now the owner of the red hen told the washington post she tries not to have politics in her restaurants but some of her gay staff were uncomfortable. sarandon sanders tweet from her white house account could be problematic here, we understand. amy is joining us now. let s go back to the initial incident at hand. walk us through what happens. so i hear that sarah huckabee sanders went to this restaurant and the last to arrive. she was meeting a group of friends. the reservation was under her husband s name, according to the washington post. and she sits down and her the party has already started eating. they are eating a cheese platter. and then she is asked to leave. apparently, what has happened is
the outs. they could use that with their leverage with kim jong-un. very interesting to watch. certainly, thanks for breaking it down for us, elise. now i want to bring in my panel to dig a little deeper on this situation. we have amy parnes, senior political correspondent for the hill. julian else selser, a cnn polit analyst and historian at princeton university. and david edlesman is the former bureau chief, now with the national law school. amy, is the president scrambling for political victory here? do you think he wants this to happen too much, where he could lose leverage? yes, i definitely think so. i think this is something he wanted all along. he wanted to kind of show he had the foreign policy chops to make something happen that hadn t happened for many years and, you know, people were talking about maybe this would lead to a nobel
surrounding that public absence, her decision to not accompany the president on a family trip to camp david this weekend. the president was joined by three of his children and son-in-law jared kushner. the white house says melania trump wa treated for a benign kidney condition in may and has been recovering at the white house. a few days ago, she tweeted, i see the media is working overtime speculating where i am and what i m doing. rest assured, i m here at the white house with my family, feeling great and working hard on behalf of children and the american people. back with me is cnn political analyst amy parnes and julian selzer. amy, did that tweet from the first lady put an end to the mystery or did it spark more speculation? no, it sparked a lot more speculation because if she s feeling great, a lot of people are saying why don t you accompany your husband to camp david. i think what the white house did, it s a messaging problem. they should just admit she s not
people are worried about. so we ll see what he can make out of this first meeting. all right, amy parnes, julian, thank you so much. still ahead, the unemployment rate hits its lowest level in half a century. by nearly all accounts, the economy is booming and president trump is getting the credit. but is the president risking it all by slapping tariffs on goods produced by u.s. allies stoking fears of a trade war? it was love at first touch. and all you wanted to do was surround them in comfort and protection. that s why only pampers swaddlers is the number one choice of hospitals to wrap your baby in blanket-like softness and premium protection. so that all they feel is love. pampers the number one choice of hospitals, nurses and parents (vo)about what i eat.n selective
john tester, the ranking member of the veterans affairs committee. you heard him last night with anderson cooper laying out some of these allegations against dr. ronny jackson, even more have come to light since that interview. so we ll talk with senator tester to see where things stand right now. amy parnes and rachel bait. amy, it has been striking the sheer volume and specificity of these allegations against dr. jackson. i really haven t seen anything quite like this come out of the blue about a cabinet nominee. what do you make of it? i make a lot of it because it s not just coming from democrats, it s coming from republicans. republicans for the last few weeks have been scratching their heads wondering what s happening here, why would president trump even go ahead and pick this guy. he wasn t vetted. one senator came to president trump and said, you know, was trying to convince him not to get rid of the former v.a. secretary. i think you re seeing a lot of