Of what sean hannity was saying on day one as we look at what year two might bring. A city in mourning, a country joining a city in mourning. Columbine author will join me to discuss coverage of these massacres and how coverage needs to change. First a question for you. This is all in the eye of behold et et. Does President Trump seem confident to you . Or down right desperate. This morning you see a half dozen more tweets from the president full of conspiracy theories and resentment and questions about ongoing investigations. Heres one example. You can look up all the tweets on his page. But at what pointed does this witch hunt composed of 13 angry and heavily conflicted democrat asks two people who worked for obama stop. He say thas found to collusion with russia and complained about Hillary Clinton and on he went. But i want to use these tweets as a starting point for a broader conversation with Kellyanne Conway. Shes join iing me now. Great to see you. Hi, brian. I want to start off on a positive note. Did you like the Royal Wedding . Absolutely. Who doesnt love a Royal Wedding. I admit i watched the clips afterwards. I didnt get up at 4 00 a. M. Thats okay. It was wonderful on replay also. Its fantastic. Two of my children are named george and charlotte, but we et had them first. I would love to talk about the Royal Wedding all day. But i want to ask about the tweets. Whats the source for the claim they have fom found no collusion with russia . Has he been given a report by mueller . I wont tell you that, but i will tell you that over a year into this that there is no evidence of collusion. The president has called this investigation a witch hunt many times. Yet he and his allies have been cooperative. They turned over thousands of pages of documents. They sat for dozens and dozens of interviews. I think its important to note that the public has a right to know fully what is going on here. What are we really locking at if now were looking at the stories that people in the Trump Campaign early on who i never even met were meeting with people or were being surveilled by people. Thats got zero to do with the winning part of the campaign. It just does. I have never carter page was on your network. This is important. Hes never met me. I dont remember meeting permanent thp the point is when you talk about the Trump Campaign, you have to break it up. The winning part was focused very much on the michigan i think as a Shadow Campaign being investigated. But when the president says they found no evidence of collusion, it makes me wonder who is telling him that. Who is letting him inside the mueller investigation. Heres what the president knows. You know if there was evidence of collusion, it would have leaked by now. I do not know that. I wish they would. There would be many people. The senate has had one. Mueller has one certainly. The witch hunt has given up on rush ja and looking at the rest of the world. Hes citing this story. Maybe hes watching your network where you have shown the graphics about collusion and replaced them with one persons lawyer who has been on your network for 160 times in a short amount of time. Theres an active investigation into russias attack on our country. Its a good thing that mueller is looking at other possible foreign influences. Who is telling the president that respectfully if you can walk and chew gum and whistle at the same time, start covering this mans accomplishments. We have a new cia director. I knew you would say that. You dont want to tell the truth. They dont know they watch cnn. They dont know the Unemployment Rate is under 4 . They dont know growth is close to 4 . They do. We are negotiating trade deals with china, mexico, everyone across the globe. They dont know that the president was reforming. If you are watching this program, i want you to email me. Every viewer in america knows about those accomplishments. But they also know they all know about the accomplishments. Because i said so. When you said the president call this is a witch hunt, hes describing a federal investigation into an attack on our country. Do you recognize the harm thats being done when the president degrades the fbi that way . Hes not degrading the fbi. Hes made it clear. Hold on. Absolutely does not and heres why. This president who went to the new director of the fbi a couple months ago addressed them. He and other people speak on his behalf. The tens of thousands of men and women in the rank and file who do their jobs respectively and diligently every day is not going to be the president is talking about. Hes talking about specific actors whose names we know now. James comey, peter ohr and his wife, all the while screwing up the investigation into Hillary Clinton. Where are her emails . Why was she allowed to give an interview its his government. Excuse me. If you want to talk about the 2016 election, lets talk about it. I dont. I asked about russias attack and who is telling the president that theres no collusion. You keep saying russias attack on democracy. What evidence do you or anybody at cnn have that any of that interference played into the Election Results . Youre trying to conflate it to make america think that somehow donald trump didnt win this election fairly and squarely. Theres a hundred different theories. One of those things was russias attack. Youre wrong. Are you telling the world that theres a nex us is between that and the result . Most people are not willing to say that. There are a hundred factors. You were responsible for some of those factors. Clintons mistakes, there were a will the of factors. Im not going to let you get away with saying that russia had anything to do with this election result. Whats your proof of that . The wikileaks, the abuse of the documents, the stolen emails, all of that. Et whoa, whoa, brian, youre trying to break news here and its not working. Did you Say Something that a lot of people are not willing to say . Im not on the side of an aisle. Tell america. Did you vote for Hillary Clinton or donald trump . I did not vote. I left that spot blank that day. Its not appropriate for you to go around asking people who they voted for. Its all appropriate to ask me things but not other people. We asked you to come on the program because youre a representative of the president. And the president thinks that if theres no nex us between interference and the outcome of the elections, which is why they are moving on to someones lawyer being on your network 160 plus times in a short amount of time. You dont have those graphics of russian collusion. Someone on a Different Network ran all these outtakes from people on your network where people were promising russia colt conclusion. They were promising were going to have evidence of this. You confused america and wasted time talking about that instead of things that really matter to america like a great prosperous economy, national security, renegotiated trade deals. If you think your job is to get the story, just say it. Because i know your viewers expect that now. Look at their comments all the time. Dont have trump people on. They expect you to be reflexively antitrump. The goal is not to get the president. The goal is to get the truth. Theres a lot of people trying to obscure the truth. Youre saying something that people arent saying. Im saying there hasnt been a report yoet. So i dont know where the president is getting this claim that they found no collusion. Can i ask about one other thing . Five days ago the president tweeted there was a witch hunt. Im trying to find out where the president is getting information. Five days ago the president tweeted the probe was costing 10 million. Today he said 20 million. Where is is he getting this information from . I dont know but people know its a taxpayer funded exercise prize and thats why they have a right to know. He said 10 million and then 20 million. The judge told the folks that you cant use this investigation to try to embarrass the president. You have to have Something Else. They think everybody should see what a federal judge says. Thats the beauty of the media. Everybody heard about that. That was big news on that day. I think its really great that the president doesnt allow any of this to distract from being one of the most successful president in his first 16 months anywhere. Thats a good pivot. I respect the pivot. I dont know what hes working on because all hes doing is tweeting about his resentments. I just hung up with him 30 seconds ago. What was his message . Many things. We were talking about very specific issue were going to work on later today as a group. Hes the president of the united states. If its so easy to get. Corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 and 20,000 jobs here. Im glad the economy became trumps economy. Im thankful. You should be. Because its helping a lot of americans. He tweeted that people that are leaking in the white house are traders. And cowards. The shocking language using a term that has legal consequence. Can you tell me staffers have been fired for leaking . I cant reveal that, but i will tell you that the president thinks a lot of stuff is made up and embellished. He knows that many of us get a text or an email or phone call, i heard you think the moon is made of cheese. I have two sources. Someone will say i dont have a problem with the moon and dont think its made of cheese. Somebody else will say we have three source who is think you dont like the moon. He understands people make up things and he also knows that the leaks that youre talking about from ten days ago were meant to hurt the people who were involved. So people like to settle personal scores by talking to the press. But he also knows that those of us who have top secret security clearance, those of us privy to information that never gets discussed, he understands the way the game is played. But leaking is a symptom. Its a symptom of a problem. A deeper problem at the white house. Companies dont leak. If there were leak, you could change to say breaking news, which would be true for once. It would be news. Why the constant attacks . You would have the fruits of the leak. Why arent you showing me the memo. How come youre not talking about a leak. I would tell you they dont come from which im not a member. But there are hundreds and muns of people who work on that complex. Folks noent dont know but have access to information. Hes the president of united states. Hes done things nobody would have imagined in the first 16 months of a presidency. People do appreciate it. Including tearing down the media. Poor media. Im not saying poor media. We should recognize the flaws of your boss as well as his achievements. Can i ask you about the leak investigation . You cant say if staffers have been fired, but it sounds like theres an active investigation. So i believe, yes, this is. Not just in the Commons Department but overblown by the media, who cant get fruits of leaks to talk about the process of leaks. Is the leaking exacerbated by not having a Communications Director. Its been a couple months. A lot of the leaks dont come from that. The president knows that because he sees who is in different meetings. Is the president going to hire a new Communications Director . The president is a great Communications Director and he has wonderful people supporting him. I think you more than anybody will appreciate this. Its 2018. Theres so many ways to communicate and send and receive information. The president does that through his social media platform. Hundreds of millions of people see it. So youre dealing with the president himself who is not a politician at all. This is a man who is very social media savvy. Hes very media centric. Were trying to build a structure. Im trying to help out the department. Were trying to build a structure that accommodates the realities of President Trump media savvy and 2018 where you just have so many more platforms with which to communicate. So fitting us into a structure that helped or benefitted the president in the past is just not a realistic view of 2018. The president has not held a press conference at the white house for 400 days. Why is that . The president talks to people all the time. I saw but not a solo press conference. He has, let me read this to you. According to the director of the white house transition, President Trump did 170 short question and answer sessions compared to 55 for president obama. Lots of those short. But those are not press conferences. Its people reading prepared statements and unknowing which questions are going to be asked. But this president makes himself available. He seems to be hiding from pressers and interviewers. Hes not even going on fox anymore. Of all the words i us would use to describe President Trump in hiding would not be among them. You may not like that hes cut out the middle man, that he tweets. Dont be jealous of that. Maybe hell come on network one day. Hes said he wont. If he wanted big rate, he would go on one of the broadcast networks. Hed get 10 million viewers. He made it clear when he was asked by someone from a different platform recently. Do you think youll get the nobel peace prize. He said you wai want the best r for america. The ratings are seen through how people are benefitting from the tax cuts, the regulatory reductions. We know the president cares about ratings. He is the president. They didnt want to have press conferences, but they did. Just so you know, i tell the president all the time he should go out more because hes the best communicator we have. He won the election because he was out there bringing the message directly to the people every single day unfiltered, not waiting for the middle man. As president he communicates daily through his social media and answering these questions. This is a president , brian, and thank you for cnn covering all hour of it, 55 minutes plus with a Bipartisan Group of members from the hill talking about daca and immigration a few months ago. Then the democrats walked away, of course, as they normally do. But this is somebody who is transparent and accountable. I would love him to come on your network, but hes happy to send me. Were into 17 minutes now. But he attacks cnn and calls New York Times crooked and smears the news outlets instead. I wonder if 20 years from now youre going to be proud of that on a personal level. Will you be proud he tried to tear down news outlets . Hes trying to get some fair and full coverage. I have been clear from day one that my main objection will always be full coverage, complete coverage. Were just missing an opportunity to make sure but Cnns Van Jones was in the east room on friday when the president and Jared Kushner and other held forth and had a reform moving the ball forward on that issue. Im the point person for the administration on opioids. Thats going better now, but i have a lot of bipartisan support from capitol hill. You dont want to cover it. These are things that affect americans. We lost more people to drug overdoses than gun violence, plane crashes, breast cancer. All of those are serious matters, but this is too. My beef will always be incomplete coverage. On one or two things to the exclusion of the issues that americans tell us in the white house every single day. There were these stories about sean hannity as a chief of staff. I was wondering if you ever coordinate . I dont coordinate with sean hannity. Were both pretty busy. I go on his show once a week. Theres nothing to coordinate. What is there to coordinate . I have a relationship with the president. I speak with him regularly. Sean is running the highest rated show on cable. Theres a reason for that. Hes providing information that people cant find anywhere else. Sean would have low ratings if he was talking about Everything Else that everybody is talking about. Think about that for a moment. People are starved for unique content. They seem to not be getting it elsewhere. The ratings show that and what he covers every night show that. Hes also dealing with things that are outside of my per view. I dont have access to those materials. Im glad the country is starting to have access to those materials because i think when everybody is calling for transparency and accountable, it ought to cut every single way. We ought to know they were expecting to. It is relevant because it talks about upper echelons of the fbi and what was going on. If youre going to give jim comey book time. Crimes that include in any campaign. One more transparency question. Im going to be talking about amazon and this Washington Post report. The headline is President Trump personally pushed the postmaster general to double rates on amazon. This looks like hes trying to punish the Washington Post owner jeff bezos by punishing amazon. Is that the case. That trump has been pressuring the postmaster general . Its not the case hes trying to punish jeff bezos. The president has made clear whether its trade with china, renegotiating with mexico or the eu, and amazon, he wants a more fair Playing Field for everyone. Apparently the president told me amazon has a fiveyear sweetheart deal. People cant get access to it. The president s point is without the post office, amazon would probably need to create its own infrastructure. It does great in the big cities. My daughter orders things all the time. But if youre talking about some of our rural communities, the post office was there first. And they have the infrastructure and the access. And so the post office and amazon have been working together, but were still losing billions of dollars each year and he just wants a Playing Field that is more fair to the mom and pops. When et he talks about the eu. And when he talks about with respect to illegal immigration. The country has been asking whats fair. What more can we do for him or her. Whats fair to the American Workers and the factories that are c