contracts for the wall. to make their case this week, fisher is using private donations to build a small section of the wall in new mexico to show supposedly superior construction techniques. we will prove it in a half mile stretch. reporter: the president goating involved in who gets what contracts yet again flies in the face of the president s campaign promise that he would drain the swamp. the white house is justifying this saying it s about speed and cost, telling the washington post the president is one of the country s most successful builders and knows how to negotiate the best deals. he wants to make sure we get the job done under budget and ahead of schedule. cnn, washington. memorial day honors service members who have given their lives to the country. this can be a difficult time for anyone mourning a loss. this week s cnn hero is making sure children know how to cope with unresolved grief.
billion. it s incredible. it is. nancy pelosi has rising noise among her caucus to pursue impeachment. three dozen of her members, yeah. that s right. i think she s trying to sort of slow that down by goating the president into something. and really it s a political statement and bate of a political stunt on her part to sort of do that. it s something that isn t actually that substantive to get into a tiff with the president. it does show her caucus at this exact moment. but she is fighting him. she needs to get everyone out of town. right. we have the sound. this is president trump attacking nancy pelosi a few minutes ago and when he refers to the u.s. sense, he said that is basically the new trade deal to replace nafta. it s a big part of the president trump s agenda. really wants it to pass and he needs speaker pelosi to shepherd it through the house.
to us afterwards and gives us a read out. this meeting was initially supposed to be focused on infrastructure. president trump sent a letter overnight saying, hey, i think we should focus on getting that passed first. that trade deal with canada and mexico. but all eyes are going to be on what is happening on capitol hill. the talk of impeachment. president trump has been lashing out about it all morning long saying the witch-hunt continues. saying that the democrats want a do over. and i had a chance to ask sarah huckabee sanders, hallie, about a democratic theory. nancy pelosi among those. take a listen to that exchange. democrats say the president is goating them to impeach him? that s absurd. the president is focused on doing his job. it would be nice if the democrats would show up to do
features sanctions on iran s economy and its military. don t want them to have nuclear weapons and they can t be threatening us. i don t want to fight, but you do have situations like iran, you can t let them have nuclear weapons, you just can t let that happen. the foreign minister says the president sa advisors are goating him into a fight with iran and economic terrorism and genocidal taunts won t end iran. iran president has threatened resuming creation of iranium, senior administration officials says the white house reached out to iran to negotiate, with no response. iran says it refuses to negotiate with the administration, its it did negotiate in 2015, reached iran nuclear agreement and this administration decided to pull out of the deal.
his term overlapped shortly, so the president s tweet is false there in addition to being angry. robert mueller protection. now this is not a goating. but there is legislation in the senate to protect the mueller investigation. do you believe it s necessary? when you see statements like this from the president, does it make it more necessary? i think it is necessary legislation. but mitch mcconnell has said it is not coming up and mitch mcconnell runs the senate with an iron hand. but i think the mueller investigation is hanging by a thread, and i think the appointment of matt whitaker as attorney general is the first salvo post mid-term election of the president against the mueller investigation. but, you know, we re just going to have to trust the good judgment of matt whitaker not to fire or interfere with the investigation, and i think this legislation thinks suggesting we need more than that. ken, would you choose to