here s something you don t see every day. donald trump, first lady melania trump, french president, emmanuel macron and dredgity, his wife r planting a tree on the white house grounds. unclear why they are doing that. we will figure it out and let you know as soon as we do. he also appears to be answering questions to somebody. we will already turn on that sound if he says anything news worthy. in the meantime, president trump says he is confident his long time fixer michael cohen will not turn on him. but sources close to cohen and the president tell me when faced with jail time they do not believe that michael cohen will remain loyal. in a series of tweets over the weekend president trump accused the media of going out of their way to destroy mike and his relationship with me in the hope
regardless, the president is looking forward to mike pompeo s confirmation so he can continue doing an incredible job on behalf of the american people. guys, like we said, this is unprecedented confirmation drama. and it s pretty much a cubic inchation of anything that s been dogging this white house right now. whether it s the anti-political trump political riling up excuse me. whether it s the anti-trump political environment riling up democrats or the fallout from all those white house firings, or the massive signals that the president fires anyone else, say jeff sessions or rod rosenstein. it s also emblematic of the day low dose of cabinet controversies and it speaks to the high stakes drama involving this administration s foreign policy. and that foreign policy drama is playing out in real time as well. in just a few minutes the president and first lady will welcome one of our closest al ayes to the white house, french president emmanuel macron. it is technically the first
ladies, good to see you all. let s talk about ran paul suddenly changing his mind. that s a big win for this white house, to change rand paul s mind on somebody widely considered to be very hawkish. huge win. now it can be cast as democrats or obstructionist. which is of course the message that president trump pushes out every day. in fact it s going to be true. everybody who ones pompeo is a democrat and republicans are united in favor. so there is no discussion about the policy issues. it s suddenly politics, just partisan and trump gets a win. here is french president emmanuel macron greeting american president donald trump. just a one cheek european kiss. this is the first official state visit for this president.
committee hearing? that is changing in just the last 11 minutes or so. don t worry about the microphone bleed. we did not hear your conversation. emmanuel macron there to talk with the president. yeah. he wants to keep him in the iran deal. angela merkel is coming later this week to argue the same. macron made an appearance on fox news to argue that in front of the president. is he going to listen or is he going to listen to somebody like mike pompeo who has argued in the past in a we should leave the iran deal and relationship rip it up? i think there is a difference between listening and taking action on what you are listening to. i think all signs point to president trump, who will essentially hear out emmanuel macron s arguments, probably not in the setting of mount vergnon tonight. that s likely to be more social but likely over the next 24 hours as the two spend some time together. i think he will listen to the argument macron wants to make, is making publicly and will ma
it s interesting because macron wants to stay in the iran deal. pompeo wants to get out of the iran deal. and right after macron is here, merkel comes to try to convince him to stay in the deal. he knows how to speak to the president. what is interesting about this state dinner on the is that it is completely partisan. it s unfortunate going into this meeting and this week when we have such an important issue like talking about that iran deal and should the made to stay in and it we don t have anable to have dinner together with both sides of the i will. i think that represents us poorly at our first state dinner. it s not just the iran deal. going out of the iran deal is one thing. but it s bown to have an effect on the negotiations for with north korea. i mean, if we can t stay in the iran deal what impetus does kim