In an Oval Office interview, Trump is discursive and defiantPresident Trump told our reporters in an 85-minute interview on Thursday that negotiations with Congress over his border wall were a “waste of time” and that he would proceed without lawmakers . This weekend he will retreat to Mar-a-Lago — his gilded club where all is well. Russia investigation: Mr. Trump denied an account by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, that late in the 2016 presidential campaign he was still discussing a project to build a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow. Here are five takeaways from what Mr. Trump said. Trade: Mr. Trump spoke immediately after wrapping up a session with China’s visiting vice premier in which the president said they had made progress toward defusing the trade war.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2019 04:18 UTC