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wanted to have them all in this same meeting in the same room here to discuss all this with the president. but still, even though the vote is scheduled for this evening, expected this evening, other republicans i m talking to here and on capitol hill say they would nobt at all surprised if it was set aside or pushed back. that happens, that s a sign there is a big problem. john? that s an understatement to say the least. jeff zeleny at the white house. let s bring it into the room. house speaker paul ryan was supposed to speak to reporters this morning. he s delayed that until this afternoon. horse trading behind closed doors, wheeling and dealing, the very thing republicans criticize the democrats for doing when they passed obamacare but we ll put that aside for a second. what does this tell you that the president is meeting and gets a standing ovation from members of the house freedom caucus who at the moment you can make the case are undermining the president on priority numb ....
time you re not aware of him actually taking any calls? no. he s not taken any calls at this time since june 1st. secretary shulkin, thank you for being with me tonight. thank you. obviously not taking the place of twitter yet. don t forget, you can watch outfront any time anywhere on cnn go. anderson is next. thanks for joining us tonight. the last man in the room before the president spoke alone with fbi director james comey testified under oath, attorney general jeff sessions is seen and heard a lot as one of donald trump s closest complain advisers and is accused of being untruthful and went before the senate intelligence committee in part he said to set the record straight about a number of things, including in his words, secret innuendo being leaked about himself, the president and his whole affair. he had plenty to say about that. he had less to say to the considerable irritation of some committee members. we ll talk about this over the next two hours and he ....
protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer for the country. in a way that s very impo ....
put what on the president? this idea that you just said the the new york times is reporting that the president approved either wrote or approved the that is not an outlandish suggesting. i take the the new york times reporting on its face and why wouldn t a father that s president of the united states want to have a say in what his son was putting out that involves him and his presidency. seems like a legitimate thing that s why i asked. 39-year-old son whose running the trump corporation and the trump organization, so he doesn t need to be looked over the shoulder by his father. here s what i think we need to really focus on and obviously i appreciate you having me on. i need to be clear about three things here. number one, the president was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only made aware of the e-mails very recently by counsel and not seen the e-mails. in fact, you know, i didn t see the e-mail until yesterday and i m one of the lawye ....
premptive strike by the united states. the president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire robert mueller as his russia investigation heats up. fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of paul manafort. and pouring more feud on the top republican in the senate. he called mitch mcconnell s failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. this after he posted multiple tweets slamming the majority leader and urging him to get back to work. this hour, i ll talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. we will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. you look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. i think what noo can do more and i think they will. his secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. offering reainsurances to the american peo ....