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Confro confront china on trade and raised questions about where he stands on just about every major issue during a wild question-and-answer with reporters. and lets go through it with our political experts as we try to make sense of it. gloria borger to you first, it is like a flip flop flip now on gun control and the payroll tax, whether hell visit denmark that is clear just a flip flop. but hes pretty consistent in one area and that is praising himself. so lets listen to this. >> no president ...

Insisting theyre bad for the country. ill talk with a member of the house republican leadership, north carolina congressman mark walker, who came out against the "send her back" chants at trumps rally in his state. and puerto rico protests. hundreds of thousands taking to the streets, blocking a major highway, demanding the resignation of their governor. now president trump is slamming what he calls puerto ricos grossly incompetent leadership. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." ...

Nature of those settlements. the department of justice just last week announced that you are stopping that process and i just want to say thank you. thats something weve worked on for a couple of years trying to get accomplished legislatively. the previous administration would not work with us on and you just implemented that. i want to say i appreciate that. let me also say that i have a question about the crime victims fund and the recession. help me understand the rescission back to the treas...

Offers to seven potential employees, five of whom were correctional officers but due to the imposition of the hiring freeze, those positions were canceled by doj so they werent able to go forward with that hiring. as you point out, this is a difficult job. can you explain why we continue to have a hiring freeze on correctional officers within the bureau of prisons? >> i appreciate that question. i think there may be some misunderstanding about this. the department froze the hiring at the headqua...

Appropriations hearing that is going into different territory. lets bring in our panel to talk about. leslie marshall and john mccormack. welcome to you both. leslie, you have had a chance to look at this and were looking ahead to the attorney generals testimony this afternoon as well. what piques your interest and what questions do you have and hope to have answered? >> the question i really have been happy with that were answered specifically is what you and bill were just discussing because a...

Him is to clear up a couple of misconceptions and distortions if you will about what he has said and done in the past. starting with the number of times that he had encounters with the soviet ambassador, with the russian ambassador. he was asked during his confirmation in a question that mentioned people acting as surrogates who had contact with the russian ambassador whether he had had a contact with the russian ambassador. that was the context of the question. there was no reason for him at th...

>> bill: a busy day. house speaker paul ryan now live on the hill. >> i wont get into -- i just said i think the best thing to do is let robert mueller do his job. the best vindication let the investigation go on thoroughly. the best thing to do and thats what i think hopefully will happen. [inaudible question]. >> the question is about the budget. with a new president in the first year you always have an abbreviated budget season. thats just the way budgeting with a new administration works. we...

Considering dismissing the special investigator for the russia matter, bob mueller. and rosenstein would be the guy to ask about that. bob mueller was appointed by rod rosenstein who is expected to start speaking any minute behind us. >> shannon: he has taken a seat there. what do we expect to hear from the attorney general this afternoon? >> thats a good question. we dont expect to see his remarks ahead of time, which is very unusual for something as high profile as this. we dont know this morn...

>> i think its a reasonable question. if, as the president said, i was fired because of the russia investigation, why was the attorney general involved in that chain? i dont know. i dont have an answer for the question. >> session supporters say he will set the record straight after comeys testimony last week. well hear from the deputy attorney general. a routine funding hearing but we expect the questions to turn to russia, bill. >> bill: nothing is routine, right? rosenstein and especially ses...

Office. >> what if they come from the oval office? >> i dont know how they would get there. >> it could be my lack of a law degree and maybe there are a couple of lawyers on this panel who can help me to understand the most basic question here which is that the attorney general had a press conference and said given all of these challenges, given all this controversy im out. i am recused from these matters. now the question becomes what matters? which matters? ill ask one final time if you can ju...