President trump thank you very much. Hoping the hurricane may be makes a right and goes up north but that is about a 5 chance. It is one of the biggest hurricanes we have seen in a long time. It could be very devastating. I just spoke to rick scott. We have a lot of people we are speaking to. I spoke to marco rubio. Doinga and florida are really well, they are working hard. Florida seems to be the main target at this moment. I think a lot of good things are happening. Tremendous work is going on. Guests are coming in from louisiana and all over. We dont know about evacuation. Locally, we will see where it is coming in. We just dont know exactly where it will be coming and how far it is coming. I am going to camp david. We have a lot of experts with us. E have a lot of fema people a sunday at 12 30 we have meeting at fema headquarters. That will be about the time that we will know where everything is going. A lot of decisions will be made. A little bit less than a day before it hits. We will see what happens. The stock market is doing well. The economy is doing great. The economy is amazing, worldwide we are number one by far. We will be very close to a new record. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump that i cannot tell you but we are speaking to china. I cant tell you whether or not it will be president xi. Reporter [indiscernible] i understandmp twitter accounts have been hacked. Hope they are not hacking my account. If they do, they will not learn too much more than what i put out. I think she said some things. She called me and was very upset. She was very down. She said she was drinking a little bit. She was with reporters. Everything she sd was f the record. Couple things about my children. She is a very good person. Always felt she did a good job. In all fairness, it was off the record. The press brakes off the records all the time. Not all of you, but many of them are very dishonorable. You dont say certain things. It was too bad. I spoke to her before i came out. I wished her well. Have you been allocating money to Ukrainian Military . President trump where . Reporter ukraine. President trump we are looking at ukraine right now. I was going to meet with the president. Because of the fact that we had this really massive hurricane coming in. I was going to meet the president of ukraine among many other things. Mike pence is taking my place in poland. It will be a beautiful weekend and it really a celebration of do fact that mike pence will a great job. I felt it was important that i stay here. We have a lot of things happening with respect to the hurricane. It could be one of the biggest that we have seen. So far, it is looking good. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump what i will do is go to poland at a later date. We have a great relationship with poland. Invited me to go to germany. At some point we will be setting that up. [indiscernible] President Trump i dont want to get into that. He is a bad guy. I think he is a sick guy. I cannot get into that with andrew mccabe. Andrew mccabe is a bad guy. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump they are on. In millions and millions of dollars from those tariffs. They are starting to come out. If you look at the chinese government, what they have done is a very interesting. T hurts them ultimately , it is alued so much bad situation they put themselves in. I saw it come over the wire that 15 of Certain Companies are going to be leaving china in the nottoodistant future. That is a big thing. I am not surprised to hear that. With theot compete tariffs. They devalued their currency. They are pumping money in. We are not paying much more. Weve taken and tens of millions of dollars. This makes them totally hole on china. Given the thought because they were targeted. They were targeted by china. Out of the tariffs, which are. Uch more than 16 billion the farmers are very happy. They want me to win the fight. We are having conversations with. Hina the meeting in september continues to be on. We will see what happens. China has lost a lot of companies. A lot of left china. Lot more are leaving they are not doing well. The worst year i understand in 61 years. I wish iran well. They have a big problem. I released the photo, which i have the absolute right to do. We will see what happens. They had a big mishap. Ran was going to set off a big missile ended did not go too well. Reporter [indiscernible] gooddent trump we have a relationship with south korea. We will see what happened. [indiscernible] President Trump i have a lot of faith in bill barr. I thought the charges were unbelievable. I thought the report was incredible. I have total confidence in bill barr to do the right thing. It shows how farias. He is a tremendous man. This really shows how fair he is. Certainly those were very serious charges. Reporter there were calls for her to resign . President trump i dont know much about it. I just saw something come over the wires, she is a highquality woman. I know she apologized. What is your message to the protesters in hong kong . President trump we all want liberty and freedom. We will see what happens. Very interesting time over there. Havessage to them is they a very strong point of view. I dont think anybody has seen marches of 2 Million People. Blot. L be learning a i think we are going on hong kong. I think we will be learning a lot over the next two or three days. We have an incredible conference area of there. We have a lot of experts coming up. Going up with people. We have a lot of people coming up to camp david. I will be coming back sunday morning. We are going directly to fema. Scott, iubio, senator dont think the governor should be there. He wants to be in florida. He is doing a fantastic job. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump i havent thought about it until the question a little while ago. Maralago can handle itself. That is a powerful place. The thing im worried about is the state of florida. Is looking like it could be a recordsetting hurricane. We are hoping for one element that might happen. It makes the right turn and gores up north goes up north. That would be great. That is a pretty small percentage at this point. Reporter [indiscernible] we are bringing them down to about 8600. We are really a police force more than anything else. We are getting along very well with a lot people in afghanistan. Good negotiations going on right now with the taliban. The taliban is saying they will do things. We havent made a deal yet. Towill be bringing it down 8600. [indiscernible] President Trump we havent seen that. Thatter there are reports there are military buildups by the russia in georgia. President trump i have not seen that. Reporter there was a report that there were u. S. Companies contributing to the economic slowdown. President trump i dont know what you are talking about. Go ahead. Arerter the week companies partly blaming this. President trump a lot of badly run companies are trying to blame tariffs. If they are running badly and having a bad quarter or are just unlucky they are going to blame the tariffs. It is bad management. A lot of companies are coming out and they are not affected by the tariffs. Not a lot, but there are some. They have put us in an incredible negotiating position. It is only going to get worse for china. Of the tariffs, we are in an incredible position. We taken billions and billions and billions of dollars. We havent taken and . 10 from china. Arepeople support me most the farmers. We have given the farmers 16 billion out of a much larger purse than that. We are doing very well with respect to what we are doing. One of the important shows this morning, i read that some companies are blaming tariffs, even though they dont mean that. [indiscernible] President Trump i do. The question was do i see a connection between hong kong and what is going on with the trade talks . If it werent for the trade talks, hong kong would be much more violent. I believe china wants to make a deal. It puts us in a very bad position. It is not a humane way of handling the problem. Fashion. In a humane we will see. I do believe that because of thati am doing with trade, is very much keeping down the temperature in hong kong. China wants to make a deal. I think china has to make a deal. That is holding it down in hong kong. Did you fire Madeleine West or house . President trump i think it was automatic. I think she had a bad night. I think it was unfortunate. She said she was drinking. I think the press is very dishonest. It was supposed to be off the record. You dont say things like she said which were just a little bit hurtful. What about what she said with you not wanting to be in pictures with tiffany, is that true . President trump no. Tiffany is great, i love tiffany. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump i have said it. We have fema, first responders, law enforcement. We are working together with governor desantis. You,e way, i have to tell georgia is very much in the path. Have our top people there. It has been amazing. We have done a great job in puerto rico. We got lucky, it missed puerto rico. We were really ready in puerto rico. We were very well. The new governor was on top of things. We had a really great relationship. We didnt have to use what we had but we were ready to go in puerto rico. Are you sticking with evacuations at the time . President trump it is a little bit too soon. Probably make that determination on sunday. Reporter the polish government demands reparations from germany for the second world war, do you support that . President trump that has to be between poland and germany, i get along with all. Reporter are you concerned that you dont have a confirmed fema director . President trump i like the word acting. Fits. To me if i like the people, i make them permanent. Acting gives you great flexibility that you dont have with permanent. People i make them permanent. Many studies have shown that legal access to marijuana leads to less opioid abuse. Many states have legalized marijuana. Do you think you will have it federally during your presidency . President trump we will see what is going on. It is a very big subject. We are allowing states to make that decision. A lot of states are making that decision. We are allowing states to make that decision. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump i think it is terrible. I think those allegations are absolutely terrible. Usmca has become very popular. That is ever deal with mexico and canada. Unions are liking it, farmers are loving it. Manufacturers are really liking it. It means we will not be losing companies to mexico and canada. Probably elsewhere if you figure it and work at look at it a certain way. The usmca is very important. I think it will be very bipartisan. I hope nancy pelosi puts it up for a vote. Many democrats will be voting for it. Itit is not put up, i think is a bad thing for our country. It is diligently and hard negotiated deal. We got the approval from mexico. They have essentially approved it. We are waiting for a vote. Nancy pelosi i think will do the right thing. , it isld nancy pelosi replacing the worst deal we have ever made, nafta. It took our industry out. One of the worst deals i have ever seen. Would you like to see negative Interest Rates . President trump i think the fed is making a big mistake. There is a much lower rate. It makes it much harder to compete. We are doing better than everybody else. The fed is hurting me. It is making it very hard to compete. E are so far ahead of everyone go to the day after election day. We are up over 50 . That is amazing. You look at our jobs. Our numbers are fantastic. Africanamerican, hispanic american, asian, the history of our country, the best job numbers we have ever had. , almost 160 day Million People are working. The most ever in the history of our country. If our fed lowered the rates i think our stock arc it would be like a rocketship. It is already very close to her record. We have had some very good days in the last week. If the fed lowers the rates like they should, the prices went up way too fast. They did a double. , the economy is so strong it was able to handle that. If they lower the rate, you would see our stock market be like a rocketship. I think it would go up a lot. How do you feel about columbia . Youre talking about the country of columbia. We have a great relationship. They have a problem because of venezuela. Reporter [indiscernible] President Trump she will be calling you back as soon as we get to camp david. She is a wonderful person. She studies so hard. She is a great person. I look forward to talking to her. I love tiffany. Thank you very much. Prime minister abe is an incredible man. Ment. In joining us on the phone is morgan, the White House Reporter with the hill newspaper. Inspectorhow this general investigation began and why. Comey, we listened to a clip a couple minutes ago, testified before the Senate Intelligence committee back in june 2017 about his interactions with trump. That was public testimony and he disclosed he had given the contents of a memo to one of his friends to share with a reporter to get the contents of that conversation he had with the president about Michael Flynn february 2017 into the public sphere. That was the first time the fbi found out comey had shared his memos with people outside the bureau. He then recommended the Inspector General open an investigation to see weather he shared classified information with people outside the bureau and get to the bottom of what actually happened. That triggered the Inspector Generals investigation and we finally have the conclusion to that. Host we heard the former fbi director talk about giving this memo to a friend. We find out it is Daniel Richmond. Who is Daniel Richmond . Guest Daniel Richmond is a Columbia University law professor that comey knows and he explained, gave this contents of this memo to the new york times, which was published may 2017 in an article on the 11th shortly after comey was ousted. Host what could be the consequences for the forming former fbi director from this Inspector General report . I talked to a couple legal experts about this yesterday and there really arent any. The big consequence could have been the Justice Department deciding to prosecute him for some sort of violation of the law and attorney general barr decided not to do that. I spoke to a couple people and they said that was the big question weather or not they sawd press charges and we that and i spoke to one person that said he wasnt very surprised by this. I think from his perspective, people in the government often skirt policies with regards to keeping memos like this so it could spur more cases and it signals the Justice Department didnt really think they had a case against comey probably partly because this didnt involve largely classified information. There was one memo he gave to his attorneys that he did not alert the fbi after finding out a couple words were classified, but largely, the memos were found to be for official use only and not containing wide swaths of classified material. Yout host that is why think the Justice Department declined to prosecute . Guest it is unclear. Barr hasnt said information publicly about why he declined to prosecute, but that is what i have been told by people that work on National Security cases, that they probably would not have had a case and it is a difficult case to prosecute, as well. Doj what else is the Inspector General looking into . Guest he is looking into weather the fbi agent followed proper protocol and procedures in applying for the surveillance warrant to wiretap carter page who you will remember is the former Foreign Policy aid to the trump campaign. He has been working on that for over a year and the report is expected to be imminent. We will probably see something about that soon and remember barr ordered a separate view of weather or not the Intelligence Community followed proper procedure in their intelligence collection on the trump campaign. That is different and being run by the u. S. Attorney out of justcticut and that has started, so i am not sure when we will see information from that, so President Trump has given barr new authority in it. Host cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Saturday morning, American EnterpriseInstitute Visiting fellow jim harper discusses the use of cryptocurrencys in the future of money. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will join us to preview the 2019 National Book festival. Kevin ruby, formerly of u. S. Telecom, talks about combating illegal roma robot calls. Watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion