National political reporter Jonathan Swann and katy tur and the author of the book unbelievable. New york times political reporter jeremy peters, elise jordan from the george w. Bush white house and former adviser to rand paul and brets stevens, New York Times oped columnist. We talked in the break about a couple of the stops in this asia trip. It looked to me watching this like he sought to import some of the features and benefits of staterun media back to the u. S. The problem with the president is that he mistakes flattery with respect. And i think there was clearly a kind of strong man envy at work here that people like duterte in the philippines, of course xi in china could command that level of flattery from their media that he never has access to back here at home. And katy, you covered this man longer than all of us here combined. There is always a degree of projection. And it seemed to me by announcing, i guess after lunch today, that he was going to make a statement, there wa
Contributor Rachel Campos duffy and today is. Host of the Lawrence Jones show, Lawrence Jones grade you are outnumbered pretty welcome to you. There is activity at the white house. We will get to that meeting when it begins but otherwise, a huge newsday. Harris what is texas doing with you gone . Lawrence a lot of people eating a lot of barbecue while im gone. They will continue to eat. Sandra it is the noon hour eastern time. President trump is urging House Republicans to adopt the senates budget so they can get to work on tax reform as soon as possible. He wants to see a bill on his desk by thanksgiving. In a Conference Call just yesterday, he told lawmakers that could be big trouble for them in the midterms if they fail to get taxes done. But he tells Maria Bartiromo he thinks theyve got what it takes to get it done. President trump i think we got the votes. I think rand paul is going to vote for the tax cuts. I think other people, we had tremendous enthusiasm this time as far as ta
Record numbers and gave Ralph Northam a greater than expected victory against gillespie. Democrats made gains in the Virginia House of delegates. All this carries an ominous message for republicans next year and it should. In washington, of course, democrat this washington, democrats and republicans had very different takeaways. Lets watch. This was a big deal. Its about more than virginia. This is about our country and its about the future of issues in congress. I hope more republicans get the message last night that americans are looking for us to Work Together and solve problems. I dont read that much into it. I think its clear that republicans should look at the elections last night and it should be a giant stop sign for their tax bill. Where did they get clobbered . In the suburbs. Where does the tax bill clobber middle class and upper middle class people . In the suburbs. It doesnt change my reading of the current moment. Well, as i said last night, President Trump couldnt seem t
Used to infiltrate his campaign supposedly for political purposes. Hes now manufactured a pretext to undermine the whole mueller investigation. As a further effort in this direction, the president s pressuring the Justice Department to give congress documents about the origin of the investigation of him and his campaign. Documents that could confirm the identity of that fbi informant. Heres the president today in the oval office. Congress would like to see documents opened up. A lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. If they had spies in that i campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country, that would be one of the biggest results anyones seen and very illegal aside from everything else. It would make probably every political event ever look like small toe pay the toes. General kelly will set up a meeting between congress and the various representatives and theyll be able to open documents, take a look and find out what happened. If they had spies during my campai
Committee, several other things crashing at the same time. And the news reports were, out of the white house, that the president was angry, and so, he just struck out and decided to push tariffs, and he did it without talking to any of his economic advisers. He lost his most able economic adviser, gary cohn. And then fastforward a couple days, and the president is consumed in the story of a payoff to a porn star, which now were hearing he was angry at his press secretary for right. Mistakenly telling the truth. For mistakenly telling the truth. And suddenly, you have the Foreign Policy community shocked and caught off guard by the most significant announcement a commander in chief could make in 2018. So, tariffs, and north korea all to distract from a president that didnt go through the proper channels or use the proper interagency processes once. Well, thats exactly right, on both tariffs and this stunning north korea announcement. It appears to have done in a pretty ad hoc manner. Wh