identified chief of staff who can interface with white house counsel and ensure smooth management of everything. the irony here, joe, might be that what ultimately insulates the president from indictment is not his legal team, not his willingness to be forthcoming and make a full confession, but rather this long standing doj policy that says you should not indict a sitting president for a lot of credential reasons that have to do with good government. that doesn t prevent prosecutors in the southern district of new york from preparing an indictment that they clearly have in the works that would come into place as soon as he were to leave office which will inevitably happen at some point in time, but this white house is not organized, is not staffed at a level that will permit it to effectively deal with the challenges that will come at it now from multiple places. but, joyce, of course, that is just guidance from the justice department. that is a standing question that the supreme co
probably will thereabout with mueller and they can t indict him because of doj policy. i don t see how you don t end up with some kind of a report or referral from the southern district of new york. these two threads started with mueller took off to the southern district of new york. it converged again and ends up in some kind of referral to congress. they can t sit and wait for the president to leave office, hope he s not re-elected. peter baker, sitting there in your post, we re not in a crisis that s approaching, we re deep in the middle of a crisis both the country as well as the trump white house. what s the status of his legal team in terms of coping with this crisis? well, that s a great question. he has a new white house counsel just starting. he has, obviously, rudy giuliani, jay sekulow and a few
house. but to donny s question, why wouldn t that be treason? i don t know. we ll continue to follow it. up next the president s tariffs are already taking a toll on consumers and the markets. now they are hindering job creation. and what about those manufacturing jobs that he promised? steve rattner has his charts next. here we go.
principles. i think we re going to see up close and personal a guy, a man, a president completely unravel. we have a guy who at best is not playing with a full deck and now is under a pressure he s never seen his entire life and it s just the beginning. this is not going to end two years from now and this is throughout the rest of his life every u.s. attorney, the southern district, u.s. attorneys in virginia are going to be picking at this man and his empire. this is a man who came in and said, i m bigger than the house, i m bigger than the intelligence community, bigger than checks and balances, bigger than the. you dishl community, bigger than the free press and he is going to pay for that the rest of his life. this is just the beginning. trump tower is just the beginning. forget the stormy daniels not forget the stormy daniels and karen mcdougal stuff, it s obviously a felony, where it s going to crash and burn is on the entire trump organization, which is built as a criminal e
getting better is, in fact, deteriorating over the two years of the trump presidency. all right. so this is not a very good review of the president s accomplishments in office as it pertains to the economy. is steve missing something? are there some positive developments prompted by the trump administration that is going to create jobs and make america great again, because i m not seeing it. look at the economy. best we ve seen in decades and certainly our unemployment rate is the best it s been in 50 years. there are some really good things that are happening in our economy. the tax cuts that we passed last year are still having lasting effect. when people do their taxes this week, not only have they seen it in their paychecks from month to month, but they re going to see it when they file their taxes. the tax cuts, who are the tax cuts helping? the middle class. if you talk to people in my