Thats the issue as well. To put on the front page is pretty negative, consistent. Right now, the president is pretty angry. Kevin corke with what the white house is saying now. I have to tell you, you can understand the frustration. Not just because of a tweet here and there and this frankly dates back long before the president s First International trip, this is a steady drum beat white house officials will tell you. They point the finger at the washington and the new york times. Frankly the press didnt want to hear it. Come on, youre making a mountain out of a molehill. Sean spicer was frustrated. On the International Trip, there were stories floated out there by the major news organizations or they were tweeted without having them corrected after they were proven false and that led to this exchange today. The president gets frustrated when he sees fake stories get pun established, things not based in fact. A narrative gets pushed thats just with all due respect, when you see instanc
Did trump ask him to swear a personal allegiance of loyalty to him . Did comey, as the president has claimed, tell him on three separate occasions that he was not being investigated for involvement in the russian effort to influence the 2016 american president ial election . Three great questions. We may get the answers soon, within a week. A congressional aide tells nbc news that blockbuster testimony could happen as early as next week. Anyway, the wall street journal reports comey is expected to testify that President Donald Trump asked him to back off the investigation of flynn. Im joined by ken dilanian, robert costa, heidi przybyla, and peter baker. Im going to throw each one of these questions by you and i want to ask you. First of all, ken, what would you ask about the flynn matter . Well, i would ask, you know if you got this guy in the box. Look, i would ask is it true, did he ask did President Trump ask jim comey to go easy on mike flynn. The larger question i would ask is di
Wolf, dana. Thank you very much. Breaking news tonight on three big stories. Very bad run for President Trump. Second defeat for travel ban tonight. Federal judge in hawaii blocking it just hours before it was supposed go into effect. Health care bill on life support. President s own party with enough votes to block the measure and nobody but President Trump defending the infamous ware wiretapping claims as he insists quote interesting items will come out in the next two weeks. Trump administration and priorities under assault tonight. President is facing potential loss on health care, almost no support now for wiretapping claims and new tonight, block on the second travel ban. What is the latest . Im here in nashville, tennessee, filled with people an hour or so ago. Campaign rally the kind we saw over and over again for donald trump, swept him into the white house. Don, the difference tonight, reality has hit his politics, pledges and rhetoric. Governing reality here. He came out to
What sean spicer said is that, by grandstanding and politicizing this, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. Do you buy that . Theres some other Administration Official who mirrored that language saying you have to understand what the president was doing in that meeting with the russians was he was trying to extract concessions from the russians by saying im under pressure, so give me some concessions. Which jeffrey lord brought up, president obama said to inform putin that after the elections i will have a little bit more freedom. Here is why thats illogical. Think it through. The argument would be that donald trump would say to the russians, im under a lot of pressure here. You need to make a concession for me. What he says in the meeting is i was under pressure. I fired comey. Now im not under any more pressure. He doesnt all of a sudden he is saying, im now free to do whatever i want. You would be telling the russians the opposite if the
To shield their preinauguration discussions from monitoring. According to the post, ambassador kislyak said kushner suggested using russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications and reportedly kislyak was taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an american to use Russian Communications gear at its embassy or consulate. A proposal that would have carried security risks for moscow as well as the trump team. So it appears that Jared Kushner met with the Russian Ambassador in secret, reportedly to set up a back channel possibly in russian diplomatic facilities. Kushner then omitted this meeting on his sf86 security clrance form. And when he was called on it months later in april of this year, his lawyers called it an error. But if kislyaks account is accurate, how likely is it that Jared Kushner just forgot about a cloak and dagger meeting with a Foreign Agent to set up a secret back channel . How likely is it that his omission of that meeting to u. S. Officia