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White house reporter eli stokols. thank you, both, for being here. thank you. i really appreciate it. eli, i want to start with you, to set the scene, president trump minutes from now is going to talk at the national realtors association. we're going to bring some of the remarks live. we expect him to announce this officially that he's going to lift these steel and aluminum tariffs. what could that actually mean for the usmca, this deal that he struck with mexicowants to get through congress. this could up the chances of that, right? >> it doesn't get all the way there because the democrats in...

To do, to figure out what is the best strategy and messaging and perhaps changing the tone in response to this president in the report. >> the restraint is so out of character for him. it's as if he misplaced his iphone today. i wonder if they fear even though there won't be an indictment recommend, the report is nevertheless ugly with regard to what mueller found? >> reporter: yes. and it is quite amazing that we have not seen a tweet from this president so far. everybody has been watching kind of to see what happens and what he says next. and there is quite a number of people who are in his ...

Midterm election cycle, so that might be part of the reason, anderson, why we have not seen the president who, you know, when he comes to the u.n., he likes to use rhetoric like little rocket man, why he's been very careful talking about rod rosenstein today and for the last several days, anderson. >> all right. jim acosta, appreciate it. with me now cnn political analyst and "the new york times" correspondent maggie haberman. and dana bash. dana, what does the white house gain by having this or dragging it out on thursday? if the president wants to fire rosenstein, he probably could have done...

Avenue. anderson, i've been told by multiple sources that there is a very big concern that the president fires rod rosenstein, it is going to energize democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. democrats who are already motivated to vote. and that the president was advised of this over the weekend. that there's a real risk, political risk, to firing rod rosenstein. he's already mindful of the fact that he could really take a shellacking in this upcoming midterm election cycle so that might be part of the reason, anderson, why we have not seen the president who, you know, when he comes to the...

About it. c. boyden gray told us by phone today, quote, what they interviewed anita hill about was the basic facts. the fbi, such as it was, was very basic, very quick. if there was any controversy about it at all, it was that it was too cursory. it was too unimportant. the very same day that white house counsel c. boyden gray asked the fbi to go look into this allegation about judge thomas, that exact same day, september 23rd, is when the fbi conducted their interview with anita hill on that issue. two days later by september 25th, they were done. they didn't produce a conclusive report that ...