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Earthshaking, seismic occurrence for a special prosecutor to be appointed. in fact, taking your record, which is one of dedication to credibility and integrity of our criminal justice process, and your family, i would think that at some point, you might recommend that there be a special prosecutor. would that be appropriate at some point? >> it is possible. i know one of my predecessors did it, with respect to a clinton administration issue about chinese interference and election, so it is possi...

Do you see donald trump bringing anything new to the table whether its policy wise or in terms of his personality and approach that could get that bre breakthrough? >> well, that, of course, is the million-dollar question here. can he do something different from his predecessors? i would say that maybe the only advantage that he brings as a potential willingness to break things and maybe a willingness to put pressure on the two sides to an extent that his predecessors werent and they were willin...

Of those fronts even though russia maintains it did not meddle in anyones elections. >> this comes at a time when you see how many world leaders hes met with, the reset with russia did not get off the ground. not just the investigation thats clouding over this zra straug administration, but trump realizes russia is more problematic than he saw on the campaign and he doesnt like a number of things vladimir putin is doing. the russians asked for a meeting when the president was in europe in may an...

Rather sympathetic language that i heard the president use. this is not some young man who got thrust into power. this is a brutal regime. he was hand picked to continue that brutality and some would argue and i think fairly, that hes been more brutal than his two predecessors. >> heres what jumped out to me when he had his uncle killed. here the president is suggesting there was a good reason that kim jong-un had his uncle asas nated. he said a lot of people tried to take that power away, wheth...

Force on the ground here telling the scitizens of this country that the president and the united states are hostile and ready to attack and that justifies this government spending tremendous amount of money in resources building missile and nuclear weapons and the officials will continue to test them despite mounting president from the united states and u.n. security council and china as well. >> errol, we heard in that cbs interview, when asked about military action, the president said, i dont ...

Suddenly have the bankers do exactly what i want. >> a flashback there to make an important point. every president has a learning curve when they start the job and every president gets bumps and bruises navigating congress and the bureaucracy. a steeper curve for this president. its his first job in politics. his closest white house aides have this in common none of them have governing experience. first 100 days. all of his recent predecessors were able to get one signature campaign proposal thr...

Away. >> oh, i know we always dont agree, but were beginning to get a spirit here in washington where were more agreeable, where were setting a different tone. >> reporter: president clinton may have been frustrated by gridlock. >> i learned that things are not going to change quite as fast as i want them to. >> reporter: but still intent on changing washington. >> it may be we can only do one thing at a time in this town. that may be. but im not prepared to acknowledge that. >> reporter: for pr...

Campaign mode. he is touting what he calls the historic success of his first months in office. also breaking tonight new remarks by the president following north koreas unsuccessful launch of a ballistic missile that blew up over its own land. when asked about the possibility of a nuclear test by north korea the president said he would not be happy and when asked if that means u.s. military action against the kim jong un regime he replied well see. and here in washington the annual white house c...

Thing in this town, that may be. im not prepared to acknowledge that. >> reporter: for president trump serving his first time in elected office, his frustration set him apart from recent predecessors. its not clear he actually likes his new job which seems far more difficult than he often described. >> were going to start winning again. were going to win so much you people will be angry at me. >> reporter: theres new anger, probably not the kind he was thinking about back on the campaign trail. ...

Jobs already in a very short period of time. its going to really start catching on now because some of the things weve done are bigley and they are catching on. >> reporter: big league and catching on. lets deconstruct that 600,000 new jobs claim. when you add february and march the official jobs statistics when president trump is president you get 317,000 net new jobs. not 600,000. if you want to be charitable and add january come up with 533,000 net new jobs. exaggeration in the jobs creation,...