boris johnson, is the favorite of president trump. he, you know, really taunted theresa may at times in their meeting about how boris could do it better, i could have done it better. take my advice. the basic fact that brexit is a mess. this referendum not well fought through. yeah. playing to the anti-european emotions and anti-migration and immigrant emotions and trade policies. and not thinking through the next steps as to how are tariffs and customs going to work. it s a mess and an internal debate in the uk but one that president trump has inserted himself in. he s pursued a one-on-one bilateral trade deal between the
there s progress. and that is a view shared by a number of the other g-7 leaders. the other thing we re going to be watching closely is the fact that president trump is going to be meeting for the first time with the newly minted british prime minister boris johnson someone probrexit, someone compared to president trump himself. the president has had high praise for boris johnson so we have to see how that plays out and what the two discuss particularly as it relates to trade and brexit. it comes against the backdrop of president trump taking fresh aim at fed chair jay powell as well as china s xi jing ping comparing the two, saying who s worse for the u.s. that s important because we re seeing that trade war with china escalating this morning. so all of that is the backdrop and just underscoring the fact that we re sort of all bracing for another summit that could be
another lobbyist. so now there s a lobbyist for coal companies running the epa, a lobbyist for oil companies running the interior department, a guy who ran the lobbying efforts for big pharmaceutical firms running health and human services and now a lobbyist for raytheon, one of the biggest defense contractors on earth, running the defense department. perhaps you are noticing a theme here. the president literally gave in his big re-election kickoff rally, literally gave this speech about how he was destroying the unholy alliance of lobbyists and special interests who were bleeding our country dry. we ve now got lobbyists running each of their respective agencies in the cabinet. including the pentagon. today also, our closest overseas ally, the united kingdom, went through its own iteration of our 2016 presidential election when the tragicomic bumbling trump-like pro-brexit character boris johnson became, believe it
partners, and the simultaneous desire, equally deep and heartfelt, for democratic self-government in this country. this morning, johnson was elected leader of the conservative party. he will meet with the queen tomorrow to formally assume his role as prime minister. i m joined now by simon mcgee, a former british diplomatic press secretary. welcome, simon. not a big surprise as he was chosen in this last minute fight with jeremy hunt. the current foreign secretary. he s a populist. he s pro brexit, obviously but he has until october 31st to try to negotiate the deal, the economic arrangements for brexit. hi, andrea, yes, indeed. this is what the conservative leadership battle was all about who which one of the two
a reminder that ours is not the only election in town, broadly conconstrued. across the pond, the conservative tor ri party will make their final pick next month and the odds on fave ritd orites guy, boris johnson, former mayor of london, pro-brexit, pretty controversial figure all around, gotten more controversial over the years. he has often been compared to donald trump and not just because they have the similar hair. johnson also has issues with telling the truth. as a young newspaper reporter he was fired for just making things up. in his political career he s been fired for lying about an affair and sold the whole country a bill of goods on brexit. johnson is also known for the boris boss, the classic double decker that he brought back into service when he was mayor of london. it turned out to be a disaster kind of for a number of reasons, not least of them the boris buses were notoriously and