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Investigated was spotted, as you can see, by our slow-mo camera departing the west wing after a half hour or so. the president hasnt been in the oval office today so its possible rosenstein was here for some separate meeting, that he didnt meet with president trump himself. it is notable given the fact that four days ago rosenstein announced those 12 indictments of the russian foreign military officers, their interference in the u.s. election, and given the presidents own comments criticizing th...

Session for the president who said he signed this bill. we know that this morning he was watching the news coverage of this bill. lot of negative coverage about how this bill did not fund his immigration priorities. he sat there, complaining about it in the diplomatic room. as manu said, this has been in the works for several weeks now, especially in the last few days, and a process that the president has not been engaged on. his complaints there, they could have aired those before they voted on...

Wall, very small percentage of what the white house actually asked for to build that wall, the wall that, as you remember, during the campaign the president said time and time again that mexico was going to pay for. he was very critical of that, critical of democrats, saying they opposed funding the military and also being critical of the fact that there was no legislation in here to fix, to help those dreamers who have benefited from the daca program, the program that the president ended last f...

Collins at the white house. give us your perspective t sounded like the president was venting. >> reporter: thats exactly what it was. he threatened to veto this bill, a threat that not even his own advisers took seriously but sent a scramble over at capitol hill after reporters and lawmakers were assured that the president was backing this bill. you saw the president say yes im going to sign this bill, begrudgingly. here is what i dont like about it, main ly the lack of funding for his border w...

Theres a whole a lot of russia to ask about and roy moore you could ask about and sexual harassment stuff to ask about here. im curious to see how he handles that. >> i think he will probably, if he does do it, he will handle it the way he handled lengthy news conferences. there was one he did early on where he took questions for almost an hour. he loved it. it felt to him like a venting session. it will depend on how much hes buying into the strategy his legal advisers gave him. >> were taking ...

Its possible he will answer questions in a public way. this could be interesting. there is a whole lot of russia to ask about. >> right. >> a whole lot of roy moore, sexual harassment stuff to ask about. >> sure. >> im curious to see how he handles it. >> if he does did it he will handle it the way we have seen him handle similar lengthy news conferences. remember the one he did early on against his aides advice. >> right. >> he took questions almost an hour. he loved it. it felt like a venting ...

There? >> all right. president trump is trying to get republicans across the finish line on this. take for example this tweet. i just finished a great meeting with the republican senators concerning health care. they really want to get it right referring to the affordable care act. several called it positive, constructive and not tense. they aired their concerns about different parts of the bill. jeff has more on that from the white house. >> reporter: its back to the drawing board in some r...

On that and saying, look, we ka cannot have these big slashes to medicaid, we cannot sort of sustain these types of numbers here of uninsured. so it was -- it went like that for about an hour and 15 minutes or so, and john mccain im also told, he raised some deep concerns about the secretive nature of this whole process here, so it was a venting session. he was designed to unite republicans. thats a work in progress to see if that will ultimately happen. >> do you know -- i mean, did senators in...

Them all in one room, the east room of the white house to hear their concerns. im told by senators it was somewhat of a venting session, a listening session, but president trump made clear that not passing anything is simply not an option. >> were getting very close, but for the country, we have to have health care and it cant be obamacare which is melting down. the other side is saying all sorts of things before they knew what the bill was. this will be great if we get it done and if we dont ge...