked him does this president get credit for the remarkable market rise. look. >> did the president get credit for the stock market? >> no. no. because he doesn't run any of these companies. >> but he takes a lot of credit for it. >> this is america. these companies have come to fruition and to be major billion dollar corporations because of the american people. not mr. trump. >> does he get credit for the rise in the stock market? >> i believe he does because i think a lot of the investment, a lot of the things that have happen nd the stock market are relateded to what people see and think are going to happen in the future. >> what do you think, steven? >> the second gentleman. i think it's undeniable, there has been a trump effect on the stock market. after all, you showed that one child suppo chart showing it's up 25%, i don't know if that was the gik of the year or when he was inaugur inaugura inaugurated. the day after he was elected, it went up 71 points. >> obama's went up 31% from the same peerld. >> so let me -- >> if you're trying to say any president has control of the stock, which by the way, on a bipartisan basis, i would say, no president should get credit for that. but if we're talk iing about th actual -- >> why do you think the stock market went up 700 points the day after the election? >> the pubull market has been going on since twine. 2009. if you want to actually talk about what the effect has been over time, you should actually give it to barack obama, not donald trump. if you go back to 2009. and as i said in the same period from obama's inauguration, if you take the same period and trump's, it actually went up higher as a percentage. and the other point to make -- >> hold on, guys. one at a time. steven. >> the other point to make -- >> jonathan. steven. >> so, you can go back, i debated a lot of people on this network during the campaign. and almost all the liberal economists said if donald trump is elected president, he will crash the stock market. some of the leading liberal economists, of course we know that didn't happen. didn't crash the stock market. since election day, the stock market is up 38%. that's a $6 trillion increase. >> but wait. wait, wait, wait. hold on, because you bring up many what all these people, liberal economists say about the stock market. leets just listen for a moment to what the president said about the stock market. in a presidential debate in september of 2016. his words. listen. >> we're in a bubble right now. and the only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates ooen a little bit, that's going come crashing down. we are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. >> what? >> the reason we're talking about this as a story is because donald trump who's an ignoramous, that he has to go around and talk about a falsehood. markets are up all over the world. stock markets have been rising everywhere. donald trump has had no effect on that. >> none? how can you -- look, i'm not an economist, but i cover business and markets. jonathan, how can you argue that a president has no impact whatsoever on a market? you've got unemployment at a subpoena-year low. consumer confidence at the highest level since 2000. if president obama gets credit r for that, how does president trump not get credit for this? >> the unemployment rate has been declining way above donald trump took office. >> but it didn't go up under president trump. >> if shoe were on the other foot, if we were sitting here with a democrat president for one year and an eight-year previous term for a republican president, steve b b moore would be scoffing a t notion that in one year, any president could have any effect on the stock market. >> i don't know. steven wrote in his new piece. you wrote it's possible the market exuberance is over. mr. trump's deregulation and cuts policies too far ahead. you've even said this market may be too hot. >> right. this market loves trump's policies. he's a very pro business president. he knows a lot about businesses. that's one of the reasons it's up so high, but sure. not going to predict where the stock market is going to go from here. i worry it's run a little bit ahead of itself. it's knocking on the r door of,000. that's a big number. it's not really for most about the stock market. although i think that's a positive thing. look at the other indicators, this economy is red hot right now. it's hard to point to any single economic indicator. >> no, it's not true. >> we have to leave it there. we really have to leave it there. seriously. >> more workers are still out of the workforce. >> most people and wages are too low. >> all right. okay, we're leaving it there, but i'm glad you brought up wage growth because it hasn't kept up and half of americans don't have a penny in the stock market. so it's nice for them to look at. but it doesn't impact their reality. got to get to break. >> happy new year. >> you guys can continue this in the break. thank you very much. >> happy new year. >> security very high in new york city. for the new year's eve celebration. we're live in times square and president trump's pension for pushing things around. jeanne moos takes notice. ♪ ♪ohhhhhh, ou! guess what i just got? 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this is about an abundance of caution? >> reporter: absolutely. hi, poppy. authorities here say there is no direct, credible threat to the festivities here, and no threat to new york city in general. this is out of an abundance of caution. and this is always a massive security undertaking. this year is no different. but this year we're going see a stepped up police presence. that is because of two recent terror attacks right here in new york. the halloween attack, the truck incident in lower manhattan that killed eight people. and just earlier this month, when a young man detonated a bomb in the subway system, just a few blocks away from here. that is why we're going to see a stepped up police presence, in and around times square. there will be more uniformed officers, police officers with heavy weapons and more dogs. this entire area where i'm standing several blocks north, south, east and west will be blocked off on sunday. there will be 12 access points for 2 million spectators expected to come out on sunday night. they'll have to go through two screenings to get in place for the ball drop. that is all so that the folks can make sure that this celebration, this iconic celebration is kept safe. poppy? >> athena jones, thank you very much. stay warm, my friend. i know it's freezing out there. not only will times square have all this protection for new year's eve, it will continue to be freezing. look, you've looked at the last week. the eastern half of the country has spent much of the last week below average temperatures and it's going to get worse? >> yeah. so we're starting to see that second wave of cold air enter, and there's another one on the heels of that. so here's a look at all of our brand new windchill advisories, watches and warnings. when you look at the 30 million people impacted with windchills minus 20 to minus 40. tomorrow morning in boston, feels like minus 13. new year's day, minus 22. monday in chicago s, minus 23. then the next wave, sunday into monday, that's going to be a concern again for a lot of folks, especially as we talk about new york city. here's the thing. a lot of folk hs be out there. when you're out there te celebrating new year's eve in new york cities, you're out there for hours on end. the coldest looks to be that sunday going into monday when all those people will be standing out there waiting. >> i'm going to be in bed. that's why i'm not going anywhere on new year's eve. thank you very much, alison. have a great one. if you are going out on new year's eve, if you are staying in, wherever you are, turn on the tv and watch cnn. it all starts 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. up next, john mccaeanne moo trump shuffle. ♪ video-game dance music [burke] abstract accident. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ we learned a lot about the president's habits in 2017, including this. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it's your move, mr. president. whether it's a glass or a coaster, president trump has a habit of moving things a few inches here, a few inches there. a viewer alerted jimmy kimmel to the president's quirk. >> he's more of a mover than a shaker. >> reporter: moving individual items, and even an entire place setting. apparently seeking the sweet spot. a shorter compilation was online, leaving comments like, this is desk top man spreading. the president's moves inspired web gags and armchair psychology. he thinks he's the master of everything. this is mine to touch. >> all i can say is i hope the new health care covers ocd. >> reporter: while declining to diagnose, professor kevin vulcan weighed in. >> they're doing some anxiety about something, so they control things, they move things around. >> reporter: or more likely, in someone with a narcissistic profile -- >> they're just really bored, especially when the conversation is not about them. >> reporter: internet posters couldn't resist moving things, like the president's head, replacing it with a cartoon called business cat and adding a soundtrack. ♪ i like to move it, move it ♪ i like to move it, move it ♪ >> reporter: funny, president trump doesn't seem like the type to be a paper pusher. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thank you for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. so can you have a fair win hunt? john berman in here for anderson. the catch comes up because president trump has been talking, but new questions about what he is saying. he spoke at length with "the new york times" off the cuff with no aides present, and he made news on the russia investigation. a new response of whether he thinks it's fair, a witch hunt, or both. here's what he said when "the times" asked him about robert mueller. he said i hope that he's going to be fair. i think he's going to be fair. and b

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