When you heard the word spying from the attorney general, what did you think and what does that mean . Right. Look, there is a bland way to put it and he tried to back away and put it that way later. I simply mean that there was surveillance after the counterintelligence investigation was started, we surveyed. That is what we did. But when i heard spying, my heart skipped a beat. That is a loaded term. Bill barr knows it is a loaded term. And was likely to play into a triumphant talking point of president who within half an hour was standing on the lawn of the white house proclaiming that were going to investigate the investigators. It would be a terrible idea and i cant believe barr means it seriously to try to reexcavate the whole episode shown to have been perfectly kosher. If he is looking at procedures or Something Like that, okay. But the term spying was at best a loaded misstep. And then gloria, to harrys point on the timing of the president s comments, this is an attempted coup
Mcgahn is going to come . He will come we will the answer is we dont know, and if we have to well subpoena him to come. Are you confident. Wait a minute, we did subpoena him. If we have to well hold him into contempt if he doesnt obey the subpoena. We begin this hour in the throes of a trade war between china and the United States. Overnight President Trump making good on his promise to hike tariffs on 200 billion worth of chinese goods, taking the tariffs from 10 to 25 . China promises to strike back without saying yet when or how it plans to do that. This as negotiations continue here in washington. U. S. Officials telling cnn they are not optimistic for a breakthrough. President trump on a veritable twitter spree this morning clearly proud of his escalating tariffs and what he calls a long overdue tougher approach tweeting at least nine times on the topic, including this. Quote, your alltime favorite president got tired of waiting for china to help out and start buying from our farm