Good morning, im Rick Leventhal on this last friday of 2017. Well ring in the new year together. Good morning. President trump railing against north korea and china in a New York Times interview. The president sounding off in the special counsel investigation and indicating he has faith in Robert Mueller and the outcome saying lets just say i think that bob mueller will be fair and Everybody Knows that there was no collusion. Rich edson is traveling with the president live in West Palm Beach, florida. Hi, rich. Good morning, julie. He brought up that investigation and denied that there was any collusion between his campaign and the russian government during the 2016 election. Did so about a dozen times in a 30minute interview. He also then asked about former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her deleted emails saying what ive done, i have absolute right to do. What i want to do with the Justice Department. But for the purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, i
Rest of todays top stories in this hour of Shephard Smith reporting. Rick im Rick Leventhal and for shepard smith. President trump sitting down for an interview with New York Times that his golf club in florida, claiming a rush investigation is very bad thing for the country and assisting more than a dozen times there was no collusion during his campaign and russia. Trump said the investigation makes the country look bad and puts them in a very bad position. The sooner it works out is better for the country. The president thinks the man in charge of the investigation, special Counsel Robert Mueller is going to be fair. President trump again called the investigation a witch hunt. Rich edson with the news live in west palm beach. Rich, the president claimed that he can direct the Justice Department, why . He did. The president was asked in this interview whether or not the Justice Department should be reexamining the clinton email issue, as he hit ted toward that issue during this issue.