When allin starts right now. His advice i like to listen to. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president just landed back in washington from his trip to davos. He returns to yet more questions about his actions toward special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. The president was attending the World Economic forum where he got to rub elbows with the globalist elite. The only thing on reporters minds at davos was the block buster report by the New York Times the president ordered Robert Mueller to be fired last june backing off only after his white House Counsel threatened to quit. This morning the president gab them a classic trumpian nondenial. Mr. President , did you seek to fire mueller . Fake news, folks, fake news. Whats your message today . Typical New York Times fake stories. Back in august amid ongoing rumors the president would make a move against mueller, he denied the idea had even occurred to him. I havent given it any thought. Ive been read about it from yo
Does this cross a legal line . All that coming up, but lets start with the confusion, the controversy over at the white house right now with a storm cloud hanging over the west wing in the rollout of the president s promised tariffs plan. The president is apparently very upset with his press secretary, Sarah Sanders, over her response to the Stormy Daniels story, the 130,000 in hush money to the porn star. But today the president tried to get his white house back on track while meeting with his cabinet. This is gary cohns last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet, and hes been terrific. He may be a globalist but i still like him. He is seriously a globalist, theres no question. But you know what, in his own way, hes a nationalist because he loves our country. Where is gary . You love our country. Hes going to go out and make another couple hundred million and then hes going to maybe come back. He might come back, right . Well be here. Absolutely. Well be here another seven years,
Thank you very much. When you said you wanted more on tariffs, what did you mean by that . Ill take that. Defense is so important. We need steel, we need aluminum. Were negotiating with mexico, were negotiate ingwiing with c and the nafta. Also involved with that is national defense, but if we reach a deal, its most likely that we wont be charging those two countries the tariffs. We have other countries that are very much involved with us on trade but also on military and working together with military, and well be making a decision as to who they are. We have a very close relationship with australia, we have a trade surplus with australia. Great country, longterm partner. Well be doing something with them. Well be doing something with some other countries. Were going to be very flexible. At the same time we have some friends and some enemies where we have been tremendously taken advantage of over the years on trade. And on military. If you look at nato, where germany pays 1 and were p
Bring money and jobs backs to american families. He wrapped up the speech moments ago saying america is back and better than ever. The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous america. Im here to deliver a simple message. It has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest, and to grow in the United States. America is open for business and we are competitive once again. As president of the United States, i will always put America First, just like the leaders of other countries should put their Country First also. But America First does not mean america alone. When the United States grows, so does the world. Bill that from europe last hour. Meanwhile here at home the white house now fighting back against the New York Times report that claims President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel bob mueller and fox news doing its own digging on the story and learning more about that. Sandra we start with john roberts who has been traveling with the president
And the finance chief for the Republican Party faces new allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Steve is always calling and got advice. When allin starts right now. His advise i like to listen to. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president just landed back in washington from his trip to davos. And he returns to yet more questions about his actions toward special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. The president was attending the World Economic forum where he got to rub elbows with the socalled globalist elite. The only thing on reporters minds was the blockbuster report about the New York Times that the president ordered mule tore mueller to be fired last june backing off only after his white House Counsel threatened to quit. This morning the president gave them a classic trumpyan nondenial. Fake news, folks. Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories. Back in august, amid on going rumors he would make a move and he denied the idea had even occurred to him. I havent gi