Good morning. When august arrives. President s escape and President Trump kept up that tradition this week to going to his club in new jersey from a welcoming break from a bruising debut in washington. His bick big ticket promises to repeal obamacare, his Approval Rating the lowest of any president ever. This week we learned Robert Mueller is zeroing in on the president s inner circle. Documents demanded from the white house and just this morning President Trump wakes up to this headline in the new york city times. President s aside, gop stars move toward 2020 bids. Mike pences schedule is so full of political events that republicans are acting more like a second term Vice President hoping to clear the field than a number two sworn in a little more than six months ago. Can you believe its been just six months . The economy, another strong jobs report on friday and trumps most loyal followers in West Virginia showed him lots of love the night before. Since our election, not mine, since our election we have added more than 1 million new jobs. And the good news keeps pouring in. And with that, lets bring in the president s counselor Kellyanne Conway. Kellyanne thanks for joining us this morning. Hi, george. I talked about the economy right there. You see another good jobs report friday. Solid growth through this year. The stock market as the president pointed out at record highs yet the poll showed 61 disapproval for the president. Why are people so unhappy with the president when the economy is doing so well . But the numbers that you talked about are the most important indicators, you see Consumer Confidence numbers, manufacturer, home buildings, Small Business formation confidence and record close of the dow over 22,000 points. These are the measurements that matter to every day americans. Even this president when he came in, he made a promise for every new regulation in, he would have two that went out. Were closer to 16 out for every new one in and that Regulatory Framework has been so critically important to taxpayers, to Property Owners, to folks working hard and trying to get ahead. I would note too in some of the polling which i scour daily, his Approval Rating among republicans and conservatives and trump voters is down slightly. It needs to go up. They are telling him just enact your program. Dont worry about a congress that isnt supporting legislation to get big ticket items done and dont worry about all the distractions and diversions that others are trying to throw logs in your path are throwing your way. Focus on the agenda. Hes doing that. Nobody can deny these economic numbers. The idea that its not getting huge cover, its been a great weekend for this president. You see 2. 6 growth. It doubled. The First Quarter growth. You see the job creation, 209,000 exceeded expectations. And then you also just yesterday saw a unanimous rebuke of north korea. The greatest economic sanctions package ever levered against them, cost about 1 billion. Even allies like china, japan, south korea all agreeing with the United States that north korea and its Nuclear Capabilities must be stopped. We have seen that united front against north korea and the job growth and Economic Growth has been pretty stead. One of the distractions that New York Times story this morning talking about all these republicans jockeying now to already run in 2020. 75 republicans expressed widespread uncertainty about whether President Trump will run in 2020. Are you convinced he wants to run again and what do you make of the story . Their president says privately and publicly often hell be there for 7 1 2 more years. So he plans on being a twoterm president. I read that article. I want to say a few things. First of all, i think that in the Republican Party for many decades we have suffered from what i call staff infection. People who are rewarded for losses, most of the people quoted, most involved have never won a National Political campaign. Like the one i was involved in and you were involved in years ago. Number two, they need a full employment act in republican consultancy. Some are not supporting their party and their partys main point of view on tax reform, Health Reform, putting isis in retreat if not full defeat. I want to make a remark about Vice President pence. I worked with him for ten years as a Senior Adviser and work with him daily in the white house. It is absolutely true that the Vice President is getting ready for 2020 for reelection as Vice President. No concern hes setting up a Shadow Campaign . Also ready for 2018. Zero concern. That is complete fiction. Complete fabrication. I know his advisers who had comments attributed to them have pushed back strongly as has the Vice President and as am i right now. Unequivocally. Vice president pence is a very loyal, very dutiful and incredibly effective and active Vice President with this president. He is a peer to the president. In the west wing. He just came off a tour and will go back to south america to represent the country on his fourth or fifth foreign trip since taking office. Let me make very clear people republican consultants and people trying to play the parlor game, theyre not in the i would say trump inner circle because they did not believe in him. They totally missed what was happening in america. The forgotten man and women, many who have never voted in decades came forth and made this new Trump Coalition in a way that respectfully the last couple of republican candidates did not. Mitt romney and paul ryan won one state. They lost wisconsin by seven points. Donald trump won wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania and iowa. I would say get onboard and help us with tax and Health Reform and start looking at 2020. Well see what happens in september. General kelly wrapping up his first week as chief of staff. We have that picture of him addressing the entire white house staff. Some 200 people lined up there. I guess thats in the Old Executive Office building. What difference has he made so far . It was quite a week with general kelly. A few things, george. I know theres much commentary about the order and discipline. All of that is true. Let me just tell you that general kelly is someone who wants to empower his staff to succeed. He commands respect and shows respect. In sitting in different meetings with him and watching him i have been impressed as to what a great listener, fully engaged general kelly is and such of President Trumps day is filled with Intelligence Briefings and new facts and figures about this increasingly dangerous world. It helps to have a general in his fifth decade of Public Service taking that oath of office again for a new position so that he is hand in glove with president. He has been with the president quite a bit this week but has been with the rest and his senior staff as well. Were very happy to have him as well because he for the First Six Months has been a member of this president s cabinet and he knows this handpicked cabinet of talented, successful men and women are superstars in this administration. Also general kelly i want to say has been the chief military aide for two different secretaries of defense and very bipartisan fashion. In addition, we should mention, in addition to running the southern command. Hes knowledgeable about the hot spots around the world. He is a master at unit cohesion and we feel that coming together in the west wing. We are seeing tweets from the president. He insists hes going to keep up that tradition including where he said our relationship with russia is at an all time and very dangerous low. You can thank congress, the same people that cant even give us health care. How is congress responsible for relations with russia being at an alltime low and who is he talking about . That tweet was likely in reference to the sanctions package the president signed because its a good step forward but hes been critical. Look, if youre russia, you cant be happy with President Trump. Were now exporting coal wait a second. The president signed let me stop you right there. The president signed that legislation. Theres been widespread pushback from members of congress including republicans like senator john mccain who say russia is responsible with its actions in ukraine, with interfering in our election, russia is responsible for relations being at an all time low but the president blames congress. No he doesnt blame congress. Thats what the tweet said. Im talking about the sanctions package. But russia, this president has been very tough on russia when it comes to dipping into their Energy Capabilities in the region. Were exporting coal to Eastern Europe. Beefing up the military, putting that money and manpower and president ial power behind a better finance military and look at the swift and internationally acclaimed action President Trump took in april when assad was gassing his own people including the babies we saw, taking their last breaths of air. The president very swiftly i think against what russia wanted done frankly took action in syria. So you know he met with president putin for over two hours face to face. If we can work on the big issues with russia like defeating isis and not calling them our enemies like Hillary Clinton did a year ago and not calling them the jv team, then well work on the issues. Were happy russia was one of the 15 members unanimously voted for sanctions yesterday on north korea. You have five permanent members and ten rotating members. Kellyanne thats different from the message the president is sending in the tweet. You have bipartisan members of congress coming up on this program thom tillis and chris coons who are introducing legislation to protect Robert Mueller saying any decision to fire mueller should be reviewed by a judge. What does the president think of that legislation . Why are we engaging in hypotheticals . The entire russia investigation is a hypothetical. The president has called it a fiction, a total fabrication to excuse the unwanted defeat of Hillary Clinton in last years election. People cant get over that election george. Its ka aorrosici to our body politic. The president will continue to talk about america and others will continue to talk about russia. But the special counsel has made very clear as recently as this week that the president and others around him will continue to comply and cooperate and provide information they have. But he also was not made aware of the grand jury proceedings until we all were. These are supposed to be done in secret and that leaked out as so many things do that are harmful to our security interest. Let me just Say Something else about russia. The president took on a new tack speaking the other night. He told the people there and around the country that those who are pushing this phony fabricated russia investigation are cheating you, the voters, out of what you clearly said you want. You want a new and different direction. You dont want the same failed policies. You want free markets, democracy, prosperity at home. Hes making good on the promises. Look at the stock market, the growth, the regulatory rollback on things hurting taxpayers and Property Owners and job creators and look at what he has promised those people. They voted for him and if bob mueller will continue the investigation well cooperate. However best we can. But the president is not a target of any investigation. Jim comey told him that as fbi director three times and he assured that under oath. That may have been overtaken by events. Well see whether the special counsel is looking at obstruction. Part of the reason as you know that this story has persisted is because the white house and the president surrogates have told conflicting stories. First no contacts with russia and it turned out there were at least 18 contacts. The story broke in the New York Times saying the president was involved in the drafting of don juniors misleading response and the president s attorney came on gma saying the president was not involved. The president didnt sign off on anything. The president wasnt involved in that. The New York Times says he was involved. That several people were involved as well. Youre disputing that account from the New York Times . Yes. But just this week when the Washington Post reported with detail that the president was indeed involved in the drafting sara sanders conceded it. Lets listen. The president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had. This is all discussion frankly of no consequence. Two very different answers in the space of two weeks kellyanne. The most important thing that press secretary sara sanders said which is true is theres no consequence to any of these meetings. The president weighed in as a father. Did not dictate the statement. Any parent would the president s lawyer said he wasnt involved at all. They didnt tell the truth. George, i know theres this whole thing about everybody wants to about telling the truth. Lets talk about no. Okay. Well, lets talk about telling the truth. Lets talk about a president looking americans in the eye who are still suffering eight years later who were lied to. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan and doctor. Benghazi happened because of a video. Go tell the families of those four innocent americans who were slaughtered in benghazi that that lie mattered. Hold on a second. No. No. That is a subject. Lets talk about creditability that impacts people. I said directly different responses within two weeks. How do you explain that . Can the president and his team get control of that and be open and truthful about the russia investigation . George, the president has said the entire investigation is fabricated. This is a conclusion in search of evidence. They have come up with nothing. We have been doing this for about a year now and what is there to show for it . What has actually metastasized in a way we can say, wow, theres a smoking gun . Theres a Silver Bullet . I spent a lot of time as a Campaign Manager on your two programs and others with abc as well. What one thing did we ever say, do or conspire that had anything to do with russia . When i needed negative information about Hillary Clinton, i took a moment and listened to Hillary Clinton. I mean, we went to michigan, not moscow. We know now what has come up in just the last few weeks is don junior responded to an email saying he was going to get russia government information on Hillary Clinton. That was revealed in the last several weeks. Right. But what came of that meeting, nothing. Jared kushner shared with the house and Senate Committees and all of us in a Public Statement at the white house that ten days ago that he had texted an aide and said, please get me out of this meeting, its a waste of time. If youre getting dirt on your political opponent and the secret sauce on how to win the election, you dont ask your aide to pull you out. You say please order lunch. Lets just stay. Theres nothing nonsense. It was a ridiculous meeting. Nothing. People want to offer their services and have meetings all of the time, believe me. I know you know this. But lets look at the consequence. No followup. No results. No i was never informed of that meeting. I found out about it when the rest of the public did, the president had no knowledge of that meeting. Bottom line kellyanne, does the president commit to not firing Robert Mueller . The president has not even discussed that. The president is not discussing firing bob mueller. But will he commit to firing him . We are cooperating he has not even discussed he has not discussed firing bob mueller. Thats not what im asking. Hold on. Im not the president s lawyer but as his counselor he is not discussing that. You have to listen to ty cobb who works in the white house. He has said we will continue to cooperate with bob mueller and his investigation. He hired the 16th. Many are democratic donors. Well continue to cooperate and comply. Testimony ty cobb says anything that gets us steps further to this conclusion of what the president has called a complete false and fabricated lie, a conclusion in search of evidence, anything that brings us closer to that conclusion, we are all for. So far you have got conclusion and no collusion. Anybody who denies that is lying. We were promised watergate, we were promised direct evidence of interfering and changing the electoral results. People talk about the 70,000 votes in michigan, pennsylvania. And wisconsin. Theres none of that. Nobody talks about that. What about adam schiff and mark werner the two democrats who are in charge of the intelligence committee. They spend more time on tv than they do interv