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President trump is entering a host of setbacks today. "new york times" is reporting the president's personal attorney is under federal investigation. the former new york city mayor tells cnn he is not aware of an investigation of him, instead calling the report a political attack. meanwhile, president trump is defending giuliani, tweeting today that he is, quote, a great guy, a wonderful lawyer, end quote. for more, let's turn to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, there was a little confusion about giuliani's role as trump's personal attorney. because a reporter asked the president yes...

More. >> reporter: steve bannon sandy should push back against ba. does the president support that? >> secretary sanders: i am not sure what we would push back against and they have shown more and more that there was no connection between the trump campaign in collusion with russia. >> reporter: two questions. first, the president is quoted last year as calling mr. papadopoulos "a great guy." today it was "a liar." i wonder to clear the air, how well did he actually know him and was he briefed by him and often connected he had frequent meetings? >> secretary sanders: the only interaction was t...

Distractions there. he's tweeting about, you know, sheriff david clark's book and lots of issues and plenty of texas tweets. probably not as focused as you would expect a president to be. natural three are other things he's -- naturally there are other things he's doing besides tweeting to solve the situation. at least publicly that's the most public way he's helping. >> certain was eyebrow raising 21 hours ago. a great book by a great guy, highly recommended, talking about david clark. a very controversial figure, mind you. this is no ordinary book or topic. that certainly was off focus a lit...

Controversial sheriff of walk, wisconsin. a great book by a great guy, highly recommended along with the amazon link. to be sure, president trump has also addressed the storm. moments ago he tweeted, wow, experts are calling harvey a once in 500 year flood. we have an all out effort going and going well. president trump now says he will travel to texas, as soon as it can be done without a disruption. this is a big test for -- obviously, the most important thing is the safety and security of people in the path of the storm. this is a big political test for the president. >> it is. the great thi...

Welcome back to state of the union. i'm jack tapper. this morning at floodwaters were rising in southeast texas, this was president trump's first tweet of the day, plugging a book by david clark, the sheriff of walk, wisconsin. a great book by a great guy, highly recommended along with the amazon link. president trump has also addressed the storm. moments ago he tweeted, wow, experts are calling harvey a once in 500 year flood. we have an all out effort going and going well. president trump says he will travel to texas. this is a big test for -- obviously, the most important thing is the safet...