sorry, john decker, go ahead. >>. [inaudible] is there a timeline as to when the president may pull the trigger and impose harsher sanctions on russia or on china? >> we are continuing to monitor the process and we have done that and we will certainly let you know. >> the goal at the end of the day is to get china to the negotiating table. the way they were the negotiating table with trade officials to once again. >> the letter today is to end the unfair trade practices that china engaged in for decades and that the administration for this president ignored. >> the question of elections, the president said other people also may have been involved in the efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. are any of the people you saw here, is there evidence in the intelligence community there were others besides russia who were involved in election meddling? >> we know there were others and we know there are others that are considering making attempts in 2018 which is what our focus is. moving forward. as you know, none of u

. >> joining us now, john decker, fox news radio white house correspondent. ve to ask you for your opinion on this. when they said the documents were the stars, immediately i was like, uh-oh, because being a financial journalism for so long it is so hard to get people to focus on numbers and documents. tough make it personal, and the fact they came back and asked could we have diagram where we can try to connect all of these exhibits we looked at which charge they to to, may sound like they did in fact confuse the jury. what do you think? >> i think that is right to a certain extent. keep in mind over the course of the prosecution's case they brought on 27 witnesses. they introduced 360 exhibits. that is a lot of material. anyone was expecting this jury to come back within one days, even two days, with so much material i think is essentially fooling themselves. it is going to take time to go through a lot of this the tax fraud stuff i think is easier to do, medical melissa, than the bd and conspiracy stuff because as you mentioned it is so complicated. melissa

. >> reporter: following up on john decker's question, you want the investigation to end, i presume alsonterference. many have described the president's tweet this morning is blowing off steam, is that a fair characterization? just an opinion it has nothing to do with his actual governmental control or supervision of this investigation? >> secretary sanders: as i said earlier, the president stating his opinion, it is not an order. i think he has been crystal clear about how he feels about this investigation from the beginning. >> reporter: you set a moment ago that the investigation itself is corrupt, the mueller investigation. strzok certainly is not anymore anymore -- >> secretary sanders: of the entire investigation is based off of a dirty, discredited dossier paid for by an opposing campaign and had a lot of corruption within the entity which was overseen, we laid this out a number of times. i don't think we have to go into it every single time we are in here. >> reporter: if it's corrupt, why doesn't the present just use the powers he has to end it, why doesn't he follow through? >>

john decker, go ahead. >> reporter: thank you.i want to ask about the conference yesterday that involved u.s.-china trade relations. is there a timeline when or if president may pull the trigger and impose harsher sanctions on china? harsher tariffs on china? >> sarah: we are monitoring the process. when we have an announcement we will let you know. >> is the goal at the end of the day -- really quickly. is the goal at the end of the day to get china to the negotiating table the way they were at the negotiating table with the american trade officials a few months ago? arizona the -- >> sarah: the goal is to end unfair trade practices for decades and what administrations before this president ignored. >> the president said that other people may have been involved in the effort to interfere with the 2016 election. has there been evidence there were others besides russia involved in the election meddling? >> sarah: we know there are others and we know there are others considering making attempts in 2018, which is what our focus is mo

>> following up on john decker's question, you want the investigation to end.o end, i presume, without any obstruction or interference. many have described the president's tweet as blowing off steam. is that a fair characterization? it's just an opinion he's throwing throughout. it has nothing to do with his actual governmental control of or supervision of this investigation. >> once again as i said earlier, the president is stating his opinion. it's not an order, but he's been, i think, crystal clear about how he feels about this investigation from the beginning. sarah? >> you said a moment ago the investigation itself is corrupt. the mueller investigation. you mentioned comey and mccabe and strzok. >> the entire investigation is based off of a dirty, discredited dossier that was paid for by an opposing campaign and had a lot of corruption within the entity which was overseeing it, which was peter strzok, james comey, andrew mccabe. i don't think we have to go into it every time we're here. >> if it is corrupt, why hasn't the president -- why doesn't he follow

john decker, go ahead. >> reporter: sarah, i wanted to ask you about the conference call that took place yesterday involving u.s./china trade relations. is there a timeline as to when or if the president may pull the trigger and impose harbor sanctions on china? harsher tariffs on china? >> we are tocontinuing to monit that process. >> reporter: is the goal at the -- quickly, is the goal at the end of the day to get china back to the negotiating table the way they were at the negotiating table with american trade officials just a few months ago? >> the goal at the end of the day is to end the unfair trade practice that china has engaged in for decades and that the administrations before this president have ignored. >> reporter: returning to the question of election security, the president has said other people also may have been involved in the efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. do any of the people that we saw up here, has there been any evidence from the intelligence commute there were others besides russia involved in election meddling? >> there are others and we know that t

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