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north korean actions just re-enforced for both leaders why this is the number one threat to both prime minister abe and to president trump. i think the north korean actions were deliberately timed after what was a pretty good week in terms of u.s. policy in asia, with regard to president trump s call with xi jinping and secretary mattis s trip to the region, i think the trump administration said look, we re here and we re not going to be an easy issue to deal with. right now the national security advisor is said to have broke on the law and critics call for him to be fired, for him to step down. how much does that impact the advice that this group can give the president at this time? i think the precedent is going to get advise from a wide range of people, including the folks in the state department, particularly those commitments to china that would affect the finances that north korea has for building these missiles, there may be a statement that comes out of the u.n. se ....
intelligence he suggestions. that s the big argument. this has been such a contentious issue we saw the whole drama play out with the house intelligence committee and their top republican leader devin nunes came, saw the material. out of the protocol of that committee and them adam schiff, came and looked at the same material. there s answers about this coming from the white house first from the deputy press secretary who says there was no attempt to keep adam schiff responsible. . not that i m aware of at all. i think the bigger point is there s something there. we d love to come see it which is exactly what we said. it turns out if there s something of substance for him to know about, we want him to see it. frarjly i think if there wasn t something of sub stns, he would have walked out that moment from the white house and come out and declared that this was a big waste of time and a big dog and pony show. he didn t do that. he doesn t do that. it s very telling in what he ....
talked to his attorney general yet. that s right. reporter: i had a chance to catch up with kellyannec conway. i asked her whether or not the president views this decision as some sort of set back or defeat. she didn t exactly answer that question, but here s what she had to say. this is a defeat? do you see this as a setback? he sees it as the statute provides a president with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and protect the nation s national security. this was not argued on the merits. now that we ll have an opportunity to argue on the merits, we look forward to doing that. i think his tweet was perfect when he said, we ll see you in court. there you go. some confidence being expressed by kellyanne conway at the white house. not a lot new in terms of arguments being laid out by the white house in response to this, just the very tough talk that we re going to see you in court. that is not exactly going to win the day at the supreme court. i asked kel ....
this was the last day before the trump presidency s 100th day. and congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. there is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. no legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. we have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. it s when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. and it only goes down after that. what a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. this is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. and he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill clinton. at this point in bill clinton s first year, the congress was working overtime. at the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bi ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....