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Origin of this russia probe. you have rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who over sees the mueller investigation, trying to protect the process of a counterintelligence operation, all amid an ongoing investigation. its an uneasy situation for all of these players. but theyre dealing with a president who is combative as ever. >> bob, lets say on behalf of the press corps, the president tried to wave away questions about rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignit...

The president fumes at times about rosenstein and sessions and how this probe continues to go on and on. but the president has not had a formal news conference in quite some time. many months. these open pool sprays, its an insider term, but these pool sprays, thats what theyre doing, that allows the president to control the question and answer more than he would in that kind of traditional news conference setting. >> derivation of the phrase pool spray for our lay audience, the press pool is th...

About rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignitaries but we get no other access to the president, no other news conferences. having said that, what did you make of his lack of an answer until the question do you have confidence in rosenstein? >> he didnt give an answer, and thats telling because hes not expressing confidence at a moment where he could express confidence. the lawmakers who are close to the president like mark meadows and congressman devin nunes, theyre ...

Accuse ice agent a few years ago who accepted $100,000 in cash, he was accused of corruption, they got him off, he walked. they also have a his trf defeating search warrants and negotiating quiet deals with the justice department on behalf of a host of people accused of very skeers crimes. these are people to watch, hallie. >> president trump when we talk about the idea that he may end of speaking with robert mule, he hes been asked about this repeatedly in pool sprays for example at news confer...

Pennsylvania, but what about sort of having the interface with the press and having the american public be able to to see that? >> the american public sees the president constantly and the american press had him to themselves many times this week. we had two bilaterals with the president of france and the chance lor of germany angela merkel yesterday and the president allows the prsz to talk to him in the south lawn and the pool sprays and on a competitor network for almost a half hour, and your...

Press. absolutely yes the administration does have a press briefing everyday and absolutely, yes, we have a lot of access to the president in those pool sprays, but lets not forget the way the president treats the press and the derogatory terms he uses for the press, both on his twitter account and in interviews or in dealing with reporters. hes called reporters sleaze bags, son of bs, third rate, little, for instance. so, if youre going to talk about the way this administration upholds the free...

Going to see president trump over in the white house in one of these pool sprays. the last time we got a glimpse of the president roughly 12, 18 hours ago, had he barely wait ford reporters to walk in the door when he began speaking immediately about the cohen news. you see it here. were going to play a little bit of this because i think theres some important context i want to talk about with zeke and nancy. lets listen to this. >> so just heard that they broke into the office of one of my perso...

The middle of a pending criminal investigation and make some of the stuff public, craig. >> all right. stand by for me if you can, ken. lets get to nbc news national correspondent peter alexander. he is inside that white house briefing room where, again, we are waiting for sarah sanders to start. are you hearing anything, peter, so far from the white house about this andrew mccabe news? >> yeah, craig. weve reached out to several officials in the last 15 minutes for any official comment in regar...

Alabama senate candidate. the white house statement said the president had a positive call with roy moore during which they discussed the state of the alabama senate race and the president endorsed his campaign. so, we had heard all of these sort of statements by him that were considered tacid endorsements but the white house stating clearly -- by the way, roy moores wife posted on his facebook page she was giving roy moore, who was accused of child molestation, his endorsement. moore tweeted --...

The oval office for intelligence briefing. hes not over at the west wing, presumably in the white house, but based on the path earwhat w can assume. so he will head over to the briefing. 45 minutes after that we will see the president in a pool spray and that will be the first opportunity reporters will have to ask the president about michael flynn. you know how the pool sprays go, every reporter will be watching, to see if he will make any kind of comment. open question whether we will hear fro...