And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, a new low for america. President trumps press secretary, Sarah Sanders, opening up the White House Press briefing today exactly the way her boss wanted to, with strong condemnation of a virginia Restaurant Owner who asked sanders this weekend to leave the restaurant. I was asked to leave because i work for President Trump. Healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important, but the calls for harassment and push for any trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable. And that shouldnt be up for debate. Calls for harassment are unacceptable. Which is why you see a growing number of democrats, including nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer publicly, both of them, condemning their democratic colleague Maxine Waters, a congresswoman, after she called for the public to confront administration officials. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them. And you tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere. Not welcome anymore, anywhere. Thats the way things are now in discourse. The problem is, the president himself isnt doing anything to evaluate the conversation when people go low, like waters did, trump seems to go lower. Tweeting today, congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily lowiq person has become together with nancy pelosi the face of the democrat party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many of the make America Great movement. Be careful what you wish for, max. So he calls her iq extraordinarily low, which, by the way, hes done before when he talks about her, and then goes ahead and threatens her as well. Obviously, not raising the dialogue level at all. You know, it contradicts Sarah Sanders today, actually, which is pretty interesting. Because what she said is night and day from what he tweeted. We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm. And this goes for all people, regardless of politics. Without fear of harm, regardless of politics. Again, Sarah Sanders today with a simple concept that everybody should be able to agree on. The problem is, remember this guy from the campaign . Hillary wants to abolish essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick [ audience booing ] if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I dont want know. We all know what the Second Amendment is. A pretty thin lly veiled threatt hillary clinton. And here the president is again threatening protesters at his rallies. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this . Theyd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. The guards are very gentle with him. Hes walking out, big high fives, smiling, laughing. I would like to punch him in the face, ill tell you. If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you item seriously. Okay . Just knock the hell i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees, i promise. I promise. But lets be honest. Its not just the president , and its not in the past. His supporters are taking the low road again and again. Heres just a few examples from the immigration debate of the past week alone. I read today about a 10yearold girl with down syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage wahwah. If you come across our border without permission, you are an invader. Theres no other word to describe you. Youre out of your cottonpicking mind cottonpicking mind . Bossie, you just saw him there, has been suspended by fox news. Would be suspended for that comment. Cortez says he regrets saying invader. But trump himself today using the word invade just this week when talking about immigrants. And trumps opposition all right, all those things happened, but trumps opposition jumps on this. So happy to say, they did it first, to justify equally unacceptable behavior. Here are members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus protesting the president on capitol hill. [ chanting ] quit separating the kids theyre separating the children mr. President , dont you have kids . dont you have kids, mr. President . and dont forget, Robert De Niro at the tonys. Im going to say one thing. [ bleep ] trump. And actor peter fonda, forced to apologize for tweeting the president s youngest son, barron, should be separated from his mother and put in a cage with pedophiles. Its unspeakable and its crass on both sides. Jeff zeleny is at the white house and, jeff, today, when this came up, the president specifically, from your reporting, wanted Sarah Sanders to open up the briefing to reporters today, talking about that restaurant and how they asked her to leave. He wanted her to do that for a reason. Well, erin, theres no question the president made his views about this pretty open and clear earlier today. First, you know, responding to Maxine Waters suggestion that people should go after trump officials. And then his comments specifically on the restaurant, calling it filthy on the outside, saying that it probably is not acceptable on the inside. Its clear what the president s view was. And we are told by a white house official that the president , indeed, was eager to have Sarah Sanders draw more attention to this and explain it at the beginning of the press briefing. Now, im also told by someone whos close to sanders, saying it was her idea, as well. She certainly was going along with this. Had no problem with it. She was the one who was interrupted, of course, on friday evening. But erin, this does speak without question to this lack of civility here, which, without question, ive been in washington a long time. It is at a low. It is on both sides, but certainly, it is driven by this white house, as well here. But the white house eager to point this out and point out how she was slighted. Now, i would talk to one person here. They said, one of the reasons they wanted to bring it up earlier in case no one asked about it at the briefing, they wanted to talk about it from the white house podium. But the reality is here, erin, im not sure that any of these calls for civility are going to help. Things to me seem to be getting only messier. Erin . Certainly true. Jeff zeleny, thank you. I want to go now to the president s former White House Communications director, anthony scaramucci. All right, so much to talk to you about this. But first, on the personal level, youve been there when you had that profanity rant with a reporter. Thats part of the reason you ended up leaving. Do you regret where things have gotten now . Well, i regret that situation, for sure. And i do think that people will regret the situations that you just showed on all those tapes. What ends up happening is, once we go across the border into bigtime incivility, then its a slippery slope downward. So the big problem is that the president , someone could sit there with the president in the oval office and say, hey, take the Higher Ground and his response would probably be, if i try to take the Higher Ground, then were losing the battle and theyre going to hit me even harder. Im not saying they will or they wont, but that would be my prediction. And the flip side is, people like Maxine Waters, theyre galvanizing a group of people, galvanizing a group of supporters, and one thing that we both know is that the midterm elections are highstakes, and Voter Participation usually comes from anger, unfortunately. And so, if both sides are charged up, youll probably get higher Voter Participation at the polls. So if you ask me the question, you didnt ask it, but ill answer it anyway, do i like any of this or do i think this is the right direction we should all be going in, i absolutely dont like it. I think its the wrong direction. And so, whatever sins that i have caused as a result of going in this direction, i apologize for. And i think personally, i wouldnt say you caused it. I would say you were part of a c continuum in which it was occurring. But my bigger point is, im man enough to apologize and man enough to look at a situation and recognize when im doing something right and doing something wrong, calling myself out on it. If Maxine Waters is not capable calling herself out on that or peter fonda is not capable of it, you know, and the president he did apologize for his he did. But, i mean, you have to just step a back. Its like lincoln said, youre going to write the letter, why dont you read the letter four times before you send the letter. Sending out a tweet like that was ridiculous. Its also, like you say to your children, you dont just just because you apologize for something, doesnt mean its okay to say it. This Maxine Waters situation, on both sides she was wrong. First of all, the president when he responded to her, we just played what she said. And he responded with this tweet about an extraordinarily lowiq person and then, shes called for harm, be careful what you wish for. So hes calling her an extraordinarily lowiq person. Are you willing to call the president out and say thats not acceptable . Listen, i have no problem saying this, its not acceptable. Its obviously not acceptable. But lets explain why hes doing it. He knows that thats going to charge her up. He knows that calling her that and doubling down on it is going to energize his base. Okay, the second part of the thing is, you know, again, youre probably going to disagree you know him so he just doesnt care . He doesnt care about doing the right thing . He doesnt care about evaluating the conversation . Well, i think he thinks that hes doing the right thing. I think he thinks that hes been painted into a corner by the moi media. I think he thinks that theres a 91 negative bias, according to harvard or pew research, all these different places. And he feels that he has to counter punch his way out of that corner. And he has to galvanize his base and let his base know that hes not going to sit there and stand for that 91 media bias. So i think he thinks hes doing the right thing. I dont think hes doing the right thing because hes the president of the United States and hes won. Okay, hes got a great policy in place, hes executing a broadbased policy thats leading to by and large prosperity in the country. He is the president of the United States, after all. Hes the president of the United States. So hes won. So i would like see him more turn the corner on this stuff and take it to Higher Ground, so that we can stop with this kind of nonsense on your great show. And we can talk about the economic advantages that are taking place, the rising wages, can talk about the fact that there seems to be some propaganda removal from the north korean situation, which is beneficial to the u. S. And there will likely be peace and prosperity around the world result of the president s policies, as opposed to the mudslinging. So youre sitting here and i understand youre trying to change the conversation and get those points in. Hes not trying to do that. Hes going with extraordinarily low iq. Well, im not trying to do that. Im saying, we should be by and large dng that. Youre saying, thats what should be happening. Can we go to this thing, be careful what you wish for. Yeah, when he said that to her, yeah . So i didnt see that as a threat, but this is now the problem, because its so heavily consolidate escalated, i can see how a lot of people the sentence before that is, she has just called for harm to supporters of which there are many of the make America Great movement. Be careful what you wish for, max. You dont see that as a threat . I dont see that as a threat. I think hes saying, hes got so many supporters and the supporters are so widespread, if you are calling for harm of his supporters, it will lead to you cant hurt them all . You cant hurt them all, and also, it will lead to you know, i dont know why were doing this, im in business, i dont want to upset the democrats in my business. Michael jordan once said, democrats and republicans both buy sneakers. I dont know the woman from the red hen, but my guess is she upset 50 of her constituents. And i dont think thats necessarily a great business strategy, nor do i think its that good political strategy. I would agree with you, that was inappropriate. But what is he saying . I think what hes saying, be careful what you wish for, theres a way bigger swell of support in the make America Great community than you think and it will have negative in other words, you cant be them all up, not that theyre going to beat you up . Hes not calling for violence. Heres the other thing, he reversed the policy. They were yelling at him, whatever they were just yelling at him, showing a picture, which weve already established that the young girl was put together with her mom. And theyre yelling at him. And i understand all of that. But he did reverse the policy, okay . He looked at the pictures, he looked at the magnitude of what was going on. And he reversed the policy. So, much to give him credit for that. So, whi well, it was his policy. You can give him credit for reversing his own policy. It was started the in the obama administratio bush administration. It was there for the obama administration. When they moved to zerotolerance policy which Jeff Sessions and dhs admitted was begun and implemented by him. 15 years from now, people will look back and think, what were we thinking as a society . I dont like due process, either. So congressman waters, i want to give you a chance to respond to something, she has now come out and responded to his tweet. So he calls her stupid, at least, whatever, extraordinarily low iq, and she responds with this. I believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests. I have not called for the harm of anybody. This president has lied again, when hes saying that i called for harm to anyone. So this is the tit for tat. Shes trying to walk it back. She was pre volatile. Shes trying to say, i didnt do it, and calling him a liar . We should stop it, i mean. Okay. Listen, listen, weve got to cut it out. I dont want to sound like a head master, but you get people in the room, why dont we cut it out and focus on what were all there for. Its a privilege to serve. I only served for 11 days, but it was 11 fun days. It was a privilege to serve, okay . Its a privilege for the representative waters. Its a privilege for the president. Why dont we take it to a higher level . I dont think any american is in love with this strategy of going low and then going lower. I dont ask the average american. Do you think they like this . I think people are getting tired of it. And heres what will happen, okay . The pendulum is not going to swing back slowly, erin. It will swing back abruptly. And you want to talk about, be careful what you wish for. It could have surprising consequences in the election that neither of these people want. Well, right, and my final point to you, you know, you come on television, you i know you speak with him fairly regularly not as regularly as i used to. But these messages i have talked to him since i left the white house. So when you are sending a message of, i wouldnt tweet like that, do you tell him that directly . Any had the opportunity to have that conversation with him, i would tell him that directly. I think he would disagree with me. I think that his strategy won him the presidency. I think he would say that his strategy is a winning strategy. And i think hes going with a gut instinct that for 45 or 50 years, when hes gotten hit, hes a counterpuncher. People that say he has a thin skin, i dont believe that, i think he has a very, very thick skin, but he doesnt like being attacked and will double or triple down on someone whos attacking him. But you won the presidency, youre executing a brilliant Strategic Policy plan thats leading to global peace and global prosperity. And youre going to get the trade situation right, too. You watch how he negotiates the trade situation. Our allies and even our adversaries know that those tariffs have to come down. We didnt talk about due process. Do we have time for that . No. But senator blumenthal is going to talk about that. And i think its interesting you made your point that you believe people deserve due process. Its a constitutional right to protect american citizens, and youve got to protect american citizens by allowing everyone due process. Thats just the way it works. All right. Thank you very much, anthony. As always. Next, the breaking news. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. He has missed formally now a gop deadline to turn over documents about the russia investigation. So the big question tonight, is he going to be held in contempt . And trumps fullon assault continues today against bob mueller. Witch hunt. Witch hunt. Witch hunt. Witch hunt. Phony witch hunt. Tonight, new evidence that that specific attack is working. And chaos inside the white house over trade tonight. Accusations of leaks. 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So manu raju is standing by. The deadline came, 5 00, answer these questions, was there an informant, et cetera. What exactly is this dispute over . And now that rosenstein has failed to comply, what next . Reporter well, its possible that the House Republicans actually move to hold Rod Rosenstein in contempt. This after a monthslong dispute over a wide range of documents. The last couple of weeks, there has been a deadline that was set for this past friday for the Justice Department to provide documents about the russia investigation and about the clinton investigation. And that dispute seemed to have been headed off, at least temporaril temporarily. Over the weekend, the House Speaker said that not all the documents have been provided, but they were going to give them some additional time. But devin nunes came in sunday and demanded even m information. He wanted specific answers to two questions, whether or not these informants were used by the fbi against the Trump Campaign in 2016. Now, erin, we are told by a Justice Department official tonight that he already knows the answer to those questions and a republican on the Committee Told me that they have not yet gotten the responses that devin nunes is looking for. But at the same time, erin, one democrat tells me that its time for the Justice Department to stop cooperating with nunes. I think the doj should just start saying no. That we have oversight authorities, but not during ongoing investigations. And so i hope they start to draw some pretty firm lines and end what is clearly, i think, obstructive behavior by the republicans. Reporter now, nunes would not comment while he was leaving an afternoon meeting, erin. But youll recall that that request for information about those informants, that was actually briefed by the small number of leaders on capitol hill known as the gang of eight, and some of those republicans came out afterward and said there was nothing untoward that they learned. But nunes did not say that. He wants a full House Committee to get access to that information. But no sign thats going to happen. And manu, well go to senator richard blumenthal, because i want him to weigh on this. But first, youre also hearing growing outrage among conservatives about how the house gop has handle the investigation. So its not just democrat versus republican. Reporter thats right. Two House Committees have been trying to investigate what happened in 2016, democrating the clinton investigation and the russia investigation. And several conservatives tell me and my colleague jared heard that theyre just not happy this investigation is moving fast enough, they have not turned over enough information, and theyre not focusing enough on the russia investigation. And that grumbling comes as that wednesday interview is coming up, where peter strzok will come before the Committee Later this week. But still, conservatives not happy so far on what this investigation has turned over, so far. Manu, thank you. Now, with as promised, the democratic senator from connecticut, richard blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary committee. So senator, Rod Rosenstein, at least as of now has not met this deadline, refusing to provide the documents that the house intel chair, devin nunes, wants. Nunes wants him to answer to the house intel committee. Did the fbi use informants against the Trump Campaign . If so, how many were there . And how much money was spent on them . Do you think the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein is stonewalling . The Deputy Attorney general is rightly standing his ground in protecting a confidential criminal investigation. Remember, hes already turned over literally thousands of documents, as many as 1,400 just on friday. But there are limits to what should be turned over to an ongoing congressional investigation, while there is a criminal investigation underway. And anybody whos done criminal investigations understands that confidentiality is supremely important. So i think the Deputy Attorney general is on firm ground here, if there is an order of contempt, i think the courts will refuse to apply it. So, senator, look, some people watching may say, okay. Did the fbi use informants . How many were there . How much were they paid is pretty basic stuff. This stuff should be provided. Which is why i want people to understand what manu just said. Which is that rosenstein and the fbi did brief Top Republicans and democrats on these questions, the gang of eight. There was a classified briefing. Everyone came out of it saying they were satisfied. Ryan wanted a little more information. Nunes is the only one that has taken this stand. But the question is whether rosenstein should provide answers to those specific questions to a Broader Group. Were talking about the house intel committee. Is that justified . And thats a really important point, erin. The dloe the disclosure to a Broader Group simply increases the chances of public disclosure, leaking, and other problems that may imperil this ongoing criminal investigation. Thats why we have classified settings and why its so important that it be done on a limited basis. But your point is very well taken. A lot of this information has already been provided. So senator win also want to ask you about your weekend. You came back from a visit to a temporary shelter site on the u. S. mexican border. You also visited two Border Patrol stations and a formal port of entry. The president tweeted over the weekend, in part, we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country. When someone comes in, we must immediately, with no judges or court cases, bring them back from where they came. And today Sarah Sanders says most americans agree with him. Here is how she put it. Virtually all americans agree that it makes no sense that an illegal alien sets one foot on american soil and then they would go through a three to fiveyear judicial process to be remov removed from the country. Doesnt she have a point . There is a point that we immediate to have more resourc s s devoted to a process that is badly broken right now. And my republican colleagues have joined me in urging that there be more administrative judges. The Border Patrol agents and the United States customs and Border Protection agents. I spoke with many of them while i was at the border, are urging more resources, so they can do their job more efficiently. What weve done is, in effect, hamstrung this process. And there is a reason for due process. Its not just fairness and the rule of law. Its also so that these determinations are made accurately. Because sending people back, and i met quite a few of them while i was there this weekend, means for them, a possible death sentence. Theyre seeking asylum from gang violence, death, torture, rape, robbery, and they are trudging, literally, hundreds of miles across mexico. I met one but you think everybody that comes over the border illegally, doesnt go to a real port, comes over illegally, even if theyre caught ten feet from the border or whatever, they cant send them back . They deserve to go through a process . No. In fact, theres already expedited removal for many who come away from the ports of entry. 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So people might say, what do i make of that . In may, that number was 44. In march, that number was 48. That is a if you look at it that way, a precipitous drop. 100 . And the drop is exactly its caused by exactly what youve been talking about. The number of times donald trump has tweeted or said witch hunt or Something Like it. You know, we think of President Trump as a not particularly disciplined man and he tends to get distracted and keep on changing the narrative and following this strand this thread and then the next thread. He has been relentless and zp p disciplined in his attack on mueller and muellers investigation. And i think over time, because hes been so relentless and deft at cherry picking this detail there, that detail over there, Many Americans have begun to wonder, wait a second, should i have questions about this probe . Can i trust Robert Mueller entirely . Youre seeing that reflected in those numbers. Dana, because its actually fascinating. When you look at the numbers today, 23 times this month, 20 last month, right . But then, it was different. It was much more sparse. Only 9 in april, 2 in march. And that was the norm, really. There were months that he didnt tweet about it being a witch hunt, at all. And yet we look at the time frame that his tweets have surged and the publics opinion of mueller has plunged. So, do you think hes disciplined and realizes this onslaught is working . No question about it. Its that combined with the fact that his legal team has changed and that the person who is outfront, to borrow your phrase, erin, for his legal team is rudy giuliani, who has been amplifying the president s message on twitter in a very big way. And i can tell you that they have watched these poll numbers change. And they feel that this is a winner. That the russia probe i know this is going to sound counterintuitive, but ive talked to some of the president s political advisers on this. They believe that for republicans in november, never mind the president when he runs for reelection, but republicans this november, that russia is a winner. Because what they say they see in their polling is sort of noise, noise, noise, russia, and an attack on the president. Particularly if youre kind of an onthefence republican or independent, that is something that, you know, you kind of from their perspective, you kind of dont want to hear about. But the key questions that you asked about Robert Muellers favorability, and by you know, Robert Muellers favorability equals the favorability of the investigation, theres no question that this is just as frank said a very specific, strategic targeted campaign that they are doing from the president to his legal team on down. And you know what, lets just play, you know, here, the president , frank. Just sometimes he said it and then sometimes i want to play some of his surrogates who have also been saying it. Heres the president. Its a witch hunt, thats all it is. Its all a madeup fantasy. Its a witch hunt. No collusion, no obstruction, no nothing. Because of this ridiculous witch hunt, i have said, im going to stay away from the Justice Department until its completed. Well, the phony witch hunt. Phony witch hunt. But you look at the corruption did you ever see anything like it, really . And his supporters. And this is perhaps whats interesting, right . Its not just him saying it. It is being amplified. Listen in. Robert muellers witch hunt has now been exposed for rampant huge political bias. This is a witch hunt with no evidence and nothing else but a bunch of people who hate him, hate republicans, hate anything that he stands for. I wish we spent a lot less time talking about this witch hunt. And you know whats amazing, frank . So, its working, it looks like. But only 29 of people approve of how trumps handling the investigation. Right, right. Doesnt matter. Trump doesnt seem to care, right . Who cares what they think of me . As long as they dont like mueller, i win, right . Hes happy to have you think badly about everyone, including him, as long as he drags down mueller. Again, show me one other thing in the entirety of this administration that youve had as many people in the administration who support the administration, who have been as onmessage as with this witch hunt thing and with the flaws in the Mueller Investigation or theyve even gone further and said the whole the investigation was born in a corrupt atmosphere. You know, dana, youre, of course, at a mitt romney rally, as we get the latest gallup poll. 87 of republicans approve of this president. Its a powerful number. Mitt romney, in an oped, ahead of the primary where you are, is sort of calling out the president. Hopefully there will be few occasions where i will be compelled by conscious to criticize, but as ive said throughout this campaign, i will call them like i see them. Is romney, where you are, seen as a person who stands up to this president or not . Reporter you know, voters arent sure, which is why he wrote that oped, which was published in a big newspaper here in utah two days ahead of the primary. And it is because, as he says, even in this oped, that its the question that he is asked on the campaign trail, more than any other, because, of course, he was sort of the poster boy for the Nevertrump Movement during the primary. He gave that scathing speech, calling him a phony and a fraud. And of course, he was considered for trumps secretary of state and since then hes kind of gone back and forth. And the argument that he makes is, i do that on purpose. I support the president when i agree. And i will not be shy about speaking out when i dont. But that almost 90 that you talked about, that is real. I mean, mitt romney is in utah, which is, obviously, a very republican state. A state where people love him for coming here in 2002 and helping to turn around the olympic bid, when it was plagued with scandal. Obviously, hes got a sturdy history of his family here. Hes a mormon and so on and so forth. And yet even he was forced into this primary. Theres no question that if he were an alwaystrumper instead of a nevertrumper back then, it wouldnt be the case. And this is something that i am hearing from republican strategists all across the country. That this support among the base is real and might even be higher than the numbers are showing. Never mind the national, but in some of these key districts. Well, and its a crucial thing for everyone to think about. You know, after everything thats happened, if that number can go higher and get stronger, something of great significance. Thanks to both of you. Next, breaking news, President Trump just slamming back at Harley Davidson after the company says its going to build some of its bikes outside the United States. 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Wall street journal and bloomberg reporting there would be investment restrictions targeting china, to which secretary mnuchin tweeted, quote, on behalf of real donald trump, the stories on bloomberg and wall street journal are false, fake news. The leaker either doesnt exist or know the subject very well. Statement will be out, not specific to china, but to all countries that are trying to steal our the technology. So hes calling it fake news, but basically saying its true and actually even bigger than they reported it. But let me just get to the point he made here, the leaker doesnt exist or know the subject well. So hes slamming a leaker that he works with, basically. And look, there is agreement on the table with trade on the trump administration. Theres no question about it, you have two camps, one represented by secretary treasury mnuchin, the other, peter navarro. By the way, theyre after the same end goal here, which is to get china to buy more American Products and stop stealing our technology. But there is a real dispute about the best way to achieve that. And a way to achieve it that doesnt necessarily cause disruption in the american economy. So, okay, so they disagree and now its public, which i think we can all acknowledge is not a good thing. You should be able to figure it out privately and not come out and air your dirty laundry. This afternoon, the market is down nearly 500 points on that reporting in the wall street journal and bloomberg, notwithstanding mnuchins tweet. The white house trade adviser, peter navarro, goes out on cnbc and says, okay, not only are the restrictions not on china and not on anybody, and not on everybody, theyre not on anybody the opposite of mnuchin. Here he is. Let me be really clear. Theres no plans to impose investment restrictions on any countries that are interfering in any way with our country. This is not the plan. So mnuchin says, all countries and navarro says no countries. You know both men. What the heck is going on here, steve . I dont know what to make of that, frankly. I mean, i think that theres still a lot of confusion in the white house about what the policy is going to be. As i said before, i think everyone does want to get and the curious thing about this, the one thing there is broad agreement about in the white house is that china really should be the target of, you know, our trade disputes, not so much europe, not so much canada, but china. And so, you know, if youre going to put these restrictions on, for example, ownership of american technology, you know, it would make sense to target them towards china. Im not exactly sure where this policy is headed. But look, the stock market, you know this, erin, you covered this for years and years and years, the stock market does not like trade disputes. They would like this all to go away. But on the other hand, this is something that trump you know, i heard you earlier talking about the trump voters and how loyal they are to trump, they like this. They want to get tough with china. They want to get tough on these trade deals, and thats exactly what trump is doing. Maybe. I mean, i guess. You know, i guess im just confused and disturbed, frankly, by the fact that these guys cant get it together and stop airing their dirty laundry, but, you know y, yes, youre right, s voters certainly support the president regardless of this warfare. Thank you so much, steve. And next, Roseanne Barr raw and emotional about the shocking tweet that got her fired. I never would have wittingly called any black person a say they are a monkey. I just wouldnt do that. And i didnt do that. Well, you know, of course, in the tweet, she did. The man who interviewed her is my guest next. And the trump blimp. This is one aircraft, though, that the president might like grounded. Jeanne has the story. 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Tonight Roseanne Barr in her own words tearfully apologizing saying she didnt intend to make a racial slur. The newly released interview was conducted by her friend of decades. Recorded the day after roseanne posted the tweet. I dont excuse it. I horribly regret it. Are you kidding . Ive lost everything. I said to god, i am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because i know i have done wrong. Im willing to accept what the co consequences are. And i do and i have. But they dont ever stop. They dont accept my apology or explanation, and ive made myself a hate magnet and as a ju, its just horrible. Its horrible. Out front now, rabbi, you have spoke to roseanne at length. Im sorry about it. Im sorry it ruined my life. Do you think that apology was genuine. Erin, none of us are mind readers or prophets. We have to look at a persons anguish. When a woman that is prepared to be that vulnerable and cry and pour her heart out, why shouldnt we accept her apology. Martin luther king who she says is her hero. He said that those who cant forgive has lost the capacity to love. I want to ask you about that. And what she said about valerie jar r jarret. You are just releasing this now. What was the delay. I mean if you had done it earlier, maybe the outcome would be different here . I dont know. The purpose of the discussion was not to save a show. It was not to save a career. It was for roseanne to restore her convictions, her value system. She is jewish. She adheres to the jewish faith. And i said to her, your tweet is in con tro vention to be the value system you adhere to, you to have make it right. And that is what this is about. It was not done for any personal pain. She felt she had been inadequate ambassador for the belief system. Now lets talk about in terms of where we are. And the ability to be granted that interview. She has retweeted. Muslim brotherhood has been exterminating jews. If she is truly sorry, why would she be doing this. Roseanne says that no one should defend her. She asked me not to defend her. She says she wants to achieve forgiveness through penance. And i said to her, there is nothing wrong with disagreeing Valerie Jarret on policy. So she can disagree with her on policy. It is where it becomes ad hominem. You have to atone and you have to repent. Now in terms of atone. She apologized to Valerie Jarret. You say you want to call her. If anybody has her number. If you can get me the number. I think you should call her and apologize. I want to apologize to Michelle Obama too. You know, i heard that shes irate and said nothing i could say is forgivable. And so. Im sure they believe in repentance as well, and lets see if she can advance it along the way. I dont know if she has gotten the phone numbers, i know she meant what she said. And i know she will make the call if she makes the number. You and i both know it is easy for her to get the number. I dont know that. But i take your word for it. In the podcast valerie has i am amazed when people hear how much roseanne cries and the depth of her anguish and the ag we have to decide what kind of society we are. If people step on a land line and do something offensive and immoral, can we come back from it. I want a society that has a little bit of heart. One defines it in this particular issue, no 11 disagree with you. Next, the baby trump blimp, is it art or is it something else. Jeanne moos special report. Does your Business Internet provider promise a lot . Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business gives you gigspeed in more places. The others dont. We offer up to 6 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Everyone else, no way. We let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. Them, not so much. We let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. The others . Nope get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call or go on line today. Look up in the sky, its a bird, its a plane. It might be the baby trump blimp. Here is jeanne. President trump is often accused of acting like a baby. And now activists are planning to fly him in the form of a baby. The baby trump blimp. A fat round chubby baby. Reporter currently stored in a warehouse. Activist want to fly him over parliament when President Trump is scheduled to visit. 11,000 and counting. Sort of reminds us of the inflatable chicken that popped up at anti trump protest in the u. S. Large numbers of serious protesters are scheduled to turn out. Mockery is the right way to approach donald trump. Reporter attacking. His fragile ego. To let their trump baby blimp fly. Initially the city requested the request saying this isnt a protest, this is art. Even if officials refuse to allow them to fly baby trump. They have a back up plan. Trump baby will fly. This i promise. Reporter talk President Trump will visit one of his golf courses in scotland. The activist say baby trump loves golf. His reaction to baby blimp might be similar. Jeanne moos. Cnn. What a beautiful baby. Reporter new york. Thanks for joining us, anderson starts now. Good evening, thanks for joining us, we begin with breaking news. We learned this evening that the Homeland Security department will ask the pentagon to approve plans to house more than 7,000 unaccompanied children in a military base in texas. It is not clear that that many people will need to be house. The president patting himself on the back