test filed. he had an out in the way that his former deputies and lawsuit was playing out and he didn t take it and his lawyer told house democrats that he has a lot to say including things that they have not heard of. and so i suggest that john bolton really wants to testify and if you couple that with what he said in this speech last week, it said a former official willing to go where others have not been willing to go which is to be critical with the president on a number of issues. all right. carol, thank you so much. read our piece, it is out right now on nbcnews.com. nick, stay with me because i want to ask you about this next one out today. former ambassador to the united nations the john bolton has a book coming. shall i has a book out, nikki haley. she is coming to president trump s defense and describing him as very truthful. she spoke on today talking all
speaking about? did she get that wasn t received in previous administrations? because the great get was for corporate america. right. she is talking about commitments, particularly to hire women at kormcorporations. geps the again, these are pieces of paper you mpged the tax cut. that help to good the economy in economy but it hasn t provided a durable growth pattern for the u.s. economy and it has left us back in the land of trillion dollar deficits. all right, john harwood, thank you so much for joining me breaking down the president s remarks today on the economy. thank you for watching this hour. my dear friend katie tur picks up our coverage. it s 11:00 out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where our nation s capital is bracing for what could be the most pivotal test of the separation of powers. today is day 50 of the
things impeachment, the president and her time in the trump administration. impeachment is literally the worst punishment that you can do to a public official and here you have a situation where there was into investigation and the aid flowed as it was supposed to. so when you look at that situation, it is hard to see where impeachment would qualify for that. the president has said this was a perfect call. do you think it was a perfect call? in his mind he thinks it was a perfect call. what do you think? i think it is never a good practice for us to ask a foreign country to investigate an american. i looked at your resignation letter and he said through you it all, we were always placing america first. how is asking a foreign country to investigate your political rival putting america first? i think that what interest is that? . ukraine has always been an issue with kru7gs. i look at what you said about
and why she has been collecting a federal paycheck thanks to your and my tax dollars. we begin with this exclusive reporting about one of president trump s former top virsz joadvin bolton. he says trump s foreign policy may be motivated by personal business interests. he made his remarks in a private speech last week to a bunch of hedge fund members criticizing the president and his daughter according to six present there for the talk. john bolton speculated that personal or business relationship may be dictating president trump s decisions since none of his advisers agreed on the controversial move to pull troops out of northern syria and the president of course faced bipartisan backlash
people out in front court today, so many that they actually closed down the street in front of the court between the supreme court and the capitol building, their argument is that if president trump had actually done what the law requires, which is to explain why he was hitting it down, he would be forced to own the decision and take responsibility for it. but they say that the trump administration didn t want to do that. it simply said we have to shut it down because it is illegal. so their argument is, number one, it is not illegal and number two, if the government actually had to own it and take responsibility for it, who knows how this would come out and besides the are law requires them to do that. but the trump administration argued is this an exercise of discretion just like when the new police chief comes to town and says i m going to enforce the drug laws more districtly or i strict strictly. they are discretionary decisions that can t be reviewed by the courts. so those are t