Premptive strike by the United States. The president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire Robert Mueller as his russia investigation heats up. Fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of Paul Manafort. And pouring more feud on the Top Republican in the senate. He called Mitch Mcconnells failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. This after he posted multiple tweets slamming the Majority Leader and urging him to get back to work. This hour, ill talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. We will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. You look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. I think what noo can do more and i think they will. His secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. Offering reainsurances to the American People. I think the preside
Stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. President then turned his attention as i mentioned to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. This is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying its too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. The reporter asked donald trump to compare Jeff Sessions to the previous administrations Attorney General eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. I dont want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. Holder protected president obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things that they did, and Hold Proer Tekted the president. And i have Great Respect for that. Ill be honest. I have a little more on that in a moment. Trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice
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oversight plans in terms of this doj fbi story. the mueller report what are you expecting there first? well under the regulation, the attorney general has to report to me and the ranking member dianne feinstein a summary of what was found, who is going to be pursued criminally if anybody at all, kind of a summary. he doesn t have to give us the entire report, but my belief is that collusion really is conspiracy, and nobody has been charged with a crime of conspiracy. everybody whose been charged has been processed crimes, or financial crimes, so my belief is that there is no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, and if they had been, somebody would have been charged by now with the conspiracy but we ll know in a couple weeks. maria: well doesn t somebody have to come out and say that then? i mean, honestly, senator its been two years. mueller will. maria: and the collusion idea is out there, you ve got adam
to win? they would have him in his pocket. and why were they so eager to accept election assistance. i think we see the broad contours of this collusion idea really coming into focus. i think the cries of no collusion are starting to ring emptier and emptier every time we learn more facts. and yet the president has all but taken a victory lap since these memos dropped. yeah. well, because ultimately what the president is doing is a two tear i goed strategy. one is a legal strategy where his lawyers are trying to do the best they can to ultimately shield him and present a legal defense. but the other piece of it is a public relations strategy both to undermine bob mueller and the investigation to claim that it is not credible because of the people who are conducting it, but also to essentially argue that there is nothing there. and if you repeat it enough times, he hopes, the public will look at whatever is ultimately
they approach him and they say float this collusion idea. and he s like what? collusion? with manafort? is kind of laughing at them. and they are like, keep an open mind. they were actually trying to collude with a russian billionaire to push the russian collusion theory. it s outrageous that all this is going on. it s stuff that you see in the movies. and to see that people that were working for the release of robert levinson have now switched and are actually pushing a political agenda and you said something really interesting about hillary clinton and then the iran deal. and i actually was gone from the fbi when the iran deal was signed and i was waiting for bob s name to be read. i was waiting for him to come home and when his name wasn t