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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A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Before the dot. Com boom went bust until end of the clinton administration. In 1984, three years after the first reagan taxcut the annual gdp had 7. 2 . Many critics believe we will never hit those sustained numbers again. The 2008 recession weeded out antiquated jobs especially manufacturing. Now replaced by automation and industrialization of third world countries but new jobs are coming back in advanced manufacturing, hence the need for retraining. That is what matt told the president of iowa tuesday, he has one and 50 employees and needs a lot more. The jobs are out there. They dont know what to do. We are so busy we have guys on mandatory overtime, they are great guys, i just want more of them. I saw a guy, always hiring, that is a good sign. Whether those gdp numbers are sustainable may depend on whether employers like that can fill those vacant jobs. They are trying to do that by setting up expensive Job Re
Here is Rudy Giuliani, President Trumps attorney in an interview this morning. We know of Something Like 183 unique conversations. That are on tape. One involving the president. There are 12 others, maybe 11 or 12 others out of 183 in which the president is discussed at any length by cohen, mostly with reporters. All clearly corroborating what the president has said in detail on many of those tweets. He didnt know about the payments to either one. He only found out later. Cohen made them not for the kpa campaign. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Hes been saying that for a few days. Hes been backtracking from Last Night On Whether The Cohen Tape was doctored. There is way to define this strategy from Rudy Giuliani or does it make sense to you. How can anybody know the truth here. I think its baffling. A lot of observers have expressed concern over the strategy. Jay has gone on the record saying ta Rudy Giuliani is doing the preside
News coverage is provided. Original recording and have an expert look at it. That is always a possibility but i think to do that, you need a forensic analyst and you will need the original tape. Eric and mr. Cohen has been saying the president did know about the meeting. Maybe there were some tapes about that. It prompted them to say this to Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. Pointing out that Michael Cohen in the past had said the president did not know previously about the meeting with donald junior and the russian lawyer and others. Heres what the senator had to say. When it comes to Michael Cohen you should be very suspicious of anything he says. He is on the hot seat. Hes looking at going to jail. People like him are subject to making things up. I can tell you this. Michael cohen has already appeared before Congress Talking about a lot of things. This idea that he told trump about the russian meeting before it happened, to us is very much new news. Eric so if
Trumpmueller facetoface interview. It relates basically to the Russia Collusion thing, which we think there is no evidence and the president didnt do anything wrong, so we dont have much of a problem with it. But the obstruction thing, its more a question of we dont see the legal basis for the president obstructing by merely taking an action in Firing Somebody that he had every right to fire and about ten good reasons to fire. When are you going to nail this down . I think a couple maybe this week, maybe next week. Last time you told us it was july 4th, mr. Mayor. Well, a lot happened since july 4th. Giuliani also revealing some new details about what may be on the Audio Recordings from the fbiseized tapes there from Michael Cohens apartment. Msnbcs jeff bennett is there for us. Jeff, what can you tell us . Reporter another sunday brings another round of Tv Interviews featuring the president s outside attorney,
Rudy Giuliani. Rudy giuliani is now saying a tape made between President Tr