Contenders he would like competing with, its what the president didnt say that is most interesting. Up next, the president says if the Mueller Report isnt favorable to him, the people wont stand for it. With the imminent release of the report, the president has returned to some familiar attacks aimed at undermining the credibility of the investigation. Heres what he said as he left the white house this morning. I have no idea about the Mueller Report. Were going to see what happens. Its going to be very interesting, but well see what happens. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction. Everybody knows it. Its all a big hoax. So i call it the witch hunt. Its all a hoax. The attorney general highly respected. Ultimately hell make a decision. Abby phillip is joining us from the north lawn. We heard some of those catch phras phrases. No collusion, its a witch hunt. Trying to sow seeds about the mueller investigation. What does this tell you . Reporter it is essentially game time for mr. Trump. Everything thats been building for two years could come to a head very soon. Thats why youre hearing all the arguments the president is making about the special counsel, about the origins of the special counsel and fwhou the report. Whatever comes out of dr. Muellers investigation once it is completed. That being said, they have no idea whats in this report. They have nothing to say about the president himself, but President Trump is working on telling his supporters, essentially, that Robert Mueller is conflicted, he kancant be trusted, and that this report hes producing, whether or not its ever made public, the report itself is as a result of. I should add, brianna, hes been talking a lot about his electrical victory, the fact that he wasie skplektd being robert movers toefrts. He thinks the report is going to undermine the election in the united states. We have a team of reporters who have been covering every step of the way with us now. We have evan perez and pamela brown with us. The report, were waiting for it. It appears it is going to be released very soon. We keep saying that. It sounds like a broken record. We really do believe its going to be soon. Whats interesting is the president messaging ahead of it, this kind of prebuttal. Hes trying in ernest to undermine this investigation. Its interesting to me because a deputy who didnt get any votes is appointing a man who didnt get any votes. I had one of the greatest elections in history, would you say thats true . Yes, absolutely. They came from the valleys, they came from the cities, they came from all over. They voted in one of the electi elections nobody can even believe that he didnt tell me, but he recused himself. He appointed a guy, he had just left the office think of it. I have a deputy who reports a manual. Pamela, what does that tell you about this and what is his legal team saying about this report . Several have upheld muellers appointment and the authority of what hes doing. The bottom line, youre seeing the president become the communicator and the chief setting the tone of how the white house is going to respond to this. The president has been trying to undermine Robert Mueller and the investigation, tweeting, i think, more than 70 times, its a witch hunt. I think youll see, when this was wrapped up. There was no charges relate to do conspiracy. There have been meetings in the white house in order to figure out how to respond to different scenarios because they really dont know how this is gog play out. Ma there is an aggressive tone hes likely to continue with. They have different scenarios, one that this is very bad for the president , the other one being its completely anticlimactic, right . Robert muellers work is facing an impossible task. Theres been, on the left, so much intimidation to build um. These are the things that if you it fmd. So its kind of an impossible standard. Hes hard to reach, frankly, given the fact of his mandate and given where the law is on this stuff. Before we get to that, though, we do have to remind people of how extraordinarily fruitful this investigation has gone for 675 this is the 675th day now of this investigation. 37 defendants charged, including three companies. Six Trump Associates who have faced charges as a result of this. Five people who have been sentenced to prison so far. 16 Trump Associates, at least, who have been found to have some kind of position in the campaign. Lets talk about how this is going to go down, sara, because Robert Mueller will finish his report, send it over to the attorney general, and then what . Were all kind of looking at what is going to be the beginning between a terminal legal battle, but the president will deliver his report to the attorney general, bill barr. Then bill barr is going to, according to the constitution, include any instances where the attorney general overruled a decision that Robert Mueller wanted to make to prosecute someone. Maybe that is a situation that bill barr overruled, maybe Roger Whitaker overruled, but we might want to do. When there wasnt an executive summari summarily. Pamela brown has reported that the white house hopes to see the entire summary, not just portions of it. Th then. Whaz they dont want to put it bunch of information. Thats a different one than weve seen from james comey, and at the end of this we may not get a lot of information. Its going to be a fight because congress will make a whole lot of noise about wanting to see more than what theyll see initially. Robert mueller may have been overruled on the report that goes to the attorney general. Does that have to be included on what goes to congress, and will the public know that . Yeah, thats going to be in the report, whatever bill barr tells members of congress. Thats a very important point. I think the one big question weve been anticipating the answer to is we know the president never sat down with Robert Mueller. Robert mueller asked for that interview. The question is did Robert Mueller ask to subpoena him . Was that rejected . If that happens, then well know that, because bill barr has to Tell Congress about it. Take your bets whether congress is going to want to share that information with the american public. If they get a document only thi thi. James comey who trump, of course, famously fired wrote an oped in the New York Times where he actually said he hopes the president is not impeached before the end of his term. Heres what he said. If President Trump were removed from office by congress, a significant portion of this country would sthee as a coup, and it would drive those people farther from the Common Center of american life, more deeply fracturing our country. Why is he injecting himself in the very Political Part of this discussion . I dont think he can help himself, but ill let evan take this one. Thanks, pamela. It is a very good question, and i think a lot of us would savely an and. Ment of the and some of the things he did at the beginning of the trump administration. There was a part of this oped where he sort of says he doesnt really care whether or not im going to sort of sum it up but he said he doesnt really care if there was collusion or not. Im like, what . Really . I have a hard time believing he doesnt care. He brought us here. He brought us here, and the president also brought us here because the president fired james comey which only led to the appointment of special counsel mueller. The president said he did not want to fire james comey. As pressure is mounting on boeing, cnn is learning that the new Safety Training for the 737 max 8 jets was not done by instructors or in clampls. Pompeo suggests god sent trump to save the jews and save israel. Heavy fire with isis fighters as the white house declares the caliphate defeated. Tmobile will do the math for you. Right now, when you join tmobile, you get two lines of unlimited with two of the latest phones included for just one hundred bucks a month. video games have evolved. Addle why hasnt the way you bank . Virtual wallet from pnc bank helps make it easier to see what youre spending, stash more into savings and stay on top of your finances in a digital world. Just one way pnc is modernizing banking to help make things easier. Pnc bank. Make today the day. To Severe Plaque Psoriasis get clearer. And stay clearer. Most patients who saw 90 clearer skin at 28 weeks stayed clearer through 48 weeks. 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Tell us what youre learning. Reporter brianna, the 737 max was promoted as a newer, more efficient version of boeings old popular plane, so similar to the old version of the 737 that only minimal Pilot Training was required. Boeings chief test pilot described that training on this interview with flightboeing. Com. He said they could take their 737 pilots, give them two and a half hours of Ground Training, really on an ipad, and they would be good to go. So a pilot can caulk into here and will find everything he can just like he can in the ng. And its down to roughly faaapproved this for 2 and a half hours of training. This is all about introducing the new plane but as a tremendous cost saifrvings to boeing, which is just configuring new airlines on an old airplane. Boeings promotional material talked about the low cost of this rollout. Millions of dollars will be saved because of its commonality to the nextgeneration 737. Training was all done on ipads, no instructors needed, not even a max similarity. Pilots are talking about how two and a half hours of Ground Training is not that big a deal. Pilots should not have had an issue transitioning to this medal. They did not. Thats whenly. Meant as a safety feature but now being investigated for possibly being involved in these cashes crashes and how this system may have been involved in the nosediving of the planes. How did these pilots not know about it . I think thats going to go into the investigation of what went wrong here. As i reported last week, boeing has boeing inspectors certifying boeing planes for the faa. Actually, boeing is doing its own certification on its own planes. Thats potentially part of the problem. The other problem is somewhere along the way, boeing thought this was such a minor safety enhancement. We expect to hear that from boeing directly but thats whats taken place here. Andrew griff in, thank you very much. There is a censor that helps pilots when there is something wrong. It is not part of the Standard Equipment and not all airlines pushed it. The federal aviation authority, weve learned, doesnt have the resources to do it. Is that a failure of oversight . Is that right for something to fall through the cracks . Well, you know, its actually surprising to the general public, but anyone who knows anything about aviation safety knows that the faa really acts as a limited oversight of the industry and that boeing has the people with the knowledge of the complex design systems. Boeing has the resources to conduct the certification process the faa doesnt. I wouldnt get in an airplane that was designed by the faa. Boeing are. They have ton an integrated in the story of the max aircraft. So boeing argued that the plane wasly. Z z zoo. Why did everyone think that training was sufficient . The training was about the mcat system. It was not highlighted to the airlines. I think if it is airlines understood this safety feature caused two crashes, if the safety feature is on board and the alarm goes off that the aircraft is going to pitch down, maybe they would have required more robust training. Training is done on a similaritsimilaritmisimulator. Boeing had an alarm that would have warned people about the mcat system. It was an addon. It didnt come standard with the model. Should it have initially, and certainly should it have after the first crash of lion air when it became apparent to pilots that said there is something on board that you didnt know about. It was developed to be a cheaper airplane to fly on fuel costs. Boeing developed it in a way that it wouldnt require a lot of training, and then it wanted to have an option of selling the airplane at a price that would be attractive to its customers and not having the safety options installed allowed it to sell it at a lower price. And also at the same time, if an airline ordered it like the American Airlines have, boeing could make more money on installing these safety processes. Safety should never be an option, but Airlines Just like cars have often been sold as a s safety feature that the customer has to pay for. Jason green, thank you so much for your expertise. Democrats are alleging that senior officials like Jared Kushner are using others cash to do their work. And the president says the isis in caliphate is 100 defeated. Were hearing it now. [ aclass ] to 68 degrees. We hear you. We made a car that does, too. The allnew aclass. Allnew thinking starting at 32,500. Cake in the Conference Room showing em youre ready to be your own boss. Thats the beauty of your smile. Bring out the best in it with crest 3d white. Crest removes 95 of surface stains. In just three days. When cravings hit, hit back. Choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. 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Reporter no, were not. The last 24 hours were seeing airstrikes. These are american airplanes. Right now you can see a flare behind me. I can see tracer fire going toward the horizon. There is another flare behind me. There has been gunfire coming out of the isis positions which are, admittedly, a very small piece of territory on the edge of a hill outside on the eastern end of this town of babus. The fighting is not over. If you were to look at the amount of territory, it is very small indeed, but the fighting goes on. What we heard from a spokesman of the Syrian Democratic forces today is they believe there are still several hundred holdouts including women, including children who are being used as human shields and they believe these last holdouts are not going to surrender peacefully, that they are going to fight to the death. And it appears that this may be the beginning of the final, final, final battle. I mean, ive been here for 49 days and weve heard time and time again predictions that its about to end. Ive lost count of how many times weve had to explain that President Trump may be saying that the caliphate is completely defeated, but what we are seeing with our eyes and hearing and hopefully being able to show on television is it isnt defeated yet. It is on the brink of defeat, but there is still fighting going, there is still forces with the Syrian Democratic forces as well as american, french and british servicemen involved in this military effort. It is not over yet. Brianna . Why has it been so difficult . What are the challenges facing the forces tlhat are taking on isis . Why have that he not been able to clear isis out of a reportedly small area but theyre clear this is still going on . We assume the americans, the british and french wildly underestim