press conference in hanoi, vietnam. and he, again, took a swipe at trump s reality tv past. the president steered clear of, largely during this news conference, of the white house press corps and was instead selecting journalists at random from the other side of the room. calling on reporters from russian state media, chinese state media, he didn t want to really answer the questions about michael cohen. the president staked a lot of his presidency on something that s just much more difficult than reality tv. this is not something that can be wrapped up in a season of apprentice. laura: that s like 20 seconds too long from him. but, look, he s upset, the president did call on, i believe, npr, washington post, but just didn t call on him. right. the thing that got me last night, laura, you mentioned this, you ran through by name the media outlets that were called on by the president. and yet he goes after you, as if you never said it. i m thinking to myself as i see
subpoenaed in court. start with the news over the last 24, though. what concerns do you have a republican candidate for president, that his business was in negotiations with the kremlin during the campaign and the american people didn t know about it? well, first of all, i want to make it very clear that the investigation that chairman gowdy and i, chairman of the oversight committee and i chairman of the judiciary committee launched has nothing to do with mr. mueller s investigation, which we meticulously steered clear of, and we think that mr. mumor should complete hmumor mueller should complete his investigation and follow the truth where it may lead. so i don t know what the president or anyone in his administration or anyone in his former campaign s response are to the claims made by mr. cohen, but i m interested in hearing both sides of it. i will tell you what their response has been. rudy giuliani said yesterday the president s comments, written
they want to be shown as i think it was steve schmidt who said democrats are bringing a butter knife to a gunfight in a lot of these arguments and the base of party is much eager to see their elected representatives using bigger weapons against republicans. because they feel like republicans have been willing to use tactics the democrats have steered clear of. there is a lot of interest. this is the front of the hearing room. you ve got these hands maid tale protesters, that is the television show that s about women s reproductive rights. abortion is going to be front and center here. tons of security. this line goes all the way down the hallway to get a chance to come in here and see the day s events. always so much intense interest in these hearings. when people ask you what can the democrats do, that s something we ll be talking about for the coming days. what can the democrats in the