Staff Shifts Dont Temper Rhetoric
by CHUCK TODD, MARK MURRAY and CARRIE DANN
... the more personnel changes at the White House, the more it becomes obvious that the president himself doesn’t really change ...
He doubled-down on his rhetoric concerning North Korea ...
He maintained there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia: “Everyone said there's no collusion, even the enemies say there's no collusion, there's no collusion.” (In fact, that Donald Trump Jr. email certainly sounded like some in Trump World were more than open to getting damaging information on Hillary Clinton from the Russians. "If it's what you say, I love it."
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He said he had not given it any thought on whether to dismiss special counsel Robert Mueller: “I haven't given it any thought. I've been reading about it from you people.” (But that stands in contrast to what he told the New York Times last month. NYT: “If Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia — is that a red line? Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is?” Trump: “I would say yeah, I would say yes.”) ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/same-he-ever-was-staff-shifts-don-t-temper-trump-n791736
