Katy tur picks things up. Im not sure that donald trump can speak fluent japanese. We have a team of reporters working on finding that out. We also have a team of reporters to break down Donald Trumps second bilateral meeting. That Press Conference that we justaw between donald trump and the Prime Minister of japan, shinzo abe. It has been a gruelling week for the new president. His major policy and major policy point, Executive Order struck down at least temporarily by the courts. That Press Conference we just saw touched on that. Lets get our viewers up to speed with the highlights and then well talk all about it on the other side. Im curious about yesterdays ruling in the ninth Circuit Court. Has it caused you to rethink your use of Executive Power and pow will you respond and will you sign new Executive Orders and perhaps a new travel ban . We are going to do whatever is necessary to keep our country
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A Rose Beggarden event tomorrow are told. Then later in the week the president will be going to ohio. And it is notable they are putting him on the road for this. Because he is someone that does well pitching things to crowds and feeds off that energy. Sometimes makes him go off script, but if he can deliver a solid pitch and a good message, i think it is a necessary piece of momentum for this administration thats been largely bogged down in controversy. Now a little bit about what we have heard with his Infrastructure Plan is it involves a trillion dollars in public and in private investigation. And it is something that capitol hill should be able to get behind. But it is something we have heard about a lot from him. And it is important in the aftermath of the foreign trip. A lot of people said what worked is the administration gave people Something Else to talk about that was not russia or controversy. And this is a way that a lot of republican strategists said to me, you need to giv
And take on whatever comes next. Find out how American Express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open. Com. So the wheels are coming off a little bit. If the wheels are not yet off you are starting to hear the start of lug nuts stripping their threads and pinging across lanes of traffic while the wheels start to wobble. Theres a bit of a Freakout In Washington and were seeing it on two big stories developing tonight. Why is it always friday night . One of these two stories tonight, developing tonight that shows this freakout, one of them is about the administration itself, the other one breaking tonight appears to be about the prospect of investigation into the administration. Press, we the citizens of the United States know about the content of communications with the russian government . Michael flynn was reportedly exposed as having lied about the content of his calls to the russian government because u. S. Law enforcement or u. S. Intelligence agencies were list
Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. That is something we have heard him say over and over again. Then we learned he cancelled the meeting. President trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. Bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the United States closest allies, its Third Largest Trading Partner. What happens next . The administration floating the idea of a possible 20 tax on imports from mexico and, hallie,
for a very busy day. Keir simmons is
Reporter certainly. That will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. If members did not side with him on this. I think the big question right now is will it get to the floor . Thats a decision that Doesnt Reside in the white house. Its really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, Kevin Mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. If they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, theyve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. Thats typically how this goes. We saw the president saying he wanted a vote. That was a point of leverage. In the time weve been talking about this and when weve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmosphere, i can assure you, if there were people in leadership who thought we had that wrong, they would be callin