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States. my colleague at the white house, kelly o donell traveling with the president in west palm beach. this is on the president s mind. we know he will try to hit a couple of golf balls. he is still keeping the focus on saudi arabia. reporter: that s right. the president is at his golf club now enjoying some of his holiday. he has been trying to give people who are especially his supporters reasons to understand his way of thinking when it comes to this because it is unusual you have such a bipartisan push back. the senators who are republicans, you played clips there. i ll add one more and say that rand paul sthays this is a saud arabia first policy, not an american first policy was well as democrats critical of the administration s position. the administration has sanctioned 17 individuals linked to the killing including so called hit squad. his position on the crown prince ....
So here today but also here today was lindsey graham, the south carolina senator who had attended the kavanaugh investiture with the president. we spotted lindsey graham going into the oval office. he s also someone who would have the right resume for a position like that. has been asked about it, has said publicly he does not want the position of attorney general. what will happen with chris christie and this opening that has now materialized? one source says lord knows what will happen given the relationship he s had with the president, but they remain friendly, been friends for about 16, 17 years. he is on the grounds of the complex for an unrelated meeting, but timing can be a tricky thing. kelly o, we should also point out that senator lindsey granha insisted he had no interest in becoming attorney general. going back to chris christie there is a bit of history between governor christie and the president s son-in-law as i ....
Lines. he became very close with hillary clinton on the armed services committee, traveling to afghanistan, traveling to iraq when she was a senator, amy klobuch klobuchar, and certainly joe biden. joe biden is very much a part of this process because of his own son beau biden passing from geoblastoma, which is not responsive to immunotherapy. kelly o, thanks so much to you. now to the politics facing the president. if anyone could be so different from john mccain in so many ways, it s president trump. now president trump facing new troubles from his inner circle, new developments today, fresh on the heels of the michael cohen guilty plea, allen weisselberg, a staple of the trump ....
Special counsel. that they provided everything they need and so the president would be one piece they don t need. that s the legal argument from the president s side. alex? kelly o, thank you so much. straight from the phone call with rudy giuliani. joining me on the phone, new york times washington correspondent michael schmidt. who co-wrote this piece on the trump legal team s shifting strategy. michael, with a welcome to you. walk us through a bit more of these demands and what prompted the change in strategy? well, this has been going on for six months. the president s lawyers having discussions with mueller s office about an interview. and it makes you wonder what s really going on here. are they really just negotiating and trying to narrow the scope of the questions? or is this a delay tactic? to just prolong the investigation and insure that it s mueller were to write a report, that it wouldn t go to congress until after the mid term elections. despite the fact that th ....
Warner, the fbi and doj generally would oftentimes disagree with the chair and vice chair about certain things and about what should be briefed. what we always worked things out at the end, we had very, very sense discussions sometimes. but we always worked it out and it was always chairman burr and vice chafr mirman warner workin things out in a bipartisan way with the department. and that is why you you don t see the drama on the senate side that we re seeing on the house side. this really is troubling. gentlemen, thank you. so going back to this breaking news that kelly o shared with us off the top, this is president trump just a few moments ago in the oval office issuing a full posthumous pardon to boxer jack johnson. this is the president surrounded by a number of vips and boxing legends there. lennox lewis. ....