draft of a letter terminating a critical trade agreement with south korea off the president s desk to prevent him from signing it. woodward warning today that sources often try to save face with public denials. one key person who is in office called me and said, everyone knows what you ve said here is true. it is 1,000 percent correct. and then this person has said some public things that contradict that. reporter: now, jim, today when president trump was asked if he believes those denials from rob porter and gary cohn, he said that he preched them. he thought they were excellent and thought they proved that bob woodward s book was fiction, making it pretty clear why cohn and porter felt the need to issue them in the first place. joining me is democratic congress mr. jerry connelly of virginia, a democrat and a member of the foreign affairs committee. thank you for taking the time to
in an interview that he s not worried about the outcome of the mueller investigation. i m not because i know what i did and i m not worried about any of that. you know, that doesn t mean they won t try to create something. reporter: trump jr. speaking out about the anonymous op-ed in the new york times saying he believes it was authored by a low-level staffer while acknowledging that the president s inner circle is shrinking. i think there are people he can trust. it is a smaller group than i would like it to be. reporter: on the day of the official release of bob bood ward s book two of the president s former top aides, chief executive adviser gary cohn and bob porter issuing carefully worded denials. kohn writing this book does not actively portray my experience in the white house. i continue to support the president. porter adding he thought it was selective and misleading, but neither statement denied specific instances from the book, including one of the most explosive t
let s tackle the second one. what do you think will be the point at which it does begin to affect the trump voters engaging with him? i spoke to supporters for this piece, evangelical voters gave him a long leash. as you cycle of defenses occasional in this sort of scenario with the president. there s nothing there and then it moves to maybe there s something, but it s not a big deal, to maybe it s not great but look at all these policies we ve appreciated from him. look at the misdeed of bloill clinton. it s understandable, but the goal posts have moved on this story over the last two months. i m a bit reluctant to draw the parallel, but we saw the scandal of bob porter. that had a slow burn at first. just over a matter of a week or two, but you saw that accelerate
inside. they say the president is not looking to get john kelly out and someone else in. budget director mick mulvaney has been floated as a possible new chief of staff. they said actually not facebook experience one of the ex-wives process they say she understands the incredulity but she does not quote - condemn their choice to support them. the white house official said the president was quote - very disturbed by the pictures. the president said on friday that porter had been a quote - very good job at the white house. thank you so much. the president making house democrats redo their counter memo on alleged fbi surveillance abuse that house intelligence committee saying republicans are not intentionally blocking the release. take a listen. first off this was not a
amid allegations of domestic violence topped up a picture of one of his ex-wives with a black eye. he is a resident political store and has been serving as president trump staff secretary since january of last year. this morning and cnn, councils for the president, kellyanne conway said, she was horrified and shocked to limit the allegations against porter and that this is not the man she had worked with. let s it doesn t shock the conscience and you try to process it and compared against the person you work with. i believe son of his ex-wives saying that as well tissue busy is brilliant and it probably does a great job professionally. and that is who we also saw. we see all of this, we make very clear, when you meet all of this any sale of this i think we did the right thing by resigning. question know we have democratic congresswoman of michigan with a very vocal about the issue of domestic violence. congresswoman, great to have