Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
immediate snlg meddling? there are others that are considering making attempts in 2018, which is what our focus is, moving forward. as you know, none of us were here in 2016 but we re here now and individuals that were standing up here just moments ago the focus and full weight of the government asked by the president and directed by the president is to protect the election infrastructure in 2018 and moving forward and that s exactly what we re going to do. i can t get in specific details but our intelligence show there are a number of others that are looking at and considering engaging particularly in 2018. trying to help democrats you suggested the russians would be helping democrats in the mid-term elections. is there any evidence whatsoever that democrats, russians are trying to help democrats? i think you can see just from what took place over in the facebook, i know director wray
moving forward. as you know, none of us were here in 2016, but we re here now and the individuals that were standing up here moments ago, the focus and the full weight of the government asked by the president directed by the president is to protect the election strzok in 2018 and moving forward, and that s exactly what we are going to do. reporter: who were the others that were involved i can t get into specific details, but our intelligence shows there are a number of others that are looking at and considering engaging particularly in 2018. reporter: you said that they are trying to help democrats. you suggested that the russians would be trying to help dpems n democrats in the midterm elections. is there any evidence that the democrats are the russians are trying to help democrats in 2018? i think you can see just from what took place over in the facebook. i know director wray wasn t at liberty to speak about the specifics and i can t get into a lot of them. i can tell yo