and from the associated press jill colvin. ashley, i understand that the idea of arming the teachers and making that announcement yesterday wasn t the white house plan for the day. that wasn t in the president s play book. that wasn t on the card that your paper and others have reported about. that s exactly right. this wasn t an official policy ro rollout, or the president s aides necessarily knew he was going to say. that said, in talking to a number of aides, it was also not something they were necessarily surprised that he said. this is an idea that he had been floating behind the scenes for a couple of days now, talking about this idea. it is actually an idea that i understand one or two advisors had brought up to him as this is something some states have considered. it s a possibility that s out there. he started talking about it, floating it, making it his own. and as often happens, when he s in public, he reiterates the things that are top of his mind privately and that s wha
there are so few facts about mueller these lawmakers can come up with. but what they are concerned about, right and left, rachel, is the institutional and constant assault by this president and his allies about the leader and its institutions. they wonder is the u.s. approaching a crisis moment beyond just mueller prompted, perhaps, by mueller but bigger than that? we re very fortunate to be able to talk to you at the end of this night, robert costa, from the washington post. thank you very much. thank you. we look at what was true and what wasn t in the president s speech tonight. there are only facts. there are no alternatives to facts, and art is here to walk us through some of the whoppers tonight. art? our fact check focuses on jobs and immigration. president trump broadly claiming that he enacted the biggest tax
but to go in and answer everything, everything question they can ask him, and this is not in the president s interest, wasn t in the president s interest. reporter: a source familiar with mcgahn s testimony says the white house could assert executive privilege over what he told the team, setting up a battle for information provided to prosecutors. i believe that in terms of jeopardy to the president, i don t see the down side to having mcgahn go in and talk with them, and dowd said mcgahn was a strong within. reporter: questions are also being raised about the president s current legal team after what his outside attorney rudy guiliani said over the weekend, about donald trump jr. s infamous meeting at trump tower with the russian attorney. they didn t know she was a representative of the russian government, indeed she is not a representative of the russian government. if this is collusion, good luck,