capitol hill could solve this if the president weren t involved. that is a true statement about many things. look, it s telling that video you showed with the trump administration lawyer defending those conditions. what s left out is that was a case from the obama administration and the point being is this is a bigger problem than trump. the nature of the imgrnmigrants trying to cross is different than what they re set up to deal with. it used to be mostly able body men. now because of the flores decision and other aspects oz of the law you have central americans bringing small kids and basically using the kids, sometimes they re not their own and 1250isometimes they are. most of the time they are. but they re using them as a pass to get across the border. and if we don t deal with the problem it actually exists, as the obama administration dis
5 or 6%, so he obviously wasn t talking about that in the comment we heard from him there, right now 3.9%, more jobs and workers, a common theme you are hearing, gdp numbers 4%, quarterly over 3% annually and that s a much higher number than obama was ever able to boast in the 8 years he had to get over that recession. well, normally when we come out of a big recession we get very robust growth, what mr. obama did was double down on entitlements, if there s a legacy of mr. obama, it s the new leisure class of abled body men who are on some government handout or living out their girlfriends that don t look for a job, mr. trump is creating an opportunity economy, this is a revolutionary presidency in that regard. rob: yeah, if you really want
walking in the falanks with the president often where the lead agent would be seen. the whole setup was one of the stranger things from the beginning when trump came into office. it was one of the ways he was testing what is just norms and what is law. you can bring in a private security person to work hand in hand with the secret service? it s never been done before. another where he s shattering norms, but he did it, he brought in keith. this, yeah, i mean, he was a loyal guy, he didn t john kelly, the new chief of staff has tried to create a culture where people in the white house understand they re serving their country and the constitution and then the president. keith schiller was there to serve donald j. trump. so mr. miller whereby he was the clark clifford of body men if we re allowed to say that. he was present at the creation of this presidency. go through the list of things he might know about and be able to speak to in gran laulary detail.
could be 5,000 more americans still trapped on that island. there is food issue. there s a water issue. there s a power issue. there are reports of armed gangs and lawlessness. how bad is the situation? reporter: there was one gentleman who i spoke to, he s originally from boston but he was vacationing there in st. martin. he was hunkered down in a hotel and at one point there were these individuals that were going door to door breaking doors down trying to get their hands on anything they can particularly food so some of the hotel staff essentially recruit willing some of these abled body men to double as security to try to protect what little they have, so that i think gives you an idea of what is really happening about 45 minutes away from here but certainly something that the situation could get even worse by the day. all right. thank you very much. outfront, one very lucky american who went to the storm on st. martin. brian po was celebrating his
especially amidst this idea of the president feeling isolates with the stress of the russia investigation. what kind of impact do you think that has? i think it does have an impact actually, anderson. i think presidents want people around them whom they are comfortable. president obama had a group of people, marvin nicholson and his trip director, reggie love who was his body men who were with him for years. and it gave him comfort to have familiar people around him. now what we ve seen is the chief of staff john kelly have come in and a number of people have left in quick succession he is trying to impose a rational structure on the white house which from the beginning it has lacked. and the question from the beginning is how will the president tolerate this new culture. now you have one of his closest and longest aides leaving and it will be interesting to see who whether that just exacerbates his feeling of isolation. maggie haberman, david