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It is why were giving this claim by the president such close scrutiny tonight. >> you understand we want total freedom of the press. thats very important, more important to me than anyone would believe. >> he said that shortly after the judge ruled. well look closer at all of the legal angles in a moment and well speak to sam donaldson about it. right now lets focus on that claim that the president wants total freedom of the press, and its more important to him than anyone would believe. keeping...

Strangers there to help them, but s.e., the hope again being that president trumps here gave him a better understanding of the dire need that so many people here have. >> yeah. kaylee, thanks for joining us tonight. i appreciate your reporting. president trump appears to have taken a more presidential tone very recently. so heres tonights other headline. a tale of two trumps? since midterm election losses, set a very bad terrible no good couple of weeks and its shown. his original response to th...

Attack the mueller investigation in total? >> i think the attacks as weve seen for the last week and the fact that president trump seems to be coming unglued over what the progress over the process the mueller investigation is making. i think that he knows and the reason hes lashing out now is that he knows he blew it. the time to really obstruct this investigation was long ago. hes been complaining about jeff sessions and his lack of recusal for a year and a half and the backlash the whittaker ...

Anything to do with any facts associated with the campaign. there were no charges against anyone associated with any conduct that went on during that campaign. thats a fact. >> not yet. >> you overstated what they mean, though. its not like its only a political fight. when it comes down to the president, when it comes down to collusion and who did what and why, and the campaign, vis-a-vis russia, it may wind up being all political at the end of the day. but jim, my question to you is, if its so ...

Why, and the campaign, vis-a-vis russia, it may wind up being all political at the end of the day. but jim, my question to you is, if its so simple, theres so little to sweat, why is the president the way he is about that? >> what will do you mean? the president gets dogged every day on this issue. >> he started this. >> what -- >> he started this today. we didnt report anything about it. >> thats just going to ramp up now that the democrats have taken the house. for him lashing out now, hes get...

Not a factual statement. the special counsel said nothing one way or the other. we have no idea what, if anything, mueller has found regarding allegations of collusion. we do know hes indicted russians for alleged collaborating with americans, and indicted one of the participants of the trump tower meeting during the campaign and focusing on others, and now could be on the verge of indicting one or more trump associates with ties to wikileaks. now, of course, its possible the presidents rage ste...

Talking about, first of all the prepresidential period we are talking about has to do with the meeting with russians at trump tower, what the president knew about it and what he told his son and what he said publicly about it, which are perjury traps. they could be about the potential relationship with wikileaks and the dumping of the documents and what was known and what the presidents involvement may and may not have been. i think all that becomes important. we know the period after he becomes...

House pursued and i believe appealed. based on precedent, do you see the white house continuing with this case, in effect? >> look at what mercedes schlapp said yesterday. shes one of the communications officials at the white house. she said were not going to tolerate bad behavior. she said that in the present tense. were not going to tolerate it. she also wouldnt rule out revoking press credentials for other reporters. this comes from the top. the president of the united states does not want to...

Lets go to the white house where we have learned this week alone, the president has spend three days crafting answers to robert muellers questions on collusion. those answers could land on the special counsels desk as soon as today. sarah westwood joins us. you know, we havent heard from the president yet today. clear, though, his nerves are sort of shaken, potentially about all of this. what can you tell us? >> thats right, poppy. the president has been lashing out repeatedly at special counsel...

Knowing what his standing is going to be among the people of the united states of america because right now as we saw in these elections his standing with the people of the country has suffered in the past few weeks. he is aware of it. thats one of the things that figures in this lashing out. he also has lashed out at the press yet again and we have the very important decision in the cnn case, which this network rightly filed, to ensure that the first amendment obtains in the way that the press ...