distressing, it s very clear the next three months are not going to be about governing, about doing good things for the country, it s going to be a hand to hand combat, everything is going to be colored by how do we win the midterms. >> one of his quotes, just drilling back down barrett, if sessions won t unrecuse, and mueller won t end the investigation, we re the only ones who can clear trump. >> this should be shocking to all of us that he s publicly commenting that his goal is to clear the president. but this isn t actually that surprising, this is just a public acknowledgement of what they have been doing this entire time. the sole focus of this investigation, i think we can put air quotes around that now, is to discredit the special
month-long investigation. authorities were notified in 2017 when he allegedly made statements supporting al qaeda and advocating violence against our military, pitts wrote facebook post with disturbing messages including we as muslims need to start training like this every day. we need to know how to shoot guns, throw grenades, hand-to-hand combat. have a bomb blowup in the fourth of july parade and as for his hatred of the military he said he wanted to, quote, chop off heads and hands. >> law enforcement cannot sit back and wait for mr. pitts to commit a violent act, the joint terrorism task force, working every day to deter and prevent terrorist attacks. >> reporter: pitts talked about traveling to philadelphia and planning undetectable or to 1995 oklahoma city bombing. cities throughout the country
nation. >> law enforcement says pitts conducted a recount in cleveland for july 4th attack including a van packed with explosives but that plot was foiled after a month-long investigation was authorities were notified about pitts in 2017 when he made statement supporting al qaeda and advocating violence against the military. he put posts on facebook that had messages including as we muslims need to start training like this every day, need to know how to shoot guns, grenades, hand-to-hand combat. what would hit them at their core, have a bomb blowup in the fourth of july parade. is for his hatred of the military he said he wanted to, quote, chop off heads and hands. >> law enforcement cannot sit back and wait for mr. pitts to commit a violent act. joint terrorism task force, city
learn your plane is a weapon on a suicide mission but islamic kamikazes and do hand-to-hand combat with guys with box cutters and it s incredible. the first time the enemy really saw the bravery but it wasn t the last. there were a lot of heroes that night or that day and it was because they were united on united flight 93. it wasn t just one single person that went and took the plane down. it was people that united from all races and creeds and colors to take the plane down because the terrorists don t care if you are black or white or whatever. you are an american. and they don t discriminate. so the terrorists only see us versus them and i think we need to rise up and say you know what? we ll unite and do this. we re so divided right now because politicians and the press prey on these divisions in order to exploit hatred for money or ratings.
proud to be an american to learn your plane is a weapon on a suicide mission but islamic kamikazes and do hand-to-hand combat with guys with box cutters and it s incredible. the first time the enemy really saw the bravery but it wasn t the last. there were a lot of heroes that night or that day and it was because they were united on united flight 93. it wasn t just one single person that went and took the plane down. it was people that united from all races and creeds and colors to take the plane down because the terrorists don t care if you are black or white or whatever. you are an american. and they don t discriminate. so the terrorists only see us versus them and i think we need to rise up and say you know what? we ll unite and do this. we re so divided right now because politicians and the press prey on these divisions in order to exploit hatred for
violent group called antifa known to clash with police. we go inside this group to see them like you ve never seen them before. >> reporter: it s 6:00 a.m. in portland, oregon and we re headed to a bar with blacked out windows. they re concerned about a lot of people being around. we are meeting members of the row city antifa, short for anti-fascist. this group s main goal is to disrupt neonazis. antifa is any group willing to stand up to them necessary. >> reporter: it can approximate mean outing a white nationalist at their work or to their neighbors, or violence, fires, property damage, hand-to-hand combat at protests across the
of trump confidants that trump really thinks this was all put in motion, if sessions hadn t recused himself from the russia investigation, then rosenstein hadn t written the memo. if his aides wouldn t have leaned on the memo, then rosenstein wouldn t have been mad and he wouldn t have appointed bob mueller. to pull the string even further, there are far right media folks and at least one lawyer associated with the trump defense team sort of dissing mueller. i wonder if -- i guess my question is, is anything sacred with with this white house or are sessions and comey and mueller viewed as fair game? >> i think we ve seen that the president has set the tone that stuff that typically would not be viewed as fair game certainly is. you know, he likes this hand-to-hand combat. the white house has not been so organized on all of their war room strategy, but if there s one message that has been clear, it s the president is a fighter. if he feels he is under attack,
every one of those european leaders, except when may today seemed to change her tune a little bit, but i m still skeptic, most of the leaders in the world, the fact is that they re not at war with isis. they don t have their population on the footing. there have been 33 attacks in 8 nato countries and nato is not at war with isis, that s pretty shameful. harris: yeah, and i appreciate what you re saying. we don t need to go to you to talk about the truck situation or the van situation, but we did see something a little different last night, that was like a deployment of these savages getting out of that van and stabbing people, hand-to-hand combat, general! that takes it up a different notch as well, and then you see isis come out and claim responsibility. >> there s nothing particularly sophisticated about it. what s particularly sophisticated is when they can go into someplace and kill 90 or 100 people with bombs.
involved in the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat in the war room based on his previous track record, for instance, being on a skiing vacation during the first round of health care stuff, is laughable. he has set up his own insulated little world with his own public relations person. our reporting on friday, maggie and i, found there was an operational staffer who was in the office across from jared s in the west wing. that person was kicked out so jared s pr person could be placed there. and the other thing about the friday story with the post, white house staffers were totally blindsided. jared kushner, we are told, told the president and a few other people around them the communications staff wasn t read in, ail, and here s the kicker, they were happy not to be involved. i talked to two or three people in the west wing over the past 24 hours, and they say, we feel that the revelations in the original jared story are defensible, but our problem is we don t know what jared did. there could be 15 more
and james rosen. all right, james, first, an overview about this news conference in your assessment. >> the hand-to-hand combat with selected conference of the news media whom mr. trump deemed especially dishonest or irresponsible in their reporting. there was a lot of news. we learn, for example, that the repeal and replace for obamacare will happen, as mr. trump said, essentially, simultaneously. we learned that we are expecting a major report on the hacking defenses within 90 days and that we should get a supreme court nominee within the first two weeks of the trump presidency. there was a lot to it, substantively, quite apart from the sort of raucous flavor of the thing. i think in all, it made good on his promise that he made when he visited the carrier plant in indiana and november. he said, if it is not presidential, that s okay. that s okay. i think he isefine what it means for us to have a presidential news conference. >> bret: i didn t invite you on here for the impression, added bonus.