President , had been marginalized, and would likely leave after his Year Anniversary at the white house. That anniversary came and went yesterday and was accompanied by a tweet showing a Beaming Kelly and President Trump with the caption congratulations to general john kelly. Today we celebrate his first full year as white house Chief Of Staff. Today, white house officials told fox news that the president asked kelly to stay on through 2020, the end of his first term, and that kelly accepted very many of the previous rumors about kelly had come from within the white house and his changes elsewhere in the administration. With general kelly at his side, President Trump is going to war with the powerful Koch Brothers, who are waging a campaign against the present strategy of using tariffs to leverage new trade deals. Because of new tariffs, our Farmers Livelihoods are at risk. Carmakers, Factory Workers and macs you dont like manufacturers. Farmers want trade, not aid. Tell the administra
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump is not stupid well, i wont say stupid or not. Trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and theyre saying russia could well have had an influence. I understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. If makes a big difference. If it were the president , it would be Something Else. The white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administration has been toughe
Comes as the administration touts a code, but not great, july jobs report. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us with the numbers. Good evening, john. Of the president s chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, said today they traded talks with china are going nowhere, in fact, he says the white house says that even heard from china about it for weeks. There were some promising signs of a continued Strong Economy today, though, even if those numbers were somewhat tempered. The jobs numbers for july came in lower than expected. 157,000, versus a projected 195,000. But the white house one reason to celebrate. Pointing out may and junes numbers were revised upwards, and the outlook for Economic Growth is good for you to speak strong. Professional services, an appointment with don, very nice report. But to the gdp model, preliminaries, predicted 5 . I mean, i would be happy with three. They are predicting five. We are off to a good start. A weeknight look at the news, featurin
sustained 3% growth at least. it s not an order. the president is not obstructing brady s fighting back. we would be out of our minds if we but the president up for that raid door preconditions. we do not leave our humanity behind when we reported for duty. we are very few mentally family separation. that was a low point for me as well. you are either getting it or we are closing down government. we will pass her metal detectors without a blip, buzz camara bell i lost a daughter. we don t know who will come off these planes today, but we do know they are heroes, all. earlier this morning, we removed 32 pages and accounts from facebook and instagram. our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. we are aware that russia is not the only country. george ellis said enough is enough, we don t convict people because they have a lot of money and threw it around. president trump is going to war with the powerful koch
reagan s first term. that s the very early 80s, folks. this was even ohio governor john kasich s original district when he served in congress. so outside republican groups have come in spending money to prop up balderson. now president trump has to campaign there in a special election this weekend. the gop is having to pull out all the stops. it s a familiar playbook at this point. georgia 6, pennsylvania 18, you get the point. they re having to protect a seat that shouldn t need protecting. on top of all of that, the republican national committee just escalated with the president s feud with the powerful koch brothers who have backed away from the president in recent days. so how alarmed are people? let s bring in michael steel, a former spokesperson for house speaker john boehner and knows exactly how those folks on capitol hill think. he was senior advisor to jeb bush in 2016. the panel is here. michael, i ll start with you. how would you characterize the mood behind the scenes and