Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
people around the world are watching what you are saying and the white house for the united states of america, the president of the united states should not refer to us as enemy of the people. his own daughter acknowledges that and all i m asking is you acknowledge that right here and right now. i appreciate your passion. i share it. i ve address this question. i ve addressed my personal feelings. i m here to speak on behalf of the president. he s made statements clear. the national archives told the senate judiciary committee today that they can t finish up the document collection regarding brett kavanaugh until october. that s later than the timetable that you guys, senate republicans are hoping for. any comment on that or any potential assistance that the white house can give the archives in facilitating that. we want to be as helpful as possible to turn over documents. several senators said there s over a million pages of documents to review including
wasn t at liberty to speak to specifics but a number of them were anti-president trump and that s certainly isn t helping republicans. john. i want to respond because the rule that was proposed by the administration today, the two states attorney general said they will sue this administration. this is part of their complaint. they say freezing or weakening the standards put the health of our children and seniors at risk. it increases the rising cost of climate change for our states. the administration s response would be what? that the reporting that we re reversing obama era fuel efficiency standards in preempting the tougher california standards is simply false. what the pepa released was a proposed rule not a final rule. the notice asked for comments on the range of options.