Bridgewater, new jersey. Kaitlyn, whats on the president s gaentd da today . Reporter well, the president like you said is spending the weekend here at his golf course in bedminster, new jersey, hell travel to washington briefly tonight to attend a rally at the Kennedy Center for veterans. And hell return here tonight. Heel likely spend the weekend preparing for his trip next week, a stop in germany and poland, attending the g20 summit. Hes expected to meet many leaders there but the one that everyone has their eye on is the meeting with Vladimir Putin. Everyone is wondering if he will ask him about russian meddling in the election. White house Officials Say no agenda has been set yet. Answer its not clear if they will have a bilateral or a pullaside during the summit. The president telling lawmakers via twitter repeal obamacare now. If they cant pass this bill and then replace it later. But that does not correspond with what the president promised earlier . No, it doesnt. Senate repub
Cnn nuews headquarters, newsroom starts right now. And the u. S. President turned to twitter on friday to show his frustration to replace the Affordable Care act, he also held an important meeting with south koreas president to discuss how to best deal with north korea. Really important issues, im sure youll all agree its all being overshadowed with President Trumps ongoing twitter spats with two journalists. Reporter President Trump issued yet another dire warning on the threat posed by north korea. The era of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed. Many years, and its failed. And frankly, that patience is over. Reporter but as the president was leaving the rose garden nearly all the questions shou shouted at him were not about National Security they were about the president s tweets and his ongoing war of words with msnbc host Joe Scarborough and mika brzezinski. Who now aallege that white house aides made them go softer and that will kill a story. He said if you
Erin burnett. Shocking claims of a tabloid hit story. The subjects of the president december garaging and widely condemn tweets allege they were threatened by top people inside the white house. They say they were encouraged to apologize to the president for their coverage of him in return, they say, trump would get a nasty story about them to go away. The alleged story, a tabloid hit job. Trump himself appears to acknowledge some of this, but insists thats not how it went down at all. He tweeted, watched lowrated morning joe for the first time in a long time. Fake news. He called me to stop a National Even quirer article. I said no. Bad show. We should know trump is friends with the tabloids publisher. The paper said today there was no involvement on its part. But this could cause trouble for a president already on the ropes with embarrassed members of his own party. Is this a case of blackmail . Did trump issue a threat to gain more favorable Media Coverage . Has he created another pr
Story at National Enquirer at joe and mika. Its sort of stunning he is so in the weeds and so obsessed with in Media Coverage and with the television coverage. And he truly is the first reality tv president thats ever lived. I think its frustrating to see as ryan was saying earlier for republicans on the hill to who want to focus on policy, want to focus i mean last week was supposed to be energy week but who talked about that . Who want to focus on the other things. And you end up with me after week getting trapped in the twitter storms and the fights with like personalities. And never talking about policy and never actually getting any legislation passed. To be clear what the president tweeted was that he took a call or was getting set to take a call from Joe Scarborough about that National Enquirer hit piece on joe and mika. Paul, to you this sounds like blackmail or is in a legal issue potentially for the white house. Well a lot of people reacted that way. But it sounds like extort
Hes a businessman, he surrounds himself with people who are smart and intelligent and know what theyre doing, and hes going to let them do things. Thats all ahead in cnn newsroom. Hello again everyone and thanks so much for being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. All right, President Trump heads to europe in just four days from now where among other things he will attend the g20 summit in germany. Well have to wait and see if he keeps up his feud with two Television Hosts via twitter and if theres any movement on the republican push to replace and repeal obamacare. The president telling senators to repeal now, replace later. Cnns ryan nobles joins us now from the white house with more details on all of this. So, ryan, the health care fight seems to be looming over senators even though theyre on a weeklong recess. Reporter theres no doubt about that, fredricka, this is going to be the dominating conversation for these senators back in their home states as they wrestle with how to move fo