it would target $200 billion worth of chinese imports, food, machine wry inputs and china is already threatening counter measures. the president touted the rosie employment picture for minority groups in this country and on the subject of minority groups today at the white house he will be meeting with a group of african-american pastors to talk about prison reform and make no mistake. there is an underlying political opponent. he sees that african-americans he wants to lure african-americans away from a party that he believes has taken them for granted, the democratic party. bill: thank you, doug mcelway from the north lawn. sandra: what a night that was. let s bring in newt gingrich former house speaker and fox news contributor. welcome back. well, what did you think of the president last night?
identify the murderer from a piece of information that wasn t as informative at the time and it filled in the blanks and now we have him in prison. sandra: i spoke to her father the other night and desperately asking for anyone who say anything out of the ordinary not even sure if it was tied to mollie but to give authorities that tip. thank you for coming on this morning. bill: just need one clue. 29 past. president trump hitting the trail once again, this time in tampa, florida, last night. president trump: we need to elect more republicans. we need more votes. and we need to elect ron desantis as your governor. bill: so the president hoping that backing will give desantis the boost he needs to win a primary at the end of august. it will not be without a fight. adam putnam is the republican challenging desantis and he is live next.
president going after jeff sessions today? is this different from what he has done or said before? he said similar things before. he has normally called out rod rosenstein in the constitutional line of authority. his direct report there is the attorney general. so to do it via twitter as opposed to picking up the phone is different. i do think that senators grassley and bob goodlatte, the chairman of the judiciary committee and house and senate should call up bob mueller and rod rosenstein and explain the conflicts of interest. the president is right on the conflicts of interest but congress needs to do that, not the president. bill: the president has a problem with the a.g. he can fire him, right? can jeff sessions fire rosenstein? what sort of authority does sessions have over this mueller probe now? well, he has the authority. he should have never recused himself in the first place. the real work is going on behind the scenes, though, with
michael horowitz the inspector general looking into these things. jeff sessions, i can t figure out what he does all day. he doesn t really do anything as best i can tell. the inspector general is diving into this. bill: another tweet. paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. he worked for me for a very short time. why didn t the government tell me he was under investigation. the old charges have nothing to do with collusion. he is trying to clarify what the manafort trial is all about? he is being factual there. manafort has a history there. i used to say that hey, it s not the government s responsibility to tell a candidate. the more i ve thought it through we protect presidential candidates and give them secret service protection, we give them c.i.a. briefings. if somebody is under investigation i think they have an obligation to tell that candidate. bill: we ll see where this
against the trump policies need to explain why they favor allowing the chinese to steal. bill: you said a lot. i hope we can get to all of it. we ll just chip away a little bit at the whole answer there. i thought this rally for him last night was a home run. the place was going nuts. i can t recall a time during president bush s first term almost two years in where he could have a rally like this or even president obama two years in. he lost 63 terms in the mid-term election in 2010. he is hitting on all these points. i thought immigration was the biggest applause line of the night. he came back to it over and over again. he loves to poke the democrats in the eye. here is a really good example. sound bite two on brett kavanaugh and the obstruction that the president alleges. watch. president trump: so far the democrats haven t given us any votes and that s because they will do anything they can to not help the trump agenda.