To: NIKK
To: jennychase
.3h...In a sunny haze, and 51 mins behind schedule, Air Force One is wheels up from @Andrews_JBA en route Colorado Springs, to deliver Commencement Address at @AF_Academy.
..4h..Asked about trade talks with China, Pres shakes the reporters hand for asking "a real reporter's question." "I think were doing very well with China," said @POTUS. "Well see what happens. China very much wants to make a deal.
..4h... Pres Trump says he'll be doing "something dramatic" about the southern border situation. Says he may have announcement today or tomorrow. "It's a national emergency," he told reporters before boarding Marine One,
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Asked about WH effort to keep him from seeing USS John McCain while at Yokosuka Naval Base Monday, @POTUS admitted he was no fan of McCain, but "didn't know a thing" about hiding the vessel. "I would never have done that," but said whoever did was "well-meaning."
"It's a dirty, filthy disgusting word," says Pres Trump, when asked if he expects to be impeached. "I don't see how," he said." He called the matter "a giant presidential harassment."
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"I think Mueller is a true never Trumper," Pres tells press as he emerged from WH to board Marine One. Clarifies tweet today saying, "No, Russia did not get me elected." Says Mueller should never have been named Special Counsel because they had a business dispute.
Of Mueller statement yesterday, Pres said "to me, it was the same as the report." No collusion, no nothing, he said. "Witch hunt." Still thinks Mueller was "totally conflicted" as Special Counsel. Says Mueller wanted to be FBI Director, "and I said no."
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.3h..Pres Trump said he'll make statement today or tomorrow that "will be my biggest statement so far on the border." It will focus on people coming into the US illegally, he said. Calls it "a major statement." Says US asylum procedures "ridiculous."
Pres announced that Turkey has released a prisoner the US was "trying to get" and is now in "home custody." @POTUS thanks Pres Erdogan for the release, saying, "he was great."
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Pres calls it "too bad what happened in Israel," asked about @netanyahu's failure to form a governing coalition. "They don't need this," Trump said of Israel returning to elections. "They have enough turmoil over there," he said....Mark Knoller..CBS
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