Page 38 - Phil Mud News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> now today in the rose garden the president is expected to attend a news conference with the president of romania, an opportunity to get at least a couple questions to him to try to gauge his reaction in person to the comey testimony. this will be the first news conference the president has done in about three weeks. >> all right, joe. that will be an anticipated event today. let's bring in the panel, chris cillizza, phil mud and jeffrey tubin. this is great. we've got the intel, the politics and the law. let's start with the politics. chris cillizza, what do we believe now that everybody ha...

How do you look with someone with that kind of history and say i believe him. >> especially when another one of his most quotable moments needs proper context, when clapper said i have seen no proof of collusion. now, when we had him on the show, i tested him on that, and he said, well, that's because i wasn't overseeing the case. i don't know what the book is on the case. i don't know the evidence. so how could i know what they have on collusion. still, when he's out there saying i don't know about any collusion and then he says it pales in consideration to watergate, how do you reconcile tho...

Guess what? she won the popular vote by two to three points. so take what you will from it. >> right. but they also predicted we would have a different president. we get that criticism. >> and that's fair, chris. i always say, look, i did not think that -- nothing that i had read, studied, reported on suggested donald trump would win that election. he won. he was right. i was wrong. no question. but his argument that all polling therefore should be, you know, thrown in the garbage if it doesn't see him doing well i think is a vast overstatement of reality. >> he is the quickest to cite a good ...

To play. i'm not critical of it. other presidents do the same thing, but he is clearly playing a card here. >> phil, it is very interesting. if you do a split screen of what we anticipate coats who has just said he is not going to reveal any personal interactions and conversations with president trump and that he doesn't know about anything to offer about feeling pressured. and then with former dni director james clapper, who is at an event speaking about all of this very stuff. and let me play for you what he has just said. >> i think if you compare the two that watergate pales really in my v...

Was aiming for. they don't necessarily want this to be a gigantic fight at this stage. >> that's true. but, chris, also, let's not lose sight to your own point. wray has been out there. he was one of the names and there was political speculation about chris cristie versus giuliani and now we know the name. but the timing is not a coi s d coincidence. we can show the hearing room which is the beginning of a two-day affair here where we are going to hear questions asked and as phil mud says director coats is throwing a big bucket of cold water on any anticipation about him dishing of talking wit...