yesterday, started a trade war with china today. what we might know is about more staff turmoil in the white house. is this the president being staff manager, spokesman, chief of staff all at once? that s exactly right. the president really hasn t had any major public events since getting back from singapore, so i think this is what he saw as his moment to come out and air all of his frustrations, really try to manage what people have seen as a very chaotic time period with the russia investigation, with north korea. there s so much going on that he wanted to get out there and get his message out directly. amen. it s great to be able to talk to the president, to hear the president, to ask questions of the president. it would be nice, though, that when the president answered, he stuck to the facts or at least reasonable political interpretations of the facts. here he is talking about this is in the fox interview talking about what the ig report yesterday, his view of the ig repo
i was going to say, dprfred, think one of the reasons it appears to be a challenge is that the president really hasn t laid any of this out yet, so we know that our arab allies as well as israelis are quite pleased with the move. the way this move will have a beneficial outcoming is to be a little more forthcoming when you lay it out. and that way you can increase some of your domestic support for the move, and you might even be able to increase your international support for the move. it s a sort of gut move to go bold without really filling in the blanks and if they would learn how to do that a little bit, then there might be a little bit more confidence to these deals that at first blush to many people feels to be problematic. there s a real shift in
organized by an activist friend of pruitt s. his justification the trip to it tally was a g-7 trip. reporter: the epa claims scott pruitt did not know that cardinal pell was coming to the dinner, that does however seem to be contradicted by these documents, in addition epa hasn t said who paid for the dinner, but did say scott pruitt paid for his own meal. still much straight ahead, in the newsroom, but first, when this week s cnn hero saw children begging in the streets of vietnam, he went from tourist to altruist. he left his home in new york and now works year round in vietnam to give young people s the skills to move out of poverty. meet neal bermis. we have kids with all kinds of difficult backgrounds, we
go figure. so, susan, the president the president s been battling the leadership of his own justice department and the fbi for some time now. many of his surrogates are referring to rod rosenstein and mueller as his underlings now. what is the reality and how is this going to play out, you think? well, in some technical sense, this is accurate, right? rod rosenstein works for the executive branch. the president is the head of the executive branch. what sort of referring to the justice department officials as the president s underlings misses is a sense of sort of the normative protections. an independent law enforcement. an independent department of justice. that s something that despite a lot of pushback over the last, you know, year and a half of the trump presidency, the president really hasn t been able to understand why those norms exist, you know, why he should respect them and why at the end of the day it is to his political benefit to do so. so just last week, susan, th
sort of form of a reset, write attempt by the trump administration to engage in that behavior obviously, they want to get rid of this investigation that has been ongoing, they wanted to come to a conclusion and they want to talk to putin about a number of different factors. the domestic scenario here, the situation in washington, really hasn t allowed them to do that yet. bret: amy? it is very different from the term of obama, even very different from a very couple months ago. this is no longer about russia meddling in the election, we are not talking about poisoning in britain, we have not had discussions yet on that. apparently the president did not raise that issue with boudin. i think this is one of those issues that has been ongoing since the president has gotten into town that divides the republican party, much the way the issue of trade divides the party, that you are going to have folks in the camp that say there should be absolutely no relationship with boudin. he s a bad