once again, we are the economic envy of the entire world. when i meet the leaders of countries, the first thing they say invariably is, mr. president, so nice to to meet y congratulations on your economy. you re leading the entire world. time for the lid. the panel is back. jeff bennett, this is your beat. a new setting for the president. improving the stage craft for the president. the facts of today s economic news were good enough, but apparently they weren t good enough for the president, were they? they weren t good enough. if you own the highs, you also own the lows. the president really cut out the second part of that and went out there and really touted the economic success, even though, you know, certain things, like the surge in factory jobs, that started under president obama. but look, this was something the president wanted to use the turn the channel away from michael
really now producing the white house like a media company. timing the rollouts to get maximum ratings and also as a stage craft of the more attractive lighting. there is some sort of element to that. you do need to produce these event. this is really a case that trump decided he s going to only speak to the fox news ud jens. there s even the way kavanaugh sounded. they all sound like donald trump. play kavanaugh at the nomination on monday. no president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people for more backgrounds, to seek input about a supreme court nomination. mr. president, i m grateful to you and i m humbled by your confidence in me. one of the criticisms of president obama, even from people who are fans of him, was that he is such an eloquent speaker and such a great sort of
said they are keen to focus on. we think of the first nato summit he attended for nato headquarters. plenty of stage craft gone amuck awry at that last nato summit. what does the white house want us to focus on aside from funding over the next two days? well, i have to say funding is their top issue. when ask you them, what are they going to be focused on, they go back to that issue. but the other key issues, david, it is important. of course, security, the fight against north korea. of course, this summit getting under way after the north korean summit the president had with kim jong-un, in the weeks following, secretary of state mike pompeo had follow-up meetings. those meetings did not go well. there are no guarantees, no tangibles about how, when or if north korea is actually going to follow through with its stated vow to de-nuclearize, is that weakening president trump s
pressure from national security advisor john bolton who seems to think this whole thing is a trap and keeps using language that suggests bolton is trying to find a way out of it. so, sarah, the president just a month ago said there is no longer a nuclear threat when he came back. he said, sleep well tonight. does this hang on the president? does he try to hang it on mike pompeo? where are we right now? well, it s interesting, you know. if we have many more episodes like the one this weekend, it will be interesting to see who he hangs it on. it is going to hang on him. he did come back, he said america can sleep well tonight. and the reality is at this point, north korea hasn t made any steps to denuclearize. we hope that happens. it s possible it will happen. the world is working on that, not just united states, but you know, we re not farther along today than we were a month ago. the question being asked now, we talked about trump the showman in the last segment. whether that th
acknowledge the host country here, and then on tuesday the big main event. what we really don t know, kasie s. what will the end game look like? the president has been telegraphing this is an initial meeting and he wants to size up kim jong-un and there will need to be other meetings in the president president s estimation, and so what gets accomplished here where we see these two leaders greet each other on tuesday morning local time, and begin the conversation. behind the scenes there have been teams from north korea and the united states that have been working on the nitty gritty of the nuclear conversation and things that could be brought to the table for the leaders to discuss. so much of this will be about the historic stage craft of it all and the most important things on substance will happen out of the view of cameras. we don t have a clear schedule of what the president s time will look like, and we don t know how much he will be willing to engage with reporters or how