A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Could trumps own policies undermine the economic uptick. White house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. Healer in chief . Well talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. You elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Former new orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. There are now 100 days until the midterm elections and President Trump is dealing with two different realities, positive Economic News and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. Late saturday night, one of the president s current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an
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Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Change Michael Cohens calculus . What i also did say is
they want open markets to sell their goods. so does potus on this. as i said, china is the worst offender. the point here, the deal we made with the european union is very important. let me talk about that specifically. and mexico is coming. let me talk about the eu because there is this deal on paper to agree. critics say that all that president trump accomplished with this deal were to get things that were already on the table as you know during the obama administration including negotiations on something our viewers may not have heard of, the ttip. take a look at what the president of the national foreign trade council said. quote, most of this deal is stuff we were already on the verge of agreeing on in the ttip negotiations before that deal got deep-sixed after trump s election. your comment?
that is also my view. so i think he s gaining this is a tough, hard thing to do. people say president trump s tariffs are damaging this, that and the other thing. i say don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system including a world trade organization, most particularly china, but not only china. he s trying to fix it. other u.s. presidents in both political parties, dems and republicans evenhanded, have never pushed the way he s pushing. he believes, and i agree, if we can work these things out and improve the trading system, it will be to the benefit of the united states economy, our exports, our farmers, our industry and, by the way, will probably help the rest of the world, too. got to give them a chance to get the policy in place. seems like people like farmers are giving them a chance. they say we want trade, not aid. i agree. they don t want that.
no tariffs at all. and no traf barriers and no subsidies. that s a goal. i think that was part of our eu discussion. that s his view in general. that is also my view. so i think he s gaining this is a tough, harptd thing d thin. people say president trump s tariffs are damaging this, that and the other thing. i say don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system including a world trade organization, most particularly china, but not only china. he s trying to fix it. other u.s. presidents in both political parties, dems and republicans even handed, have never pushed the way he s pushing. he believes, and i agree, if we can work these things out and improve the trading system, it will be to the benefit of the united states economy, our exports, our farmers, our industry and, by the way, will probably help the rest of the