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Squares, thank you all very much. well have much more of president trumps speech in davos amid reports that he wanted to fire special counsel robert mueller and, in fact, tried to. well have democratic senator jeff murphy with us next. oursel. be more. tough to make time for it all. but we can always find time to listen. to great thinkers, and fearless explorers. whose stories fuel our minds... and imaginations. stories that take us places our hamstrings alone cant. all we have to do is listen. ...

End where the president went off script and took a shot at the press and said how fake the press can be in the u.s. thats obviously some kind of reaction to this story in "the new york times" that he referred to as fake news earlier this morning, the story that he tried to fire robert mueller in june of last year and his white house counsel don mcgann almost resigned as a result of that. obviously the president feels like hes had a pretty good reception in davos, for somebody who railed against ...

Dav davos, elicited more trump ability to blow his own trumpet, so to speak. theres no doubt that the davos crowd loves the corporate tax cuts, loves the stock market, loves the fact that the economy is doing well. most will say ha the u.s. economy is building on the obama years, building out of where it was going since the financial crunch. none the lurks they love the economy and the facts and figures. what they dont love and what he did not address is the idea of pulling out of multilateralis...

Thank you very much. [ applause ] >> okay. youve been listenng to president trump speaking in davos, switzerland at the world economic forum. he, as expected, gave his america first speech. he touted his own economic success as he sees it. he gave all sorts of benchmarks for what he thinks has happened on his watch. well fact check those momentarily. we have cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cilliz cillizza, cnn business correspondent christine romans and christian am plan pour. kr...

Before. he thanked other countries for their help, whether its in afghanistan or the fight against isis and all the others. he did bring up the issue of, as he called predatory trade and theft of intellectual and other properties. he raised that whole protectionism and potentially more tariffs and trade, trade war. he raised that possibility. he did try to reach out. you can see davos also laid out the red carpet like president xi did in beijing who had the full red carpet, full state welcome fo...

To work on the immigration debate back in washington. all in all, we talked to a senior administration official, he said they feel very good about this trip and claim this cloud of the robert mueller story, the investigation is not hanging over there as they depart davos. >> christiane, what will change as a result? he said the united states is open for business. as you said, the crowd seemed to be receptive to this. in terms of policy and relationships, do you think this changes the presidents ...

Partnership as weve always had with the united states. its not all kumbaya out there. i think whats important, president trump threw out a little dig saying a lot of you lope my opponent had won. the thing is, the president betted on the opponent of president macron, the extremist, racist, right wing maureen lap pen who thank goodness lost. now we have macron back. europes message this week at davos is were back, and we want a respectful partnership with the united states, with the populist wave...

Creation. >> stephen moore, the stock market is booming, the president likes to emphasize that. he didnt talk about many things that would be controversial to that audience. when he talked about trade, as a president who removed the country from a lot of trade negotiations, he emphasized hed like to get back into tpp under the right circumstances. that was interesting to hear. >> that was music to my ears. i was in davos last year. i think theres a perception that these global financiers are tru...

The positive aspects. >> jeff, thank you very much for that preview. lets bring in cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. you heard from jeff we have a few messages. when america gross, the world grows. hell tout his tax cuts, booming stock market, low unemployment and his trade agenda. it doesnt sound like there will be any surprises. when it comes to president trump, anything is possible. >> reporter: youre right on that, alisyn. planned remarks versus what he says. sometime...

President give different themes like that, similar themes in his first year in office. hes also going to say this, were told, from an excerpt weve just received. the president will say, to be sccessful, it is not enough to invest in our economy. we must invest in our people. when people are forgotten, the world becomes fractured. only by hearing and responding to the voices of the forgotten can we create a bright future thats truly shared for all. again, those are just a couple of excerpts relea...