Talk up infrastructure. Hes got a trillion dollar plan that doesnt get a lot of attention because a lot of you dont know how hes going to fund it but hopes it will be largely privately funded and hes going to tip his hand in ohio and give us an idea how that will all go. As i promised, we have Charlie Gasparino here. The fun begins, but no more so than when we kick things off with blake burman who now has people who have people. Hes become such a rock star at the white house events. All right. So blake, the president , this trip to ohio, whats it about . Reporter neil, the highlight of my day is being on this very show right here. Fort the people that have people. Neil cuckoo catch oo, you are the walrus. Reporter a concerted message as it relates to several legislative priorities. They have dubbed this, the white house has infrastructure week, that is part of the focus, so much so that the president left the white house a little while ago and he will be in ohio in about half hours time to talk about that. But also theyre trying get back to the message of health care, obamacare, repealing and replacing as the president will have obamacare victims as its laid out on the White House Press office schedule. Aboard air force one to talk with the president today, after that, he will give a speech dealing with health care and then it is onto infrastructure in which the administration on this day is trying focus on water ways and building out those waterways. That is part of the message that they are hoping to stay with, however, there are all these sort of ancillary and very important stories, however you want to define them that keep popping up. Among them was the 7 00 hour that the president suddenly tweeted out that he has nair node on his fbi direct who are he intends to nominate. That being christopher wray, a litigator in practice in washington. Among highprofile clients that being new jersey governor chris christie, he was christees personal attorney in the bridgegate scandal and in the early 2000s running d. O. J. s criminal or Civil Division rather, leading the charge against enron. Christopher wray intends to nominated by the president. Thas onetory. And within the last 24 urs, neil, theres the questions about how the president is getting along with the department of justice, not commenting whether he intended to resign but you got all the questions as the white house and republicans are trying to get on the issue of infrastructure, taxes and health care. Neil like you said, they didnt comment or deny it either, they immediately pounce on it. The fact that they didnt or arent and maybe that will change, leads me to believe that he really did. Reporter and youve got two layers here neil, the white house on the one hand saying were not going to comment on this but didnt deny it, and also of course the Justice Department who is not commenting but not denying it, which leads to more questions and at the White House Press briefing yesterday, sean spicer was asked whether the president has confidence in Jeff Sessions and his answer was i havent talked to the president about that. Again not squashing any of this leading to more questions as they get on the topic of infrastructure, taxes and health care. Neil thank you very much, blake burman. If this is a preview of coming attractions when james comey speaks, the ruling seems to be questions 80 of the time, and answers if they can get them in about 12 if theyre lucky. The guys like to hear themselves and exasperated alike, and kelly and some of the others who said, just let me answer, that is not going to be afforded here, and again, if i said thats going to happen tomorrow, well, set your vcr. People dont have vcrs anymore, if you have an etch a sketch. His office is a mess by the way, and hes right next to my producer whose office is meticulous, like a felix unger, oscar madison. The rats go from mine to his. Thats why ralph is mad at me. Neil amazing, how do you find your way through that. You smell your way through it. You stay away from the old sandwiches and stuff like that. You dont throw anything out, even food. I dont eat, i do throw out food. My office is a classic reporters office. All my files and all my crap they get accumulate from stories, i keep neil what do you mean a classic reporters office. Its a lions den at the zoo. You keep the things, you want to refer back to them, by the way, i always know where every piece of paper is. Neil we found a gym towel on the floor. Are you showing . [laughter] no, we will. But heres what amazed me about it, with all the clutter is. A cluttered mind is a brilliant mind. Neil ralph is intelligent, too. Hes a prodigy. Neil lets talk about whats been going on, right before you left, you were telling me things would be falling and coming to shape, the divisions of the administration, the administration concerned about distractions, sometimes compounding those distractions with tweets that sometimes are ill timed. How is all of this going, the trump agenda to address infrastructure as he wants today to deal with the taxes, health care, all of this. All administrations need to change narratives, if the narrative is moving against them. Infrastructure is a smart thing. Markets like it. Look at the market today. You have a crisis out there with the presidency. Clearly theres going to be tomorrows hearing is interesting, see what comey has to say, that could be markets could move if comey says something damaging to trump, but if you notice theyre pivoting tours. Neil will come shy of saying obstruction. I think if he neil if he were, then hed be part of that craziness. The whole thing is he sitting on obstruction case because and bringing it on now. I think the pivot is smart on economic issues, the markets like it. Taxes would be another smart move. Theres issues here. I would go back to the fbi director wray. The guy is a competent lawyer, white collar. Neil if you know christopher wray. He was governor christies lawyer in the bridgegate. In the Bush Administration he did the enron case. The former assistant to the chief. Heres a question someone should ask him. You guys prosecuted Arthur Andersen, remember Arthur Andersen, the accounting tirm that controversially prosecud. It was reversed, i believe, put a lot of people out of work. Do you think that was a Smart Movement as a Business Reporter i would like to know what he thinks about White Collar Crime . How far is too far . Should he be putting companies out of business. Neil do you think hes going to be raked over the coals, like any cabinet fight, theyre going to drag it out and rely on the two acts of the republican senators. I think democrats will fight over everything here. This guy should get passed. I would like to wherein he stands on white collars. I think one of the problematic things about the Justice Department, fbi and Justice Department under obama is how they went after Corporate America and basically tried to torch up companies, okay . Bush administration did, after enron put enron out of business, they were out of business already but put out of business Arthur Andersen, Accounting Firm on weak stuff. Neil went after tyco. That was way over the top. That was the manhattan attorneys office. I like to know where he stands on this, if he put out Arthur Andersen and now the fbi chief. I never thought of that. Stepping back on this, are you looking at the calendar now, the dates they have to deal with the infrastructure that the president is talking about, to deal with tax cuts, you know, health care reform. Its not looking doable. Listen, you would think its doable because you have a republican congress, republicans are scared of donald trump right now. They dont know where the comey thing i think a couple things have to happen. I think republicans are worried about comey, so we got to get through this, okay . And hopefully trump doesnt live tweet it, you know . That would be a real problem. The independent counsel thing, you got to get through that a little bit. I dont know how much thats there that reaches him, it would be nice if there was nothing. Neil how do you figure the market is holding up as well as it has. We were in record territory, back near records now . What do you think . Theyre looking at it like i am. By the way, net net. This is an administration that was better than the past. Neil a lot of this built on the tax cuts coming through that Health Care Fix coming through . Not even that. Neil really . That, yes, possibly. But do you know there hasnt been one in terms of regulations, i dont think trump has introduced a single major Regulatory Initiative since hes been in office. Obama, when he first got in there, not only doddfrank was rolled out and planned and done, he was doing all sorts of things about the environment. In fact, trump is pulling that back, and i think the market. Neil doing something in the aggregate that every new regulation you consider you get rid of two. Thats the kind of thing they like. Business likes. That by the way, that held back our gdp over the last couple of years. Neil thats what the street is like. Thats whats bullying this ironically and led by technology issues, most of whose ceos are not big fans of this stuff. Heres the thing, paris climate accord, dropping out of that, its negligible for business, maybe a net positive. Neil very upset. Im upset that theyre upset. Neil they are in italy where you were. There were two types of italys since you are from the type that im from. The northern italians, which i dont consider them italian, and southern, everything south of rome, where my people come from. They love americans down there, because why is that . Because they have family in america. Its a different italy. Neil thats an interesting take. You want to know something about that part of italy. They actually have kids. They dont by the way, when theyre 40 neil when they have kids, they they get married. Neil i know how theyre made. Just so you know, when theyre 40, they dont live with their mother. Thats southern italy. Neil heres where you lost me, how that connects to the environmental accord. Well, they dont care about the global issues, they care much more about economic, putting food on the table and love america. Neil so you had a good time . Great time. Ran a lot. I met family i havent seen in years. Neil we missed you. I put a lot of stuff in your office on ebay. I saw that. The towel is selling for 50 cents. Its 75 cents. Did you know the towel when you picked it up, it was hard. You could pick it up all at once. Neil it was disturbing. I broke that story about kazowitz online at alitalia. Neil we got the story when we were cleaning up your office. Thank you very much, good to see you, Charlie Gasparino, the best in the world, whatever part of the world you are in. Old world. Neil go to the catskills, no, no, no, southern italy. The director of National Intelligence dan coats is testifying right now. This is a preview of coming attractions ahead of james comey doing the same tomorrow. 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If you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. Ask your doctor about cialis. Neil all right, whats going on in washington is considering the opening act for tomorrow, and james comey, then expect a lot of talking, just not from the person who should be doing the talking. More the questioners of that person should be doing the talk. There are quite a few of them today on both sides. Adam shapiro with the latest on what were told was supposed to be an intelligence briefing but gotten feisty, huh . Reporter it is. The exchange between senator angus king and mr. Coats and admiral rogers is something you can watch in its entirety, take but five minutes, but there is definitely anger at least on the parts of democrats and independents like king, but neil, democrats asked several questions about conversations the president had with the director of National Intelligence, dan coats and National Security adviser mike rodgers. He never felt pressureo interfere for political reasons and admiral rodgers never felt pressured by the administration or anyone else to do something immoral or illegal. Senator mark warner, the vice chair of the committee continued to ask if they had been pressured by President Trump or the administration in any way. In the three plus years that i have been director of National Security agency, to the best of my recollection, i have never been directed to do anything i believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate, and to the best of my recollection, during that same period of service i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so. Interacting with the president of the United States or anybody in his administration, i have never been pressured, never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in anyway, shaped with shaping intelligence in the political way. He may not have felt pressure but if hes even asking, to me, thats a relevant piece of information. Reporter so republican senator james reesh from idaho told senator warner that rodgers and coats did put to rest questions of being pressured by the president and all you have to do is listen. Should point out too, neil, what you feel is one thing, what youre asked is another thing, admiral rodgers and director coats seem to have opened the door to talk to the committee in a closeddoor session about the conversations they had with the president but wont answer the questions specifically, did the president ask to you do something in a public setting. Back to you. Neil all right, adam, thank you very much. Another question that will keep coming up and probably big issue tomorrow in the comey hearing are reports that have since circulated around the Washington Post and others that the former fbi director was concerned about being left alone with the president. Sarah carter on that. No doubt he will be questioned on that but if true, it raises concerns he had concerns, the white house has had no response to this, but what do you make of it . I think one issues here is these reports. A lot of them come from Anonymous Sources. People that heard conversations or connected to somebody who was part of the conversation, but they are Anonymous Sources and directing the actual attention away from what everybody is concerned about which is the russia investigation. But if you think about it this way, director comey, if he would have felt pressured by the Trump Administration to back off from Lieutenant General mike flynn who was then the National Security adviser to the president , he should have reported that earlier. I think that people are anticipating that hes going to talk a little bit about his relationship with the president , maybe some concerns about how he was fired, which according to the sources that ive spoken with within Law Enforcement, he felt jilted. He felt he had the rug pulled out from under him so he was very angry about that. Neil jilted by the Justice Department, right . He didnt get a headsup. Thats right. He didnt have a headsup, he was already, you know, moving forward, he was in la when he saw it, so he was angry about that. Neil that i can seeing ticked off about that, it wasnt handled very well. Let me tell you about this, other than being uncomfortable with the president. In the end, he was alone with the president in the private dinner, lunch, whatever it was. He got along with him. Id like your thoughts on whether its unusual for an fbi director to be meeting with a president , with something out there going on or not . Yeah, you know, its back and forth with the people ive been talking with. In some cases, some of the sources say it is unusual. In other cases, in the majority of cases they say its not so unusual, you know . The fbi director reports to the president but he is also separate of that. Nonpolitical, and thats what fbi officials tell me all the time. Their first day in quantico, they are told theyre neither republican nor democrat, theyre agents, they are there to do a job and follow those rules, so i know theres this tension between both of them and we all know that, its very public, but if he felt pressured, he would have reported it. Director comey would have done that. Hes smart enough to know that. Neil do you know, maybe well find out tomorrow or maybe not, would he have written a memo or correspondence with members of justice, i feel uncomfortable about this, that raises the next issue to whether is this ends up being a he saidhe said thing. Comey convinced that the president was trying to tell him to give up the fight when it came to going after fl