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Many in the gop are giving the president the benefit of the doubt. most democrats, instead, want the president to testify under oath to dispute comey s testimony. nbc s jinah kim joins me live from los angeles. and talking about the court of public opinion here, who do voters believe in the he said/he said battle? reporter: you know, i have been talking to so many people here a few miles away from downtown los angeles all morning long. what s remarkable is that almost every single person caught a little bit of the comey testimony on thursday and that s pretty remarkable given that there s so much interest in the story that almost any random person i stopped to ask an opinion about it. jack k jacqueline castillo here watched the whole thing. you woke up purposely to catch it from beginning to end. why and what did you think about it? oh, yeah, definitely. this is an important time in our ....
Wanted to understand what is his mindset going into this hearing? and we liken it to a political super bowl. i mean, this is a huge event, the comey testimony on thursday. and what we found is that the president s really consumed by it. he s watching more cable television than normal. we know he watches a lot to begin with. but he s also fume being the russia situation, fuming that his agenda on capitol hill has basically stalled out at this point, and really upset. and he wants to sort of organize the response himself. he has been encouraged by some of his loyalists to tweet and to react in real time to what comy says on thursday. that is not what his lawyers have advised him. the lawyers and political advisors in the white house have said, mr. president, do not respond, be cautious. let other people do the responses for you. but he s a political street fighter, he s a brawler and i think he s spoiling for a fight. what about the staff share with our viewers the staff ....
Of london, go to nato and give a speech saying the germans are bad, very bad, and nothing is going to change that. vivian we are back to the topic of impulse control. tomorrow the president has an event in ohio, classic case of risk versus reward. and all eyes will be on him and whether or not he has teleprompter discipline i m guessing. of course. that s usually the case. we can tell if he is straight from the teleprompt or. he has a different style, a unique style, he is donald trump after all. yeah, he s going out there and he s trying the really stick to this health care message a lot you know, again arc lot of people really concerned about what s going to happen the next day. and again is he going to live tweet it? how is he going to react? is he going to become unhinged if comey says something that makes him feel uncomfortable. i remember a weeks agohere was ....
He said we will make this all good for the charity. i will give you guys $100,000 out of donald trump foundation to eric trump foundation. he knew this was part of the deal and that once it went to the eric trump foundation that it would in turn pay for the cost of the event at its own club. so what you have here looks like a case of self dealing. eric trump said on sean hannity tonight i have raised $16.3 million for saint jude s. $16.3 million. i have dedicated my life to and goes on i started when i was 21. his intentions we urge people to read the article. what do you say about his intentions in raising this money? i think when he started he started with pure intentio. a kid coming right out of college. hes fr a wealthy family obviously and says i want to put ....
My name to good use and use connections that my father has and get people out here and raise money for a great cause. when you start to see things shift is right in the 2011 era. you see donald say now we will start billing you and the board members change in the foundation. so at first it is just a bunch of eric s buddies and then you see more and more trump organization employees getting involved. you have three people come on in 2011. by the time you look at 2015 you are looking at two people with the last name trump, six trump organization employees and one person gearing up to do $16 million of business with the donald trump campaign. you have the majority of the board financially dependent on donald trump at a time when that board is making the decision that it is in their best financial interests for the charity to hold an event at a trump owned course. just another story on a busy news night but another prong ....