West virginia. Reporter also get a chance to shout some questions as he gets on the chopper and maybe get some answers. Youll want to watch to see if that happens about 35 minutes from now. One of the reporters who will be there is my colleague, Kristen Welker on the north lawn right now. Before you and i talk, i want to set up here the who, what, when, where, why of this memo thing. We know it was written by devin nunes and his staffers. It reportedly charges the fbi and Justice Department of abusing their spy powers, in particular against an associate. Somebody close to President Trump. They were able to do that, republicans say, because the fbi and doj basically duped a u. S. Spy into giving them the info. The whole thing is meant to under cut the entire russia investigation. Given all that, our reporting was that the white house maybe was going to give the green light to this memo possibly today before this back and forth with democrats and republicans, including adam schiff. Botto
Most americans dont really have to hear more than that to decide who is telling the truth. Even though most americans dont know who dick durbin is. 63 of americans say donald trump does not tell the truth. That poll came out on thursday. The day senator dck durbin, who was the only democrat in a meeting in the white house with a president. In a meeting he revealed the president referred to all 54 counts in africa and haiti as shithole countries. The president did not deny saying those words. He had all day, thursday, friday, saturday to deny saying those words and the president did not deny them. The white house did not deny it. They did not put out a statement saying the president did not say those words. None of the republicans in the room denied that the president said those words. And so, on thursday night, that was, in effect, confirmation that the president said those words. In fact, reporting quickly emerged on friday indicating that the president made the kind of nighttime phon