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Clear he still supports syrian dictator bashar al assad. this comes as president trump faces another foreign policy challenge, warning iran that the world is watching. this happening as rare antigovernment protests flare up in a country known to deal with opposition with a heavy hand. lets begin with cnns ryan nobles. hes traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. not far from the mar-a-lago resort. how is the white house responding to these clashes in iran? >> well, boris, they a...

. rate was 16% now it is a 17 year low that spans three administrations. you say what you want about what obama did to turn the economy around. but we were told that was the new normal. job losses. consumer confident was down. by the way, black homeowner ship is up under president trump. when president trump campaigned he said to black voterins. give me a chance now he is producing i see good for all americans but in the black community a 17 year low in the unemployment rate. >> so, the congress...

Now it16 is down nearly 7%, almi below 7%, 17 year low. that stands almost three administrations. you can say what youad want abon obama did to turn the economybut around< q i will remind you. we were told the that was the nw normal. job losses, consumer confidence. and black home ownership is up under donald trump too.en president trump when he started campaigning, he said, to the black voters, hey, give me a chance. what you have to lose?ring and all, he is producing. i see nothing but good f...

Breaking that spell for donald trump. >> yeah. and for donald trump its both his own proclivities back to the nixon administration of all administrations prosecuting he and his father and charging them with racial discrimination in the housing developments in queens. putting "c" for colored on the applications through the central park five and him wanting the five accused teenagers who were accused of raping a white woman and proved by dna executed and just the long history of weird, racial comm...

The last week. other letters like this one from republican and democrat administrations. how worried are you at this point about the independence of that investigation and its continuation? >> well, i organized that letter of 171 members of the house of representatives. i was so alarmed at what i was seeing. all of a sudden, you had what was a coordinated effort by fox news and some of the republicans to try and dis credit mueller. it was obviously of what they were trying to do. they felt perha...

Particularly when they feel they will bait him. but you have a president whos proclivities are to talk to the media. he enjoys give and talk with the reporters and sat down yesterday and just decided on a whim for an interview with the new york times. it is difficult to imagine any other president, democrat or republican, just deciding, hey, i want to do an interview with the new york times. im going to do it, no staff there. but thats the way this president operates. he has lived this way for 7...

And if hes threatened and put in the box hell do whatever he thinks he needs to did. >> john, i want to go to john on a final point. from your reporting on many administrations, what would be going on in the inner circle of the white house right now as we were getting reports of "the new york times" that theyre just learning about this with the rest of the nation. >> theyre trying to figure out what toe say tomorrow and reminiscent of the moment when the president sent out the tweet on the twitt...

Nuclear weapons and look where he is today. implying, of course, that the north koreans would never give up on obtaining nuclear weapons. and frankly, its been a failure in multiple administrations that we let it get to this point where it is difficult. theres no way that north korea can beat the united states in any kind of a war. but the fact is, a million people or more could die if there was ever, god forbid, a nuclear war on the korean peninsula. so i think instead of calling names, i think...

Constantly, as you mentioned, using fact checking and we could talk about it all day, when theyre responsible for a lot of truth and disproving the falsehoods. >> yeah, but whats scary, is its working. there are americans asking how do we know how big the crowds were? so that strategy has worked for this administration, and sean spicer also had comments from jeff sessions who said he couldnt call contacts with the russians, and what trump said on a phone call. nobody ever apologizes or says, my ...

Had the right phrase. cartoonish statements about himself. the interview also shows by the way that hes scared. the comments as i read them knowing donald now for almost 30 years, his comments about mueller and the implication that if i dont think hes fair to me ill get rid of mueller one way or another goes to the heart of power unto himself. >> he doesnt say hell get rid of him but says more broadly, vaguely that he can do anything with doj. >> thats right. and thats a clear implication to -- ...