he s battled the epa in court, while he was serving as attorney general. it s just unclear as to why he would have so many fumbles and distract from his mission. because in a way, the epa like the department of interior is one of the most effective players in trump s strategy to roll back the administrative state. so, you know, again, i think it is sort of a distraction. and i think that to some extent, the president is getting a lot of pressure from conservatives and from dark money groups to keep pruitt just where he is. because, in fact, he s been so effective in rolling back rules, but he keeps causing a distraction. and that s the so there s this tension as to how long they can allow this distraction to keep playing out. jay, scott pruitt says that it s all from the left. there are, i think, three republican members of the house now who are calling for scott pruitt to go, but that s not a ground swell. no, but i think it s crazy to say this is some sort of left-wing conspira
strategy right now seems to be to enforce an agreement that they don t agree exists. right. it makes no sense. and if you wonder why our blood pressure is collectively rising to the point, this is sort of unheard of across the board, in conventional lawyering, right? i was willing to give donald trump and michael cohen the benefit of the doubt and say, with you know, what happens that s an enforceable agreement. maybe it ought to go to arbitration, stormy daniels got the money and they had an understanding, but after today s developments, it s really hard to make the argument with a straight face that she s required to, what, remain silent about what happened? oh, she s already talked about that, too. because now what happens? because we still have a situation where there s arbitration versus there s courts of law. what does this all amount to? well, here s the thing, right? trump still wants to enforce the agreement. so as long as he wants to enforce the agreement, avenatti
and worth noting that there is an exception to for searches that take place at points of entry. you don t need a warrant or probable cause for those searches. i think that s right, a ali, but i think they got one here. which is that a court did fine out of a surefit of caution, the court did find one. david, thank you both very much. all right, coming up, trump is now calling for more tariffs on china tonight. $100 billion worth, as the tit for tat continues markets are already responding. are we headed for are we in a full-on trade war? former u.s. ambassador to china joins me after this quick break.
with the race house for the soul purpose of keeping them calm. they are comfort goats. his chief comfort goat hope hicks is gone. corey is one. he doesn t want the truth. he doesn t wanted a visors. he doesn t want trainers. he doesn t want jockeys. he only wants comfort goats and that s what we ll get. that s like a bacon wrapped insult. without using the term comfort goats, trump suffered fatigue. he was tired of being told no by kelly and has chosen to not tell kelly things at all. well, trump has actually been expressing that sentiment to aids and confidents for several weeks if not many weeks and months now. it s just that in the past couple of weeks or so, it seemed
good evening from new york. i m ali velshi, in for chris hayes. things are not looking good for scott pruitt. amid an avalanche of scandals, there are multiple signs the white house is getting fed up with the epa administrator and could cut him loose. pruitt did get a few encouraging words today when president trump on a very windy tarmac, responded to shouted questions about whether he still has confidence in pruitt with the words i do and followed up with this on air force one. i think that scott has done a fantastic job. i think he s a fantastic person. you know, i just left cold and energy country. they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt. and they love scott pruitt. but trump has offered kind words for plenty of top aides, right before they ve gotten the ax. and trump seems to be cooling on