defend himself as fvigorously a he has defended president trump. tom foreman, cnn washington. and they are back, a cnn senior justice correspondent and the new york times political editor patrick heely. he may exert lawyer-client privilege. but he said it is the u.s. state department giving him directives. i think it does under mine what he is saying and the ability to shield some of what he says will be privileged. there is another thing, he released some of these communications and now congress has exactly, he is releasing some of the communications, and that will get a little messier for rudy julianny. and we have seen this repeatedly
house democrats are ramping up their inquiry. they launched their inquiry and we learned the details of a whistle-blower complaint alleging that mr. trump abused his office, the complaint says they tried to cover it up into a top secret separate computer system. we are walked there a shocking week in washington. officials now say that the department of justice and the white house knew about the whistle-blower concerns more than one week before they were formally alerted by the director of national intelligence. the last week of august. here is the timeline we know so far. august 12th, the inspector general received the
escalate a trade war with china and threatening to hit france with a tariff on wine. i don t want them doing anything having to do with taxing unfairly our companies. those are great american companies, and frankly, i don t want france going out and taxing our companies. very unfair. and if they do that, we ll be taxing their wine or doing something else. we ll be taxing their wine like they ve never seen before. cnn s senior white house correspondent pamela brown joins us now from southern france. pam, trump and macron have already met this morning over lunch. what more can you tell us about any further discussions and maybe even a comment or two in response to what the president is talking about threatening these tariffs on wine? reporter: yeah, that s right. it s interesting because just before leaving washington, the president had those stern words for president macron as saying that he will impose a tariff on french wine and perhaps other french goods in response to the
economic summit that the president pushed for, and you can imagine that some of the g-7 leaders will be bringing up the trade war with china that escalated just yesterday with both sides slapping tariffs on one another. some of these leaders here believe that the president s trade war is contributing to the overall global economic slowdown, and sources i ve been speaking with about what to expect from this g-7 summit, they re down playing expectations saying don t expect anything ground breaking. back to you. right, and that being underscored by the tweet coming from the french president saying, you know, the g-7 has begun. we may not accomplish everything we ve set out to, but we ll do our best to ensure your security, create more jobs and fight the inequality that you are suffering. so expectations low. pamela brown, thank you so much. joining me right now, jill dougherty, global fellow for the woodrow wilson center and former cnn bureau chief, washington bureau chief for the chi
continue with her speaking events. monday she will be in buffalo, new york. during the treatment she appeared at an event in new york where she met the actress kate mckinnon who plays her on saturday night live and thursday night she went to moulin rouge on broadway. she had colon cancer in 1999. in 2009 early pancreatic cancer. she also had a heart procedure and cancer in the lung last year. she spoke about her plans to stay on the court earlier this summer. take a listen. as long as i can do it full steam, and that means at my age 86, you have to take it year by year. ginsburg added she expects to be okay next term and after that she ll just have to see. cnn washington. still ahead, president trump lashing out at u.s. allies, but is that the best strategy going forward? how world leaders view the president next.