president trump lashing out on twitter yesterday denying personal ties with saudi arabia saying, quote, for the record, i have no financial interests in saudi arabia or russia for that matter. any suggestion that i have is just more fake news of which there is plenty. is that true? joining me now is phil rucker, the white house bureau chief for washington post and msnbc political analyst, and anne guerin, and both of you, i am very sorry for those of you who worked and knew jamal and in is an incredibly difficult time, but phil, let s talk about the u.s./saudi connection and how the president views it, and how it is going to the play in as you see it into any investigation. thank you for the nice words there, chris. in terms of the president s view, trump s view, he thinks that the relationship with saudi arabia is critical from the economic standpoint and from the
comcast has connected more than six-million low-income people to low-cost, high-speed internet at home. i m trying to do some homework here. so they re ready for anything. we are watching remarkable protests unfolding right now at the supreme court. let s go now to our panel anne guerin, west white house correspondent, shannon pettypiece, bloomberg news, josh gerstein, politico senior white house reporter and jill abramson, former executive editor of the new york times. i m going to go right down the row and ask each of you to give me your take on what you re seeing. it strikes me josh, there is a complete binary here where you center protesters out there enraged and then you have in kansas donald trump supporters and around the country who say this is an absolutely win and
sworn in tonight. so he ll be ready to take the bench after the holiday on the holiday. and be ready to vote. he s now beholding absolutely to donald trump and declared himself a partisan for him. he seems to align himself with the president on a lot of issues. you see alignment with republicans across the board. with the issues they re interested in, with the federalist society and conservatives and how he s managed to unify the party, even people that don t agree with the president on some issues like immigration particularly on issues like trade and tariffs. . a lot of republicans don t agree with the president. on this issue of putting a conservative on the court, you have almost complete unanimity among republicans in support of that and getting kavanaugh into this seat. anne guerin, i m going to go to you next. the reality is i think there s this perception in our business in the media that there are
be at stake. i don t think trump is above calling out and shaming on twitter individual justices. i mean look how he s attacked his attorney general. if someone were to rule against him, think what he could do on twitter. that gets to the bigger point of the risk of dee legitimizing the court. we follow the court rulings. the court sand send in the military or the police. we have to agree we ll follow their rulings. if the president chips away at that where does that go. everyone s been dragged in. anne guerin, shannon pettypiece, josh gerstein, thank you very much. the associated press is reporting kavanaugh has officially been sworn in in private. we ll have more on that and the protests from the supreme court when we come back. e protests from the supreme court when we come back. i m ken jacobus, i m the owner of good start packaging. we distribute environmentally-friendly packaging for restaurants. and we ve grown substantially.
questions today. it would be the first press conference since the nato trip. anne guerin is with me. more explicit. not that he hasn t said something about these lines before but believing in a two-state solution for the palestinians which, you know, has been a controversial issue for the first time accusing china explicitly of meddling in the election. so there are a lot of other issues out there, shiny objects, if you will. and now facing a news conference with a whole world watching where he will have to face these allegations against the supreme court nominee. on any other day we would have already had four huge stories so mike pompeo met with the north korean counterpart today. scheduled a trip to pyongyang. but on this subject here, we are now facing a white house under fire with a controversial supreme court nominee, one of