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Thousands and thousands of dollars to their workers. and now you have almost 3 million workers that are receiving thousands of dollars. >> that was president trump speaking with cnbc during his trip to davos this week for the world economic forum. and with trump slated to deliver his first state of the union speech this week, he'll likely keep that focus on his economic achievements. since his tax plan was passed, 40 companies from the s&p 500, including comcast, announced they are giving bonuses to employees as a result of the tax reform bill. but while a new reuters poll has the president's ...

He said he's the one who makes the decision. >> it is donald trump's world and we are all just living in it. >> but that's shocking. we really -- we just take that sort of at face value. we have a president who is living in another reality that has nothing to do with law, nothing to do with our constitution. >> that's where we are going to find out from bob mueller potentially because he's building an obstruction case. you'll have to hold it for a second. because when we continue, we'll ask the former rnc chair michael steele how to grade the rnc's handling claims against steve wynn. poor or v...

Now, it could be on any number of topics that some may not be covered in the speech, but i think that's the thing that hurts this president's momentum oftentime when he does the after action to take away from what was a very good speech the night before. >> what is your reporting showing on how the white house is preparing for this behind the scenes? >> they are putting a lot of effort into this, obviously. and to mark's point, they really want to make an uplifting positive speech. and i think the speech that the president gave in davos last week is something to look at. that was certainly a m...

Want to ask you about the vice president and his role in the midterm elections coming up. it's potentially a tough map. what do you think the vice president could bring to the table to campaigning for republicans that perhaps wouldn't be a strongsuit for the president? >> well, i don't think it's a question of what is strong for the president and not. >> so let's just go with what are vice president pence's picks? >> well, i will tell you, he's going to be very busy in the first quarter. i think he's got about 30 trips planned already in various events supporting republican candidates. he's ki...

Tested as the president's legal team negotiates conditions for an interview with the special counsel. joining us now mark lauder. he is the former press secretary for the vice president. he is also a former special assistant to the president. sir, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you for having me on. >> thank you. you've seen the reports that the president ordered the special counsel fired, though he was eventually forced not to do that. his white house counsel rebuffed that attempt. this happened last june you. left the white house last september. to your knowledge, was the vice pr...