advisers. cnbc s eamon javers is live at the white house. what do we know, eamon? reporter: larry kudlow accepted the job, a free market conservative. what this sets up is a fascinating tension, because larry kudlow does not believe in or support broad based tariffs. you ve seen this white house moving more toward a protectionist tariff-friendly kind of regime in terms of global trade. that s the president sort of committing to that promise that he made out on the campaign trail to protect american workers. but larry kudlow doesn t necessarily agree with that, he s more of a free trader. the president said earlier this week that larry kudlow has come around on that and views those tariffs as possible negotiating points now with foreign countries. so it will be interesting to see that tension between the two men develop. gary cohn famously resigned in part because he did not support the president s tariff agenda.
they ll be releasing hundreds of pages of evidence. we are very happy with that decision. it was a powerful decision that left no doubt. i want to thank the house intelligence committee and all the people. [question inaudible] i m looking at larry kudlow very strongly. i ve known him a long time but we don t agree on everything but i think that s good we have a divergent decision. he s come along in believing as tariffs as a negotiating points. i m negotiating trade deals and without tariffs we wouldn t do nearly as well. larry s been a friend of mine for a long time and backed me early in the campaign. the earliest. i think he was one of my original backers and a talented, good man. i think larry kudlow has a good chance. i m also speaking to many others
benefit that he might derive from a protectionist policy but it comes back to harm those responsible for putting him in office. exactly. if i can use one example with you. if we discovered a cure for cancer and japan discovered a cure for alzheimer s, japan true to form prohibited us from selling our cure for colon cancer in japan, should we get even with them? not allow them to sell their cure for of course not. trade benefits everyone. and retaliation is wrong. hurts everyone. and i hope no one comes to that point. now, if he s negotiating points to get better deals, i m all for it. i m kind of bumpmed. thanks. thanks. still to come the final results on the survey question. go vote right now. do you think reports of president trump s political demise are greatly exaggerated?
let s ask skwrjohn avlon and da gregory about this. it seems to be a point of leverage for him whether or not will you extend the time period. well, maybe. i don t want to he basically says without saying i don t want to give up my leverage. they are not morality points for him. they are just, what, negotiating points? well, i don t know. i m a little bit torn. when i hear the president holding forth like that, i have a couple of thoughts. this can t be the guy who wants to destroy press because he loves to pwapter with the press and people should remember that. i think this is where his head is at. the problem is he s so transactional about it. we don t know what it is he will actually commit to. this sounds like the president trump who said we re going to get a big deal here. we re going to do something significant, and i ll take the
seen. he has declared jerusalem the capital of israel, but he has also signed a waiver saying that they are not moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem yet. they are only beginning the planning process for that. the actual move quote, after the 2020 election. the israelis, of course, call jerusalem their capital. that is where the prime minister lives and their parliaments sits, but for decades, the u.s. embassy has been 60 miles wait in tel aviv, a nod from hoax from brokering a peace deal with the palestinians that, among other things, will decide the final status of jerusalem. as he heard the president say, recognizing jerusalem of the ae capital is reaffirming a reality, and the president will go to great lengths to say this is a foreshadow american views of how jerusalem should be divided up or any of the other negotiating points. that wasn t enough or pope francis who said, i cannot silence my deep concern over the situation that has emerged in recent days. at the same time