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The governor will appear here in a little while. interestingly enough, it s a first amendment event, wolf. barack to y back to you. thanks for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront erin burnett outfront starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com outfront next, the president meeting day after day with attorneys on his responses to mueller. rudy giuliani calling some of the questions possible traps. all of this as trump launches an epic attack on mueller. and melania trump says she s not surprised that critics have chosen to ridicule her for speaking out about what, what s prompting that bold statement tonight. plus michael avenatti arrested, blaming far right conspiracy theorists, specifically stormy daniels, meantime, says she might have to get a new lawyer. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, president trump hunkered down with his lawyers. ....
We re too tired and now we don t work enough? in concern of taxes to the citizens, which he raised this morning. again, this was the president s first chance to go back home to the new york metro area, and i think he s trying to save the taxpayers money the best way he can by taking his team and focused in being in new jersey instead of in new york where it would have caused a much greater disruption and much greater cost to taxpayers. aman? thanks, sara. you mentioned this morning a big jobs report, and you also cited the president s tax plan as one of the reasons for that job growth. are you saying the tax plan that hasn t passed yet was responsible for creating jobs in the month of april? i think we saw from the very beginning when the president was actually elected even before he took office, you saw consumer confidence go up. we ve had meetings with countless ceos, small business owners, people that are involved in job cation come in and tell us that they are much more ....
Flexibility, that the people that are closest to the people getting care are the ones that help make that decision. [ inaudible question ] i m not going to litigate the details from here, but that s part of the litigation process and ongoing discussions, but i know it s a priority for the president as well to protect people with preexisting conditions. we heard a lot of the rhetic about repealing the affordable care act being about job creation, and you said those job numbers in the beginning, we re in the 86th month of straight job growth, and we re hearing less about obamacare killing jobs. does the president still stand by this as being a job killer and that s a reason tro repeal t or has he moved on from that argument? i think he stands by that comment. how do you explain the consistent growth? i think one thing is taking place. just because one thing is killing jobs doesn t mean you ....
Gutting that office, is it to move it somewhere else? i have a french election question also if my first piece of advice is never use politico as a source for your story. when it comes to the opoid epidemic, this is a top priority for the president. i wouldn t get ahead of conversations about the budget. we haven t had a final document. i think it would be ridiculous to comment on a draft version of something at this point. you loosely addressed the idea he s contemplating a substantial cut to that office. again, there s not a final document. when there is, we ll discuss that. i think the bigger point is the president has made very car that the opoid epidemic in this country is a huge priority for him. something that he is certainly focused on tackling and something that i think was ignored by the previous ....
D.c. on states instead of allowing those closer to the communities to tailor their health care system to the unique needs of their people. the american health care act returns flexibility and accountability back to the states where they can make informed decisions about their own populations. we look forward to seeing the senate take up the bill in short order to move closer to giving the american people the health care system they deserve. we ve got a few things going on, as usual, here in the white house and across the administration. this morning s jobs report showed that the president s economic agenda of serious tax reform, slashing burdensome regulations, rebuilding our infrastructure, and negotiating fairer trade deals is adding jobs across the country. we added over 2,000 new jobs in april and unemployment fell to a ten-year slow. we saw expansion in the sectors of the economy the president had a particular focus on construction, manufacturing, and mining. we ve made some very ....