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Undercuts and undermines an argument many in his party have been making that they've been attempting to discredit and undermine mueller's investigation calling it partisan, so this goes against that but at the same time the president repeated a lot of complaints and criticisms he's had about the investigation. >> among those complaints, the investigation is bad for the country. president trump telling the times it makes the country look bad and puts the country in a bad position. the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for the country. >> president trump also told the newspaper 16 times i...

Sheer who helped break the story for the "new york times". he's also a cnn political analyst and he joins us now via skype. michael, i'm glad you could join us on the story in the "new york times" this evening. your colleague, michael smith landed an impromptu interview with the president today and the big headline, he believe the special counsel will treat his fairly in the russia investigation. >> yeah, no, that's right. it was about a half hour interview and totally impromptu down at the president's golf club in west palm beach, florida. but there was a lot there. the thing that struck us m...

Yesterday. by coming out and saying that she was appalled by how the president spoke to the widow of sergeant johnson. she made this a public fight. she made this a public thing. is there an argument to be made that she was out of line in putting this out there? >> i think there probably is. i think at the very least she gave the president cover to sort of make this -- >> partisan? >> make it partisan, put it more in a political sort of grandstanding debate and say she started it, and, i mean, you can say there's remove between actually going after the widow, going after the family, and he can...

The president wants to talk about infrastructure, tax reform, daca, and health care. he realizes people are sick and tired of politics and politicians playing the blame game and wants to get things done. to get things done we have to reach across party lines and work with people we don't agree with on every single issue. for those people that are just stuck in one place and want to make it partisan, let's move beyond those folks and get with people that can get things done like in the problem solvers caucus. >> what should democrats give? chuck schumer and nancy pelosi make clear they are not ...

Because he didn't expect to hear from him for 24 hours and when congress is in session reporter also ask him questions at his weekly briefings and he'll be like why are you asking me to answer for the president all the time? i'm trying to govern in congress and it ends up being this pattern over and over and over again that he doesn't usually step out front. >> no, and look, he answered questions, tough from the audience last night, forthrightly and he deserves credit but he doesn't deserve credit for that answer and here's why. he's trying to, talking to what the president said directly while...