But this morning the president met with a group of state and local leaders, including a bucks county commissioner, at the white house to build support for the plan. We will build, we will maintain, and vast majority of americans want to see us take car of our infrastructure. The president s budget also includes millions for the military, border security, and programs, to fight the opioid crisis. Both the house and senate will hold hearings this week to examine the president s 2019 budget request. White house is standing by chief of staff john kelly following departures of two president ial aids rob partner and david sorenson, both men left the Administration Last week over allegations they abused their wifes. White House Counsel said they alerted kelly to the porter allegationness november but today, the administration disputed reports that the president considered replacing kelly, over the scandal. You dont want to throw people out on the street based upon just an allegation but when
Queen today. Were live in england with the final preparations. Im not really a monarchists. Americans are conflicted. Youre very excited. Its fun to watch an american marrying into the British Royal family but again we fought a war to end monarchy in this country. Set your alarm it will be early. Good morning, im Christine Romans. Im dave briggs. Breaking overnight Washington Post reporting President Trump and his allies are ramping up a campaign to undercut the russia investigation by exposing a top secret fbi source. That has the fbi scram scrambling to protect other live investigations and lessen iing e dangers they may face if the informants identity become known. An informant provided information early in the russian investigation. The president doing his part to discredit the special counsel, alleging that his 2016 campaign was spied on, even predicting that an ensuing scandal will be bigger than watergate. This highstakes standoff pitting President Trump and chair of the House I
Headquarters. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im Leland Vittert. And there was a special counsel in the investigation. Theres a big push as we find out whether or not President Trump will sit down with counsel mueller. Hi, ellison. Yeah, that deadline may 17th is a deadline that essentially the president s outside legal team said they would try and make a decision by that date, the one Year Anniversary of when special Counsel Robert Mueller was first appointed, and decide whether or not President Trump would actually sit down with mueller. In a phone call to fox news, the president s newest attorney, Rudy Guiliani told fox news that the president s outside legal team is still waiting for information from mueller and right now, its difficult to make a decision whether President Trump will actually sit down with mueller by that may 17th date. One thing is the meeting with singapore. And it would be to have the singapore summit because too difficult to prepare the president for a probe before
Last president wasnt even born in his country and he believed that publicly for four years, he didnt condemn that. That was blatant dog whistling. Yes, i did as a matter of fact. Actually you dont know me because i did. I condemned it many times onair, and i said that was a foolish it wasnt foolish. It was racist. And to say it makes a person racist. Okay, steve, you condemned it and condemned the guy for doing it. Youre saying this doesnt represent the trump movement. Okay, fine. Believe that. Do you think that when President Trump or donald trump said that the former president wasnt born in this country and kept it going and was the biggest promoter of that, do you think that was racist . I dont think it was racist, but i think it was a big mistake. And not just today but i said it at the time. I said that again and again. But the idea that has this president ever done anything that you think is racist . Or said anything. Or said anything . Gosh, no. Absolutely not. And i know him. T
Oneyear i was in. One saying congratulations, america, we are now into the second year of the greatest witch hunt in history. There is still no collusion and no obstruction. Then he adds the only collusion was that done by democrats unable to win an election despite the spending of far more money. So the president there relitigating the election saying democrats are spending more money regarding collusion all of that does very much seem to be on the president s minds, john. What was the president s response . The white house is being asked questions as well. Theyre saying the president during that briefing Sarah Sanders was asked several questions. Here is one of those to cnn. Why does the white house believe its a witch hunt. Why did he cancel the meeting this afternoon . Smr the president knows there was no collusion in the campaign and he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They found no evidence of collusion and still strongly believe its a witch hunt. Im