i said, you re going to have to tell your hard right people they ll have to shell out some dollars and pay for it. let s do infrastructure. we ve been trying to do infrastructure for two years and the president finally said let s meet and talk. we had, you know, a meeting where he said he would do $2 trillion and pay for it and he stalked out. and the bottom line is last night he sent us a letter saying, well, he wants to do trade first, then he changed the rules. but we didn t care. we just went forward because we really want to get a big infrastructure bill done and he just ran away from it because this white house doesn t even know how to put together an infrastructure plan. let me ask you this. this isn t the first time. you talked about a setup and him not wanting to work with you and you said that somehow they were doing this just because they don t know how how to deal with it. it s not the first time, senator, you have gone to the
very significantly, the president was asked about the defining question, what about the fbi investigation and are there restrictions? the president insisting he personally has not put restrictions on the fbi and notably the president on several occasions saying he is following the advice of the republican senate majority and wants the fbi to answer the questions they wanted asked. that some democrats are complaining will limit the scope and it should be noted he had no problem and thought it would be good for the fbi to investigate and question judge brett kavanaugh as far as this expanded fbi investigation. after the president first said not now, trade first. kaitlan, a remarkable event. i admire you for your persistence. tell us what it was like to be in the rose garden.
she said something to i was not thinking of i know you are not thinking, you never did. and she said excuse me? what did you think about those excluding judges? he was being who he is. i like the fact that he controlled. we will talk about trade first. people can argue about the style but there s a lot of substance in this deal. that s what we should focus on. he did go back to cavanaugh. you know, for everybody who doesn t want to talk about the president s availability to the plus, this is been the most available president to the press. you have all just washed another example. he will take the q&a. we were joking that before the q&a prayed he would take it longer than the speech three times over. he gave them what they wanted. i would talk about the substance. melissa: katie, the thing is, this trade deals and arm us. he had promised a better deal, and people have been making fun of him forever saying you re out there putting. the tariffs, you don t want
with the u.n. sorry, the nato secretary-general. but he took a lot of questions on a lot of other things from the press as he s wanted to do in the oval office. especially talking about north korea, the upcoming summit there. as well as a lot on trade. we re going to talk about trade first. let s bring in jon leiber, principal for national tech services. good to have you here. a lot going on on trade. he didn t talk about nafta so much. he did talk a lot about china. and i want to play two pieces of sound for you just to make sure that you heard it and get your reaction to it. let s roll the first one, please. the united states has been ripped off for many, many years by its bad trade deals. i don t blame china. i blame our leadership of this country from the past. we have been ripped off by china. and evacuation of wealth like no country has ever seen before. dana: he also talked about trade not being beneficial to the united states.
event. chuck came home and told me about it. i was like it sounds too good to be true. the more research we did about trade first, the better it seemed. the lurchens say they would have had a much harder time finding business in the beginning if they hadn t signed up with the exchange. we didn t have any clients. chuck found trade and that s how we got our first client. and then from there, it just built from referrals. they have built a steady stream of trade business. jay used credits he earned cutting people s hair to hire them to clean his salon. i know if i need a new product or service on trade that, i m going to get quality, that i m going to get somebody in the same game i m in. it s almost like you know their business practice ahead of time and that s a lot of fun. and nicolas ritz trades meals at his restaurants to earn credits that he spends on the cleaning service, as well. amongst other things. the first purchase i ever did was an awning actually which was