Dominate the Republican Majority Congress for the next month. He also has to deal with getting tax reform passed through congress. Plus new information regarding a connection between donald trump jr. And wikileaks during the 2016 gop president ial campaign that could affect the congressional investigation into russias impact on the election. Nbc White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson joins us now from manila. Halle, good morning to you. How is the white house describing the results of the president s trip . Reporter if you listen to the president , frances, in the maybe last hour, hour and a half here, it was a tremendous success, a huge success. It was an incredible trip. Those were the words he used repeatedly again and again in describing to reporters what he got out of this 12 days abroad. A long trip, a marathon, frankly, the longest trip to this region in a generation for a president of the United States. And lets dive into this a little bit. Because one of the comments that th
Asia. Waiting for him, an election scanl in alabama thatould dominate the Republican Majority Congress for the next month. He also has to deal with getting tax reform passed through congress. Plus new information regarding a connection between donald trump jr. And wikileaks during the 2016 gop president ial campaign that could affect the congressional investigation into russias impact on the election. Nbc White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson joins us now from manila. Halle, good morning to you. How is the white house describing the results of the president s trip . Reporter if you listen to the president , frances, in the maybe last hour, hour and a half here, it was a tremendous success, a huge success. It was an incredible trip. Those were the words he used repeatedly again and again in describing to reporters what he got out of this 12 days abroad. A long trip, a marathon, frankly, the longest trip to this region in a generation for a president of the United States. And lets div
With russians and deal with the campaign . You are saying mr. Carter page, who left that meeting, according to the press reports, and i guess his depositional interviews. Its been reported as saying im going to russia. I made no response to him. I didnt acknowledge it. When you are accusing me of lying about that . I would say thats not fair. I dont i dont think its right to accuse me of doing something wrong. I had no participation in any wrong doing with regards to influencing this campaign improperly. Dana mr. Sessions did acknowledge meeting with george papadopoulos, an advisor who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his russian contacts. I do not recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel that mr. Papadopoulos attended. I have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. I believe i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other Foreign Government for that matter. Bu