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Trump white house. It comes after weeks of speculation about whether trump himself has recordings of conversations between him and fired fbi director james comey. The secret service responding to a freedom of information act request from the the wall street journal. The secret service says, it has no records of tapes or even recording system being installed in the white house since election dachlt this is more information than weve gotten from the white house or the president himself whose the one that started all of this. Press Secretary Sean Spicer was evasive when he was repeatedly asked if and when tapes would be released. The president made clear that he would have an announcement shortly. I think the president made it clear what his intention son friday. I understand that enhe would answer that question in due time. The president made it very clear on friday that he would get back as soon as possible on this and his p ....
Helped break the story for the New York Times. Hes also a cnn political analyst and he joins us now via skype. Michael, im glad you could join us this evening. Your colleague, Michael Smith landed an impromptu interview with the president today and the big headline, he believe the special counsel will treat his fairly in the russia investigation. Yeah, no, thats right. It was about a half hour interview and totally impromptu and down at the president s golf club in west palm beach, florida. But there was a lot there. The thing that struck us most was the comments that the president made about the russia investigation. Notably that he thought bob mueller was going to be fair to him which undercuts and undermines that many of his party have been making for the last several weeks that theyve been attempting to discredit and undermine muellers investigation, calling it partisan. S ....
From several countries including ones in the original ban with north korea and venezuela now added to the list. A chief White House Correspondent john roberts joining all of us. Good morning to you. And the president all morning brushing off the push back on the nfl over the weekend. Insisting that players who take a knee during the National Anthem should be disciplined by the league. Tweeting out that the new hashtag stand for anthem. A big show of defiance yesterday, a lot of players took a knee during that anthem. The seattle seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers stayed in the locker room during the end them. But one pittsburgh player you see there, Alejandro Villanueva came out of the tunnel. He by the way, he did three tours of duty. An army rang ....
He didnt demand an end to the investigations, swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times there has been no collusion discovered by the inquiry. Quote, it makes the country very bad and puts the country in a very bad position. Trump said of the investigation. So, the answer, its worked out, the sooner its worked out, the better it is for the country. A little bit more. Asked whether he would order the Justice Department to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, trump appeared to remain focused on the russia investigation and he said the following. I have the absolute right, he said, to do what i want to do with the Justice Department, he said, echoing claims by his supporters as president he has the power to open or end an investigation. But for purposes of hopefully thinking im go ....
To a broader global weakness clouding the u. S. Economic outlook amid uncertainty about the fallout from trumps trade conflict with china and other nations President Donald Trump has been pushing paul to cut rates and has repeatedly said he has the power to fire the fed chair if he doesnt comply. Our financial correspondent joins us now from new york tell us ans how did powers comments go down on wall street. New records simple as that for the very 1st time ever the s. And p. 500 crossed the crucial 3000 point mark at least during trading and there was one word that Jerome Pollard stressed again and again and again and that was the word uncertainty uncertainty about trades uncertainty about Global Growth and this is pretty unusual that a fed chair stresses so much external factors that are not actually under the i ....