place in these pics. much much the discussion focused on the landscape for the 2018 midterm elections. republicans are hoping to keep their majorities in both the house and the senate are expected to face some particularly tough battles to do so in the house. so leaders have suggested the mid terms will certain live play a role in what their plans are over the next several months. with that in mind, they also plan to focus on their successful passage of the g.o.p. s tax bill which the president talked about yesterday as he departed the white house for camp david. going over with the senators. we have set new records. and i think they will be continued to be set. the tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought. today we are told the discussion also shift to a number of policy issues the g.o.p. is hoping to tackle this year. including infrastructure, national security tax policy, next year s budget and daca. the meetings will start with a working breakfast around 8:
it s no, ma am coming on the heels of the back reform, biggest accomplishment in tax reform. now president at camp david trying to move on these issues. of the president is not going to let this go. lisa: can i ask you a question real quick? okay, so on this book do you thinks is as salacious which we have had even reporters like maggie haverman part of the book disputed. do you think this would get the same attention if it were about president obama honestly? honest answer, no. i don t. the take away from this book is that it was the justification that the president s critics and those that truly hate him in the media now there they have it. they have got the smoking gun that proves that he is somehow unfit but haverman and some others are saying that s really not fair. here s the thing though, this book did do what perhaps michael wolff, one of the intended consequences which is he knew president
manufacturing. surprising 20,000 jobs were lost in retail. surprising because the retail season in 2017 was great. it was the best it had been in more than a few years time. the focus always on the future. macy s is cutting 5,000 jobs and closing 11 stores. market in the green, though. bret: after a while we could of jaw dropping quotes and legal threats, president trump is out of washington trying to turn the page on the new book that portrays him as isolated and ridiculed by his own staff. the author describes the president being unfit for the job. after aggressive push back calling the book phoney, president trump left the white house bound for camp david. before leaving he fired off a couple of tweets attacking his
about the president. here is what she had to say about this book. listen. he creates a narrative that is notion nally true. conception nally true. the details are often wrong. i can see several places in the book that are wrong. he gets basic details wrong. he has a history of telling people they are off the record and disregarding that. pete: details are really important. details are what quotes or phrases are made of. whether it s treasonous or dumb as a box of rocks or whatever phrases you want to use inside the book. if you are misquoting someone, you are mischaracter eyeing the entire intention of that entire conversation. what can you believe in the book? lisa: a couple of things, too. in the book it alleges that president trump didn t know who former speaker john boehner was back in 2013 they went golfing, so of course he knew who he was. pete: he referred to him on the campaign trail multiple times. lisa: i have seen people bring this up on twitter and it s a great point. whi
colors, some of the other details, we re learning that reince priebus kept handwritten notes during the course of time he was here serving in the west wing. all of this is significant. and even one other fact, that jeff sessions aides had apparently sought damaging information on james comey before comey was fired, as if to say they were looking for some reason to better explain the firing beyond the russia probe, which the president in his conversation with lester holt says was certainly on his mind. andrea? peter alexander, thanks for braving a very cold lawn of the white house today. thanks. security analyst jeremy bash who is chief of staff at the pentagon. and matt miller, former chief spokesman for attorney general eric holder. and eugene robinson, columnist at the washington post. a wealth of talent here. happy friday, everybody. matt, i want to ask you first about the reaction inside the justice department. do these revelations by mike