>> GOOD EVENING, WELCOME TO
WASHINGTON, I'M CHRIS WALLACE IN
HE TOLD THE WORLD ECONOMIC FOR
NUMB SWITZER LAND THE U.S. IS
OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND AS AMERICA
QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER HE TRIED
TO FIRE THE SPECIAL COUNSEL
WHO'S INVESTIGATING ALLEGED
COLLUSION WITH THE RUSSIANS AS
WELL AS POSSIBLE OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE.
CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS
JOHN ROBERTS IS IN DAVOS,
SWITZERLAND WITH THE GOOD, THE
BAD, AND THE UGLY FOR THE
PRESIDENT.
HELLO, JOHN.
>> CHRIS, GOOD EVENING.
THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE
PRESIDENT ACTUALLY TRIED TO TAKE
OF THE THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IS AN
IMPORTANT ONE.
WAS THERE AN ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT
JUSTICE?
PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN HIS DAY IN
DAVOS TALKING NOT ABOUT THE
ECONOMY BUT A NEW BOMBSHELL
REPORT THAT LAST JUNE HE ORDERED
HIS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL TO FIRE
ROBERT MUELLER.
>> President Trump: FAKE NEWS,
FAKE NEWS, TYPICAL "NEW YORK
TIMES" FAKE STORY.
THE DEMAND TO FIRE MUELLER AFTER
DON McGHAN THREATENED TO QUIT.
IT SURFACED LAST JUNE AFTER A
TRUMP FRIEND SAID THE PRESIDENT
WAS WEIGHING WHETHER TO FIRE
MUELLER.
>> I THINK HE'S CONSIDERING,
PERHAPS, TERMINATING THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL.
>> FOX NEWS WAS TOLD AT THE TIME
THAT THE PRESIDENT DID DISCUSS
HIM THE RESULT WOULD BE
DISASTROUS.
THE PRESIDENT WENT SO FAR IN
THAT MEETING THEY SAY AS TO
WHETHER HE WOULD TALK TO DEPUTY
ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSENSTEIN
FIRED.
ASSOCIATIONS SAY McGHAN THEY
EVER THREATENED TO RESIGN.
COUNSEL.
>> HE ORDER THE ATTORNEY TO FIRE
THE SPECIAL COUNSEL?
TEAM'S COLLABORATION WITH THE
RUSSIANS.
>> MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN BOTH
PARTIES TO HAVE STEP UP AND
DECIDE WHETHER OUR ELI JANS IS
TO THE CONSTITUTION AND OATH OF
OFFICE OR WE'RE GOING TO ALLOW
THESE KIND OF ACTIONS THAT I
THINK WILL CROSS A RED LINE.
>> THE LATEST CONTROVERSY
DISTRACTED FROM THE PRESIDENT'S
CORE MESSAGE IN DAVOS.
SPEAKING TO A GATHERING THAT HAS
BOTH SNUBBED AND RIDICULED HIM,
789 TRUMP DECLARED THE U.S. OPEN
FOR BUSINESS.
>> President Trump: THE WORLD
REWITNESSING THE RESURGENCE OF A
STRONG AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA.
I'M HERE TO DELIVER A MESSAGE,
THERE IS NEVER A TIME TO HIRE,
BUILD, INVEST, AND GROW IN THE
UNITED STATES.
>> THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO ALLAY
FEARS AMONG THE AUDIENCE THAT
HIS AMERICA FIRST POLICY AMOUNTS
TO PROTECTIONISM.
HE INSISTED THAT GLOBAL MADE
>> IT NEEDS TO BE FAIR AND IT
NEEDS TO BE PRECIP ROW CAL.
THE PRESIDENT TODAY.
AFTER BEING SCOLDED BY BRITISH
POSTED BY A U.K.
ULTRA-NATIONALIST GROUP,
PRESIDENT TRUMP TOLD ITN TV HE
HAD NO IDEA THE VIDEOS WEREN'T
GENUINE OR WHO THE GROUP WAS.
RACIST PEOPLE I WOULD APOLOGIZE
IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO DO.
THAT I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM.
>> THE PRESIDENT IS SCHEDULED TO
LAND IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WITHIN
THE HOUR.
HE WILL SPEND THE WEEKEND TRYING
TO DIG OUT FROM THIS LATEST
CONTROVERSY AND TURN HIS