martyr, which then brought in the entire press corps, which took in the entire afternoon news cycle, in a completely different direction, because fundamentally, what i would have liked to have been on talking about this evening is the fact that president trump put together a great trade deal with the eu, getting more soybeans and manufactured goods over to the eu. just to be clear i m not trying to get into a debate on this, but what he said was, we re going to start negotiations. so there s no deal, there s a discussion there may be a deal, but he said, we re going to get one. so there is no deal yet. was also on the eu, the eu also agreed we re moving towards that direction. yes, that is true. it was a joint statement. so, yes, they re moving in that direction, but it wasn t a unilateral statement. but that s what i would have loved to have been talking about, and the progress we re making towards nafta and the bigger economic competition between u.s. and china. but jason
do you think he thinks he has a pretty complete understanding, those meetings. congressman heck, or do you so i think especially if there think that he is really may have been things going on really doesn t know and is just trying to put a good face on it? that otherwise lawyers wouldn t well, probably more the do either, i could see that latter, erin. but here s the deal. if, in fact, the president gave michael cohen may have foreseen him a complete 100% readout on that there might be a time when he would want to protect that meeting, then it really himself. well, interesting. begs the question, why wasn t when you talk about bad memory the secretary of state in that in meetings, you ve got to meeting to begin with? wonder if that s what jim mattis because the fact of the matter, and mike pompeo are worried throughout all of history, that about, when they re getting is the norm, not the practical briefed by the president about of this president, which is to what happened with
had wolf tracks, fox tracks. reporter: which is why drew worries less about wild animals and more about the human beings coming towards us on the beach. what are you guys up to? we work for a surveying company up in anchorage. reporter: they are hesitant to admit they re doing work for the pebble mine, one of the most controversial projects in alaska history. this spot right here. this is it. this is where it all started. about 80 miles from the beach, a canadian mining company called northern dynasty discovered enough buried treasure to propose the biggest gold and copper mine in the world. world. but when the epa under barack obama determined that blasting it open and digging it up with threaten the fishery, stock in northern dynasty tanked. partners build a. the company sued. but then congratulations, mr. president. a reversal of fortune. in one of his very first acts running trump s epa, scott
president as he was leaving the rose garden, some about michael cohen, as i did earlier. and i should also note, there was no press briefing here at the white house, so no public setting to ask the white house questions, to have them on the record here at the white house today, beyond what i did during that meeting in the oval office. no, that was the only thing, and as you point out, in the rose garden, people are yelling out questions about, oh, michael cohen and vladimir putin, the exact same topics that you had asked when you were the only representative for the broadcast media. okay. kaitlan, thank you very much. i want to go now to paul begala, democratic strategist, former white house counselor to president clinton and jason miller who worked in communications for trump when he was the senior kmaun communics adviser for the trump campaign. so paul, what do you make about the white house s actions here and bill shine, who is the person who called her in and had the meeting and
event in the oval office, a reporter shouted questions and refused to leave, despite repeatedly being asked to do so. subsequently, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event, but made clear that any other journalists from her network could attend. she said it didn t matter to her, because she hadn t planned to be there anywhere. to be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and our guests at the white house. what s your response to this? reporter: i certainly agree that everybody should be respectful of the white house, the people here, and the president himself, as i was in my questions, quite respectful, ask the president. yeah, you clearly were. mr. president, here s the question. that is just simply how we do it here. that is pretty much an everyday activity. it is not anything out of the ordinary to ask the president questions like that, as i did during that event. once we were told to leave the r