-President Trump is once again dealing
with new developments in the Russia scandal
that are reaching some of his closest advisors,
even as he tries to push his own domestic agenda.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
[ Cheers and applause ]
With his historically-low approval numbers,
the White House has been looking for ways to humanize Trump.
And one of those ways involves
reading letters from kids to the President.
Last month, a 10-year-old boy named Frank wrote a letter
offering to mow the White House lawn,
and today, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced
that Frank will get his wish.
-On a slightly lighter note, I'd like to announce
that Frank from Falls Church, Virginia,
whose letter I read last month,
offerings his services to mow the White House lawn,
will be here on Friday.
He'll work with the groundskeeping crew
here at the White House
and will help cut the grass in the Rose Garden.
[ Laughter ]
-That's right -- Frank is actually gonna mow
the White House lawn.
That's almost as amazing as the fact
that there's a 10-year-old kid named Frank.
Apparently, he wants to get famous
because he's got a big crush on his classmate Joan.
Now, after a long summer of bizarre missteps and scandals,
Trump is dealing with everything from hurricane clean-up
to keeping the government funded.
And on top of that, there are new details
in the rapidly-escalating Russia investigation.
The special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller,
is now reportedly focused specifically
on Trump's decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey.
According to Axios, "Mueller is burrowing in hard
on the obstruction-of-justice angle.
Republicans close to the White House say
every sign by Mueller is that he's going for the kill."
And if anyone's capable of going for the kill,
it's Robert Mueller.
Look at this guy.
He looks like the police chief from every 1950s noir film.
He looks like he should be holding a bullhorn
and shouting, "You're surrounded, McMurphy!"
This guy always looks like you just asked
if you could take his daughter to a Slayer concert.
[ Laughter ]
He doesn't even get haircuts.
He just looks at his hair in the mirror
and growls, "Get shorter."
[ Laughter ]
Mueller's investigation seems to be moving very quickly,
and has ensnared not only Trump but some of his closest aides,
such as his son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner.
Kushner repeatedly failed
to disclose meetings with Russian officials,
and now it looks like even some of Trump's own lawyers
knew Kushner would be a liability.
-The Wall Street Journal is reporting
that members of the President's legal team
concluded that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
should resign as White House Senior Advisor
because of the extent of his contacts with Russian officials
and Russian businessmen.
-The report claims that press aides to the legal team
went as far as drafting a statement
to explain Kushner's resignation.
-Jared Kushner resign?
But then who would be in charge of U.S.-China relations,
U.S.-Mexico relations, criminal justice reform,
opioid crisis management, veteran care reform,
the White House Office of American Innovation,
revamping the entire federal government,
painting the Easter eggs for the Easter-egg hunt,
and peace in the Middle East?
Jared Kushner --
[ Applause ]
Jared Kushner has more jobs than Steve Harvey.
He's the white Steve Harvey.
[ Laughter ]
So how is Trump's legal team responding?
Well, if I were Trump,
I'm not sure I'd be all that confident
in their performance so far.
Trump's lawyer Ty Cobb -- and that's his real name --
apparently fell for an e-mail prank last week
when a prankster posing
as the White House Social Media Director, Dan Scavino,
e-mailed him
and asked him questions about the Russia scandal.
And Cobb seemed to essentially admit
that former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort
and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
may have broken the law.
Here's what the prankster, posing as Scavino,
wrote to Cobb --
And in hindsight, you can tell right away
from the tone of this e-mail that it was definitely fake.
"I've been really worried recently
about the whole Russia situation.
The White House will be okay, won't it?
I love my job and the people I work with.
I don't want the dream to end up derailing."
[ Laughter ]
That should have been a dead giveaway.
That doesn't sound like an e-mail from a Trump aide.
That sounds like an old prospector
writing home to his wife.
"Dearest Elizabeth,
I've been really worried recently.
So far I've only found silt and coal.
I hope to find gold soon.
I don't want the dream to end up derailing."
Cobb then responded to the prankster,
who he thought was Scavino,
"Manafort and Flynn
have issues separate and apart from the White House
that will cause the investigation to linger,
but am hoping we get a clean bill of health soon."
I'm sorry, have you seen Donald Trump?
If there's one thing he's never gonna get,
it's a clean bill of health.
He doesn't even have a clean doctor.
[ Laughter ]
"Hey, I got your blood test back,
and good news -- It's red."
[ Laughter ]
"See you in five years, bro."
And that was just one of the many replies
the prankster got from Trump's lawyer.
But the most embarrassing part of this whole thing for Cobb
is that he didn't realize this e-mail was from a prankster,
because this is the actual e-mail address
the prankster used to pose as Dan Scavino --
dan.scavinojr@emailprankster. co.uk.
Although I'm not surprised this guy had trouble with e-mail.
Look at him.
He looks like he's more comfortable with Morse code.
[ Laughter ]
He looks like he's pitching in the 1908 World Series.
But while all these high-stakes crises
swirl around his administration,
Trump is also trying to move on with his domestic agenda
and gather support for his tax-reform plan.
Now, the boring and complex nature of tax reform
may be why Trump doesn't actually spend very much time
talking about the actual details.
In fact, he doesn't really have a tax plan yet at all,
just a series of vague promises
about cutting taxes and red tape,
made even more vague by Trump's often-incoherent rambling.
-North Dakota is an inspiring example of the amazing things
that are possible when we unleash the genius
of American innovators, unite the red tape --
And I'll tell you -- And we have to unite everything,
and all that red tape becomes beautiful
when you get rid of it.
But -- And we're getting rid --
Are we getting rid of a lot of red tape, by the way?
-I mean, forget Russia.
We need an special counsel investigation
just to figure out what the hell Trump is talking about.
[ Laughter ]
Now, Trump has always been a well-known rambler,
but if you think he sounded
even more incoherent there than usual,
conspiracy theorist and Trump ally Alex Jones
has an explanation.
-It's known that most presidents end up getting drugged.
Small doses of -- of -- of sedatives till they build it up.
Trump's such a bull, he hasn't fully understood it yet,
but I've talked to people -- multiple ones --
and they believe that they are putting a slow sedative
that they're building up -- It's also addictive --
in his Diet Cokes and in his iced tea,
and that the President, by 6:00 or 7:00 at night,
is basically slurring his words and is drugged.
-That's how bad things are right now.
The President's allies are defending him
by saying he's not incompetent, he's being secretly drugged.
[ Laughter ]
Now, the Trump administration has not actually released
a detailed tax plan,
so we don't know much about it,
aside from the vague promises Trump has made.
His Chief Economic Advisor, Gary Cohn,
has insisted that they at least have the outlines of a plan
and are trying to add details to it before announcing it.
But he keeps using one very gross metaphor.
-We're now working with both the Senate Finance Committee
and the House Ways and Means Committee
to really build out the skeleton,
put the muscles on and put the skin on it.
We've got a great -- I would say -- skeleton.
We need the Ways and Means Committee
to put some muscle and skin on the skeleton.
To really finalize what that blue print will look like,
I would say take a skeleton,
put the muscles on it, put the skin on it.
-Does anyone around Trump know how not to be creepy?
[ Laughter ]
They can even take something like tax reform
and make it sound like a Body World exhibit.
Trump and the GOP are once again trying to cut taxes
for the wealthy and corporations,
but they don't even have an actual plan.
We don't know whose taxes are gonna be cut
or by how much or how it's gonna be paid for.
Is there anything we do know?
-It's known that most presidents end up getting drugged.
-All right. We know that.
This has been "A Closer Look."
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