Harris the president will have a guest from europe, the italian Prime Minister. Hes also going to have reporters in the room. What will they ask . Keep watching. Im harris. Heres dana. Dana President Trump holding a news conference. The president considering an interview with robert mueller. Im dana perino. This is the daily briefing. President trumps legal team is strongly advising against an interview for Robert Muellers russia investigation as the president continues to slam the special counsel. After attacking mueller for possible conflicts of interest, trump tweeting also why is mueller only appointing angry dems, some of whom have worked for Hillary Clinton, others including myself have worked for obama and why isnt mueller looking at all of the criminal
A look at the days top news and headlines. Prime minister is with us today because of illegal immigration. Italy got tired of it. They didnt want it any longer. The people of italy have borne a great part of the burden for europe
the united states was treated very unfairly. because we re shouldering anywhere from 70 to 90% of the cost of nato. that s not fair. it s not fair. especially when you take germany. germany is paying 1%, a little more than 1%. and they re buying and paying tremendous amounts of money to russia. so we re supposed to protect countries from russia, but they re paying russian billions and billions of dollars for the energy. not good. not a good situation. i let it be known. so the bottom line is, the nato countries are now paying a lot more money. nato is a lot stronger because of it. i appreciate your answer. thank you. please. sorry, donald. may i add something? i m saying as a person with a great huge experience as a lawyer, you have a president that is strong supporter and
envious of the records and the growth figures of the american economy. we discussed that before with dona donald. somehow these are systems that can t be compared. orders of magnitude that are different. but i m envious and ambitious at the same time. as a government leader, i m ambitious for my economy to do a lot much more than what was done in the past. we are preparing structural reforms which we will be submitting to the attention of our european partners, too. dana: i do not want the tax reform to be set aside. it s well-constructed. there s a leverage for economic growth and working on
governments that represent change. they were chosen by citizens in order to change the status quo and to improve their life conditions. there s so many things that bring us together and unify us, the united states and italy.we did what we promised in our campaign and working to give answers to the expectations of our citizens so that we won t disappoint them and we don t betray our mandate. in italy, in the united states, we are proving that change is possible. donald and i have concentrated on a number of topics. we have agreed upon and reached the following results, which in part were already mentioned. today we will have made a great step ahead. we will start working in italy.
this result. i m truly thankful to you, donald, for your support. thirdly, in terms of immigration, i also described to president trump the innovative approach that italy has put forth and the european union now has a responsibility to not leave the weight of the management of immigration on the shoulders of the countries of first arrival like italy is. and as you heard, president trump say, we appreciate this contribution, which is provided by the italian government, which is providing fruit, good results. we re talking about an approach, a multilevel approach in order to try to resolve the phenomenon of immigration. not because of an emergency but because this is a structural approach. i want to underline this is in line with the position of president trump, which goes from