Thank you very much. When you said you wanted more on tariffs, what did you mean by that . Ill take that. Defense is so important. We need steel, we need aluminum. Were negotiating with mexico, were negotiate ingwiing with c and the nafta. Also involved with that is national defense, but if we reach a deal, its most likely that we wont be charging those two countries the tariffs. We have other countries that are very much involved with us on trade but also on military and working together with military, and well be making a decision as to who they are. We have a very close relationship with australia, we have a trade surplus with australia. Great country, longterm partner. Well be doing something with them. Well be doing something with some other countries. Were going to be very flexible. At the same time we have some friends and some enemies where we have been tremendously taken advantage of over the years on trade. And on military. If you look at nato, where germany pays 1 and were paying 4. 2 of a much bigger gdp, not fair. So we have a lot of things going on. I think generally with nato because of my involvement weve taken in 33 billion more. Within the next year and a half, they expect we will have taken in 33 billion more. And mr. Staltenburg, who is running things, is very thankful. He said its incredible whats happened since we became involved. I became involved by complaining, because it was not fair. We were spending 80 of the money. Good for them but it helps them a lot more than it helps us. We look at the military equation, too. General mattis, its very important to him and to me to maintain those great relationships. At the same time we both want fairness. So we view the trade and we view the military, and to a certain extent, they go hand in hand. And a lot of progress has been made. You know, im very proud of nato, because with nato, when you see the kind of money thats pouring in that was never going to come in because people were delinquent, countries were delinquent, they werent paying, and now theyre paying. Not all of them are paying the fair amount. Some owe billions and billions of dollars of money. They owe billions and billions from past years. They havent paid it and thats not fair. They want us to protect and they want us to be a good partner, and then theyre delinquent on payment or they havent made payments. Or they havent made payments which are fair. So were looking at all of those things. Were talking about tremendous, massive amounts of money. But that goes along with trade also, because were looking at defense. Defense is very much also a part of trade. So were going to be very flexible. But as an example with mexico and canada, were going to be throwing nafta were negotiating nafta right now. I think were doing quite well. It was always my feeling that i would terminate nafta or renegotiate it, one or the other. I guess renegotiating would be easier, but well be perhaps coming up with a deal on nafta fairly soon, or we will terminate nafta and well start all over again. Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Whats that . Sticking with 10 and 25 initially. Ill have a right to go up and down depending on the country, and ill have the right to drop out countries or add countries. We just want fairness. Because we have not been treated fairly by other countries. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. The president of the United States in the cabinet room of the white house. Arms folded for most of that discussion. The president has a big announcement on steel and aluminum tariffs later on today. Still unclear exactly what he will announce. You heard the president start with a complaint about trade, turn it into a complaint of some European Countries not paying, in his view, a fair amount into the alliance. The president made his case and offered some details about what he plans to announce three and a half hours from now at the white house. Lets begin there, then. Lets go to cnns jeff zeleny at the white house. Giving conflicting amounts of what he will announce later today, how presumptive it may be. What do we know after listening to the president . Reporter i think we have a pretty clear window of why there has been confusion at the white house. Just listen to the president talk about that. A, its complicated, of course, as all these agreements are, but hes also conflating and mixing some things here. But there has been confusion at the white house. Yesterday they were preparing for a 3 30 signing ceremony, this morning it was scrapped, and now its added back onto the schedule. The president clearly wants to show action on this in some way. But as he was saying there, there certainly are not going to be immediate exemptions for canada and mexico. He says that will come down the road, but it certainly does not sound like it will be immediate. But john, the pushback from republicans, from red state republicans, farm state republicans, joni ernst, republican senator from iowa, strongly opposed to this. They are very worried about any major changes to nafta. How that will affect the ag economy, the farm economy. This is far from a done deal here. Even after the president signs the policy this afternoon, it could be symbolic, it could be real. There are still likely to be hearings on capitol hill and much blowback here. So the president articulating his view of taking a shot at his outgoing chief economic adviser gary cohn there, calling him a globalist. But the president has vascil vascillated on meeting with mexico. Whether he will or wont, we dont know. Jeff zeleny at the white house. Jeff, if you get any more details in the next hour, just raise your hand and come back on. Phil mattingly, and Mary Catherine hamm of the federalist. I want to start with one of the things the president said, because white house aides arent the only ones who contradict themselves or tell different versions from time to time. Sometimes the president does. The staff wanted him to wait. The president tweeted out this morning at 3 30 this afternoon hell have a big meeting on trade. It could impact the Global Economy. His own party worries that its bad policy and bad politics in the middle of an Election Year. Heres part of what the president said. American aluminum and steel, youll be hearing about that at length at 3 30. Aluminum and steel are the backbone of our nation. Theyre the bedrock of our Defense Industrial base. Our greatest president s from washington to jackson to lincoln to mckinley and others, they protected our country from outside influence, from other countries coming in and stealing our wealth and stealing our jobs and stealing our companies. And were going to be very fair, were going to be very flexible, but were going to protect the American Worker as i said i would do in my campaign. They sometimes say throwback thursday. Mckinley jackson, the president talking about a year where america did have protection on the trade policies. What the leaders of the party says is those global ideas have changed and youre out of date. What have we been able to decipher thats real and firm . This is a multibilliondollar decision that will affect the u. S. Economy, the Global Economy, relationships with his own party in the november election, and it seems theyre still jotting down the details. Absolutely. This is actually reminding me of Inauguration Day when we were sitting in the wings trying to figure out was the president going to sign any executive orders and if so, which . Clearly what you heard from the president right there is hes embracing, as he has for many, many years, his protectionist approach. He wants to be able to say, i have applied these tariffs, im holding our trading partners to task for what he considers to be abusive behavior. But by continuing to come back to this idea of well be flexible and well make exceptions but failing to be specific about what those are, hes adding to the uncertainty here, and hes adding to his responsibility, his challenge in showing that this is a policy that is workable. Not just conceptually, the way he talked about it in the campaign, but actually in practice. In most administrations if you have a big debate over this, which they have a big debate, you shut down. You do it in private until you have a final decision. This has been, to be polite, a work in progress on being kind. Watching something play out in realtime. As a reporter, and you can say this for the president in general in the last 15 months, its fascinating to watch it play out in realtime. We usually dont see those things. Anyone who tells you they know exactly whats real and whats happening right now is likely to be wrong in the next 20 or 30 minutes. Thats not an overstatement. Thats reporting. And they acknowledge it. I spoke to a number of lawmakers in the capitol who asked me, have you talked to anybody in the rnc, have you talked to anybody who knows whats happening now . These are republican lawmakers who are very interested who usually have a shot to the oval office who is asking me what i know on policy. This is kplicomplicated and this wideranging circumstances in the white house. If you cant do the process in the normal way, that could be wide open in some way or another. When you listen to the president , you get some semblance of where the discussions are related to nafta when it comes to mexico and canada, or related to defense allies there, do those then undercut the rationale of the process itself, the security exemption . You kind of have a big picture of where everything is going right now, but you dont have the details, and the details are everything. The details are everything. It affects aluminum and Steel Companies in the United States, it affects everybody else in the United States. Farmers are especially worried about the farm states who do so much exports. The process is a mess. I dont think anyone can dispute that. The president said, australia is our friend, well try to work something out. He didnt say he would, he said i wanted to. And then essentially he lashed out at germany saying, but not them because i dont like what they do with nato. Separate from trade but he makes the connection. Can you connect those dots for me . Its very hard to follow where the president is trying to go with all of this. Obviously he sees this as not only a political issue but its a Foreign Policy issue and hes trying to negotiate trade deals. He feels what hes trying to put forward he can use to get better deals from europe, from canada and mexico. I believe the president is sort of expanding what we have previously seen in terms of what these 232 negotiations are supposed to be about, which is national security. The president is sort of broadening that out to Economic Security and security when it comes to trade deals. Obviously thats leading a number of members of congress to push back and say, actually, this isnt about national security. This is the president trying to get better trade deals out of our allies and some of our enemies, and its going to be harder to defend that when we talk about going to the wto or we talk about even trying to draw up the legal papers to defend this. There is a lot of concern not only in the west wing but also on capitol hill about whether or not this is something that will stand beyond this afternoon or whether it will get struck down right away. I think theres a couple things going on. In the trump white house, everything is a fight and every fight is public. Here we are watching it. Theres also the slapdash nature of this white house and how it does throw things together like this on the fly, which is not a great way of doing policy. There might be another part that is strategic or a method to his madness which is this tendency of his to make a giant asterisk. Again, not helpful to go happening this way, but i think that might be part of whats going on here. And the last part is hes changeable on a lot of policies, but on protectionism, he has been more consistent than almost anything else. He genuinely thinks were losing and he has a misunderstanding of trade deficits. I have a trade deficits from bojangle bojangles. I buy all the bagels from them, but we both get what we want. Countries with bigger tariffs have bigger trade deficits, so we want to avoid that. The retaliation question is a huge one. For republicans who opposed the president this is a trifecta in that he has a policy issue they think is wrong. Gary cohn, the chief economic adviser leaving. He had frustration over a number of things but he said this was the last straw. The president sided with the protectionist crowd. This is his last day in the cabinet which means the president had to make a joke about it. This is gary cohns last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet. He is terrific. He may be a globalist but i still like him. Hes seriously a globalist. But in his own way, hes a nationalist because he loves our country. Where is gary . You love our country. [ applause ] and hes going to go out and make another couple hundred million, then hes going to maybe come back. You might come back, right . It is interesting, number one its a weird way to say goodbye to someone who has served you well for more than a year and is leaving in frustration, but i guess its a compliment. Forget the specifics for a second. A lot of republicans just worry about his constant churn, policy that affects the Global Economy being made on the fly hours before a big announcement. Months before a midterm election. Some trust the churning even more so than the specifics who have them worried this president is leading us into a disaster. This is donald trump would break with a lot of their principles and positions and would do the same thing. They were with him lock, stock and barrel. Now theyre at a point where he is tackling a policy issue where the Republican Party and donald trump are very much at odds. And you have the complication that any sense of process that has been instilled in this white house, and there was only a little bit when john kelly came in last summer, seems to be completely gone. 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His White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and former chief of staff reince priebus. The article details the president having conversations with them after their interview with the special counsel. He is saying, quote, that its pretty clear Kellyanne Conway admonishes him constantly and hes not the only one. They believe, number one, it could be inappropriate, and number two, it could put the president in a precarious legal position to be talking to witnesses after they speak to the special counsel. Not surprising that the president would be curious about what the witnesses are telling the special counsel. As i say from this chair often, one of the things thats interesting when the president lashes out is they know more and he knows more than we do. When he lashes out at the investigation, im always curious as to what has he just been told. To the account in the times. It says, number one, don mcgahn testified, and don mcgahn told the special counsel that the president at one point asked him to fire bob mueller, the special counsel. After that, apparently the times reports asked mcgahn to put out a Public Statement saying thats not true. Mcgahn would not do so. Politically the president trying to help himself, if you have. Legally, whats the jeopardy . What we also know about the episode where he told mcgahn to fire mueller is that mcgahn then told mueller about that episode. So its not necessarily just about politically wanting to have a statement out there saying this never happened, it also could be construed as trying to get a witness in this investigation to change their story. And that, i think, is where the problem lies and why he is being warned by kelly and many others, including don mcgahn, to not talk to witnesses, to not allow it to appear as if hes trying to influence this investigation, because we already know bob mueller is looking at the possibility that the president sought to obstruct justice. And while my understanding, im not a lawyer, but my understanding is its not illegal to ask witnesses what they talked about or to have a conversation with a witness about what they talked about, it could go to an intent to try to cover things up if there are enough instances like this that are uncovered by mueller in which the president seems to be questioning or trying to undermine the testimony. Thats the key point. If its information gathering, its one thing. If it is part of a continued effort, lawyers might use the term conspiracy, to gather information or to get people to change their story or gather information from them that then helps you do something to get in the way of the investigation, that should be left to his lawyers, right . It shouldnt be the president himself asking, how did it go before the grand jury . It should be but it hasnt been from almost the beginning of this when the president was trying to get james comey to testify and say publicly that he was not under investigation. The president has taken a very personal role in this when he was sort of drafting a statement for his son on air force i. Thats normally something left to the lawyers, left to the communications official, but the president himself has seen this russia investigation as a cloud hanging over his presidency, and hes tried to be his own spokesperson, be his own pr man on this, and thats really gotten him into a lot of trouble where it seems like hes tampering with witnesses, it seems like hes tampering with the investigation. Hes forgetting all the various lines that should be drawn between the Justice Department and the independence of the attorney general, calling Jeff Sessions out on twitter. Obviously the president is concerned about this investigation and is doing various types of activities to try to make this investigation go away. Its only making it stay longer. Which is why he should leave it to the lawyers on who is trained on what is appropriate and not appropriate and what you should ask about. He asked the former chief of staff, hey, were they nice to you . You could take that as, okay, just this gentle, were they nice to you, or you could take it as the president understands he cant ask certain questions, or it would be inappropriate to ask certain questions, so he asks a general question hoping youll share. To your point, there is a reason you listen to your lawyers on these types of things. Generally they know why theyre telling you not to do something. I think its important to kind of look at it from the Broad Perspective of the white house, too. Theyve made every effort to compartmentalize their staff away from whats going on. And the president s willingness to continue to weigh in on this, to ask people about this his perspective on this, at least the one publicly, and regularly what hes saying publicly and thinking about behind closed doors, and not shy about that type of stuff, is he doesnt believe the investigation is legit, he doesnt believe he did anything wrong, so therefore hes trying to weigh in and put a stop to what is a witch hunt, as he calls it. I just think the danger here goes not just to the oval office but also the staff around him, which need to be insulated, want to be insulated, are working on things every day like tariff policy, or whatever theyre working on, and all of a sudden theyre drawn into a potentially legal and precarious situation because the president is curious. 13 months in, its yet another example that the president would say we are being fool fools . I would say nothing has changed. This is a precarious situation where the keep your nose clean approach would be the best approach for appearances legally and politically, but he will refuse to do that because the temptation to ask about something that he is understandably upset and curious about, hes not going to be able to resist it. I want to bring in other reporting on russia getting some special attention from the special counsel. A meeting 14 months ago on the other side of the world. The question, was it an effort to set up a backchannel between the Trump Administration and the russian government . He said the crown prince of abu dhabi invited him to talk about business deals. He also met with president vladimir putin. Prince said that meeting was unplanned. Now were learning george nader was also there who has ties to the trump team and lawyers in abu dhabi. Were told a very different story from erik prince. Manu, break down the issues that matter here. Reporter well, george nader, who is a businessman, now we have learned was in the seychelles and attended one of those meetings, hes now cooperating with bob muellers investigation. What we understand, as part of muellers investigation, he is determining whether or not this meeting was part of an effort to set up this backchannel discussion between the kremlin and washington when the Trump Administration came to power. When erik prince met with the Intelligence Committee last november, he denied this discussion and downplayed these meetings and did not mention at all that george nader apparently was part of these meetings. Now, democrats in particular are raising new concerns over erik princes testimony, saying that perhaps he was not truthful when he met with his Committee Last year. Heres what adam schiff said moments ago. Do you think erik prince lied to the committee about the seychelles meeting . I dont know if the public reports about what mr. Nader may be saying are accurate or not. All i can say is if those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik princes testimony. Schiff wants both nader to come before this committee and for prince to return to the committee and provide further documents. And thats something, john, republicans are not yet committing to. As we know, republicans are looking to end this investigation soon after this corwin lewandowski testimony from today. The question is what do they do now with this potentially conflicting information from this one witness who came before the Committee Last year, john. At least we know its of interest to the investigation that matters most. Ma manu raju on capitol hill. Trump is upset with Sarah Sanders response to what she said about a porn actress. Deyou were persecuted, and forced to flee the country of your birth. But you started a new life in a brand new world. 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Her excuse . She was taking, quote, steroids. Anything beyond that, i would refer you to the president s outside counsel. You said theres arbitration thats already been won . By whom and when . By the president s personal attorneys, and for details on that i would refer you to them. Youre aware of them so what more can you share with us . I can share that the arbitration cwas won in the president s favor and i would refer you to the president s outside counsel for details on that. Sanders was also asked about whether the president knew about the 130,000 payment by trumps personal Attorney Daniel cohen to daniels. Did he know about the payment at the time . Not that im aware of is not a no. Thats a new thing they say at the white house because theyve said things so many times because the facts later have a contradict contradicted. The key point is the president has denied this relationship. Through spokespeople, the president has denied this relationship. She says the president s personal attorney was won. The daniels side distributes that. But he was in an arbitration hearing about a document. If the president s lawyer is in an arbitration hearing about a document, the document says this. All parties agree to the facts. Prior to entering into this agreement, pp, the pseudonym for Stormy Daniels, had an agreement with dd, meaning donald trump. As more fully defined below, only some of which is in tangible form which includes, but is not limited to information, certain still images and or Text Messages which were authored by or relate to dd. So it says Stormy Daniels got Text Messages, other information authored by or related to dd, who the hearing says was donald trump. Shes acknowledging the president s connection to this, like you said, before either on purpose or inadvertently. Up to now, the white house has been pretty adamant that theyre not going to address these questions. That was asked and answered during the campaign. But the problem for the white house is that because of this new legal action Stormy Daniels is taking, you cant refer back to questions that werent being asked then. These are new questions now about this alleged agreement to shut her up before the election, and so i think in trying to figure out what to say that would shut down that line of questioning, she did acknowledge that there is a connection here. By saying that that arbitration, whether or not you agree that it was won or not won, but that it was decided in favor of the preside president. She didnt say in favor of the president s lawyer or Michael Cohen or anything like that, but in favor of the president , she did lead to a lot of followup questions. She gave credence to a hush agreement, call it what you will, with a porn star that had an intimate relationship with the president from 2005 to 2007. Youre just passively listening on the hill and you hear the word arbitration what . In the room there was an audible gasp. I wasnt in the room, but i was told when the word arbitration came up, you could hear people saying, what . Heres why this matters and i think why yesterdays briefing matters. Whether sarah did it intentionally or whatever the back story is as to why it all matters. This goes back to the wall street journal reporting on this which is unimpeachable, rock solid, related to Court Documents. Its been consistent over the course of weeks and weeks and weeks. Keep in mind, this is a porn star and a president allegedly in a relationship which has been the most important story for the better part of three months. Theyve been plugging away at this and theyre not using named sources, theyre using documents, things you cant fight because theyre true and theyre filed in court and people are signing off on them. People are agreeing these stated facts are accurate. I think thats why the story is important and its picking up and people are paying a lot more attention. This is not speculation. These are Court Documents and the reporting has not disputed it in any way, shape or form up until this point. Its very clear now not only in the White House Briefing room, but also by the president s lawyer, that its not going away anytime soon and there are questions to be answered in the next couple weeks. And did the president know about the payment, and if he did, to what level of detail. The president is on the record saying he didnt have this relationship. His attorney Michael Cohen who set up this llc and made the payment said the president didnt know about it. Hes known to be sort of a gossipy guy, the president , around the white house. The idea that his personal attorney would do all this without the president s knowledge to Stormy Daniels attorney is ludicrous. That he would engage in weeks of negotiation, that he would reach agreement, that he would then send 130,000 in connection with that agreement, that he would then later institute an arbitration proceeding without knowledge of his client. All of this to those of us that practice under the law as attorneys, its ludicrous. What Sarah Sanders said from the podium yesterday lends credence to that. And thats why you have this very weak denial where she says, not that im aware of. This story has been going on for more than two months now, so shes had plenty of time to talk to the president and ask him, did you know about this payment, what do you know about this . Why was there a payment from your attorney to a porn star right before the election. And shes only saying, not that im aware of and thats a pretty weak denial since this story came out. If she were to talk to the president and he were to tell her, i knew nothing about this payment, this was not done with my approval, then she would come out and tell the reporters, no, the president had nothing to do with this. She didnt say that. She had a weak denial which lends more credence to the idea that the president did know about this and theyre trying to cover their tracks. Is this a daily or almost daily detouring to the tabloids, or does it matter . When you talk to republicans on the hill, they think Something Else that gets in the way of trying to keep a Straight Path in an already difficult Election Year. Is it more than that . As phil points out, nobody has pushed back except for the weak denials on the substance of this. When it comes to the white house credibility, it seems to me its a hallmark of trump world employees like Michael Cohen, that theyre very devoted to the president but theyre also not great at shielding the principle from the things they should be. It doesnt smell right to me that he would actually get through this without having talked to the president because this is not something theyre great at doing. In this sort of bizarre and sad world were in where this is the 12th and 15th most important story in the day, in the end, do i think it will matter . Im not sure it will. There are legal ramifications. You cant just put 130,000 into an election if this is electionrelated spending without reporting it. There are fcc guidelines that could also come into play here. Bill clinton learned this from paula jones. If this lawsuit has a standing in court, people get to give depositions and there are more questions and we learn more and more and more. Paul manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman arriving in virginia moments ago for an arraignment in one of two cases in federal court against him. Well be right back. Your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. On our political radar today, how to tackle Cyber Threats from russia. The highest ranking American General in europe says at the moment he does not believe all u. S. Agencies across the government are unified against russian Cyber Attacks. General curtis saprioti is the commander of europe. He said without getting into details that he has personally seen russian Cyber Attacks against u. S. Infrastructure. In ethiopia, hes underscoring what he calls security interests in the african content. Ethiopias leader says now in the past. Rex tillerson talking to reporters just a short time ago. President donald trump has called africa a shithole. This is something africans are still digesting, and do you believe donald trump owes africans an apology . I think the United States commitment to africa is clear in terms of the relationship. The president himself wrote a personal letter to the chairperson reaffirming the importance of this relationship. Up next, florida lawmakers defy the nra and take action on gun control just weeks after that deadly massacre at a florida high school. Liquid to gel, ways discres for drier protection thats a lot less bulky. Always discreet. Intrtechnology withnema. Incredible color, sound and streaming. Just as the creators intended. Up to 200 off at dell. Com but he hasoke up wwork to do. In. So he took aleve. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve. All day strong. Its hard to get all the daily thats why i love fiber choice. It has the fiber found in many fruits and vegetables, all in a tasty chewable tablet. Fiber choice the smart choice. Big decision now facing the Florida Governor rick scott. Is he ready to anger the nra in an Election Year . Yesterday over the objections of the nra, the Republicancontrolled Legislature passed new gun controls. The bill raises the minimum age to buy firearms to 21, bans bump stocks, gives police more flexibility to take guns away from those believed to be mentally ill and provides school with funding if they want to train and arm Certain School staffers. They said Arming Teachers is a bad idea and he wants time to think it over. When a bill gets to my desk, what they dont seem to be doing in washington, im going to review the bill line by line, and the group im going to be talking to that impacted them so much is the families. Its a big deal. In a state where Governor Scott has been an ally of the nra, the state legislature has blocked any efforts to block gun controls. A big deal. Not to the finish line yet. Big deal in florida. A, big for the governor who is trying to be reelected. And b, with big elections this year, will it impact the debate in washington. Florida is seen as a state for sort of a testing ground to see how far they can push the envelope for creating new gun rights and this is shifting the other way. I think there is a lot of concern among gun owners and specifically the nra that this could be a start of an avalanche of various states moving in this direction. I think raising the age from 18 to 21 for assault rifles is something the nra has pushed against very strongly. And the idea that this is something the president has also floated, i think hes given some cover to, even some republicanled states to move in this direction. If scott fisigns this, i think well see other states follow. He praised the state and said this is very good legislation. Is there a chance that congress will raise the age, to defy the nra . On capitol hill, to be fair, they havent got taken lot ten details in terms of where the white house is. Its potentially to try putting it in a spending bill. Why is florida important . Because thats where things are going to be happening right now. The debate is not going anywhere at the moment. Its in the states where when you talk to people, where can there be real impact, where can there be Real Movement . Its in the states and hopefully build to the federal. The students in parkland have been critical of this debate. Thank you for joining us today on inside politics. Well see you back here tomorrow. Wolf starts after a quick break. Have a good day. Hello, im wolf blitzer. Its 1 00 p. M. In washington, 8 00 p. M. In damascus. Wherever youre watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. The president and the porn star. Why the president is upset with his press secretary over her explanation for the payoff. This as accusations now surface. The president s team is threatening Stormy Daniels to stay quiet. Plus a new policy. More confusion. White house staff scrambling to come up with something for the president to sign on tariffs. 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